Thomas Park

I’ve been working on a redesign of hanafuda and hwatu cards to make them more approachable for beginners.

For the 2024 Reddit Games and Puzzles Hackathon, I submitted 575, a daily word game where you compose a haiku using the words of the day.

Way back when, vertically centering an element was a tall task.

My son’s current obsession is the New York Times word game Spelling Bee.

Skeuomorphism taken to the extreme rarely works.

Can you play videos natively through CarPlay?

https://thomaspark.co/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/needledrop.mp4 My latest experiment is Needledrop, a turntable interface for playing music from YouTube.

The Obsession My family gets competitive with card games.

Chess is a continuously evolving game.

If you’re into tools — think hammers and drills — you’re probably familiar with the extremes people go to protect their prized possessions.

After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement.

I’ve made a Chrome browser extension called No Scary Parts.

So you want a different language keyboard for your MacBook Pro.

At the Overwatch League Grand Finals in Philadelphia, attendees received white wristbands that blink different colors in sync with each other during the event.

In the course of developing Campus Arrival, a WordPress site that provides school-specific packing lists, we added a feature to suggest nearby universities.

Recently I’ve been working on The Beautube, a site that integrates video tutorials with details about the products being mentioned in the videos, specifically in the realm of cosmetics.

With the era of the humble unstyled and unscripted input field behind us, there’s increasing variety in how monetary inputs work on the web.

I just finished binging the latest release of Terrace House, a reality TV show from Japan.

Welcome to another installment of the collective nouns survey.

I recently got a new phone that supports wireless charging, allowing me to switch out my rather hefty clock radio dock for a teeny wireless charging pad, continuing the minimalist march in my living room.

The Problem The clutter.

I’m pleased to announce Grid Garden, a sequel to Flexbox Froggy.

Last week, a fun article titled fitteR happieR crowned the most depressing Radiohead song as True Love Waits.

From deep in the vaults, here’s an app called QuickLine that I made and then promptly forgot about in 2014.

It goes without saying that Stack Overflow is an invaluable resource for any coder seeking help.

So here’s a fun but useless trick: mimicking Pokemon Go’s battery saver mode on the web.

Footnotes An xkcd tribute inspired by what has become a meme.

Fidgeting is a natural impulse that seems to relieve our anxiety and aid us in contemplation.

Since Steve Job’s return in 1997, Apple has been bold about dropping legacy I/O standards, on a knife edge between marching the state-of-the-art forward and convincing the world to follow suit.

A bad web form sparked a series of increasingly absurd designs for inputting phone numbers, including an incrementer, slider, random number generator, and very large table.

I’ve created a game for learning CSS flexbox called Flexbox Froggy.

Even if you’ve never watched an episode of The Joy of Painting, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with artist Bob Ross, with his trademark afro and “happy little trees”.

As of this month, 25 percent of all websites are using WordPress, according to W3Techs survey.

I just returned from another great Mozilla Festival.

As web developers, the deal is that we try to support our users on all the different platforms they might use to view our site.

Like most web developers, Google Fonts is an indispensable resource for me.

Scoped CSS is a new feature that makes it possible to add <style> elements anywhere in your document, scoping the CSS rules it contains to its parent element.

Since May, our research group has been developing a new tool called Snowball.

You have two choices when it comes to formatting academic papers for conferences and journals: Microsoft Word and LaTeX.

A recent post about efforts to counter the declining popularity of golf got me thinking.

In Team Fortress 2, there are nine playable classes with unique personalities and complementary abilities: pyro, engineer, spy, heavy, sniper, scout, soldier, demo, and medic.

In math, you’re sometimes so focused on getting the calculations right that you end up with nonsensical answers without realizing it.

Right now we’re blessed with many, well, awesome icon fonts that continue to grow with every release, like Font Awesome, Glyphicons, and Ionicons.

I’m headed to Mozilla Festival this week, after spending the summer working for Mozilla Webmaker.

We’ve all run into CAPTCHAs, those annoying registration fields you never get right on the first try.

One feature that’s often overlooked in iOS is adding webpages to your homescreen.

A visitor to your site decides to follow you on Twitter.

In 2011, for the first time, Amazon sold more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks.

iTunes 11 marks a significant departure from previous versions.

For those who aren’t familiar, Hacker News is a popular site where a community of techies discuss a wide range of topics.