I spent the morning of January 1st working on this little animation. It uses all the things that I have learned in the past week while following LoveByte’s demoscene tutorial. Here is some of my work during the tutorial, maybe you can see where I took a trick or two? 2022 was not a great […]
Cory Doctorow published an end-of-year retrospective in his blog, where he put links from 20, 15, 10, 5 and 1 year ago, from between December 24th and January 7th. Actually, he puts these back links in every post he writes (which is really cool). But the longer time period of the retrospective post makes it […]
RSSs are cool. They allow people to follow webpages. They don’t get stuck in spam filters. They give people power over the web. I wanted to create a RSS feed for the Alife newsletter. The Alife newsletter is built from hand-made python scripts that parse multiple markdown files, so I had to learn how to […]
Today I learned an amazing bash command: shuf. It shuffles the lines of an input file, and prints them to the standard output. This is super useful when you want to sample a few lines from a very large file, to have an idea of its contents. See the image below for details: I learned […]
Recently there has been a small subculture about reviving the 90ies style of the web, specially in places such as “neocities” (a geocities revival project). Today I learned about the glorious CASTLE CYBERSKULL, which takes this idea and runs with it: The above picture does not do justice to the GIF-crazy glory of CASTLE CYBERSKULL. […]