posted by on May 21, 2012 at 05:55 PM
Nothing to report in the land of the Google Hangouts Hackathon. Trying to wrap my brain around the Hangouts
API’s
shared state mechanism and how to best capture those concepts in the views. Probably going to settle on using
Backbone. Now to merge them together, using threats and/or treats.
posted by on May 18, 2012 at 05:21 PM
So when Google Hangouts
recently announced a major
API update we were pretty excited. We were thinking about Making a Thing anyway and participating in this Hangouts Hackathon was just the thing to kick us into action.
It’s a two week sprint, which means we’ll be cranking away as we break in the API and build out our toy. We’re going to make a game. It’s going to look like an old, retro-style TV gameshow. We think that Hangouts will really lend itself to that kind of application, given the emphasis on group particpation and video.
Follow along we we build this thing out and share our learnings!
posted by on August 16, 2011 at 03:17 PM
A while ago I was playing around with hair simulation for an idea. I poked at on and off for a few months, and rather than letting it linger in obscurity, where something like that should, I’ve packaged it up as a Mac desktop app for you to try out.
posted by on August 05, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Despite a life of being a Philistine I am now an artisté.
Not too long ago I released a goofy
Cinder app. It was a
body simulator. Some folks got a chuckle out of it.
Next thing I know a German emails me.
posted by on June 27, 2011 at 03:27 PM
Recently we celebrated Mike Ma Appreciation Day. It was pretty great. I took it as an opportunity to try out some new face detection software in an iPad app. The end result is this fine piece of advanced augmented reality technology, named Mike Ma Yourself.
We’re now accepting venture capital to turn this into the next big thing.
posted by on May 19, 2011 at 02:06 PM
Hey everyone, here’s Screenstagram, our Instagram-driven screen saver for the Mac!
We love photos from our friends, and we love APIs, so we were pretty excited when
Instagram released their API back in February. We took this as an opportunity to play with all of these things and package them up in a tidy screen saver package.
(Quick update:
check out all the super meta Instagram pictures of Screenstagram showing Instagram photos!)
posted by on February 17, 2011 at 10:12 AM
I’ve been checking out
Cinder, the “library for professional-quality creative coding in C++” that Barbarian and friends have been working on. It’s a whole new world for me. I’ve never tried graphics programming. I made a body hair simulator, it’s weird. Here’s a fuzzy Mickey. The density and length of the hair is determined by the darkness of the underlying image region. Gross, right?
posted by on February 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
When Facebook’s page sharing feature is used it accesses that shared page to build a little preview for display. It caches that preview and often won’t pick up subsequent changes to that preview data, whether that might be a new image or updated copy. That can be frustrating, especially when a client is hot to push an update.
