grant @grantcuster@vis.social

Post-societal collapse, if you're part of a group that is building things back up from scratch, what is the task that makes you decide that you need to build a computer?

If there is a communication network to connect to then I think you build/scavenge a computer relatively early so you can communicate with other groups. If there's not a network, maybe you build it for some sort of record-keeping task much later?

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200116T123452288Z Composite braces for tree diagrams. from https://type.today/en/journal/brackets

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200115T154703894Z Project inception: screenshot of in-progress font + text editor processed with Pal from https://pal.constraint.systems

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200114T014636829Z Making a weird combination text-and-font editor I think.

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200111T021458544Z I think I get the draw of the PICO-8 more, with the stuff I've been exploring lately. I especially like that the sprite and code editors are built-in.

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200110T125244358Z Proposal for a GNU Unicode font by Roman Czyborra in 1998.

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200109T233756119Z Back to the pixel grid.

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200109T164535462Z Unifont on a grid.

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200109T143038428Z Ben Chasny on his playing-card-based hexadic composition system. from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67ZPVgpE-E

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200109T024317580Z GNU Unifont emoji. from https://edent.gitlab.io/unifont/

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200108T212912619Z Pal - apply an eight-color terminal color scheme to an image. Use the keyboard controls to choose a theme, set thresholds, and cycle hues. from https://pal.constraint.systems/

I like to find ways to expose the code and structure of my projects on the surface of the projects. Maybe I can connect that to a broader purpose of demystifying computers and software. Maybe I can pursue that purpose more deliberately.

Inspiration ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200108T173314257Z GNU Unifont data format example. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200108T034941243Z Drawing a bitmap font on canvas.

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200108T020940726Z Learning about generating bitmap fonts. from https://github.com/vladimirgamalyan/fontbm

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200104T194526928Z Palette edit.

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200104T165946558Z C and I have started playing Minecraft. I built a workshop out of dirt, gold and coal.

Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200103T151643901Z Rough music purchasing plan. from https://scrawl.grantcuster.com/2020-003-40.html

I've been thinking I need to put something together about the thinking behind https://constraint.systems but I really don't want to write a 'blog post' about it. Maybe if I put it together as a (digital) zine I can get more into it.