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This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about. Essentially, it’s animation rigging using a 2D chain simulation. I provide an animated explanation of the technique, then showcase a few animals I animated with it.
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A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
escapethealgorithm.substack.com
I’m obsessed with this story because it gets at a dynamic embedded within everything designed that we rarely think about. Once you notice it, it is present in almost every conversation, at every aperture and zoom level: modularity is inversely correlated to expressiveness.
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Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
opb.org
“It’s not just the genetic mutations within the cancer that caused it [to form]. It’s also how the cells are arranged. If one cell type is next to a different cell type, that can actually indicate if you’re going to have a better or worse prognosis,” Helms says.
Helms is using her printing technique to figure out how different configurations of cells behave.
“I will take a cancer cell and I’ll put healthy cells around and I will see: How do these cells communicate?” she explains. “Does the cancer keep growing? Do the healthy cells act more cancerous? And we keep changing the patterns and the cell types to find out: How are these cells talking to each other?”
And ultimately, it may reveal what makes one person’s cancer more aggressive than another’s — and that information is very valuable. Because once they understand the interactions between the cells, researchers have the information they need to develop new treatments.
eliotakira.com
Neko is a cat that runs around on the screen, chasing the mouse cursor.
It has led many lives through the history of computers.
orllewin.uk
Modular Play is a casual playground game on Playdate for building little music making patches by connecting modules with cables. It’s meant to be fun and not really for serious use but it can create some beautiful music.
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An Arduino interface for 8088 CPUs.
nytimes.com
In colorful language, Ms. Fuentes said that if Americans didn’t like the salsas, they should go home and eat the less spicy options there.
Hard agree.
dev.37signals.com
It’s indeed by comparison that radiating information shines: instead of having someone pulling information from you, you push the information out there for everyone. It might look subtle, but there is a significant difference: the control remains on your side, not anyone else’s.
This ties to my method of working as well, as well as Ben Balter’s 15 rules for communicating at GitHub that we relied on heavily at Mapbox.
A downside, aside from the mentioned one about time, is that it requires good writing, communication, and empathy skills (for others’ time) of all of your teammates. But is that a downside, or just hard — and worth it — to achieve?