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
[Another HTML5 2D game framework][link], built mobile-first. Supports TypeScript and JavaScript. Looks pretty fast / simple, and it’s used on the awesome [Game Mechanic Explorer][gme] site.
[link]: http://phaser.io/ “Phaser – Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework”
[gme]: http://gamemechanicexplorer.com “Game Mechanic Explorer”
[Marco Arment with some strong language about the gross marketing campaign to rebrand the destruction of net neutrality as allowing ISPs to create “fast lanes”][link]:
>Be honest.
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>This is not building anything new — it’s discriminating and restricting what we already have.
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>This is not making anything faster — it’s allowing ISPs to selectively slow down traffic that they don’t strategically or financially benefit from, and only permit traffic from their partners to run at the speeds that everything runs at today.
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>It’s ostensibly the FCC’s job to see through this bullshit language and do what’s right for the country and the people, but only the fool who believed that ISPs are trying to build something beneficial here would believe that the FCC gives a damn about what’s best for American citizens.
[link]: http://www.marco.org/2014/04/24/fast-lanes-are-bullshit “Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit – Marco.org”
[Jesper, on *facts* and how good communication can really change your understanding of something.][link]
It’s a short post, so I’m not going to excerpt it, but it involves Opera. The musical theater variety, not the probably-doomed web browser.
[link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2014/04/13/information-is-the-beginning/ “waffle → Information is the Beginning”
[This is ridiculous and great][link]:
>sql.js is a port of SQLite to JavaScript, by compiling the SQLite C code with Emscripten. no C bindings or node-gyp compilation here.
Once again, via [Jesper][jesper].
[link]: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js “kripken/sql.js”
[jesper]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Jesper’s blog, Waffle”
[A full-responsive, CSS3-enabled, touch-ready, arrow-key supporting, draggable carousel that you can instance with one line.][link]
Having built and used probably a dozen different image slider / content carousels this one looks like it covers all of the bases and with minimal markup bullshit. Color me impressed.
[link]: http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ “slick – the last carousel you'll ever need”
