Gourmet Gaming is one of my favorite Tumblr sites. She plays video games and creates real recipes from the food you encounter in them. Some of my favorites include Sims mac & cheese, the Streets of Rage roast poultry (pictured above), and my favorite: the repulsive sounding, but probably delicious, Sinner’s Sandwich from Deadly Premonition.
THIS IS A MUST FOLLOW, PEOPLE.
This Google Image Search by Drawing web app is a really cool application of Google’s “Search by Image” functionality and HTML5 canvas illustration. Basically, you can draw an image, drag & drop an image, or take a webcam photo (Flash needed for that one), and submit to search Google Images that look like your query.
“Search by Image” isn’t perfect, but it’s great for when you’re not sure if your amazing logo design looks like hundreds already out there. I gave Enzenhofer’s app a shot by drawing a logo and seeing if it already existed:
I clicked “Search by Drawing” to see if anyone has already used my great logo idea for a new toy building brick I invented this morning, called “Lego.” You’re then sent to Google Image Search, where the app has automatically uploaded your canvas image to submit as a query:
UNBELIEVABLE. Someone already stole my idea.
You can find the the source of the app on Github, what fun!
“First of all, if you’re leading your life in such a way that you never have to do math, congratulations, you are a donkey.”
So crude and vulgar, but so hilarious.
I just started getting into Pinterest, even though I’ve had the account for a while. I wanted to start uploading the images I save to my desktop whenever I like something on the Web. My favorite “board” so far is my collection of vintage photographs of women and computers.
If you find any cool ones, let me know. I’m slowly researching each photo up to put a proper description, like identities of the computers and the women using them.
This is what it used to look like:
This is what it looks like now:
Check it out. Let me know what you think. Happy New Year.
Here is a really cool resource if you’re looking for, well, subtle patterns.
I’ve been poring through these really nice backgrounds as I come up with ideas for the make8bitart.com redesign (I’ve nearly finished working on the palette tool already).
Yesterday I mentioned Dabblet, a new CSS-oriented answer to JSFiddle. To play around with it, I decided to make some CSS-illustrated breakfast foods. I have to tell you, using Dabblet really made the workflow pleasant: the code is very readable, the screen automatically updates with every keystroke, and connecting it to Github allowed mindless saving as I made changes.
You can see the Dabblet here, or view the Gist. It’s nothing too fancy, just some pancakes and stuff (hover over the syrup for some simple transition action).
I think I’ll be moving all of my “playground” code to Github, so I’m excited to use Dabblet even more.
You all can stop emailing and Twittering me, asking me where I’ve been. I’m still here, just busy with the end of the semester nonsense. You know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, here are some minutiae of the day to check out while I wrap up some things for the new year:
Cool new tool: Dabblet
Dabblet is like JSFiddle with a CSS flavor, built by one of my favorites on the Web, Lea Verou. The connection to Github is seamless, and it’s definitely one of my favorite new web coding tools out there.
WordPress 3.3 released
I’ve been working with 3.3′s beta for some time now, so I was happy for it to come out officially so I can upgrade my clients. It’s not the best idea to run your site on a beta or RC, because of inevitable bugginess, but I always have pancake theorem run on the bleeding edge version so I can familiarize myself with it in time for official release.
“How did you survive the end of each semester?”
A few students have asked me this question, and of course the end of semester “hell week” means completely different tasks and responsibilities than it did when I was a student. Like I told all of them, I’ll tell you: go into the final weeks knowing that sleep is not always an option, and to pace yourself on the caffeine (or any other type of energy source you’re pulling in via IV drip). As quick as finals time hits you, it will fly by in half that time.
Good luck on exams, coding, and reading. I don’t have to do exams anymore, but I’ve got plenty of the other two to do this week!
Drop your iPhone 4 on a marble floor.
The screen protector is a mirror-like one that lets me check my teeth after eating everything-in-your-teeth bagels AND protects my face from the shards of glass poking out of the sad, broken screen.
As of January 11th (at least that is when I noticed), WordPress is in the Kindle Fire app store. You can still use the following directions to install other apps that may not be in the store, but get the WordPress app from the store.
