I haven't seen anyone else do it, I feel like browser blend modes in general are kind of not used as much as they ought to be.
I also, on the topic of tech details, make extensive use of the new scroll-timeline stuff which lets you tie CSS animations to the scroll position. it has only landed in chrome at the moment (as of maybe February) so I just use it as a progressive enhancement but it's very cool and performant.
Lol I see now that there is another thread only 30 minutes old talking about obesity stuff. This essay is about a history of fad diets, and IMO the most fascinating hypothesis about what is driving the obesity epidemic yet.
Yes I'm aware of the Slime Mold Time Mold arguments, "Calories in Calories out", and the Scott Alexander essay arguing for and against saturated fat diets. I still think this is very plausible and very interesting.
TLDR: American consumption of linoleic acid (omega 6) has skyrocketed since the 1960s. Other animals in our family tree enter into a state called "torpor" to prepare for hibernation, and they do this by increasing their intake of linoleic acid which signals their fat cells to begin storage. Squirrels, famously, switch to a diet high in acorns (high in Ω-6) as the winter approaches, which tells their bodies to start packing on weight in preparation for hibernation.
Squirrels need 8% of their calories to come from linoleic acid to switch into torpor, americans began to eat more than 8% of their calories in linoleic acid almost exactly when the obesity epidemic started.
human temperatures have also dropped by 1 degree fahrenheit since before the obesity crisis started and nobody knows why. Torpor is a plausible explaination
One thing I've gotten very into recently is multishot techniques, where I take multiple shots in burst mode, align them, and then average them to reduce sensor noise. Similar to what http://www.photoacute.com/ does but they do more advanced superresolution stuff that your invisible noise might preclude, but a simple average or median in areas where there isn't too much motion really improves the quality quite dramatically in some cases, particularily in low lighting situations. If your frame rate is that high it probably wouldn't be hard to get a really good alignment between frames, so I thought I'd bring this up as a thought for a future feature (as in - you select the frame you like, then the program grabs a few frames immediately before and after and uses them to increase the image quality of the final output).
Is the future full of billions of independent agents transacting over trust boundaries, or will everything consolidate into one big happy borg?