I wrote some haskell hack.
Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches.
Photographs on microfilm. Originally high-contrast film developed for reproducing documents, interesting pictorial qualities.
Graphical representation of the global biomass distribution by taxa.
Click on the image below to play a simple-but-smart chess puzzle.
I wrote this using reflex-dom, to check the capabilities of Haskell for the web. Some of it is still painful (long build times, no way to use repl/ghicd, bloated exes, extremely scant documentation), while writing FRP is alluring.
Joachim Breitner wrote on the matter and provides some relief.
I wrote an article on travel friendly music keyboards.
Europeana hosts a tongue-in-cheek world cup of art.
Few people will buy your book.
14-18, Manoscritti della Grande Guerra
New, explorey game by Bubblesoft: Nixy: The Glade Sprite.
Excellent art, many rooms, very enjoyable all around. Get it here, and use your favourite ZX Spectrum emulator to play it.
Gimp h8 – Data preservation – El premio [es] – Sketchbookproject 2018 – SpectMorph – I distrust the miller.
I finally published animascii, a textfile-based ascii animator.
Writing it was a nice experience, making me acquainted with some lesser-known parts of cabal workflow.
Enjoy, feedback and bug reports welcome!
The resolution for 2018 is to read more good books. But why start with War and Peace, when you can have a gentler foray into becoming a bibliophile?
From linux-audio-users, a reinterpretation (and orchestration) of the German Christmax carol "Oh Tannenbaum" in minor, by Jeanette C.
+: Stonetelling, Why I hate LaTeX, New old thing.
Two interesting repositories:
CHR-ROM) games. (edit: from Stefano: “the latter link reminded me of something I saw this summer in Berlin’s Spiele Museum: ROM CHECK FAIL”).The Case for Numerical Music Notation, a modern day “basso continuo” (three parts: 1, 2, 3) by Phil Nice.
Addendum: Drawing mental illness, No means no, At Sea off Kazusa, Intermezzo.
Inconsistent net is no fun, have a link dump:
FVP, with a very inky ink and on quite slick pages.
Bigger version of the mess.
A Young Man Goes to a Dance / Are these giant preistoric trees? / A Braille & ASCII map renderer.
Robot 1 in the Ship of Doom, a short and sweet ZX Spectrum game by Mat Recardo (with by Sergey Tosov).
Play it with your favourite Speccy emulator. Controls: ZXP. You have 5 minutes to save Robot 1!
Earthenware that looks like Jar-Jar Binks.
Easter egg puzzle (so simple, so deceptive, I failed).
Moving by Night, by Misja van Laatum.
Last weak I discovered a terrific Linux/OSX organ emulator, Aeolus. In the words of the author, Fons Adriaensen, the aim is “to arrive at a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ sound that should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it.”
I can vouch for both the “good enough” and “enjoy playing it” parts. I tested the synthesis playing a small choralprelude by Walther on a single midi keyboard (errors mine):
