Avara: "The placement of its nodes is exclusively based on a rough square grid. The original reason of this design choice was to facilitate collaboration on the font, and it now results in the radical and highly constrained shapes of this type family."
Fantastic talk by Joseph White on the motivations for the PICO-8 fantasy console. I love the attention to how the process of designing and coding should feel (cozy, inviting).
Kid Pix 1.0 blender modes.
From: https://archive.org/details/KID_PIX_DOS via https://cybre.space/@SuricrasiaOnline/104632534685909027
Cellular automata demos by Rudy Rucker using "CA Lab" software.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZUzakG3bE via @whistlegraph
The more I understand what Base16 is: a structured way for setting up and applying color palettes (a design system), the more I am impressed by it. From: http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
Light and dark mode with hotkey. Mostly done using pywal, though Vim turned out to be tricky because the gruvbox package needs to have the background set. I might try using base16-shell instead...
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
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/
