2021 week 44—Photoshop journey to the web, After Effects to SVG, Hocus Focus accessibility game
Weekly web industry news and posts worth sharing
Hi there,
This is Thomas again. It is cool sunny days in Macao. I’m enjoying both the weather and the Next.js conf and Adobe MAX event.
→ Podcast / Coffee in the Clouds interview with Jason Fried
https://nydla.org/podcasts-jason-fried/
This week I was listening to a podcast interview with Jason Fried.
→ WebAssembly / Photoshop journey to the web
https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/
In the MAX event this week, Adobe releases the beta of Photoshop for the web, and invite-only beta for Illustrator for web.
WebAssembly and its C++ toolchain Emscripten have been the key to unlocking Photoshop's ability to come to the web, as it meant that Adobe would not have to start from scratch, but could leverage their existing Photoshop codebase.
→ SVG / Turning After Effects animation into SVG animation
https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web
I learned this tool from my award-wining web development student.
Lottie is a mobile library for Web, and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!
→ Accessibility / Hocus :Focus
https://focus.hteumeuleu.com/
Hocus :focus is a keyboard accessibility game made by @HTeuMeuLeu.
This game shows the keyboard accessibility things that we should avoid.
As Mike mentioned in his tweet:
If focus is this annoying in a game, imagine how annoying it is for everything else
→ Tool / Retrobatch
https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/
This is a tool that I used to batch process image files. This software has been around since 2018, and keep receiving regular updates.
Here are examples that I use Retrobatch. After I scan my hand-writing notebooks, I use this software to batch cropping the images. Or for example, when I need to organize images by date. Or it even supports computer vision and object classification via MobileNet.
→ Newsletter / Hotwire dev newsletter
https://masilotti.com/hotwire/edition-5/
I learned a lot from the resources in this Hotwire development newsletter.
→ Learning / Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
https://www.smallstepcap.com
Until next week,
Thomas Mak
