digital-notes
These are online digital-notes; from dNote one to most recent of notes.
Please note, some notes contain more information within note link.
digital human notes
video-games/computer-games being Art has always been a controversial topic… Blizzard Hearthstone casually tweets,https://t.co/NfisP5WZg6
— Kai Vong (黃振佳) (@kaichanvong) June 23, 2022
desert island discs
The desert island discs programme features collections of knowings, music/sounds, links to design and more that inspires to discover.
Richard Osman, writer and broadcaster (link)
Dame Jo da Silva, engineer (link)
Neil Gaiman, writer (link)
Peter Schmeichel, footballer (link)
Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition (link)
More are on the desert island disc homepage (www.bbc.co.uk).
developer kata stuff
I wrote a small bit about katas from my own point of view, katas. You can read it here...
"Kata is a Japanese word (型 or 形) meaning "form". It refers to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone."
Found on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Katas are very similar to games. You have a list of puzzles or user stories (depending on how written) and you get to complete them. They are also a great way to get used to the idea of TDD (test driven development) and write specifications for howsomething could or will work.
Katas are a great way to improve in a language or gain experience in a certain field, industry or situation.
Each problem is then described by tests, specifying how the kata will be completed.
Once the tasks are complete, you can then discovered things you like and dislike about both the way the specification hasbeen written the way in which it has been solved.
Below is an example of katas I've been using, reviewing and improving.
There are also for Programming languages ruby koans.
For more of this see the katas page.
rock, paper, scissors (and Swift)
This small tournament I recall from the year 2000 is still running (wrpsa.com), and there's an IOS Swift/SwiftUI tutorial.
oh Snap from Carousels
Back in early 2000's–1990s for me, this was a Marvel Entertainment computer-magazine driven PC development (found in demos). Creating animations that had a cartoon level drag-and-drop and even more animations! Similar to this web-find find (www.google.co.uk).
Experiences of this, go from studying towards university; and in university we applied the animation work in 3-Dimensional, flat, SMIL and more. Moving on to office work it had been named, "Carousels" in online-page design-and-development could be seen as similar animations.
In work the development was to build, develop, test, and continuing the development of animations/interactions. My favourite implementation started at ArtFinder sharing art works in Mobile/Tablet based Apps.
Nowadays, the interaction has gone from JavaScript to CSS with css-scroll-snap. Theres also a designer/developer talk at CSSDay in the Netherlands (cssday.nl).
Draft information can be found on the CSSWG site (drafts.csswg.org)
I blame author of Ajax books and other books Jeremy Keith (adactio.com) for this note.
colours applied in GUI
A picture-note from the Museum about Computer History.
In some GUI (graphical-user-interface) the colour of this badge can be seen on in-gaming buttons.
Here are pictures captured near the Google Campus.
Labelled as the first to use the GUI Xerox Alto, the Xerox's Alto.
page from Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (The MIT Press) ... via @AmazonUK on Twitter
Google Explore recommends: Xerox Star, Apple Lisa, IBM Personal Computer, Apple I, Altair 8800
(initially posted on 2 Apr 2022)
the -pub quiz
A series of pub tweets links:
Tweet link from 4 Mar 2009 (twitter.com)
Tweet link from 4 Mar 2009 (twitter.com)
From comedy on the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)…
Theres is a pub quiz from the Office (2001) (www.bbc.co.uk)
Emojis for Chinese New Year
tweet for current designs for the 🧧 Red Envelope... "always popular during #ChineseNewYear," says the Website 📈🎆
Source1: tweet (twitter.com) of red envelope analysis 📈🎆Source2: emojipedia.org/red-envelope/ (emojipedia.org)
NB. There are wallpaper links (twitter.com) on their Twitter account.
Hashtag Chinese New Year
Firework display pictures
At New Years it was a great time for watching shows. Seeing fireworks on the television, the light displays, discovering new and the past (music, stories and more). Some of these pictures are from the past!
Tags with... pictures
Emoji of a Lion (and image)
There is a lion emoji graphic... 🦁
While, here is a of a real lion picture-image. See on instagram (www.instagram.com)
CSS Reset Stylesheet
On "November 28th, 2021", Adactio.com shared the following CSS Reset link (adactio.com).
kaivong.com is linked from a page (adactio.com), better to look on: Meyerweb for diagnostic css stylesheet (http://meyerweb.com).
There is also a (in)famous “meyerweb reset” (meyerweb.com) within the MeyerWeb tools.
what ever happened to flickr (techspot)
Having been a pro user of Flickr (a group of work colleagues suggested I look into it) for years the site Flickr continues to be "happening" for me; given this site link: http://flickr.kaivong.com (http://flickr.kaivong.com).
The (techspot.com) headline... as ever, a good one! Though, I'm not one of those users at tech spot? However they are power-users of images -pictures (right?).
The cookies on Flickr? Given theres many other links for photography. Offering different directions for keeping your photography (personal or otherwise). For the best photographers? Be careful out there... it is photography!
Note: Techspot is a leading technology publication established in 1998.
What Ever Happened to Flickr? -- Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
This kaichanvong comment note (news.ycombinator.com)
Name lengths in games
A golden Stormpike Marshall from Hearthstone:
Websites also sharing this slight inaccuracy:
Tags with... gaming
Icy-Veins.com sc2 (suggestions)
The suggestions can be seen in gaming-note link
Explored at Icy-Veins.com sc2 link (www.icy-veins.com)
Tags with... gaming
Glasses notes
there are books, pictures for this tech; it can be incredibly rewarding ... 🤯😵💫👾🤔
other #throwback that demonstrates the awesomeness
Here in this picture the glasses are for cinema (redefining how to see film)
Here in this picture the glasses are for a book
cyclists today
Here is a clever stat seen during travels that notices cyclists by the count out there.
Ask for better photo of this----
stories in graphic novels
More pictures from Brood, Gamecube colour (the Twitch discussion) in comments on twitter link (twitter.com)
instagram link (www.instagram.com) for more of these instagram posts
Tags with... pictures
Children’s code/Age Appropriate Design Code
Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account
link to uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect (www.theguardian.com)
Blog: As the Children’s code comes in – what’s next?
link to UK children’s digital privacy code comes into effect (ico.org.uk)
new code has come into force to help protect the data and privacy of children
Tech giants forced to abide by child protection rules coming into force (metro.co.uk)
"... Age Appropriate Design Code – now the Children’s Code – has caused huge global changes. Not that tech platforms want to admit it"
Britain tamed Big Tech and nobody noticed (www.wired.co.uk)
high score
A bit of sillyness in a book.
“the computer games industry had travelled far in the other direction, loading their games with extensive instruction manuals, hint books, novellas, lengthy filmed introductions and so forth, all in an attempt to give the games more weight, more depth.” more from quoted post (http://pongmuseum.com).
on instagram (www.instagram.com)
on instagram (www.instagram.com)
Tags with... pictures
pub, sub, reveal, delete
from working for the UK Learning Resouce Centre groups; some of this info is useful and good to know about pub, sub, reveal, delete Twitter link (twitter.com)
"GDPR significantly strengthened a number of rights: individuals found themselves with more power to demand companies reveal or delete the personal data they hold" Twitter link (twitter.com)
What is GDPR and why does the UK want to reshape its data laws? (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter link (twitter.com)
sitcoms
A thought, see if available in-store. Paid £10 for season 1 alone! (edit: Oh! I now remember eventually getting season 2) Found a bargain for this great show (store.hmv.com) 🐶📺🎼
Few good alternate sitcoms can be found on this BBC link (www.bbc.co.uk)
a 90s photo of yourself
"Post a 90s photo of yourself without comment or context" on Twitter
a nice GG (good-game)
Played a game of Warcraft having experimented with settings; also seeing how Blizzard apply colour to gaming (in reforged).
Targeting: 4 footmen. 4 riflemen. 4 priest. 4 knights. 1 ogre warrior. 6 siege engines.
- Builds 1 alter of kings (Ulther Paladin for heal party)
- Gets experience from gnolls creeps
- Walks into forest
- Gets natural expand point of Ogre Magi, Troll creeps, footmen at 1hp
- More experience from ogre and troll creeps
- Use regeneration and builders to continue
- Expands Town Hall on expand point (ToD's Town Hall further-in-notes)
- Builds in Blacksmith; new armour (Grubby said look at the shield and more)
- Moves to see opposite expand point
- Runs away from big fight!
- Discovers naughty archer at tavern
- Builds farms between tower-defense.
- Priests arrive (its not Hearthstone)
- Builds lumber mill #2 at expand point
- All the way from a Mercenary Camp this ogre warrior appears!
- This 1hp footman runs away from combat
- Runs away!
- Warrior goes to opposite mine
- Knight goes to opposite mine at expand point
- Siege engine destroy entire enemy base
- Siege engine attacked by peasants (one gets destroyed?)
- Game over!
A nice GG!
ToD's Town Hall Meeting (youtube.com)
Fast Expand: A WarCraft 3 Podcast – HeroesHearth TV (podcasts.apple.com)
peasant minion card from Hearthstone (playhearthstone.com)
Warcraft3 TheoryCraft out there somewhere
Tags with... gaming
profile pictures
Photo is a print from photographer Oleg Skrinda (http://skrinda.com)
Profile picture links to social media channels --updated 28 October 2021
Water Puppetry
A Brief History of Hanoi's Water Puppet Theatre via @culturetrip (bnc.lt)
Giant water puppet laugh out louds? No thanks. Here are water puppets – GIF/Hyperlink (twitter.com)
https://theculturetrip.com/ (t.co) For those not in the know, the art of water puppetry is known in Vietnam as Múa rối nước. Meaning ‘making puppets dance on water’. Similar to one of those spoilers.
science of sleep and more
Snaps of Japanese different styles. Here you can see many different forms of style.
Photos from 2008 in Japan.
Track hotness from BBC Radio
A Spotify track (open.spotify.com).
Heard on Shaun Keavny Radio6 show (www.bbc.co.uk).
Other artist on the same track (open.spotify.com)?
wind power
Links to wind power (g.co)
Picture was captured sometime in July, 2007
crazy discoveries
Like graffiti this portrait framing is a crazy kind-of magic. Climbing is difficult at times. Sometimes an uphill trek; sometimes requiring effort. Hidden in yourself you can find success in every trek.You could say it is similar to parts of a game such as a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).
Picture was captured sometime in May, 2021
Tags with... gaming
floating
From being in a crowd at Music Festival in Japan.
Picture was captured sometime in July, 2008
climbing Mount Fuji
Photo taken in Nippon at 3,250m… (this picture is from early July?, 2008)