web apps, programming talk, and random thoughts
I ve updated my Old School Gaming Filters app to allow you to create your own filter. You simply select a reference image, a dithering algorithm, a number of colors, a resolution, and voila, a retro looking image: If you follow this site closely, you may know that this is actually exactly how the Palette Swap Continue reading Adding Custom Filters to Old School Gaming Filters
I ve updated one of the oldest apps on this site: Pat or JK s Typing Speed Test Believe it or not, the old version was from 2008. At that time there weren t any good free online typing tests. It s biggest claim to fame was being mentioned in passing in a VSauce video, which was really cool. Continue reading Updated Typing Speed Test
I ve revamped the UI for my Chain Letter Archive. It s modeled after an old AOL 4.0 inbox. I used AOL 4.0 with NINA for reference when making it, as well as the 98.css project. Icons are courtesy of svgrepo.com. Each chain letter is an email inside of the inbox, and clicking them opens up the Continue reading New UI for Chain Letter Archive
TAAG now has full support for TheDraw font files, color and all. A little over 12 years ago, someone sent me a zip of old ANSI art fonts. I converted a handful of them to FIGlet fonts (basically the ones that didn t use color), and added them into TAAG. I have always wanted to revisit Continue reading Adding TheDraw Fonts to TAAG
I keep a running list of random ideas in a gmail draft. Whenever I think of something mildly interesting, I jot it down so I can revisit it later. Most of the ideas aren t very good, but every so often there s a gem. Lately I ve been working through some of them with Claude Code*, which Continue reading Image Generation Loss Experiments
Chromostereopsis is an optical illusion most people experience where red appears closer than blue. Most of the time your brain corrects for it, but you can trigger the effect with certain types of images. I made a game of Lights Out around the illusion, which is a game where you try and turn off all Continue reading Chromostereopsis
New video! This one is sort of a follow-up to my last video, though this time I explore breaking PNG files. This topic proved to be a bit more complex than the last one, and one negative is that the coolest stuff is at the end of the video, which most viewers won t see. Essentially, Continue reading Breaking PNG Files
I ve created a new app for this site that allows you to easily create glitch art: Image Glitcher It s a simple tool that combines an image preview with a hex editor that has segment highlighting for jpeg images. In the future I hope to support highlighting for other formats too. The idea is that you Continue reading Image Glitcher: An online glitch art editor
I made a new YouTube video! This one is doing better than usual. I think I may have finally found my groove, though I have no idea what I ll do for my next video. Amusingly this came about kind of quickly and kind of randomly. I wasn t planning on making a video, I just went Continue reading What happens if you blur and sharpen and image 1000 times?
The video does a pretty good job going over the new 404 page. I actually wasn t planning on updating the 404 page. What happened is I wanted to create a Fire filter for the TAAG app, and while looking into how to create a pixelated fire texture I stumbled upon the Doom Fire algorithm. It Continue reading My new 404 page lets you set it on fire