Design of Gesture Recognition Libraries for Web
If you are a web developer, you might have dealt with mouse and touch gestures. You might have written code to detect a swipe from the native browser events lik...
Fear the Melting
Color mapping of a photograph after dynamic compression. 2021. In the original photo, an old tree has grown algorithmic patterns on the thickest parts of its ba...
Robust Geographical UTM Coordinate Parser
There are many ways to write geographical coordinates in UTM coordinate systems in the wild: 327874 12345 N 6730758 E 327874 6730758 N, -327874 W e327874 n67307...
Single-Color Image Generator
Do you need a simple rectangular image filled with a single color? Surprisingly often I find myself looking for such a tool to create simple image files as back...
Julia Set Fractal Renderer in JavaScript
Julia sets are curious two dimensional shapes. Many of them exhibit fractal borders in various unique and beautiful forms. To explore them in a web browser, I s...
How to Represent Matrices in Source Code Comments
When working with code that deals with matrices, it is sometimes necessary to represent a matrix on the commenting lines of the code. Matrices have standard mat...
2D Geometry Libraries for JavaScript
Here is a collection of javascript programming libraries that focus on 2D plane geometry. The collection aims to map the most successful of such libraries and t...
Usability testing of application programming interfaces
Application programming interfaces, APIs, provide building blocks for programmers to compose programs such as websites or games. Often an API is being read and ...
Rainforests should be Mined for Genetic Information instead of Trees
There is vast amount of highly competitive and optimized genetic information in rainforests [1]. In this rather sketchy article I have collected some of my thou...
Benchmark of Elementary Mathematical Operations in Node.js
How fast or slow are common mathematical operations to execute in a web browser or Node.js? How slow is a division when compared to a multiplication or a sine f...