Pointers (August 2023)

• Novena jams a lot of feeling into four colors, and prompted me to check out Cecile Richard’s other work, also great.
• If that put you in the poetic spirit, try out this blackout poem generator.
• Patrick Weaver’s blog post with every HTML element is my kind of exercise in maximalism.
• What’s a “wug?” More importantly, what’s the plural of “wug?”
• Studio Otoro and sakana.ai demonstrate that You can never go wrong with a landing page with little simulated creatures on it. Prodding around the source of the latter led me to Daniel Shiffman’s book on simulation, The Nature of Code. (Sadly, no wugs to be found.)
• When you’re done with that, move on to the Internet Archive’s catalog of all open-access MIT Press books.
• As both a former type systems person and enthusiast of Makefile abuse, Bob Atkey’s Propositions as Filenames, Builds as Proofs: The Essence of Make is irresistible, and poses great questions.
• Lastly, Isamu Yamamoto is just too good.