digital notes
- BBC Sounds plays Screenshot (link)
- "take back the/your web" (link)
- cards and dominoes in games (link)
- copyright and trade-mark (link)
- digital art world (link) edited
- desert island discs (link)
more in digital note 1
gaming notes
- Cards and Dominoes in games (link)
- Name lengths in games (link)
- high score (link)
- a nice GG (good-game) (link)
more in gaming
online company, start-up Links
digital notes
These are online digital note; from digital note 1 to most recent of digital notes.
Please note, some digital notes contain more information within note link.
hashtag #SpiralStaircase
From the Flickr community, "home to tens of billions of photos and 2 million groups" is popular discovery #spiralstaircase
From JustGiving.com is infographics, pictures, photography and screenshots. Browsable on Flickr/JustGiving
image captured in February, 2008
climbing Mount Fuji
A old friend encouraged me to do something different many years back. It was a great achievement, to have climed Mt. Fuji
Photo taken in Nippon at 3,250m… (this picture is from early July?, 2008)
Tags with… pictures from Japan
content sharing
"Owning your content from IndieWeb.org and Jamstack TV" (www.youtube.com)
This idea (the "Owning your content") sounds nice. However, for me it has been creating a personal space online for design, personalisation, knowledge and resumé. Plus some entertainment, gaming notes; further realisation notes pausing at Note 56, "Cards And Dominoes In Games".
floating
From being in a crowd at Music Festival in Japan.
Picture was captured sometime in July, 2008
poster
From doing a photo-walk in London.
Picture was captured sometime in January, 2009
about "PESOS"
The group indieweb posts that, "PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site", and go on to post that it is to say you are, "to create an archive copy on your site."
Then posts how "The opposite (and preferable) approach is"… named something different.
Picture was captured sometime in May, 2021
Indieweb (indieweb.org) for example reasons.
crazy discoveries
Like graffiti this portrait framing is a crazy kind-of magic. Climbing is difficult at times. Sometimes an uphill trek; sometimes requiring effort. Hidden in yourself you can find success in every trek.You could say it is similar to parts of a game such as a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).
Picture was captured sometime in May, 2021
Tags with… gaming
trekking
A hobby having done much of trekking/walking, and hope to continue doing.
Similar to a Pomodoro Timer, to consider how much trekking you are doing.
captured in May of 2014.
HTML 5
Consider more
Is this HTML5?
In short: Yes. Additional info:- html4.01/other practices.
wind power
Links to wind power (g.co)
Picture was captured sometime in July, 2007
Track hotness from BBC Radio
A Spotify track (open.spotify.com).
Heard on Shaun Keavny Radio6 show (www.bbc.co.uk).
Other artist on the same track (open.spotify.com)?
science of sleep and more
Snaps of Japanese different styles. Here you can see many different forms of style.
Photos from 2008 in Japan.
Water Puppetry
A Brief History of Hanoi's Water Puppet Theatre via @culturetrip (bnc.lt)
Giant water puppet laugh out louds? No thanks. Here are water puppets – GIF/Hyperlink (twitter.com)
https://theculturetrip.com/ (t.co) For those not in the know, the art of water puppetry is known in Vietnam as Múa rối nước. Meaning "making puppets dance on water". Similar to one of those spoilers.
a nice GG (good-game)
Played a game of Warcraft having experimented with settings; also seeing how Blizzard apply colour to gaming (in reforged).
Targeting: 4 footmen. 4 riflemen. 4 priest. 4 knights. 1 ogre warrior. 6 siege engines.
- Builds 1 alter of kings (Ulther Paladin for heal party)
- Gets experience from gnolls creeps
- Walks into forest
- Gets natural expand point of Ogre Magi, Troll creeps, footmen at 1hp
- More experience from ogre and troll creeps
- Use regeneration and builders to continue
- Expands Town Hall on expand point (ToD's Town Hall further-in-notes)
- Builds in Blacksmith; new armour (Grubby said look at the shield and more)
- Moves to see opposite expand point
- Runs away from big fight!
- Discovers naughty archer at tavern
- Builds farms between tower-defense.
- Priests arrive (its not Hearthstone)
- Builds lumber mill #2 at expand point
- All the way from a Mercenary Camp this ogre warrior appears!
- This 1hp footman runs away from combat
- Runs away!
- Warrior goes to opposite mine
- Knight goes to opposite mine at expand point
- Siege engine destroy entire enemy base
- Siege engine attacked by peasants (one gets destroyed?)
- Game over!
A nice GG!
ToD's Town Hall Meeting (youtube.com)
Fast Expand: A WarCraft 3 Podcast – HeroesHearth TV (podcasts.apple.com)
peasant minion card from Hearthstone (playhearthstone.com)
Warcraft3 TheoryCraft out there somewhere
Tags with… gaming
a 90s photo of yourself
"Post a 90s photo of yourself without comment or context" on Twitter
sitcoms
A thought, see if available in-store. Paid £10 for season 1 alone! edit: Oh! I now remember eventually getting season 2, Found a bargain for this great show (store.hmv.com) 🐶📺🎼
Few good alternate sitcoms can be found on this BBC link (www.bbc.co.uk)
pub, sub, reveal, delete
from working for the UK Learning Resouce Centre groups; some of this info is useful and good to know about pub, sub, reveal, delete Twitter link (twitter.com)
"GDPR significantly strengthened a number of rights: individuals found themselves with more power to demand companies reveal or delete the personal data they hold" Twitter link (twitter.com)
What is GDPR and why does the UK want to reshape its data laws? (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter link (twitter.com)
high score
A bit of sillyness in a book.
"the computer games industry had travelled far in the other direction, loading their games with extensive instruction manuals, hint books, novellas, lengthy filmed introductions and so forth, all in an attempt to give the games more weight, more depth." more from quoted post (http://pongmuseum.com).
on instagram (www.instagram.com)
on instagram (www.instagram.com)
Tags with… pictures
Children’s code/Age Appropriate Design Code
Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take "best interests" of child users into account
link to uk-childrens-digital-privacy-code-comes-into-effect (www.theguardian.com)
Blog: As the Children’s code comes in – what’s next?
link to UK children’s digital privacy code comes into effect (ico.org.uk)
new code has come into force to help protect the data and privacy of children
Tech giants forced to abide by child protection rules coming into force (metro.co.uk)
"… Age Appropriate Design Code – now the Children’s Code – has caused huge global changes. Not that tech platforms want to admit it"
Britain tamed Big Tech and nobody noticed (www.wired.co.uk)
stories in graphic novels
More pictures from Brood, Gamecube colour ---a Twitch discussion in comments on twitter link (twitter.com)
instagram link (www.instagram.com) for more of these instagram posts
Tags with… pictures
cyclists today
Here is a clever stat seen during travels that notices cyclists by the count out there.
Ask for better photo of this----
Glasses notes
there are books, pictures for this tech; it can be incredibly rewarding … 🤯😵💫👾🤔
other #throwback that demonstrates the awesomeness
Here in this picture the glasses are for cinema (redefining how to see film)
Icy-Veins.com sc2 (suggestions)
VS Protoss
- 2-1-1 Marine-Medivac Timing into Tank Push
- Cloaked Banshee into Two-Base, Five-Barracks All-in
- Quick Cyclone All-in with a Proxied Second Factory
VS Terran
- Proxy 2-Rax Reaper into Bio
- Safe Cyclones into Bio Play
- Safe Reaper Expand into Cyclones
VS Zerg
- Maru's Proxy 2 Rax
- Hellbat Drop Opening into Mechu
- Thermals Fast 3CC into Bio
Icy-Veins.com starcraft2-game link
Tags with… gaming
Name lengths in games
A golden Stormpike Marshall from Hearthstone:
Websites also sharing this slight inaccuracy:
Tags with… gaming
what ever happened to flickr (techspot)
Having been a pro user of Flickr, a group of work colleagues suggested I look into it, for years the site Flickr continues to be "happening" for me; given this site link: http://flickr.kaivong.com (http://flickr.kaivong.com).
The (techspot.com) headline... as ever, a good one! Though, I'm not one of those users at tech spot? However they are power-users of images -pictures (right?).
The cookies on Flickr? Given theres many other links for photography. Offering different directions for keeping your photography (personal or otherwise). For the best photographers? Be careful out there… it is photography!
Note: Techspot is a leading technology publication established in 1998.
What Ever Happened to Flickr? -- Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
This kaichanvong comment note (news.ycombinator.com)
CSS Reset Stylesheet
On "November 28th, 2021", Adactio.com shared the following CSS Reset link (adactio.com).
kaivong.com is linked from a page (adactio.com), better to look on: Meyerweb for diagnostic css stylesheet (http://meyerweb.com).
There is also a in-famous "meyerweb reset" (meyerweb.com) within the MeyerWeb tools.
Emoji of a Lion (and image)
There is a lion emoji graphic… 🦁
While, here is a of a real lion picture-image. See on instagram (www.instagram.com)
Firework display pictures
At New Years it was a great time for watching shows. Seeing fireworks on the television, the light displays, discovering new and the past (music, stories and more). Some of these pictures are from the past!
Tags with… pictures
Emojis for Chinese New Year
tweet for current designs for the 🧧 Red Envelope… "always popular during #ChineseNewYear," says the Website 📈🎆
Source1: tweet (twitter.com) of red envelope analysis 📈🎆Source2: emojipedia.org/red-envelope/ (emojipedia.org)
NB. There are wallpaper links (twitter.com) on their Twitter account.
Hashtag Chinese New Year
the -pub quiz
From comedy on the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)…
Theres is a pub quiz from the Office (www.bbc.co.uk) (2001)
colours applied in GUI
A picture-note from the Museum about Computer History.
In some GUI (graphical-user-interface) the colour of this badge can be seen on in-gaming buttons.
Here are pictures captured near the Google Campus.
Labelled as the first to use the GUI Xerox Alto, the Xerox's Alto.
page from Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (The MIT Press) … via @AmazonUK on Twitter
Google Explore recommends: Xerox Star, Apple Lisa, IBM Personal Computer, Apple I, Altair 8800
(initially posted on 2 Apr 2022)
oh Snap from Carousels
Back in early 2000's–1990s for me, this was a Marvel Entertainment computer-magazine driven PC development found in demos. Creating animations that had a cartoon level drag-and-drop and even more animations! Similar to this web-find find (www.google.co.uk).
Experiences of this, go from studying towards university; and in university we applied the animation work in 3-Dimensional, flat, SMIL and more. Moving on to office work it had been named, "Carousels" in online-page design-and-development could be seen as similar animations.
In work the development was to build, develop, test, and continuing the development of animations/interactions. My favourite implementation started at ArtFinder sharing art works in Mobile/Tablet based Apps.
Nowadays, the interaction has gone from JavaScript to CSS with css-scroll-snap. Theres also a designer/developer talk at CSSDay in the Netherlands (cssday.nl).
Draft information can be found on the CSSWG site (drafts.csswg.org)
rock, paper, scissors (and Swift)
This small tournament I recall from the year 2000 is still running (wrpsa.com), and there's an IOS Swift/SwiftUI tutorial.
developer kata stuff
I wrote a small bit about katas from my own point of view, katas. You can read it here…
"Kata is a Japanese word (型 or 形) meaning "form". It refers to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone."
Found on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Katas are very similar to games. You have a list of puzzles or user stories (depending on how written) and you get to complete them. They are also a great way to get used to the idea of TDD (test driven development) and write specifications for howsomething could or will work.
Katas are a great way to improve in a language or gain experience in a certain field, industry or situation.
Each problem is then described by tests, specifying how the kata will be completed.
Once the tasks are complete, you can then discovered things you like and dislike about both the way the specification hasbeen written the way in which it has been solved.
Below is an example of katas I looked into.
There are also for Programming languages ruby koans.
For more of this see the katas page.
desert island discs
The desert island discs programme features collections of knowings, music/sounds, links to design and more that inspires to discover.
Richard Osman, writer and broadcaster (link)
Dame Jo da Silva, engineer (link)
Neil Gaiman, writer (link)
Peter Schmeichel, footballer (link)
Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition (link)
More are on the desert island disc homepage (www.bbc.co.uk).
digital art world
video-games/computer-games being Art has always been a controversial topic… Blizzard Hearthstone casually … tweets
BBC's James Fox steps into the future to ask how technology is transforming the art world.
And, "Why should bread have all the fun, …" (twitter.com)
digital human notes/digital art world (digital-human-notes/digital-art-world)
copyright and trade mark
It is possible, "You automatically get copyright protection when you create:
- original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, including illustration and photography
- original non-literary written work, such as software, web content and databases
- sound and music recordings
- film and television recordings
- broadcasts
- the layout of published editions of written, dramatic and musical works"
Find more on, "How copyright protects your work" (www.gov.uk)
It is possible, "trade mark can include:
- words
- sounds
- logos
- colours
- a combination of any of these"
See more on, trade mark (www.gov.uk)
cards and dominoes in games
I had a look at card-games… could be Rummy might be popular, again.
A puzzle game from pictures. You could, see it as a game of spot the difference and creative jigsaw puzzle playing. However, hopefully you'll know dominoes is known as a kind of game (en.wikipedia.org)
Also, I have been partial to a pizza then and again…
In other games
Meanwhile; in card games/tradable-card games AKA TCG: there are so many of these games (en.wikipedia.org)
However! In the 1990's there can be found in 1993 or 1994, only 3–6 games were released. Fast-forward on from then… 40+ games published! There were a few odd computer-card-games that look in the open-source zone too. Some websites explain their mechanics and other different known facts.
"Take Back The/Your Web"
From the IndieWeb.org's helpful Chatbot's "what is" command, you'll kinda know:
"Beyond Tellerrand is (often abbreviated btconf) an annual web conference in Düsseldorf, Germany since 2011 (additional cities since), which has supported and helped sponsor the adjacent IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf annually since 2015 https://indieweb.org/Take_Back_Your_Web"
Presentations from 2019, Jeremy Keith (vimeo.com) and Tantek Çelik (vimeo.com). Both from "Taking Back The/Your Web".
BBC Sounds Plays Screenshot
From November 2021, BBC hosts "guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image revealing fascinating links and hidden gems from cinema and TV to streaming and beyond". BBC Sounds plays Screenshot
About Kai Vong (@kaichanvong) and find Kai online
My Chinese name is, 黃振佳. I'm the mix of British-Chinese, see digital-identity for more.
about gaming…
Having studied design and computer-games-design, for more about gaming --current gaming, sharing finds, notes and more
@kaichanvong on twitter (bio)
gaming, design, development previously: @JustGiving, @artfinder, @dressipi and more. See 🔗 for more… about Kai Vong
| London, UK | Joined March 2007 |
This Is @CrimsonKinda (on Twitch/Twitter)
Me? but kinda; gaming.
Gaming handle. ex-gaming column: @ESReality , @SKGaming . previously lead-admin for warcraft3 tournaments, admin EOGC, WCG qualifiers
Contact
Get, get in touch, twitter (@kaichanvong), facebook? Always happy to chat, move on 🤖
For more, digital-identity has other channels to connect.
prev designs from kaivong.com
current gaming
Chess, HearthStone (heroes of warcraft), StarCraft 🎮👾
random known games
Suggested and found on the Guardian Culture website – Wildermyth. The game is described as,
"a character-driven, procedurally-generated tactical RPG, designed to help you tell your wildest stories. Like the best tabletop roleplaying experiences, Wildermyth gives you choices and answers your every decision with consequences that drive your characters forward."
For current, previous games-design-research, other questions around computer-games, gaming; its possible to get in contact. It's possible to find me as playing in-game as CRiMiSoN; alternative handle is crimsonKinda online.
more about online gaming
The name couldn't be made on that chat server (back then); it resembles a chess board; I had a interest in learning chess and all-sorts of games/gaming.
Gaming took me early on to playing the games, helping run (as TL) for Moofins and TFO, going to both in online and IRL tournaments.
gaming In-Real-Life and Online
During other times I managed a team as part of BgC, then added posts online for SK-Gaming.
Playing for different teams and different types of games helped me; to volunteer for different events In Real Life (in person).
Having played many different games, I also studied in the realm of Computer-Games and love the chat Computer-Games versus Video-Games.
Twitch (from Twitch TV)
Internet Live? Games Streaming – crimsonkinda …
not a streamer, always lurking, always sleepy; gaming. Gaming handle. ex-gaming column: @ESReality, @SKGaming. previously lead-admin for warcraft3 tournaments, admin EOGC, WCG qualifiers
gaming notes
- Cards and Dominoes in games (18 Sept 2022)
- Name Lengths In Games (21 Dec 2021)
- Icy-Veins.Com Sc2 -Suggestions (8 Nov 2021)
- High Score (01 Sep 2021)
- A Nice GG -Good-Game (16 Aug 2021)
- Game (24 Jun 2021)
- Crazy Discoveries (23 Jun 2021)
Digital Identity/Media Channels
Some links to my social media channels are removed. However, to find something particularly get in contact, there's also gaming and my gaming handle, possibly search on a particular social media channel.
Occasionally, I tidy up my twitter account (and back it up)
Tweets
These are tweets from past, part of a digital identity from @kaichanvong on twitter.
Available tweets (for previous years) on this page, Content I've (seemed to) Seen Twitter Interesting, also… here is a tweet about gaming, computer-gaming art(twitter.com).