laughingsquid

laughingsquid

A Custom Hand Welded Boba Fett Helmet Wood Burner

engineering

engineering

Open Sourcing Kanvas: Tumblr’s Media Editor and Camera

Today, Tumblr is releasing Kanvas, the Media Editor and Camera used in the Tumblr iOS app, as open-source!

https://github.com/tumblr/kanvas-ios

Kanvas is an open-source iOS library for adding effects, drawings, text, stickers, and making GIFs from existing media or the camera. It’s used by Tumblr for its camera, media editor, GIF maker, and media posting tool, and WordPress will be using it in the future too!

The project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2. Check out the Projects tab on GitHub for an idea of what we’re working on, and how you can contribute. The README is a good place to see Kanvas in action and add it to your own app. And if you’re interested, follow the project, as we’ll be posting more documentation about how Kanvas work and the history of the project.

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to Kanvas over the years, and we’re excited to see what this new open-source & WordPress chapter brings.

yodaprod

yodaprod

Monroe Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Benjamin Thompson Associates (1974)

Source: Flickr/Jeremy Jae

wpvip.com

How FiveThirtyEight Served 1.3B Page Views With Zero Downtime

Go behind the scenes with FiveThirtyEight on their biggest night of the year.

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ma.tt

What’s In My Bag, 2020

Instead of sharing what’s in my backpack this year, I want to share the apps and pandemic purchases that were meaningful to me, along with a few words on each. Something I haven’t share…

whats in my bag everyday carry edc

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“This should put to rest the terrible metaphor that “data is the new oil.” No! Data is more like a transuranic element: very valuable, but only to perhaps a dozen highly specialized buyers, and with a short half-life.”

— Byrne Hobart

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theamericanscholar.org

Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts

west point leadership

“This has always been a city of thoughtful rogues, greedy do-gooders, irreverent theologians, socialist entrepreneurs, hedonistic environmentalists, sensitive newspapermen, philosophical rockers, and high-minded sensualists. And through the years, these mavericks have carried, like an unruly band of Olympic torchbearers, the rebellious, restless, life-affirming fire that was lit in 1849.”

Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco, via Om’s great essay On (not) leaving San Francisco.

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nytimes.com

40 Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today (Published 2016)

In Manhattan alone, roughly two out of every five buildings are taller, bulkier, bigger or more crowded than current zoning allows. And often that can actually be a good thing.

Jeremy White

“Nearly three-quarters of the existing square footage in Manhattan was built between the 1900s and 1930s, according to an analysis done by KPF, an architecture firm based in New York.“

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