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BizarroDevs—All the weird and wonderful tech news

BizarroDevs—All the weird and wonderful tech news

May 8 · Issue #21 · View online

Everything off-kilter, off-the-wall and offbeat in one weekly newsletter. Delivered on Tuesdays.

A different style, but it’s the same stuff in different packaging.

Collecting the web’s best, and the greatest of design and development.

Return of future music links and the latest in, cunning, robots.

World Wide Whaaa? 🕸️

Ascii art generator.

asciiartgen.now.sh – Share

Enter a string and choose from 140+ styles. I like it when I remember things.

How internet companies changed their logo over time.

www.kapwing.com – Share

That Pinterest logo tho. Woof.

The colors of motion.

thecolorsofmotion.com – Share

Stacked horizontal lines with each line representing the average color of a single movie frame.

My favorite is probably Hellboy. Also Donnie Darko. And Aliens. Monsters, Inc. also. I’m closing the tab now.

www.awakenakira.com – Share

An awesome movie gets an awesome web-based homage. Still one of my favorite films of all time.

Immersion is a 64k video from digital artists: Ctrl-Alt-Test.

www.ctrl-alt-test.fr – Share

I’ve been getting into demoscene. An equal mix of short film, music video, and video game in just 65536 bytes.

The hills are alive with sick beats 🎼

A map of the #1 song in 3,000 places.

pudding.cool – Share

You’ll be surprised to see gangnam style was #1…but where?

A timeline of A.I. musicians.

gizmodo.com – Share

It all started in 1980…in September 2017 it peaked with “Daddy’s Car,” a song written in the style of the Beatles.

The genealogy and history of popular music genres.

musicmap.info – Share

Combines any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map.

Do Internets Yourself - Tools 🛠️

Should it be a meeting?

shoulditbeameeting.com – Share

Answer a few quick questions to see if you really need a meeting. I am not sure I could resist the urge to “cheat”.

React, graceful image.

github.com – Share

A better way to deal with image errors: optional lazy loading, placeholder and configurable retries on failure.

Colorise your sketches with PaintsChainer

paintschainer.preferred.tech – Share

When I was little we stayed between the lines ourselves.

Kernit: A font inspired by Jim Henson.

justkernit.com – Share

It ain’t easy being awesome.

Some cool demos for proximity feedback

tympanus.net – Share

Animations begin on approach to elements, rather than hover.

Web builders - Design and developement 🕷️

The illusion of control in web design.

alistapart.com – Share

Spend all your time writing perfect code in different languages, yet somehow things get fubarred.

Front-End developer handbook 2018.

frontendmasters.com – Share

There’s an entire section devoted to tools. A great resource.

What is the enemy of data visualization?

qz.com – Share

TIL: People have hated pie charts for over 100 years.

Newsletter of the week 📰

www.phpweekly.com – Share

PHP Weekly is the best newsletter I found for all things PHP. It’s my Thursday thang.

These are the droids you are looking forg for 🤖

Google's search tool answers questions by reading thousands of books.

qz.com – Share

‘Talk to Books’ scans every sentence in over 100,000 books.

A robotic exoskeleton for Multiple Sclerosis.

www.evolving-science.com – Share

The ReWalk suit was also used by Simon Kindleysides to complete the London marathon last month.

A drug dealer was caught after the PoPo lifted his prints from a WhatsApp photo.

www.bbc.com – Share

Social media marketing is getting intense.

Outro 👋

Another week marked done. If you’re feeling tweety, then we’d love to have a tweet or two for our new landing page.
Free hugs for every tweet.
Hakuna Matata,

Chris

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