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26. February 2019

VisBug – Hover inspect in the browser

Visbug is an amazing new browser extension that allows you to do a visual inspection of your website in development.

What they have to say about their tool and capabilities

Point, click & tinker
Edit or style any page, in any state, like it’s an artboard
Hover inspect styles, accessibility and alignment
Nitpick layouts & content, in the real end environment, at any device size
Leverage adobe/sketch skills
Edit any text, replace any image (hi there copywriters, ux writers, pms)
Design within the chaos: use production or prototypes and the odd states they produce, as artboards and design opportunities
Design while simulating latency, i18n, media queries, platform constraints, CPUs, screensize, etc
Make more decisions on the front end of your site/app (a11y, responsive, edge cases, etc)
No waiting for developers to expose their legos, just go direct and edit the end state (regardless of framework) and execute/test an idea

For Designers & Content Creators

A really nice tool for designers & content creators, helping them to optimize the look and feel of a website.

The extension is currently available for Chrome, but a Firefox Addon is in development.

Github
Chrome Extension

5. February 2019

SVG Cleaner – streamline your vectors

svgcleaner has been around for some time and is constantly being optimized! It helps you clean up your SVG files, keeping them free from unnecessary data.

Temporary data used by the vector editing application
Non-optimal SVG structure representation
Unused and invisible graphical elements

Github project.

The GUI application adds batch file processing, decompression & compression and parallel cleaning jobs, GUI application.

9. March 2018

Pretty checkboxes and radio buttons in pure CSS

Easily add beautiful checkboxes and radio buttons in pure CSS. Highly customizable via SCSS.

Basic
- Shapes – Square, Curve, Round
- Variants – Default, Fill, Thick
- Colors – Primary, Success, Info, Warning, Danger
- Color types – Solid, Outline
- Animations – Smooth, Tada, Jelly, Pulse, Rotate
Switch – iOS style – Outline, Fill, Slim
Responsive
No JavaScript
Custom Font Icons
SVG Icons
Image support
Toggle between icons / SVG’s / images
Lock
State – Focus, Hover, Indeterminate
Supports frameworks – Bootstrap, Foundation, Sematic UI, Bulma, …
SCSS customization
Supports all modern browsers, including mobile devices
Print friendly

  <!-- add class p-default -->
    <div class="pretty p-default">
        <input type="checkbox" />
        <div class="state">
            <label>Default</label>
        </div>
    </div>

    <!-- add class p-fill -->
    <div class="pretty p-default p-fill">
        <input type="checkbox" />
        <div class="state">
            <label>Fill</label>
        </div>
    </div>

    <!-- add class p-thick -->
    <div class="pretty p-default p-thick">
        <input type="checkbox" />
        <div class="state">
            <label>Thick</label>
        </div>
    </div>

<label>Default</label>

</div>

</div>

<label>Thick</label>

</div>

GitHub

1. February 2018

Map Icons to customize your Google Map Icons

An icon font to use with the Google Maps API and Google Places API, using SVG markers and icon labels.

Map Icons makes Google Maps Markers dynamic with control over shape, color, size, and icon easily changed using options in the marker object as well as simple SVG Notation and CSS.

GitHub / Preview

21. January 2018

CodeCombat – programming can be as much fun as a game

CodeCombat is a multiplayer programming game for learning how to code. The ultimate goal of CodeCombat is to bring more users into the field of computer programming by making the logic and syntax more accessible and enjoyable to learn. The end game is to educate a whole new generation of computer programmers that started their journey by slaying ogres and defending their castles from oncoming enemy hordes.

CodeCombat teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser.

CodeCombat itself can be found on GitHub under the free MIT license. All the art assets (sprites, backgrounds, sound effects, etc.) can also be found on GitHub and are published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. This allows easy use of the game artwork for projects of students.

You can subscribe online or setup a dev environment on Windows, Mac or Linux yourself. You need to be able to follow instructions and have some basic technical knowledge.

While the setup on the Mac and Linux are straight forward, Windows is the hardest to get working! (CodeCombat Wiki)

I have setup a local dev environment on my Mac for my daughter, as she does not play regularly but loves to tinker with it from time to time … learning Javascript!

Used some AppleScript magic and Automator to ease the startup of the setup when needed. The setup might vary on your end, as I am using iTerm2 as a Terminal replacement.

on run {input, parameters}
	
	set app_name to "mongod"
        set user_name to "pzTV"
        set path_to_codecombat to "/Users/pzTV/Entwicklung/"

	set the_pids to (do shell script "ps ax | grep " & (quoted form of app_name) & "| grep -v grep | awk '{printf \"%d \", $1}'")
	do shell script ("for PID in " & the_pids & "; do kill -9 $PID; done ")
	
	tell application "iTerm2"
		create window with profile "Mongo"
		tell current window
			
			tell current session
				write text "cd " & path_to_codecombat & "codecombat ; ./bin/coco-mongodb"
			end tell
		end tell
		tell current window
			create tab with profile "CodeCombat"
			tell current session
				write text "cd " & path_to_codecombat & "codecombat ; npm start"
			end tell
			
		end tell
		
		
	end tell
	
	delay 15
	
	tell application "Google Chrome"
		open location "192.168.1.32:3000"
		
	end tell
	
end run

on run {input, parameters}

set app_name to "mongod"

set user_name to "pzTV"

set path_to_codecombat to "/Users/pzTV/Entwicklung/"

set the_pids to (do shell script "ps ax | grep " & (quoted form of app_name) & "| grep -v grep | awk '{printf \"%d \", $1}'")

do shell script ("for PID in " & the_pids & "; do kill -9 $PID; done ")

tell application "iTerm2"

create window with profile "Mongo"

tell current window

tell current session

write text "cd " & path_to_codecombat & "codecombat ; ./bin/coco-mongodb"

end tell

tell current window

create tab with profile "CodeCombat"

tell current session

write text "cd " & path_to_codecombat & "codecombat ; npm start"

end tell

delay 15

tell application "Google Chrome"

open location "192.168.1.32:3000"

end tell

end run

CodeCombat is a really fun way to get into programming and keep your kids motivated.

CodeCombat Website / GitHub

20. January 2018

Body-Kun – Models for Artists

Really love these. Highly realistic, articulated figures created with the artist in mind. Over 30 articulated joints make it easy to recreate a desired pose or action.

Body-Kun

20. January 2018

Voxel Builder – Easy cube-based 3D design with DIY 2D/3D printing

Voxel Builder is an open source tool that lets anyone design and edit 3D voxel (cube) models easily, right in their web browser.

You can export the voxel, print it to allow you to fold it up using paper or use it as a base model for 3D printing!

Voxel Builder

7. November 2017

KAIAKOO – Adventure Coaching goes online!

A new customer website goes online. KAIAKOO offers private and group coaching events, fire walks and more.

KAIAKOO – Adventure Coaching

30. August 2017

GreenApe is breathing again

After some downtime, GreenApe is breathing again. I revived the brand with a good friend of mine and we will be reopening shop options shortly.

Michael and I have been friends for a long time. We have been working on many different projects over the years.

He launched GreenApe in 2011 and I helped him with his first steps. A couple of months ago we decided to merge our competences and expand what GreenApe offers and stands for.

From the website: “The GreenApe brand was established in 2011. GreenApe’s career began with the 1st Single Malt Whisky Coffee.

As the first of its kind, our coffee is refined with Original Single Malt Whisky. To this day, he pampers many connoisseurs and gourmets with his unique taste. Now there is another reason to rejoice.

From now on, we are continuously expanding the GreenApe product world with several stylish gadgets and useful accessories. For you this means that you will be able to discover even more beautiful, special or practical things in the future.“

GreenApe is all about lifestyle & leisure products, fun gadgets and unique food & drinks.

20. August 2017

Font Face Observer … gives you a font promise ;)

Font Face Observer is a fast and simple web font loader. You can use it to load fonts and customise your browser’s font loading behaviour.

Font Face Observer gives you control over web font loading using a simple promise based interface. It doesn’t matter where your fonts come from: host them yourself, or use a web font service such as Google Fonts, Typekit, Fonts.com, and Webtype.

Font Face Observer @ Github