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TheMiddleManon Virtual deck of cards using just a browser

Hi, creator of the site here. Could you give a bit more details about specifically when it flips by accident?

There's a threshold that objects need to be dragged beyond to start moving, which is different for touch/mouse.

Also, what device/OS are you using?

TheMiddleManon Virtual deck of cards using just a browser

Hi all, I'm Rob Middleton, the creator of this site. Very cool to see it pop up here!

The tech stack is Nodejs, MongoDB, Redis, Socket.io, and React + Redux on the frontend.

It's actually been a pet project for a long time (6+ years) but I've been taking it more seriously since Jan 2020. Fun fact: the original was built with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript.

Happy to answer some questions and please let me know your feedback too.

And follow us on Twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/playingcardsio

TheMiddleManon Slow television

https://www.reddit.com/r/SlowTV/

TheMiddleManon Driverless shuttle bus crashes just after launch in Las Vegas

A truck ran into the shuttle.

“The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,” the city said in a statement. “Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle. Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.”

TheMiddleManon It’s time to kill the web app

Yeah, to me it sounds like a case of "grass is greener" syndrome.

TheMiddleManon Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')

I forked this to use a different exploit which takes advantage of pointer-events: none.

https://github.com/Rob-ot/Fake-Mouse-Cursor

TheMiddleManon HTML5 version of Clear iOS app

Hey guys I predicted the future https://twitter.com/#!/Rob__ot/status/170525085269098496

    1. Remake Clear in CSS3 2. Post it on hacker news 3. ALL of the upvotes

TheMiddleManon OSX Lion in CSS3

It bugs me that this is labeled "in CSS3". The only CSS3 here is some gradients and transitions. It uses plenty of images and Javascript.

TheMiddleManon Show HN: Scrollorama

Yes, if you scroll using a 'pixel scroll' where it jumps down a few pixels per frame it looks great but if it jumps down 20+ pixels like with any normal scroll wheel, arrow keys, page up/down keys, or arrow buttons it just looks stupid.

TheMiddleManon Dotjs — hack the web

"GreaseMonkey user scripts are great, but you need to publish them somewhere and re-publish after making modifications."

Publish them where? I don't understand this. Whenever I change a user.js file and save it the browser updates it and it's ready to go next time the page reloads.

Side node: Scriptish is a fork of greasemonkey with many cool extras. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/