Chris Johnson
@defaced.dev
Designer, developer, tinkerer. Head of Data & Engineering: bamboonine.co.uk Chief Tinkerer: gethorseman.app / defaced.dev
Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.
Thank you to the security researcher who wrote full instructions for exploiting the recent WordPress CVE making the last few days for me extremely stressful.
7 years late to the party but I'm finally making my way through this cursed game.
A final major refactor of a long stale project of mine has finally *touchwood* pushed it over the last hurdle for releasing a new version. The worst thing about leaving a project for even a little is how quickly the house of cards of dependencies gets knocked down.
I'm moving from Windows as a heavy Power Toys user to Mac as my daily dev device. What are the go to apps I'll need for a new Mac?
The Mindful Design Toolkit @scott.is created a toolkit to help you design better, more mindful products. I like how he brings back the main principles and methods of user centric design, with some files that you can use to kick start your own projects. mindfuldesign.xyz/toolkit/intro/
The Mindful Design Toolkit – Mindful Design Toolkit
Get deep into the weeds with the Mindful Design Toolkit; an open source collection of workshops, templates, design files and documents.
mindfuldesign.xyz
In the age of AI centric design, we need that! And there’s a whole course if you want to dig further:
Mindful Design
A high quality, expansive video course that will elevate your design skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
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My curated weekly newsletter is out. This week, I'm interesting in the tension between fast AI fixes and deep thinking, how we are making the web accessibility for robots, not people. Also: a happy map dataviz and an interesting system for colorblind people. 👉🏻 stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...
Found thousands of ants in the kitchen and macgyvered their demise with a hot glue gun, expanding foam, and a litre of washing up liquid. Definitely feeling like I've achieved peak Dad.
An extremely deep-dive into the often forgotten, but incredibly useful Proxy and Reflect objects by JavaScript for Everyone's Mat Marquis. piccalil.li/blog/proxy-a...
Proxy and Reflect
An extremely deep-dive into the often forgotten, but incredibly useful Proxy and Reflect objects by JavaScript for Everyone's Mat Marquis.
piccalil.li
My New Tab Page has now become a full blown RSS reader now I've added article extraction.
Built my own 'New Tab Page', because I can... complete with Google Search Autosuggest and a heavily stylised RSS reader.
That's a nice Switch you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it. 👀
The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
You've got to laugh at the dissonance between the actual weather and Google's AI overview.
Sod's law that Teenage Engineering's recent updates to the OP-1 Field (to add better MIDI support) would have caused problems with my MIDI hardware project! All I wanted to do was to record of a cover of Toxic whilst sat in the sun; now I'm back to USB MIDI debugging.
If I can come up with a pun name for a tool then it's almost certain I'll prioritise building it.
Playing Outer Wilds for the first time and wow it really is something special.
Over twenty years later I have finally got past the goat puzzle in Broken Sword.
No Mow May is horrendous for hay fever sufferers each year. I'm glad it's almost over.
My mind is always on what I'll do when I get some free time. When I get some free time I fritter and procrastinate the time away instead. 🫣
Three independent sources said the same thing: the GEO playbook doesn't work. The frameworks keep selling. New on The Inference: Mt Stupid has a pricing page. 🔗👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/theinfer...
Mt stupid Has a Pricing Page
The closer you get to the model, the less confident you have to be. The further out you sit, the more you can charge for certainty.
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Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...
Leave Me Behind | Android Essence
Simplified Android Development
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