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What is an NFT? — An explanation for everyone.
A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is nothing more than a statement of ownership. Usually, this statement includes a pointer to an external asset, an image for example. How the ownership of the NFT relates to that asset is often unclear and can be complicated.
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How To Build An NFT Website
View and Mint Non-Fungible Tokens in an Ethereum smart contract with Web3 JavaScript
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How I set up my own Google Music alternative.
Google Music is about to shut down, so I set out to roll my own alternative. Apmache offered me an easy, customizable, solution that fit my needs perfectly.
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HTML5 Game Development with Phaser
Game development for the web can be challenging. The Phaser framework offers a complete API for developing <canvas> games in a straightforward and well organized environment. In this article we’ll look at the core features of phaser and use them to create a clone of the classic nintendo arcade game “Mario Bros.”
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The 10 Minute Progressive Web App
There are many frameworks and services that promise to turn your site into a Progressive Web App (PWA) easily. In practice, it’s really quite simple to do yourself. This article will walk you through the process of setting up a PWA so you can see how easily it can be applied to any website. Google’s […]
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Predator Vision
A recent project I worked on involved a thermal camera. At first it wasn’t clear whether or not we would be able to wire it into a web app. I decided to create a few alternative prototypes to fall back on, one of which involved motion detection. Anything moving is likely to produce heat. The effect works by capturing two frames, 3 seconds apart, from the live video feed. Even someone holding still to pose for the camera moves a little. Cheating, for sure, but the effect works really well.
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Making Skippy Art: HTML5 Peanut Butter Canvas
As part of the Skippy Yippee campaign I was tasked to create a web app which simulates drawing in peanut butter. In addition to a website, the campaign was set to have a duplicate experience inside of a banner ad as well as a mobile ad. HTML5 canvas was the clear choice as it was most […]
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Overcoming Phonegap Memory Limits With Local Storage
During development of Turkey Volume Guessing App, it began to crash at random on the iPad 2. Being a Phonegap app, it was the age old problem of memory limits in Mobile Safari. In this case the app is generating three large uncompressed png images which must be stored for use at different points in […]
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How to Make a Custom Google+ Share Button
Every social network has a url which allows you to easily share your site. Facebook’s sharer.php and Twitter’s ?status= are the most common examples. Google plus has one as well: https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://mywebsiteurl.com Using that url you can easily make a quick share popup with just a few lines of javascript: function GPlusShare(pUrl){ // Set up the […]
