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Oh, excellent! I thought I was the only author (idiotic enough) to give away my books for free. I choose to call it altruism, but the truth is that I got sick of the whole marketin…

It turns out that adding noise to gradients is a really useful thing to do - so many new effects can be created with just a few additional parameters. Sadly, CSS and Canvas API gra…

I learned last year that "translation" can be a very tricky thing. Because there's never a one-to-one correlation between one language's words, phrases, structures and metaphors, a…

I give my side projects away for free because I have a $job to pay for the roof over my head, food, etc. and don't feel the need to make more money from my hobby work. I create my …

> when it's much easier to just build a nice website using JavaScript I'm currently building a web-based tool that uses dynamic forms for UI, without the help of of a framework (ye…

Last year I made the mistake of asking ChatGPT what the world would look like if `∞ === -∞` and it took me seriously (I think) and led me on an hours-long dance where in the end it…

I'm building a client-side-only web page that will (eventually) allow users to build their own image filter and batch-apply it to a bunch of images. https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc…

> I spent a fair amount of time with p5 etc, but the results always felt limited and brittle. I wrote a JS canvas library[1] partly because existing libraries of the time (2013) di…

No install, no backend, no fees. MIT licensed for hacking and local use. Link to tool: https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-screen-recorder/

> the wheel template can have some letter parts like the top of L or d extend beyond the wheel Yeah - I use the template (in that case, a circle) to calculate line lengths, then I …

> This thing is very impressive. Agreed! Text layout engines are stupidly hard. You start out thinking "It's a hard task, but I can do it" and then 3 months later you find yourself…

My tool uses the browser's built in encoders (which vary by browser, but whatever). I did use wasm though, for the MediaPipe background removal stuff. https://kaliedarik.github.io/…

Browser screen recorder with canvas composition, teleprompter, live annotations and talking-head overlay.

For me it's a case of, I have to expose my canvas library documentation for the training data bots to find and (hopefully) include in the LLM training data because it's the only wa…

I've got a rotating tesseract demo up on CodePen[1]. At least, I think its a rotating tesseract - I have no idea if it's an accurate representation because tesseracts lead me into …

Well I do seem to spent a fair amount of my developer time swearing at my laptop screen. And then there's that time I spend just prior to writing code just staring at the wall whil…

I’ve been working on a small proof-of-concept screen-recording tool that runs entirely in the browser. It lets you capture screens or windows, add a talking-head camera feed, layer…

Because corruption is a thing. Also: any government contract can be audited at any time by the National Audit Office, who have criminal prosecution powers if they find malfeasance …

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> he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles I miss the morning delivery of milk to the doorstep. And the milk carts that used to deliver it https://en.wikipedia.…

The agent that generated the email didn't get another agent to proofread it? Failing to add a space between the full stop and the next letter is one of those things that triggers t…