Programming

What web can do today

Yesterday I tried to create a Progressive Web App displaying an artificial horizon over a live camera view and was wondering if this would be possible with a modern mobile web browser. During the research, I stumbled over several websites which you can use to test the hardware capabilities and their software support in web browsers and I wanted to share some links.
2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00September 26, 2019|Device Independent, HTML5, Progressive Web App, PWA, Web Design, WebGL|

A 3D visualization of real-time earthquake data

This is a 3D visualization of real-time earthquake data gathered from the U.S. Geological Survey website. The data used in this example covers all earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 1 within the last 30 days. They are drawn into a template texture image file of the Earth’s surface according to the geographical position and the magnitude of the quake.
2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00June 7, 2019|3D, Earth, PHP, Science, Web Design, WebGL|

Changing labels in WordPress with the gettext filter

An easy way to change labels and strings in WordPress is to use a gettext filter. This post shows the different filter functions, their purpose, and how to implement a filter callback in the file functions.php to change labels and strings in themes, plugins, and widgets using a table of string replacements, even for different languages.
2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00March 22, 2019|GDPR, PHP, Web Design, WordPress|
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