Thread by @helvetica on how genre conventions are a shortcut for the cognitive load of game rules. And why that hinders movement towards new, less toxic conventions. From: https://twitter.com/helvetica/status/1274450330726645762

Jennifer Jacobs on work as a “series of productive failures” (in her case trying to mash programming and drawing together). From: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/048

MakeSpace - I love the attention to the expressive possibilities of spatial arrangement in this project. From: https://makespace.fun/

Fraidycat is delightful so far. From: https://fraidyc.at/

Diagrams and asemic language by Ariel Gonzalez Losada. Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. From: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99778654@N05/ via https://twitter.com/derekbeaulieu/status/1272267885541330944

From: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/104222030836626520

Why Kakoune — The quest for a better code editor

From: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

ZeptoBars - die-shots of electronics.

From: https://zeptobars.com/en/ via @phooky

Orb.Farm by Max Bittker.

From: https://orb.farm/

Chatting with Glue by @maxkriegers

From: http://a9.io/glue-comic/

PLATO let you SHIFT+SPACE to back up and overwrite characters, which apparently led to lots of homebrew emoji.

From: http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html via https://twitter.com/ianh_/status/1254123182694346752

Autotiling script for i3wm that orients the next split based on the current window size. Working perfectly for me so far.

From: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling via https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/g4q8b6/autotiling_this_changed_my_i3_experience_totally/

Pattern mutation tool by Loren Schmidt.

From: https://lorenschmidt.itch.io/pattern-mutation-tool

The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every RGB color (16777216); not one color missing, and not one color twice.

From: https://allrgb.com/ via https://twitter.com/njdbush/status/1248775521552515072

The fuzzy edges of character encoding by @everestpipkin.

From: http://ifyoulived.org/fuzzy/

Lewitt chess from Chesses 2 by @pippinbarr.

From: https://pippinbarr.github.io/chesses2/

Lots of interesting interaction ideas in this cocktail site by @tmcw.

From: https://oldfashioned.tech/

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts

From: https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts

I don't fully understand this technique/thread, but it is giving me ideas.

Rasterizing curves

From: http://members.chello.at/easyfilter/canvas.html