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Since it is #photofriday we also graduated our Blocks Camera app. It’s free for iOS so grab it before we put the price-up.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blocks-camera/id6751630500
You can select between a handful of pallets and it uses some dithering algorithms to create interesting pictures. You can change the pixel density from 128, down to 1.
Looking forward to seeing some of your snaps.
It's #photofriday and we’ve been busy. Inspired by Hatch Show Print (https://www.hatchshowprint.com/) we made a fun camera app filter to test. You can swipe to change the top and bottom gradients and it uses “Screen” blend mode over some overly sharpened B&W photos to make some amazing effects. You can see this all in camera before you press the shutter.
It was going to be a fun little exercise, but we’re loving the results!
spent some time today writing and running a script on an old Intel 02016 MacBook Pro with a SUPER OLD version of sketch, to convert all the *.sketch files to SVG and PDF.
He isn’t going to get caught out in a few years not being able to open an archive of interesting experiments, doodles and ideas!
visits another website completely built in javascript. Some script has a 401 cert error and the whole page is blank.
It’s 02026, why are companies still building pure JS websites?!
It’s not just me either any Crawler or bot won’t see your content either. (Unless this is their stand against unwanted AI crawlers?)
20 years ago, @si and I worked on a World Cup Kickoff site that used Microformats to generate ics calendar files of upcoming games.
That project lead to UEFA getting in touch to create a calendar site for them and then more calendaring project.
The site is on Archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20060422005947/http://worldcupkickoff.com/
Adds “Brimful of Asha" to the playlist for today along with any of her 12,000+ tracks.
It was very windy this morning and passed by a construction site where they were installing windows.
Explained that in Old Icelandic/Old Norse/Old English, the word for window was “Vindauga”, literally wind + eye.
You can see how before glass the hole in the wall of your house was an eye to the outside that let in the wind.
That all morphed to the English word ‘Window’ we use today.
Found an interesting website all in Icelandic. Pasted the URL into Google Translate and the results were blank.
Went to view the original webpage’s source code and saw:
https://storage.googleapis.com/gpt-engineer-file-uploads/
and
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
Someone vibe-coded a nice looking website that is COMPLETELY unusable without javascript.
Feels like we’re taking a few steps back into the “everything’s react” days.
Hatena Burger boasts over 270,000 burger combinations. Using some combinatorics and some Javascript, let’s see if that’s true.
https://optional.is/required/2026/04/09/hatena-burger-permutations/
Continues to experiment with dithering realtime images in camera while applying colors. Now this is going somewhere interesting.
Look out GameBoy Camera enthusiasts.
