Dave Pagurek's Blog

I wrote back in late 2024 about the open source philosophy of p5.js: it aims to not just be a tool you use, but a tool you feel empowered to help shape and maintain, and a community to help you do so.

My last animation was created entirely with p5.js visuals, but edited together in an environment with both an IDE and a timeline.

I think there are some lessons to be learned by looking at our culture of code through the lens of maintenance.

A library for p5.strands for creating environment lights using angular signed distance functions.

We're at a really challenging but interesting time for graphics where the technology is capable of so much more, but that adds a lot of complexity, so now the pedagogical side has to catch up. p5.strands hopes to provide scaffolding to take you from p5's…

Happy Marchintosh!

Today's Genuary prompt included the word evolution, so rather than programming an evolutionary algorithm, I've chosen to evolve a sketch manually by implementing it in a number of frameworks in the Processing family.

We recently put up a release candidate build of p5.js 2.2 which adds a WebGPU mode!

2025 marks 10 years since my first Real Job programming.

AI is changing how contributors and maintainers interact.

Stretching a font generally doesn't look very good.