"Hacker Laws" was originally posted by Phil Nelson on Extra Future. Comments are enabled. Come say hi.

"In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen" was originally posted by Phil Nelson on Extra Future. Comments are enabled. Come say hi.

RetroStrange TV (our 24/7 streaming TV channel) which is now fully autonomous and publishes notifications to Twitter when each show or movie begins with the #RSTV hashtag. You can find my TV station code on GitHub. The current setup of two Linode 4GB servers this should provide us with enough space and power to run it basically forever at $40/month. Support via Patreon appreciated.

The next RetroStrange Movie Night is November 23rd and we’re showing film noir classic D.O.A. (1949) see the Facebook Event.

The other big RetroStrange feature is the StrangeLine. I’ve set up a phone number you can call for various RetroStrange stuff. Right now you can call to get info on the next Movie Night, or listen to the Skulking Permit by Robert Sheckley as heard on LOFI SCIFI. We’ll add and change up the content regularly, so go ahead and give ‭(814) 787-2643‬ (that’s 814-STRANGE) a call.

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"I’m Featured on the Linode Craft of Code podcast this week" was originally posted by Phil Nelson on Extra Future. Comments are enabled. Come say hi.

How do you make sure your annoying popup is shown on top of every other element in the page, when you don’t know how many there are, who wrote them, and how bad they wanted their elements to be on top? That’s when you set your z-index to 100, or maybe 999, or maybe, just maybe 99999 to be really sure yours will win.

That, at least, is how I write my CSS. In the rest of this post, we will look at millions of z indices to see what everyone else does.

Of course, if you make websites for a living you’ll find this interesting. Like most things available here.

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Download: astray on github

"Astray, a lua-based dungeon and maze generator" was originally posted by Phil Nelson on Extra Future. Comments are enabled. Come say hi.

1. Install composer apt-get install composer
2. Run composer update from the extensions/Mailgun folder
3. Run php maintainence/rebuildLocalizationCache.php from the main mediawiki folder.

Running your own services get you into all sorts of fun trouble like this.

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"Stop using device breakpoints" was originally posted by Phil Nelson on Extra Future. Comments are enabled. Come say hi.

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[link]: http://phaser.io/ “Phaser – Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework”
[gme]: http://gamemechanicexplorer.com “Game Mechanic Explorer”

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>sql.js is a port of SQLite to JavaScript, by compiling the SQLite C code with Emscripten. no C bindings or node-gyp compilation here.

Once again, via [Jesper][jesper].

[link]: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js “kripken/sql.js”
[jesper]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Jesper’s blog, Waffle”

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Having built and used probably a dozen different image slider / content carousels this one looks like it covers all of the bases and with minimal markup bullshit. Color me impressed.

[link]: http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ “slick – the last carousel you'll ever need”

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Can definitely see using this for some datavis stuff. There is some FOUT (Flash of unstyled text) to deal with though.

[link]: http://font-to-width.com/ “Font-To-Width”

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> Use HTML5’s web audio API to create a hardware bus somewhat similar to how Square’s Credit Card readers works.

I am abuzz with ideas for this right now and this is bad because I have actual work to do. (via [Jesper][jesp])

[link]: http://colinbookman.com/2014/03/23/micio/ “MicIO.js”
[jesp]: http://waffle.wootest.net “Waffle, Jesper’s blog”

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Let’s see if they can deliver.

[link]: http://macaw.co/ “Macaw | The code-savvy web design tool.”

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[link]: http://www.csszengarden.com/ “CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design”

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[link]: http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/ “Learn Lua in 15 Minutes”

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[link]: http://arjo129.github.io/uSpeech/ “µSpeech”

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[link]: http://blog.greweb.fr/2013/02/glsl-js-a-javascript-glsl-library-dry-efficient/ “glsl.js, a Javascript + GLSL library = DRY & efficient • @GreWeb”
[ex]: http://greweb.fr/glsl.js/examples/balls/ “Bouncing balls glsl.js example”

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