SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

10Jan2024

Drawing Lines is Hard

Twit­ter: @mattdesl Draw­ing lines might not sound like rock­et sci­ence, but it’s damn dif­fi­cult to do well in OpenGL, par­tic­u­lar­ly WebGL. Here I explore a few dif­fer­ent tech­niques for 2D and 3D line ren­der­ing, and accom­pa­ny each with a small can­vas… | Matt DesLau­ri­ers | cre­ative devel­op­er

09Jan2024

Arroway Textures – Professional Textures

Arroway Tex­tures pro­duces high-qual­i­ty dig­i­tal tex­tures for 3D ren­der­ing and real-time use. We believe that the best tex­tures are those obtained direct­ly from phys­i­cal real­i­ty.

29Dec2023

vsketch documentation

vsketch is made for plot­ter users, by plot­ter users. It’s fea­ture set is focused on the pecu­liar­i­ties of this medi­um and doesn’t aim to solve oth­er prob­lems.

28Dec2023

Axidraw + Processing

This tuto­r­i­al is addressed to peo­ple who want to learn how to gen­er­ate forms with Pro­cess­ing to be print­ed with the axidraw plot­ter.

28Dec2023

CSS is fun again

CSS is under­go­ing a qui­et renais­sance,” incor­po­rat­ing many sig­nif­i­cant fea­tures that pre­vi­ous­ly required exter­nal tools into the native parts of the lan­guage.

26Dec2023

barbe_generative_diary

The use of pen plot­ters and oth­er draw­ing machines has become an impor­tant part of the mod­ern gen­er­a­tive art and dig­i­tal art scene. For those who are con­sid­er­ing intro­duc­ing a pen plot­ter in the future, I rec­om­mend a pen plot­ter.

21Dec2023

Learn Performance  |  web.dev

This course is designed for those new to web per­for­mance, a vital aspect of the user expe­ri­ence. It cov­ers key web per­for­mance con­cepts and tech­niques for improv­ing per­for­mance.

20Dec2023

Terrapin Attack

The Ter­rapin attack is a pre­fix trun­ca­tion attack tar­get­ing the SSH pro­to­col, where the integri­ty of SSH’s secure chan­nel is com­pro­mised by manip­u­lat­ing sequence num­bers dur­ing the hand­shake, allow­ing an attack­er to remove mes­sages from the secure chan­nel with­out detec­tion.

20Dec2023

HTML Web Components - Ajax Form

Last week, Jere­my Kei­th wrote about what he calls HTML Web Com­po­nents. Some peo­ple treat Web Com­po­nents like JS library com­po­nents, where every­thing is ren­dered with JavaScript.