“C’mon TARS!”
Archive: December 17th, 2014
TARS
To the untrained eye, the fact that I spent the afternoon sitting at my desk making a paper robot could easily be mistaken for time-wasting.
28 Months on Mars - NYTimes.com
Curiosity’s journey so far, nicely visualised.
State of Web Type
Like caniuse.com, but for typography features. Find out what’s supported in browsers today.
Open-Sourcing My Webmention Service — sixtwothree.org
If your site is written in Ruby (even if it’s made with a static site generator like Jekyll), you can add webmention support with Jason’s newly-open-sourced code.
You Don’t Need jQuery! – Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
The tone is a bit too heavy-handed for my taste, but the code examples here are very handy if you’re weaning yourself off jQuery.
TARS, CASE & KIPP from Interstellar
Print out the plans, fold and glue/sellotape the paper together, and you’ve got yourself the best sci-fi robots in recent cinema history.
Say hello to my little friend.
Making robots out of paper.