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

Procedural forest growth by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.

From: https://www.instagram.com/p/B89S7ueF-4e/?igshid=1w7slwjeidarm

MD Eight typeface by Mass Driver.

From: https://mass-driver.com/typefaces/md-eight

Reverse emulating the NES to give it super powers.

From: https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0 via https://hi.technomancy.us/objects/fbb62643-b715-4f77-83cd-ead5c42df337

Composite braces for tree diagrams.

From: https://type.today/en/journal/brackets

Proposal for a GNU Unicode font by Roman Czyborra in 1998.

Ben Chasny on his playing-card-based hexadic composition system.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67ZPVgpE-E

GNU Unifont emoji.

From: https://edent.gitlab.io/unifont/

GNU Unifont data format example.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont

A nice guide by @MikeRiethmuller on image manipulation techniques with canvas. It goes through basic (what I've been doing), 32-bit (what I'm going to do now), and shaders (what I'll probably end up trying soon).

From: https://www.madebymike.com.au/writing/canvas-image-manipulation/

Atreus mechanical keyboard.

From: https://atreus.technomancy.us/