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Pokémon Go Stops at the South Pole
The hit game Pokémon Go stops working at the South Pole due to its reliance on flat earth model in its game mechanics! The crew at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station found out that the popular...
View ArticleNon Breaking Space Show № 86: Dr. Christine Corbett — Astrophysics in Antartica
In this episode, Christopher Schmitt talks with Dr. Christine Corbett. Dr. Corbett works on the South Pole Telescope on-site at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 with the...
View ArticleNon Breaking Space Show № 89: Wes Bos — ReactJS for Beginners
In this episode, Christopher Schmitt talks with Wes Bos. Wes is a site and web applications’ Designer, Developer, Speaker, and Teacher — probably most recognizable for his online courses such as...
View ArticleNon Breaking Space Show № 90: Chris Coyier — Practical SVG
In this episode, Christopher Schmitt is joined again by Chris Coyier. Publisher of the CSS Tricks community site, Coyier recently authored Practical SVG from A Book Apart. Topics Discussed with Chris...
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How to Block Political Posts on Facebook
Your family, friends, and colleagues posting to Facebook might be, well, acting different than usual. Don’t fear; they are not zombies: It’s simply the U.S. Presidential season, and like the moon...
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Introducing Colorfuzz
Colorfuzz is the simple accessibility color blindness testing site. Plug the URL of the site you are working on and have Colorfuzz show you how the site looks in one of types of color blindness...
View ArticleSass Summit 2016: Frontend Web Conference
Next week, Environments for Humans produces the Sass Summit, a full-day of sessions to level up your front-end design and development skills. From building style guides, coding involved RWD layouts,...
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Guetzli, Google’s New JPEG Encoder
Last week, Google released to open source JPEG encoder that can create images file sizes 35% smaller than currently available methods. Called Guetzli, which means cookie in Swiss German, it seems new...
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Automating the Guetzli JPEG Encoder
Google’s new Guetzli JPEG encoder does an excellent job of reducing file sizes while maintaining high quality in image integrity. Due it’s nature of compressing, though, it’s a computation process is...
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Geutzli Is Slow. So?
The main complaint I often read about Geutzli, Google’s new JPEG encoder is that it takes a long time to work. If you are compressing images based on how fast it’s for you, then I honestly don’t think...
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