More Medieval Murder Maps! / / No Comments On Saturday 2 Feb 1297 three Oxford University students decided to celebrate the festival of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary by going on a frenzied rampage. On the evening of the festival John de Skurf and his two friends Michael and Madoc ran through the streets of Oxford with swords, bows, and arrows “attacking all passers-by”. One John Metescharp was shot with an arrow by Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Medieval, More, Murder
Welcome to the New LimeWire: AI Media Generation (Sponsored) / / No Comments LimeWire was a staple of my youth. LimeWire was software that allowed users to share any type of file during the revolutionary days of file sharing. Fast forward to today and LimeWire is back, again as revolutionary software, but this time in the field of AI content publishing. From creating images to music and video, and then monetizing that media, LimeWire continues to be a hub of creativity! Quick Hits LimeWire has re-launched as an AI-focused content publishing & community platform LimeWire AI Studio is now live for AI Image Generation! Generative AI music & video coming soon! Automatically mint AI-generated content as NFTs on the Polygon and Algorand blockchains LimeWire has an... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Generation, LimeWire, Media, Sponsored, Welcome
Restricting the Right to Protest / / No Comments The right to protest is being restricted in countries around the world. Amnesty International’s new interactive map, called Protect the Protest, highlights the growing numbers of human rights violations which are being committed by countries around the world aimed at removing the rights of citizens to legally protest. The Protect the Protest map sheds light on the types of repression that are Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: protest, Restricting, right
Testing Out the Alpine.js Intersect Plugin / / No Comments A few weeks ago, I finally got around to looking at the official plugins Alpine.js supports and built a little demo that integrated the Intl spec with the Mask plugin. (You can read the post here: Integrating Intl with Alpine.js Mask). Today I thought I’d take a look at another plugin, Intersect. What Is It? # The Intersect plugin is a wrapper for the Intersection Observer API. This is a pretty cool web platform API that lets you monitor when DOM elements come into the visible part of a web browser. I first dug into this a few months ago in an article I wrote for Cloudinary, "Automatically Loading High-Quality Images with Cloudinary and IntersectionObserver". In that article,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Alpine.js, Intersect, plugin, Testing
A Year of Wildfire in Europe / / No Comments In July Europe witnessed its largest wildfire in 23 years. The Dadia forest fire in Greece burned 97,000 hectares and killed 20 people. The large number of wildfires in Europe this year follows the even larger number of fires last year, a year which saw the second largest total burnt area this century. So far.Czech news website Aktuálně.cz has analyzed satellite data of European Union wildfires Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Europe, wildfire, year
Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023 (Sponsored) / / No Comments You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of those you visited. Was it the front page, the layout in general, or the functionalities that either met with your satisfaction or turned you off? The helpful tools and resources for designers presented here should help you avoid what’s bad and capture what’s good in your own design creations. They will also save you the trouble of having to devote what could be many hours searching for tools and resources for designers you believe you should have and use. One or more of these should help you deliver work in a timely manner that engages... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2023, Agencies, Designers, essential, resources, Sponsored, tools, Unveiling
The City Map Game / / No Comments I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Game
Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 – Featured Posts / / No Comments It’s been a few days since my last post in this series. I’d like to blame something in specific but honestly, it’s just life. Today’s tip will – again – be short and sweet but hopefully helpful. The idea of a "featured" post is that there may be content that, no matter the age or view count in your stats, you want to highlight. It could be your first blog post. A post announcing a new job or life event. Or anything really. How can we use front matter to support this? Marking Featured Content # One approach to marking content as featured could be to simply add a featured value to the front matter, like so: ---layout: posttitle: Gamma Post 7tags: postsdate:... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Featured, Front, Matter, part, posts