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If you're not in a Node.js context, the Canvas API does a decent job of rasterizing SVGs nowadays. Once rasterized, you can call canvas.toDataURL() to get a download link. Here's a…

So that would mean that the right side is tipped slightly away from us, right? Because the matter in the accretion disk starts approaching us at about halfway down the ring on the …

A further improvement would be to switch your CommonJS-style imports and exports out for ES6 notation. This allows for more native interoperability, and works fine with Webpack. ex…

You've got it right, Ultima Thule is what's called a contact binary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_Sy...

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I feel you on implementation - every time I make an attempt to try out ActivityPub I get intimidated by the combo of JSON-LD and the verbosity of Activity Streams vocabulary: https…

I was homeschooled for most of my K-12 education, and unschooled in different degrees during that time. At best, unschooling can encourage a child to dig deep for new ideas, and in…

The "Jupiter as a shield" hypothesis has been questioned recently: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-jupiter-role-planetary-shield-...

Outside of Queen, Brian May is an astrophysicist, and his specialty is interplanetary dust composition. It's always cool to see him jumping in and sharing science with those who kn…

This article's thesis is "we improved our business by being deliberate about culture", but unless I'm missing something it doesn't say how they were deliberate at all. I feel like …

Just because the parent claims to be a single-issue voter on the phone doesn't mean that that's true.

Hi HN, I'm excited to share the public release of Bowlcut with you. At Pollinate we've been developing and using an internal version of this library in production-facing product cu…

Looks like they track the position of shutter glasses in space, and have some way of positioning the image per user as it gets projected through the tabletop: https://newatlas.com/…

Hopefully the Rendertron will gain support for WebGL in the near future. It seems like more and more graphical apps on the web are using WebGL over the Canvas API for performance r…

Here's a similar implementation on the PICO-8 platform, which uses a subset of Lua: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3833 This author demonstrates a multiple choice ask() functio…

You might be thinking of Active Worlds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds