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Repost: Why we did a speed meet at our conference and why you should too!

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Using 'speed dating' style meeting to break the ice at conferences. https://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/2017/03/why-we-did-speed-meet-at-our-conference.html

The Ray Tracer Challenge - review soon

I'm working through a book called the Ray Trace Challenge. Excellent for BDD. And someone used it to build a Ray Tracer in Excel. Madness.

Starfield progress display

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A bit of fun. I had a process that took a while. Connected to a remote server, reverse-wrangled an auth based on React, then downloaded a JSON. All it did was say "X entries processed" when complete. So, to help my brain, I threw together a quick thing to create a starfield, with one star per entry processed. Delights me.

Feature images

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Adjusting the site generator to add a feature image.

Three Consent Monkeys

life

Say no, See no, Hear no

Nixie Tubes

steampulp nixie

Trigerable nixie SVGs

Days since last fatal error

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In the spirit of "days since last accident", I'm now tracking code boo-boos.

New designs

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I've made two new pendants on Shapeways

Code of the Coder Poster in SVG

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Finally working on making my poster. Using SVG. Because of course.

Penny Dreadful

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Penny Dreadful, originally a web serial, now released in eBook

May Playing

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Toying around with my home page some more.

Role-taking vs. Role-making

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I like gaming, but some gaming doesn't feel like gaming. I try to gamely gameify games.

Steampunk is dead, who told steampunk?

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Nick Ottens, of The Gatehouse and Gatehouse Gazette, contends that steampunk is dead. My response follows.

PowerBI/ PowerQuery

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Leaping brain first into using PowerBI to create a graph, pivoting data and customising columns

Graphs via SVG

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Using an SVG file + JS to make embedded graphs

In reply to Adactio, Marty's Mashup

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Andy Clarke's book Hardboiled Web Design had detective novel asthetics and quotes. Does that count? Haven't seen inside his new Art Direction for the Web to see if it's more than just the cover.

More SVG stuff

code experimentation

Tiny Machine.

Playing with SVG and Animations

code experimentation

Playing around with delighters for my web site. This time: SVG animations.

Leo Moracchioli

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Leo Moracchioli creates metal versions of songs.

Squash and a Squeeze

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Latest installment of Nursery Rhymes for Upper Management: A Squash and a Squeeze