Author Archives: keith

Two Pixels

Posted on December 9, 2015 by keith

Say you are a designer tasked with creating an image. The only specs you have are that the size of the image needs to be one pixel high and two pixels wide. Seems pretty simple, right? Just considering RGB colors, … Continue reading →

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More Codes: Weave!

Posted on October 29, 2015 by keith

Just playing around and came up with a neat little library for drawing weave patterns on a canvas. https://github.com/bit101/weave Not a whole ton to say about it. Not sure how useful it would actually ever be to anyone except… those … Continue reading →

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Quick Settings Updates

Posted on October 28, 2015 by keith

I’ve done some updates to QuickSettings over the last few weeks. First, I added quicksettings_minimal.css and quicksettings_minimal_dark.css style sheets, which bring everything down in size somewhat and get the range control sliders looking a bit more consistent across browsers and … Continue reading →

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New JS Library: QuickSettings

Posted on October 17, 2015 by keith

Let’s recall the glory days of Flash and ActionScript. Initially, ActionScript was a scripting language with built in graphics and animation capabilities. There was a simple button object, but no other high level ui controls built in to the language. … Continue reading →

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New JS Library: grid

Posted on August 2, 2014 by keith

I’m continuing to dig through old code and consolidate and release it. This new library, grid, is not a CSS layout util, but draws grids of various kinds on an HTML5 Canvas. Here’s a demo of the various kinds of … Continue reading →

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New JS Library: Shapes

Posted on July 21, 2014 by keith

Another week, another JS library. https://github.com/bit101/shapes Again, I’m sure there are hundreds of other libraries that add improved functionality for Canvas drawing. There’s even CreateJS, which is super powerful, creating a Flash-like display list with animation, etc. That’s cool, but … Continue reading →

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shaky Library for HTML/Canvas/JS

Posted on July 15, 2014 by keith

A few days ago, I released my clrs color library for HTML/JS/Canvas/CSS. It’s not that I thought it was revolutionary or anything. In fact I’d be surprised if you couldn’t dig up at least a dozen other similar libraries out … Continue reading →

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clrs: A Color Library for HTML/JS/CSS/Canvas

Posted on July 13, 2014 by keith

As most of you know, I grew up as a programmer using Flash and ActionScript, and in the last few years have been much more into web programming, particularly with HTML’s Canvas. In general I do like Canvas a lot. … Continue reading →

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New job: DreamSocket!

Posted on May 27, 2014 by keith

At the beginning of March, I was laid off, along with a few hundred others, from Playdom/Disney Interactive. Due to a very generous severance package, I was able to, and in a very real sense, was required to, take a … Continue reading →

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Flash and Me

Posted on April 23, 2014 by keith

Today I tweeted a link to another stupid linkbait article proclaiming that Flash is dead. Of course, this set off a huge flurry of tweets about whether or not Flash is still breathing. And it made me realize that I … Continue reading →

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