BIT-101

I work from home, so I’m at my desk in my home office a lot.

I lost one of my best friends ever today.

I’ve been getting heavy into internet radio lately, as mentioned in this post and that post.

Following up on yesterday’s post about drawing crisp lines, I realized it would be nice to add some details on why putting lines on a 0.5 pixel makes them crisp and not blurry.

Today I was working on some code where I was drawing a bunch of thin lines for various types of grids.

Anyone who follows me on line knows that I’m not the biggest fan of AI and where it is taking the world.

The other day I posted about my internet radio explorations.

Background I started buying music in the 70s.

I have been a big fan of eInk book readers for just about 17 years now.

Hot on the trails of Coding Curves, I’m excited to announce my next writing project… The Creative Coding Compendium, Volume I Most of my books up to now have been focused on specific topics - fractals, chaos and strange attractors, or 2D curves.

I did it!

Back in late 2022, through the start of 2023, I wrote fourteen blog posts in a series called “Coding Curves”.

Isometric drawing is always a fun thing to work on.

After getting search working here (and on my other blogs), I was pretty excited.

My first version of this blog was put up in 2005.

I love Hugo.

I’ve been doubling down on exploring color over the last couple of weeks.

At the end of my post about color palettes I talked about extracting palettes from images.

Color is hard Most of what I do is in black and white.

Well, I’ve gone and done it.

Problem Statement Sometimes when I am developing a program or technique, I need an image to load as a background or to do some image processing on, etc.

Background I always have different ideas in the back of my head - techniques that I am aware of and want to implement someday but haven’t gotten around to.

Well, here we are at the end of another year.

Just a quick one to verbalize a choice I often make but never thought much about.

Background About a year ago I made a post about Evenly Placed Points on Bézier Curves.

I’ve been posting daily coded animations for the past 55 days as of today.

I had such a fun time doing Octanimate last month that I just kept going.

Day 21: Your browser does not support the video tag.

To recap, #octanimate is just my personal hashtag for posting an animation every day in October.

Background I posted this animation on Mastodon today, as day 21 of Octanimate.

Over the years I’ve taken part in a number of community projects.

This is a story.

I don’t think I ever actually wrote about this before, but I decided I probably should.

Growing up, and even into my 20s and 30s I was an avid dictionary user.

I am no longer relying on github for code hosting, version control, pages, anything else.

I think my last “review” of the Remarkable was a bit too high level and focused more on strategy decisions the company made that I didn’t agree with.

Well, I finally did it.

In my last post (I have a NAS!)

Just a bunch of useful command line scripts to do various things.

Background I’ve had some kind of home server / home lab for many years.

A while back I created an app to allow myself to play a sequence of images as a video.

Let’s do 3D for a while!

Background A few years ago I build a wood shed in my back yard. it’s just an open structure to stack logs in, with a roof to keep out the rain.

Last week I got a new musical toy - the Yamaha Seqtrak.

I count myself as an M8 noob (and, let’s face it, a music noob too), but the best way for me to learn is to write as if I’m explaining something to someone else.

OK, what the hell is that subject?

Music Like most people, I enjoy listening to music.

Just a general update on what’s been happening since my last ramblings.

bit-101.com as a domain went live on September 11, 2001.

In my 2024 retrospective I mentioned wanting to create some finished songs and put them out there in the world.