Not a big fan of music streaming. I have a good size, custom curated, very well organized library of music on my hard drive. It’s taken me years to create, it’s all backed up. I have a subsonic server behind…
One of my tricks when coming up with new generative ideas is to take two (or three) completely unrelated techniques and combine them. I even created an app once where I had a long list of concepts and it would…
In my last post I talked about my newest eInk tablets from Onyx Boox. Beyond reading ebooks and saving articles, the Note Air is a fantastic sketching tool. The Wacom layer and stylus is one of the big features that…
TWENTY DAMN YEARS September 11, 2001 is quite a memorable day for the obvious reasons. But for me, it holds an additional significance. Because on September 10, 2001 I registered the domain bit-101.com and on the morning of September 11…
I’ve been continuing my search on the ultimate gif-making workflow and came across two more tools. gifsicle and gifski Both of these are command line tools available across platforms. gifsicle I first heard about gifsicle a while ago as a…
Palettes In a recent post, I shared making animated gifs with ffmpeg. I hadn’t been doing it very long so I wasn’t sure how it would work in the long run. Lo and behold, I ran into a problem. I…
I create a lot of animated gifs and I’m getting into creating videos as well. All of these are initially created by rendering a series of png files into a folder called frames. Over the last few years I’ve figured…
Well it’s been a few days since I gave in and decided to check out the world of NFTs. It feels like a few months. Figured I’d just post some thoughts and observations. What I thought I think my biggest…