Most people cant be race-car drivers, yet they can drive a car. Same goes for programmers, most optimization of the code is today done by the compiler. So there is seldom any need to manually optimize loops or fiddle with the small things. This however does not excuse giving up optimization or making your program [...]
Back to the bot. The twitter-bot. The Lars Ulrich twitter-bot. The Lars Ulrich swearing twitter-bot. He’s up and running, spreading obscenities all over the internets. Check him out at http://twitter.com/i_am_larsulrich The engine I was planning on using didn’t do what I wanted it to do (search) so I went with twitter4j and processing (processing to [...]
Yes yes yo. I had this idea when traveling to work. The train was super crowded and that got me thinking of circuit bending. A lot of the devices I’ve bent have a “press only one key to play a melody that you probably heard a gazillion times before” that combined with me reading up [...]
The art of using compression glitches as visual tools for creating art has been around a some time now. Datamoshing yields many hits, as do glitch. But how could you apply the same effects to audio and get more interesting results then we have to day with the mp3 FFT artifact? That question was thrown [...]