Tag: web
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TIL: a dive into web components
Here at E-MUSE we favour sticking to HTML until we absolutely need CSS, and sticking sto CSS until we absolutely need JS, and sticking to client-side framework-less JS until we absolutely need to. Related to this, here is a tiny TIL: Offloading Javascript with Custom Properties, on the interaction between JavaScript and custom CSS properties.…
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AI Linkpost – 2024-02-06
Local AI Apple open-sourced this interesting local AI for instruction-based image editing. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret General AI news https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification: Nonprofit group Fairly Trained plans to certify AI models that ask permission to use copyrighted material. https://moritzgiessmann.de/blog/posts/using-ai-for-accessibility/ https://www.theuxda.com/blog/ux-case-study-ai-powered-spatial-banking-for-apple-vision-pro https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/what-do-threads-mastodon-and-hospital-records-have-in-common/ Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home: Hacker News Thread Mixtral 8x7B: A…
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Immersive Web Linkpost – 2024-02-05
https://oniri.space/oniri/homestay_demo/ https://www.brinkxr.com/
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Linkpost: webdev edition
A couple of useful links from and about the web
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Tiny linkpost: spatial computing annex
In yesterday’s post I neglected to link to a couple of really interesting and accessible essays on spatial interactions, both by Maggie Appleton. In Historical Trails there are wonderful examples on how chronological information can be shifted to a spatial representation, allowing for better and faster retrieval, and more generally for matching the semantics of…
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TIL: CSS Scroll Snapping, nested selectors
Our designer is building her personal portfolio website, and she’s way less conservative than me with her layouts. In order to actually implement her design I found out about CSS scroll-snapping, and the nested selector. The latter has reached Baseline status in December 2023, so it makes sense that I didn’t know about it yet!
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New resources for the immersive web, week of December 11th 2023
WebXR on iOS Motivated by coming across the embedded post on Mastodon, we looked into existing solutions for iOS. We found this one, which is very sleek, but a bit on the expensive side: https://launch.variant3d.com/ Gaussian Splatting Explosion Meta: a collection of Gaussian Splatting stuff https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/12/08/Gaussian-explosion/ SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields SMERF Relightable avatars…
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Some AI news, and EU regulation
This ended up being a pretty weird post, juxtaposing technical releases and legal developments, we don’t know if we really managed to give it a coherent shape, but this is very much the complex space in which the future of digital humanities, and indeed the future of everything we do, is being shaped. There are…