Monthly Archives: April 2011

Dynamic Processing.js Sketches in a Tweet

By david.humphrey | Published: April 29, 2011
Yesterday, no doubt delirious from having made it through exams, processing.js developer Andor Salga idly tossed out a challenge: Anyone interested in a @ProcessingJS #Twitter 140 char challenge? He followed it up with the first sketch-in-a-tweet (spaces added for line breaking only): f=0;k=stroke;r=rotate;s=300;int draw(){f++;r(f/s);k();d();translate(sin(f/9)*9,0); k(0,9,0);d()}int d(){for(i=0;i<6.4;i+=.1){r(i);line(s);r(-i)}} It may not be obvious what this does just to look at the code, [...]
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No Comply Documentary

By david.humphrey | Published: April 28, 2011
Mozilla shot a short documentary with our #audio team about the No Comply demo we built for the launch of Firefox 4.  It was fun to get everyone together (we missed Al that day, but the rest of us were there) for the day.  If you wonder who I work with to build all this [...]
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At the tomb, on Easter

By david.humphrey | Published: April 25, 2011
My grandma died this week.  It’s Easter, today is Easter Monday, and I spent the morning at the cemetery helping to lower her casket into the grave.  I can tell you, with the confidence of one having just looked full into its opening, that the tomb was indeed empty.  She was buried beside her husband, [...]
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“Do it on the web”

By david.humphrey | Published: April 19, 2011
One night last week David Ascher sent me a challenge on twitter: @humphd challenge: do http://t.co/XImyz11 on the web Funnily enough, I’d seen this demo earlier in the day.  It’s a fantastically simple, yet captivating video by Joerg Piringer.  He describes it like this: i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in [...]
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The joys of same origin file access

By david.humphrey | Published: April 15, 2011
Last night CJ was asking me about whether the Firefox Audio API supports files that are dropped onto the page using the File API.  “Depends on their origin,” I told him.  We don’t allow content scripts to get at raw audio data if the media resource isn’t from the same origin as the page (also [...]
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Painting with Tape

By david.humphrey | Published: April 9, 2011
Today the girls and I spent some time experimenting with a painting technique that uses tape.  Earlier in the week I had been linked to this amazing documentary about young, contemporary artists in Brazil.  The girls were fascinated by some of the things these artists did, “How is this art, Dad?” and it allowed us [...]
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Assessing the familiar by means of the unfamiliar

By david.humphrey | Published: April 8, 2011
There has been some great discussion recently within Mozilla about contributor engagement.  People like David Eaves and the Metrics team have been looking at this from a data-driven perspective, and engineers like Paul Bigger have been doing it at the level of our tools and processes.  It’s a topic very important to me, because I [...]
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Election 2011 Issue: Rural Broadband

By david.humphrey | Published: April 3, 2011
Today Michael Geist tweeted that the Liberals have released their party platform [pdf], and with it a strategy for the Canadian Digital Economy. One of the issues they discuss is access to broadband Internet for rural Canadians. Here are the relevant sections: Rural Broadband Canada’s economy is increasingly knit together through the internet. As jobs, [...]
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