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nixterrimus··on Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js
There's now a new build with support for safari. It doesn't have the ability to download the images (in other browsers you can just drag them off the save or right click save) but other than that it works.

http://nixterrimus.github.io/Triangle-Play-App/

nixterrimus··on Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js
Well darn it looks like this has to do with drawing svg's to a canvas in webkit: http://getcontext.net/read/chrome-securityerror-dom-exceptio...
nixterrimus··on Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js
Huh, I see that error too.

I guess this is a chrome only demo for now, I'll see if I can't dig into this a little later this afternoon.

nixterrimus··on Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js
This is neat!

I built a little web app to play around with different options: http://nixterrimus.github.io/Triangle-Play-App/

nixterrimus··on Arduino DUE (32 bit) Now Available
This is really exciting- the Arduino DUE is the board used in the Android ADK2012[1]. I can't wait to start building hardware to talk to my android devices.

[1]: http://arduino.cc/blog/2012/06/28/android-adk2012-is-here/

nixterrimus··on No More Internet
As a programmer I want to think that it's just self control, that we can impose discipline on ourselves (or products) and engineer a solution. The thing is that it looks like from the recent studies that the internet fundamentally changes the way our brain works. I'm away from my copy of The Shallows by Nicholas Carr [1] but I know that he references specific studies on the way the internet changes the brain. Here is a quote I found from a recent interview with NPR:

"Neuroscientists and psychologists have discovered that, even as adults, our brains are very plastic," Carr explains. "They're very malleable, they adapt at the cellular level to whatever we happen to be doing. And so the more time we spend surfing, and skimming, and scanning ... the more adept we become at that mode of thinking."

I highly recommend The Shallows[1]. It's a look at the way the internet is changing our brains. It really might be a good idea to limit exposure to the internet. As a programmer and geek it's worth spending some time thinking about these questions and least being aware of the affects of the medium.

[1]: http://amzn.to/Ofpbd2

nixterrimus··on If malware authors ever learn how to spell we're all screwed
I've thought about this quite a bit. As HTML applications continue to evolve we should make them feel "appish". Things like selectable buttons take the user away from experience the app. Also graph labels shouldn't be selectable.

One of the big ideas of the web is selectable content. However UI elements shouldn't be included in this set.

I've written a little more about this (with some screenshots to illustrate my thinking) here: http://blog.dcxn.com/2012/02/29/selectable-elements-are-driv...

nixterrimus··on I launched my first interactive iBook today. Here's what I learned.
I'm happy to answer questions. I'm interested in how sales will be, especially relative to the kindle. But, it'll be a few months before I know.