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Self description considered harmful
In the post on alt-text from the other day we briefly talked about our perplexity about self descriptions: the trendy practice of describing one’s appearance when speaking at online conferences. The new WebAIM screen reader user survey came out, and it turns out that 68% or respondents agree with us.
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TIL: minimal PWA setup
Our webdev approach tends towards the minimal, we’re allergic to leaky abstractions. Even using WordPress for this blog is mostly motivated by learning more about such a popular system, for everything else we use good old HTML + CSS + JS, served by a good old Apache web server. PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are websites…
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AI Linkpost
Short collection of links about AI, and especially local AI
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Launching BCC Innovation World
We started this company by winning the Bain award at the original BCC Innovation Festival, back in 2022. In a bit of a homecoming, we were tapped to provide immersive services for the next edition of the Festival. Il Pensatore: an immersive landing Following the concept from BCC’s own creative department, we created a low-poly…
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A few posts on alt-text
We really care about accessibility, and alt-text is one of the most visible interventions in this field, thanks to its inclusion in social media UIs and to activist evangelism. As a primer, Eric Bailey wrote some thoughts about the nuances of the matter: https://ericwbailey.website/published/thoughts-on-embedding-alternative-text-metadata-into-images/ Also check out this post by Heather Buchel, with a much…
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Exhibit goals: reversos
I’ve learned about this amazing exhibit about reversos at the Prado: https://hyperallergic.com/869083/prado-show-reveals-the-hidden-artworks-on-the-backs-of-masterpieces/ It is truly exhibit design at its best, but it gave me the idea of digitizing not only the back of paintings, but the very structure. I’d like to build an exhibit in which we show how the painting is made, how it…
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TIL: manually set object origin in Blender
This one is pretty basic: in order to change the origin of an object you can right click and choose one of the options: Or you can set it manually, just go into Edit Mode, then at the top right of the viewfinder go to Options, Transform, Affect Only Origins. This allows you to move…
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TIL: multiple selection modes in Blender
When in Edit Mode, you can switch the selection mode between Vertex, Edge and Face, using the icons right next to the drop down menu from which you can switch to Object Mode. You can also use the 1, 2, 3 keys as a shortcut. What I just learned is that if you Shift+click on…
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Press Release: Sala Venezia Giulia
The BCC ICCREA group issued a press release about the newly available Sala Venezia Giulia: an additional room for temporary exhibitions in the Arte in Banca virtual gallery. The room currently hosts 5 works by Graziano Cuberli. An inauguration reception was held in Romans d’Isonzo. For the occasion we overhauled the rest of the Arte…
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TIL: “fix” Blender zoom
With the default Blender settings it is quite common to get into situation where you just can’t get close enough to your object. There are two tricks to fixing it. The first is to use the Shift+C shortcut, to reset. The second is to enable Auto Depth, under Edit > Preferences > Navigation, as shown…