I built a blog. Then I realised I didn't have anything to write about.
It’s an ActivityPub powered blog, so maybe there’s something interesting to say about that, but I really don’t want to create a blog and then make the first post about the business of creating the blog. That stuff is a bit dry anyway.
Either way, I need a first blog post, so I decided to see if some old js library I made 13 years ago (😱 wtf) still works. If it does, I could do browser drums AND have a first blog post that is not about making a blog.
Turns out it does, so...
Flailr is an old-school, client-side motion-detection library with a dumb name. It uses your webcam and a blend-mode-difference trick to figure out whether parts of the camera image have had enough movement to raise an event.
If you wanted, you could use it during presentations to move between slides by waving your arms about like a madman.
Maybe you could make a whack a mole fiarground style game with it.
Alternatively, you could do BROWSER DRUMS! Open the camera and hit the drums, yeah?
(This thing will use your webcam. No one will see that but you... It all stays in your browser 👍)
Anyway, hopefully I've proved to myself:
- this markdown rendering shenanigans works
- some basic Activity Pub integration works
And got some hacky dumb browser drums up and running in the process. Fun times!