Today’s mail delivery included more stickers – in addition to the collection from earlier in the week – and, these are particularly special. Three NFC stickers, each with the text “Tap For Art” overlaid on a colourful pattern The first thing I noticed when I opened the envelope was the care and attention that was put into the manner in which they’ve been presented, slid into a similarly-cut sheet of textured paper.
As you can see in the photo, each of these is a “Tap For Art” design, and sure enough, tap an NFC-capable device like a recent iOS or Android phone to one of these, and you get redirected to a generative artwork created by our friend, the artist
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Today’s mail delivery included more stickers – in addition to the collection from earlier in the week – and, these are particularly special. Three NFC stickers, each with the text “Tap For Art” overlaid on a colourful pattern The first thing I noticed when I opened the envelope was the care and attention that was put into the manner in which they’ve been presented, slid into a similarly-cut sheet of textured paper.
As you can see in the photo, each of these is a “Tap For Art” design, and sure enough, tap an NFC-capable device like a recent iOS or Android phone to one of these, and you get redirected to a generative artwork created by our friend, the artist bleeptrack. There’s an extra cool feature here, as each of these tags also has the ability to carry a tap count, so that goes into the generated URL to create a new variation each time.
Really cool, and I’m over the moon to have a few of these to play with and stick in places that I hope will enable more people to discover the work – thank you @bleeptrack 🙏🏻
[folks, go check out her other work – plotter artist, generative creative, maker extraordinaire]
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Today, I received some fun post from some lovely people in New York City. Those in the know, may recognise these stickers as the logos of Glitch and Fastly.
I’ve been using Glitch to write and host web apps for quite a few years now – it is super helpful when working in a role like developer relations, needing to rapidly spin up demos, examples, or to demonstrate new features. A couple of years ago, Glitch came together with Fastly, and in the past couple of months their new developer platform vision really started to come together.
If you haven’t been keeping up with what they have been up to, and were not able to be at their recent special developer event in NYC (don’t worry, I couldn’t get there either), there’s a helpful ~6 minute video that summarises the announcements. I’m particularly interested and excited about this because I know and respect the folks involved – Anil Dash, Jenn Schiffer, Hannah Aubry, many others across their teams – and I know that they get and they care about developer experience, Open Source, and the free and open web. I’m talking about the big stuff, the infrastructure, the stuff that needs to invisibly just work in order for the web to run; and also the smaller things, the quirky indie little pieces, the fun and new experiences, helping people to learn to code and to be creative. It’s no exaggeration to say that Fastly’s Fast Forward program is a massive supporter of Open Source, open standards and the Fediverse. All of these things are reasons why I love Glitch & Fastly.
[ if you’re curious about the sorts of things I’ve been building or working on from a code and web perspective, I’ve also spruced up my GitHub bio, and I have a more general gallery page on GitHub that has links to the source and deployments of different projects – some of which are links to those Glitch apps above ]
Thank you for the stickerage, Glitch friends! And, congratulations on the new Fastly Developer Platform! I’m looking forward to continuing to use your cool technologies 👍🏻
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