iamcal.com Since May 2000

Jan 11th: A genre of scientific papers I love are "plausible but obviously wrong", like Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?

Jan 11th: I haven't used it yet, but Gource seems like a good evolution of whatever it was we used for visualizing the evolution of codebases 20 years ago.

Jan 11th: As we approach the possible shutdown of TikTok in the US, it's worth re-reading the Monolith paper. Realtime adaptive recommendation is the secret sauce.

Jan 11th: The paper behind mixbox is really interesting reading - pigment mixing is hard to simulate in computers and previous techniques don't mimic how paints actually behave.

Dec 17th: An interactive map that shows you locations with Wikipedia pages as you scroll around? I'm extremely jealous that I never thought of this.

Dec 17th: I missed it when it happened last year, but AWS now offers a microsecond-level global clock service that you can use for NTP/PTP. Could probably build some interesting data applications with that.

Sep 30th: If you want your webapp to paint behind the status bar at the top of an iphone, you can just add these meta tags:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style"
    content="black-translucent">

Aug 12th: I really like this guide to 3D pixel-projections for games - true isometric is almost always never used, but there are a quite a few useful variants to mix and match.