Such a nice bunch of nerds. I think this is the best group shot we ever had! – If you are passionate about anything, no matter what … Meet up with like-minded people regularly!
Josh W. Comeau just released a new version of his blog at www.joshwcomeau.com*. The new graphic and interactive header is such a playful and surprising delight! It unfolds in several steps:
1. A colourful rainbow brightens up the space behind Josh’s CGI-generated toy-like avatar. Nice!
2. Once you move the mouse cursor closer, the segments of the rainbow align with it. It feels a bit like stroking fur. Not that we would not have seen anything like it before, but what a surprise to see it integrated in a blog header!
3. A cog icon is fading in. Clicking on it opens the ”Rainbow configurator"! What the heck?! You can change the parameters of the rainbow graphic, the density, length and width of the segments, etc. Feels great!
4. Sometimes the parameters change on their own. What’s happening?! The small info texts explains: The changes are applied to all users of the site, instantaneously! What you see are live users changing the parameters, right now.
The best part: Nothing of this serves any purpose. It’s interactive art that delights users and feels great. That’s all! (The blog posts are also worth your time.)
Thanks to all the lovely people joining us for Homebrew Website Club last night! Such an inspiration to meet you all. Keep the web growing! See you next Wednesday, July 10, at LEONARDO co-working space (2nd floor).
Our monthly club is going big in July! The Nürnberg Digital Festival is a perfect opportunity to reach out to all those creative people around Nürnberg, who are interested in running their own websites. Come and join us! We are very eager to hear your ideas and thoughts about publishing on the web.
Brent Simmons, the author of NetNewsWire (my feed reader for many years), writes about Mastodon support in his application. The interesting part is: How can Mastodon (or any other ActivityPub source) be integrated into traditional "feed reading" apps? There are some significant differences. I chewed on this a lot last year while tweaking the microsub parts of Knot. No substantial solutions, so far, but this might be where possible futures are negotiated.
