Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: December 2013

  • websocketd

    >[websocketd is a small command line tool that will wrap an existing command line interface program, and allow it to be accessed via a WebSocket.][link]

    Sounds great. (via [Jesper][jesp])

    [link]: https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd “Github: joewalnes/websocketd”
    [jesp]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Waffle”

  • Structure.io homepage refresh

    So, we just launched an update to the [Structure Sensor homepage][link], and it features some neat HTML5 / CSS3 tech. I’m pretty happy with it. It required me to learn a few things, which I’ll hopefully have time to write about here soon.

    It also marks the first time I’ve ever encoded video in [WebM][webm]! It was easy thanks to [Miro Video Converter][miro] and [FFMPEG][ffmpeg].

    [link]: http://structure.io/ “The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices”
    [webm]: http://www.webmproject.org “The WebM project”
    [miro]: http://www.mirovideoconverter.com “Miro Video Converter”
    [ffmpeg]: http://www.ffmpeg.org “FFMPEG”

  • Exploring canvas drawing techniques

    A [very well put-together interactive tutorial][link] and examination of drawing using the HTML canvas tag. Even if you’re pretty up on things, you might learn something new.

    [link]: http://perfectionkills.com/exploring-canvas-drawing-techniques/ “Perfection kills » Exploring canvas drawing techniques”