Writing with constraints
This might be an extreme example of a maxim. I was dimly aware of a novel written without the letter “E”. Recently saw a mention of it and looked it up. "Gadsby" is a novel written by Erne…
Making
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Solo app development
A wonderful look behind the scenes, for what it takes to build a single app, alone. https://papereditor.app/dev The amount of work that goes into this is immense -- and won't feel commensurate w…
The power of art
From a book I’m slowly reading right now, “The Creative Act”…
Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
DIY Chocolate Fondue
(Credit to my wife)…
The Gunslinger and the Tower
(More fun with Midjourney!)…
"Caves"
I had a small puzzle RPG idea: you have to explore and find something, except that the “worlds” themselves would be easy to specify and shareable etc. Nothing very original, but still fun to make. I…
Of moons and planets
Something fascinating from an “amateur analysis” of the moon’s orbit — the sort of thing I’m sure a lot of people wish they did but never do. In other words, the Sun exerts more than twice as much gr…
Golden Sections
I was inspired by this short Randall Carlson episode to re-construct the diagram in Wolfram Mathematica. It is a geometric construction of "the golden mean", and then viewing it as a ratio,…
Circle Art
Some simple, quick, random (yet, it should be pointed out in this age of Dall-E, deliberate and human-made) art featuring colored circles: circles := Table[{RandomColor[], Disk[{RandomInteger[{…
On "butterfly" curves
A Wolfram Mathematica notebook inspired by this wikipedia article. (sadly, can't embed it properly, so a screenshot will have to do)…
Plotting diamonds
More Wolfram Mathematica fun, when my daughter wanted to make a "diamond shape" in "hot pink". Here's the "source of truth": And here's the rendering in Mathema…