The previous article walked through how to build a semi-practical teaser (thumbnail) image plugin. With the basics down, this article will demonstrate how to improve that plugin, making it more customizable and generalized. Read more...
The previous article discussed key concepts related to the development of Pelican plugins, installation of plugins, and gave a minimal example of a plugin.
In this article, a more practical example of a plugin — one actually used on this site — is demonstrated. Read more...
Pelican is a static site generator written in Python, which was used to create this site. Extending Pelican with plugins can be a powerful tool, but unfortunately when going to create my own first plugin, I found documentation to be somewhat lacking. So, I'd like to provide a few tutorials demonstrating how I built plugins for this site, starting with a very simple one.
This article assumes basic familiarity with Python, and working with Pelican to create a basic blog site, but does not assume knowledge of Pelican internals. Read more...
The Star Wars opening crawl has been replicated many times in HTML/CSS. It's almost a rite of passage for frontend web development students of a particular geekly persuasion. I threw my hat into that ring several years ago, and made an exacting reproduction of the Episode IV crawl (though never published it). I recently re-visited that project and decided to put an absurdist spin on it by turning the crawl into the most impractical weather report possible. Read more...
A few days ago, I posted a writeup and demo of one feature of an old PC game called The Walt Disney World Explorer — the interactive timeline.
Continuing work on re-creating this game in a web browser, I recently made mockups of some of the attraction slideshows that I thought I'd share. Read more...
One of the memorable features of both editions of The WDW Explorer was the interactive timeline. For each year, from opening in 1971 to 1996 or 1998 depending on the edition, a narration explained some of the key developments at WDW. An overview map of the resort also updated with each year to show each new park or resort as it opened. One could slide the timeline back and forth and quickly watch the resort develop or regress. Read more...