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My guest post for the team at Leap Motion
After my recent obsession with new technologies and the Internet of Things, the team at Leap Motion was interested to know my thoughts on how their technology would fit in this new Internet enabled...
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Controlling the IoT world like a wizard at IoT Sydney
I have been spending the past month on a new Internet of Things set of experiments, this time with a focus on the Leap Motion controller. It’s a neat little device that detects hand motion. I made...
View ArticleAccessing your localhost from anywhere
I’ve got a new SitePoint article up entitled “Accessing localhost from anywhere”. It is my first non-JavaScript focused article for SitePoint and is all about the various tunnelling services you can...
View ArticleControlling your Android phone with the wave of a finger
I’ve got a new SitePoint article up all about how to mute an incoming call using on{X}, the Leap Motion and NodeJS. It’s the same concept I presented at the Internet of Things Sydney Meetup and the...
View ArticleForcing Internet Explorer 8 to redraw Pseudo Elements
Very quick blog post just to remind myself and others how to force IE8 to display pseudo elements correctly! Issue: IE8 is not showing pseudo elements on a child element of a parent that has just...
View ArticleHow to remove node_modules from your git repo
I had accidentally committed my node_modules folder in my new git repo and wanted to remove it from my git repo without losing my actual node_modules folder itself. Turns out there’s a nice easy way to...
View ArticleArduino sketch not uploading due to “Inappropriate ioctl”?
Whilst working with Arduinos, every now and then I miss something that should have been really obvious and spend an hour in confusion. This error here was one of those: avrdude: ser_open(): can't open...
View ArticleReal world magic with JavaScript
Tonight I gave a talk at Web Directions’ What Do You Know Sydney that was all about creating magic with JavaScript. It was five minutes, so there was not a lot of time to cover much in detail. Instead,...
View ArticleAttempt to unlock npm module which hasn’t been locked fix
I’d been struggling with npm installs for a while on my machine and couldn’t work out why. Various error messages kept appearing for various Node modules but it never seemed to be an issue with the...
View ArticleBackground disappearing on Chromium with text-indent -9999px
I recently had a rather confusing bug where on Chromium, a background image on one of my elements kept disappearing and would only appear if I scrolled down past it and then scrolled back up. Super...
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