What’s the most scary presentation slide you ever made? Here’s a story of two of mine.
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The first one is from 2011. I’m working on a Google I/O talk about the secrets of Google Pac-Man homepage doodle.
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This is still the early days of the excitement of CSS 3, so I double down on making the slides look like 1980-era CRT screens.
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I make the screen flicker, I have some banding going up and up, an obvious interlace effect, and a slow phosphorus ghosting.
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It’s really garish and cheesy – and all done in CSS. Here’s what it looked like:pic.twitter.com/BJupDbbTey
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I’m co-hosting with
@ryangermick. We arrive an hour before the talk, plug in the title slide, get miked, etc. And then, we just hang out.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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About 20 minutes later, one of the A/V technicians comes running to us, with a worried and sheepish expression on his face.
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He goes “we’re seeing all of this noise and artifacts. We checked everything twice, but we still have no idea where they’re coming from.”
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Turned out, the CSS I put together was impersonating an old display so well it actually fooled (and frightened) the professionals!
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Replying to @mwichary
(The talk was really tons of fun otherwise. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc …)
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The other actually genuinely scary slide I made a few years earlier. As part of Authors @ Google program, we were hosting Richard Rhodes.
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