Monster Mash: Draw, Inflate, Animate I remember a few months back when the Monster Mash paper came out and I thought it looked really cool. Google has released the code and even put a demo up at MonsterMash.zone. The short of it is that you can quickly sketch something in 2D, the software then “inflates” it …

Surprisingly Slow In Surprisingly Slow, Gregory Szorc wrote about a whole collection of cases in which we sacrifice Performance more than we’d expect to for all kinds of little things.

Backlinks 2021-04-07 In Surprisingly Slow, Gregory Szorc wrote about a whole collection of cases in which we sacrifice Performance more than we’d expect to for all kinds of little things.

Novel tools people are using to build websites Hacker News thread: What novel tools are you using to create web sites/apps. My notes from this thread: Tabulator is a JavaScript tables library that can do some very fancy tables indeed The Running in Production podcast includes interviews with a bunch of people about …

Backlinks 2021-04-05 Speaking of 80s user interfaces, pterm is a Go library for creating nice-looking terminal apps. 2021-03-11 This is really cool. SQLite is, of course, the super-widely used, embedded SQL database, written in C. modernc.org/sqlite is a CGo-free version of it for Go, which makes it easier to use …

Backlinks 2021-04-05 A few people praising the old-is-new Hotwire approach. 2021-02-01 wolfeidau/hotwire-golang-website provides an example of how to build a simple Hotwire site in Go, including websockets for sending events and Go 1.16 file embeds for the templates. 2020-12-22 The thing I like about this …

One reason to use Cue: YAML types This article explains the gotcha that is YAML’s implicit typing, suggesting using StrictYAML instead. Cue should also solve this problem, because of its well-constructed type system and validation features.

More remote video setups Lara Hogan has blogged about her video setup, which includes a nice-looking teleprompter. She also linked to Anjuan’s tweet about his setup.

Saltcorn: open-source no-code DB solution Saltcorn lets you create web-based Database applications with a drag and drop interface. It’s open source (MIT-licensed, even) and written in JavaScript.

Things are not always as they appear Check out this octopus decloaking and cloaking and Richard Wiseman showing the power of perspectives in creating illusions. Wiseman’s Quirkology YouTube channel has lots of great stuff.