keyboardion ianthehenry.com/posts/keyboa...

Keyboardion

I had another idea for a musical instrument, and I think it worked out pretty well. It’s sort of a cross between a chromatic button accordion and a keytar. Or maybe it’s a digital Chapman Stick… exc...

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sneakier ghost

sneaky ghost

x = [1 0 0] point.x == dot(point, x) this is pleasing to me

I am a huge fan of Bonsai and Bonsai_term is an incredible extension. It's an amazing way to build rich TUIs in OCaml! blog.janestreet.com/strace-ui-bo...

strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...

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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

periodic spaces ianthehenry.com/posts/period...

Periodic Spaces

One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition:

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generalized worley noise ianthehenry.com/posts/genera...

Generalized Worley Noise

Worley noise is a type of noise used for procedural texturing in computer graphics. In its most basic form, it looks like this:

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A new Signals and Threads just dropped, with @ianthehenry.bsky.social! This one is about building tools for traders, but it also has some fun dives into Ian's personal projects, including bauble.studio and janet.guide. Anyway, more here: signalsandthreads.com/building-too...

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it. moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards. that's it. Have fun! onemillionchessboards.com

added hard mode to my blog

rotate

eroding

island sketch

My first week with Bauble. A short thread

periodic spaces

moon pendant in black/white rhodium and silver/gold this is a distance field distorted by worley noise to try to emulate a hammered effect. didn't 100% work but kinda interesting

my favorite part of blogging is spending way too long on completely unnecessary side projects

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Building Bauble

I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it. This is a little hot air balloon made out of alternating layers of brass and bronze that lock together with these angle...

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embedded bauble

new bauble

whirl

bauble finally has simplex noise

totoro made out of math

polished bronze 3d printed bauble

advent of code starts in a few days, and i think you should try janet this year. learn how to write parsing expression grammars! pegs make parsing fun! janet-lang.org/docs/peg.html janet.guide/pegular-expr... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLsL...

new bauble feature: use your mouse to interactively edit vector literals in quad view. like scalar editing, it respects the decimal precision of your source, so by adding decimals you can drag on a finer grid. pretty useful to preview pivots and other "invisible" points!

so are we all just tweeting three times now

normal sdf repetition uses modulo to repeat space. by taking the cosine of space instead, you can get an interesting "smooth tile" effect