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2026 3

  1. Scrubspace
  2. Mando
  3. Page Stack

2024 1

  1. for spacious skies

2023 2

  1. Phonogram
  2. The Thought Terminator

2022 8

  1. Beatsy 1.16
  2. Arr
  3. Virtual Disembodiment
  4. The New Colossus at Five
  5. Augmented Reality Shadowgraphery
  6. I Pick You New AR musical experience for Beatsy
  7. Collection of 308 NFTs, each representing a unique block of two ultra-high resolution, full-body portraits
  8. Heavy Metal: A Review In which you watch the 1981 cult classic Heavy Metal

2021 21

  1. Fire-Toolz AR musical experience for Beatsy Introducing the |ØFF| 2 Łos† Vagus Fire-Toolz augmented reality musical experience for Beatsy
  2. Hit It: Augmented Reality Drumming The world is my drum kit
  3. Reality Filters Paint image filters onto the world around you with this augmented reality app for iOS
  4. VoxelizeAR Turn the world around you into voxels with this iOS augmented reality app
  5. Beatsy: 1.8 Send 3D waves of color rippling through the world with the new immersive color music visualizer
  6. Beatsy: 1.7 Beatsy hits the big screen with iPad support
  7. Ferro Music Viz: A Snapchat Lens Bringing one of Beatsy’s visualizers to Snapchat
  8. Face Drop 1.0 Just in time for summer, Face Drop now available to everyone
  9. Beatsy Immersive Wave visualizer A new immersive 3D music visualizer for Beatsy
  10. An ARKit Wishlist A wishlist for augmented reality development on iOS
  11. Face Drop An augmented reality take on the humble selfie
  12. Code 20/20: Return 2 Zero In which Code 20/20 gets a new logo and a new website but no cinematic universe… yet!
  13. The Beatsy app clip program for augmented aural excellence Calling all musicians
  14. Headshot Sample iOS app that demonstrates how to easily capture the texture of a user’s face in realtime
  15. WarpAR 1.1 — Distorting the world with your hands You got the touch! You got the power!
  16. warpAR iOS augmented reality app for warping the world
  17. Pic Plane 1.1 Simple dolly zooms and other perspective effects using video recording
  18. Pic Plane Augmented reality photography
  19. Beatsy App Clip Codes Using stickers for music discovery
  20. watAR iOS augmented reality app that lets you distort real world surfaces as if they were made of water
  21. Code 2020 A year’s worth of daily VS Code tips and tricks

2020 23

  1. In The Walls 1.4: The I'm So Floored Update Look at the 1.4 update for In The Walls: An AR app for iOS about distorting surfaces with your face
  2. Beatsy An augmented reality music visualizer for iOS. Shape the world with your music.
  3. The war we forgot in our embrace of streaming Thoughts on how DRM was perfected in plain sight and the risks streaming poses to culture.
  4. In The Walls 1.3: The balls to the walls update Distorting walls with 3D snapshots from the front facing camera.
  5. The Plus One Bump The most nerdy song of the Halloween season.
  6. In The Walls 1.2: The Express Yourself Update Update that adds pre-recorded expressions to In The Walls, an iOS augmented reality app.
  7. VS Code Docs View VS Code extension that displays documentation in the sidebar or panel.
  8. In Profile
  9. The Terrible Elephant A look at one of the 20th century’s most influential — and most infamous — artworks
  10. In The Walls iOS app about putting your face in walls
  11. Reality Shaders Example project about applying shaders to real world surfaces using ARKit
  12. Gif
  13. Gif Player VS Code extension that adds a play/pause button and scrubber to gifs
  14. Gif Shift Editing gifs using tools that draw in dimensions not only of sight but of time
  15. Gif Mask Web app for remixing gifs using image masks
  16. TP A Glimpse at Confinement Life
  17. SARS-CoV-2 Auctioning off COVID-19 for charity
  18. Encounters: Separation A Screenplay
  19. Things I clicked so that they would die Capturing everything you click on during a complete play through of the original Halo
  20. Letterpress
  21. Burn For Him 2019 Christmas Card
  22. Sex Tapes Adventures in post-binary intimacy
  23. Imask

2019 35

  1. In Profile: Identity Art
  2. What I've learned over 10 years on Stack Overflow
  3. HE LIVED Jean-Claude Van Damme is Christ: The Resurrection
  4. The Great Waldo Gigging Adventures in postmodern capitalism
  5. In Profile: Art Criticism
  6. You Ain't No Punk You Punk
  7. Destroy your future as a service!
  8. Bring Out the Gump Aka Pulp Fiction
  9. Museum glare Capturing the glare of paintings
  10. Our flag was still there
  11. The Family of Man A photographic essay of modern man
  12. Modded Reality
  13. Detachable Penis A story of loss and recovery in an augmented reality
  14. Rabbit Sculpture
  15. What I've learned so far while bringing VS Code's Webviews to the web
  16. Come play with me inside the fire Letterpress apple
  17. XFL 2020 The year is 2020…
  18. Camera Concatenation Taking a self-portrait through six cameras.
  19. Aesthetic Recursion And why you should never take photos of the art at a museum
  20. 2-Day The sound of a box being shipped
  21. Homo Europaeus The Passing of the Great Race.
  22. Cam Foreground Concerning the application of foreground detection to camgirl videos.
  23. More Aerobicice letterpress.
  24. In Profile: Paper Genome Profile of a work that contemplates the nature of life in our digital age.
  25. DNA Print — Conclusion That time 1.5% of the human genome was printed on paper tape
  26. Aerobicide Poster Letterpress poster for the 1987 film Aerobicide (aka Killer Workout)
  27. Experience the human genome at 600 baud!
  28. DNA Print The quest to print the human genome on punched tape.
  29. In Profile: The Collector An inside look at that most noble patronage of the arts.
  30. Movie inspired letterpress print.
  31. In Profile: Minimal Minimal. Art
  32. The Deck of the Alaskan Way Viaduct was Beautiful
  33. Custom wall art with quotes and illustrations from classic books
  34. In Profile: Phalloselfie Profiling the true nature of photography
  35. Two Seconds of Super Mario Bros. 3 Printing out every operation executed during two seconds of Super Mario Bros. 3 for NES gameplay

2018 31

  1. In Profile: Sleeping Venus A review of the Sleeping Venus by Giorgione
  2. Five Years Five years of blogging.
  3. In Profile: Soup art Soup as art
  4. AOL Disk Coasters Custom printed coasters based on AOL promotional disks.
  5. In Profile: Drip Painting Profile of the drip
  6. In Profile: Conceptual Conceptual Art Profile of the art of ideas
  7. In Profile: Volumetric Painting Profile of a profound new form of artistic expression
  8. Lekker Using iOS 12’s tongue tracking to control sex toys
  9. This is the American flag
  10. Free iOS app that lets you swap perspectives with a friend
  11. The Theremin-X Project A concert for theremin and vibrator
  12. Anwar Wave Bringing letterpress prints of Anwar al-Awlaki’s words to market by the scenic route
  13. Geo Slice Acrylic and paint abstract landscapes
  14. Keep on HustliN' Railing against the H word
  15. Oculus Go — First Thoughts I’ve seen the future and I don’t like it
  16. Bikini Bikini Nuke scan swimwear
  17. Mini Empires Time-lapses and other visualizations of the Age of Empires II minimap
  18. Theremin-X — An Update An update on the Theremin-X Project, plus some stylish new letterpress prints
  19. Gif Cube Cube you a gif
  20. Recurss A collection of recursive css specimens
  21. Nuke Scan Strip photography of nuclear test films
  22. Third Person Ascent First attempts at third person climbing
  23. Gif Slice
  24. And why the world needs theremin sex
  25. Unboxing Having conquered mukbang, I turn my attention to unboxing
  26. A first experiment in letterpress
  27. CycleScope A brief adventure in third person cycling
  28. WHOLOVESYOUANDWHODOYOULOVE
  29. Akira as gifs
  30. Hue Theremin Using a theremin to control Hue led lightbulbs
  31. char flip Experiment flipping a single character in a tweet

2017 17

  1. Reflections from Hyperreality On the creation of We Are Our Own Pornography
  2. We Are Our Own Pornography Modded reality pornography
  3. Humidair Generating vaporwave track titles using a neural network
  4. How Matt Lost His Eyes
  5. NES Memory Visualization Visualizing the memory of a NES as it runs a game
  6. The John Barleycorn Challenge Turning the text of John Barleycorn by Jack London into a drinking game
  7. reflow Resizing images by reflowing their pixels into the new image dimensions
  8. Splicing single frames of pornography into gifs
  9. interleave.gif Interleaving the frames of two gifs
  10. Post Mortem Visualizing how a person’s Wikipedia changes after they die
  11. Pop Reality Connecting a lollipop to a VR headset
  12. I Am A Camera Hooking a Minolta SR-T 101 up to a VR headset and passing into glass reality
  13. A How and Why of The Don and I Self-indulgent musings on The Don and I’s creation and context
  14. The Don and I
  15. Camer'rah
  16. Seattle Industrial District, January 2017 An evening of vertical panoramas in Seattle’s ever beautiful Industrial District
  17. The Orgasmic Power of a Clear Blue Sky Using color vision to control a vibrator

2016 43

  1. I'm Only Dancing So That I Can See the Rainbow Using the power of dance to modify my vision
  2. Failures in Oral Fixation Mounting a camera inside my mouth for a regressive jaunt into inner space
  3. Zork.git git commit -am “go west”
  4. Eggplant Eggplant Eggplant With apologies to Spider Jerusalem
  5. Living Vicariously Through My Selfie Stick And why selfie reality is the bestest reality
  6. Halloween Special
  7. Beyond the Void Star Happy Halloween!
  8. I Don't Know How We Can See Each Other Through All This Blood Using my heartbeat to modulate my vision
  9. Akh 3 – The Splittening Version 3 of the Akh Javascript monad transformer library
  10. My Hands Become My Eyes and an Uncanny Adventure in Literal Navel-Gazing A surreal trip into the perils and possibilities of modded reality
  11. allthecolors.gif Gifs with every color, from 0x000000 to 0xffffff
  12. cube.gif Volume rendering and slicing gifs
  13. #🍆2016 Eggplant eggplant eggplant eggplant!
  14. median.gif Median blending gifs
  15. scanline.gif Flattening animated gifs to a single image and generating a slit-scan like effect
  16. The Quest for the World's Ugliest Photo A transcendent afternoon atop the new 520 floating bridge with Minolta’s superb MC W. Rokkor 21mm lens
  17. Na Naa, Na Na Na Na Naa Naa Naa Na Visualizing Katamari Damacy gameplay input
  18. require('emotions') $ npm install –save emotions
  19. Forward Propagation A tool for exploring history in terms of generations instead of years
  20. Newspeak
  21. Vernacular Finding Urban Dictionary entries in text
  22. Yield Not A look at optimizing ES6 Iterator based tree traversal
  23. Symphony of Death: Chordophone Creating an interactive musical instrument from the kills of Halo 5 multiplayer matches
  24. Dreams of the 21st Century Machine learning my dreams
  25. List of Death Rates by Cause April Fools!
  26. Urban Dictionary Neural Network Building an Urban Dictionary dataset and using it to train our future AI overlords
  27. {{dubious}} Scraping Wikipedia to find all sentences marked: ‘dubious’, ‘lopsided’, and the infamous ‘citation-needed’
  28. Bandar-log
  29. The Sale of eBay Item № 151990485080 And why printing the internet is not a very good idea
  30. Tonsole Wrapper around Javascript’s console that adds return values
  31. One Thesaurical Motherfucker Thesaurus all things!
  32. eBay Item № 151990485080 For sale: one printed copy of the source code of this listing’s page
  33. Turkish Delight: Staying Alive This is your life and it’s ending five cents at a time
  34. Funcualizer Converting Javascript methods into performant functions
  35. Aggregate Decoding Posting random Wikimedia Commons images plus random hashtags to Twitter
  36. The Whole Rainbow Uploading every color to Twitter
  37. I U+2764 #Everything Take two
  38. I U+2764 Everyone Spreading love on Twitter
  39. Hamt + 1 Now with 100000% more cephalopod!
  40. || this Defining a single, zero overhead Javascript function that can be used as either a free function or a method
  41. Giving up the Ghost Or; How I learned to Stop Hosting and Love Jekyll
  42. Hamt 3 - The Final Iteration Hamt V2 is out with support for Javascript iterators.
  43. H.A.M.T. II – The Chaining Hamt is back and rocking a new method based API.

2015 34

  1. Blot're
  2. blog.blot.re Blot’re all up in your blogosphere.
  3. Spelunkymetrics
  4. Sketchy Keylogger Spelunky + Keylogger + Python + Turtles
  5. Keyboard Bacterial Culture In which an ordinary keyboard is pressed against a large agar plate, and the resulting bacterial culture is examined
  6. Apep-std and Apep Example Grammars
  7. Apep Introducing Apep, a Dada Engine inspired Javascript library for generating text from a grammar.
  8. 80x40 The git repo as art.
  9. A Program of Templates Happy Halloween!
  10. Just the Links A Chrome plugin that shows only the important part of a Wikipedia entry: the hyperlinks
  11. Stupid Template Tricks
  12. Template Assembler
  13. std::integral_constant User Defined Literal
  14. Blot're Plays Atari
  15. Blot're 0.2.0 - Tagging Like It's Web 2.0
  16. Underhanded C 2015
  17. Lens Look: Shooting with a Minolta Shift CA Rokkor-X 35mm f2.8 on a NEX7 The pains and joys of shooting with Minolta’s fabled Shift CA on a modern mirrorless camera
  18. The Jungle!!!!!
  19. There Is No I In Internet
  20. Photographing with a Disassembled Lens Yes, all those optics really do something
  21. Of Interneting Trees with Python and Pi
  22. One Pixel Cinema
  23. State of the Blot're - July 2015
  24. Super Template Tetris
  25. Lens Look: Shooting with a Minolta UW Rokkor-PG 18mm Lens on a Nex-7 An afternoon with a classic Minolta fisheye lens in Seattle
  26. Moby-Dick; or, Whale Not Now Man then Ship Sea More Ahab
  27. Blot're Javascript Weather Client
  28. Blot're
  29. Pride and Parser Combinators, Part Two
  30. Pride and Parser Combinators, Part One
  31. Snake Part 2 - Interactive Nibbler
  32. Nibbler
  33. Short-Circuiting
  34. Compile Time Pseudo-Random Number Generator

2014 24

  1. Responsive, Two Column Documentation Layout With Markdown and CSS
  2. Parsing User Defined Operator Expressions in a Scripting Language
  3. The Life Comonadic
  4. Lazy Compile-Time Lists
  5. The Lispers in the Darkness Happy Halloween!
  6. Brainfuck Compile Time Evaluator
  7. Reversing Template Parameters on Templated Types
  8. Inlining in Khepri - Introduction
  9. Incremental Parsing With Feedback in a Web Worker
  10. Akh - Monad Transformers for Javascript
  11. Khepri Slice Unpacks
  12. Hash Array Mapped Tries in Javascript
  13. Khepri Fat Arrows
  14. Declarative Environments
  15. Persistent Hash Tries in Javavascript
  16. Persistent Object References Using the State Monad
  17. Adding State
  18. Lifting Primitive Operations to Computations
  19. Atum Primitive Language Values
  20. The Delimited Continuation Monad in Javascript
  21. Atum Preface
  22. Zippering k-ary Ordered Trees in Neith
  23. Neith - Zippers for Javascript
  24. Binding With Placeholders in Javascript

2013 6

  1. Memoization in Bennu
  2. A Review of ECMAScript Language Function Syntaxes and the Rational Behind Khepri's Function Syntax
  3. Using Records for Persistent Objects in Javascript
  4. On ECMAScript’s Dual Top Level Lexical Grammar Symbols
  5. Implementing and Defunctionalizing Tail Calls in Javascript
  6. Incremental Parser Combinators In Javascript