Issue 51

Chinese tv is putting together an anime on the life of Karl Marx. 👱 And, Karl Marx looks goooood. Seriously, was Marx that good looking? Pref is a street artist who is now king of 3D wording

Jan 8, 2019

GET READY FOR KARL MARX THE CARTOON 🛠️

Heya,

Well, the 6 months of Christmas and New Year's are done. Now, we can relax until we have the 3 months of Easter.

This week, Chinese tv has something nice for you, and Karl Marx, in 2019. We also have the usual MIT shenanigans and, for good measure, hacker shenanigans. Wax hands will be the new jazz hands. They look spectacular.

As always, I've included some cool tools and some amazing websites (one word: stats).

🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

Chinese tv is putting together an anime on the life of Karl Marx. 👱 And, Karl Marx looks goooood. Seriously, was Marx that good looking?

Next up, an album of Khrushchev's power ballads.

youtube.com

Pref is a street artist who is now king of 3D wording.

instagram.com

Say what you will about demonic corporations when their logos are hand drawn it's delightful. ✍️

tumblr.com

This game reveal teaser is better than a hot cup of coffee for getting you up and trembling at 2 am.

youtube.com

Seeing Theory is a teaching tool that makes statistics...coooool. 😎

I did one-click 100 coin toss, and dice roll at least a hundred times. OddlySatisfying.

brown.edu

⚒️ Tools and Resources

Photopea is a freemium, advanced image editor built with JavaScript. 📷

This...is...amazing. Prices start of $9/month, but this is mainly for ad removal. The options are extensive; Warp, Gaussian blur, Liquify, Free Transform and so on.
Seriously, if you know anyone who pirates Photoshop, then send this link.
Feel free to add your own judgy tone as necessary.

photopea.com

If you saw infinite steps in real life you'd panic. Seeing them in CSS is mesmorizing.

It made me think of some scenes in Super Ghosts & Ghouls on the SNES mini. I lifted this one from CodePen's 100 most ❤️ pens of 2018.

codepen.io

Jeffsum is a text placeholder generator inspired by famous Jeff Goldblum monologues.

There's nothing from 'The Fly' which is a relief.
And, a travesty.

jeffsum.com

Blobmaker helps you make controllable blobs for your website. 🔴

blobmaker.app

Twenty-five useful thinking tools. 🤔

If you're interested in playing with thinking, then I am toying with Oblique Strategies first devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. I've been using this website to get started.

scotthyoung.com

I miss Daria, so this CSS version hit me right in the feels.

codepen.io

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

Writing CSS with accessibility in mind.

Gotta be honest, I love that it opens with a note on available translations. Much, much love.
I worked through the series over the last week or so, and it is one of the easiest ways to learn how to make CSS more accessible.
This is also the resource you should throw at anyone who needs to be converted to accessibility.
*Please don't throw a monitor at anyone.

medium.com

Deep traffic is a deep reinforcement learning competition from MIT. 🏎️

The goal is to create a network that drives multiple vehicles through traffic at the fastest pace possible.
It wouldn't be an MIT project if there wasn't element of danger and irresponsibility.

github.com