Henry Catalini Smith |

A village transformation I did in Minecraft.

An SVG remake I made of the PICO-8 font.

Moon animation in pure CSS.

Winter animation in pure CSS.

Fire animation in pure CSS inspired by the PlayStation version of DOOM.

I tried to make a mobile version of the PICO-8 fantasy console.

Explanatory animation about the Natural Cycles algorithm.

Miss this place.

Some people say Discover Weekly is the most important innovation ever to come out of a Hack Week at Spotify.

By 2017 there was consensus among the Spotify desktop team that we wanted new features to be built in React, but somehow it wasn’t quite happening yet.

A lot of people made one of these, and this is mine.

Maybe you have to speak Swedish and Portuguese to appreciate this.

I was in New York for work during the 2016 presidential elections.

Skating in Stockholm in April.

Simulating gravity has made all the other space-related code I’ve written so far for this project seem easy.

After building last week’s Solar System renderer, I was excited to move on to the fun stuff and see some planets moving around.

This is a quick write-up of my solution to one of the first problems I bumped into in my latest project.

Did some music streaming DRM work once upon a time.

I watched a shit documentary recently.

At the start of 2014 I started to pay the price for years and years of typing.

Last Friday, at All Your Base 2014, MySQL creator Monty Widenius said some controversial stuff about women.

I recently wrote about a strange phone call that I received from the letting agents in charge of the house I live in.

I missed a phone call at work from my landlord this week.

The Twig templating library for PHP is really quite a nice piece of software.

The prevalence of monkey patching as a Ruby development practice is a complete pain in the arse.

In an effort to suck less at dealing with all the various sysadmin-related tasks that come hand-in-hand with being a web developer, I’m learning my way around Vagrant and Chef.

A while ago I learned a quirky little programming trick which has occasionally come in handy.

My dissertation project at university was to implement this 2D Java puzzle game called Planarity where you win by dragging the dots around until none of the lines connecting them cross.

Alpine’s website was the first thing I ever got paid to make on the computer.

A bunch of us built a medical appointment scheduling app together at university.