REpresentational State Transfer is a software architectural style for creating stateless web APIs. These APIs are typically based on HTTP methods to access resources specified by URIs that are transmitted in JSON or XML encoded form. They are called RESTful APIs.

a.k.a don’t fear the terminal

As a (mainly) web developer, I develop software that is mostly running on Linux - whether it’s a virtual machine in the cloud, a docker container, or my NAS under the staircase. So - for me - using any other operating system for development would be an extra hindrance.

To be honest, I like the customisability and freedom that only a Linux distribution can provide, I’m on Linux for more than 20 years, and happy with it. But if you are new, I try to give you a quick overview, why the terminal could be a useful tool.

Now that we are aware of the basic networking concepts, let’s take a deeper look at the main protocol of the web - HTTP.

So, what happens if you enter a URL into the browser’s location bar and press ENTER? A very many things, and eventually a website is loaded and rendered.

Let’s check the networking part!

I’m planning to create a custom web component which lets you easily embed your fragment shaders into any website for a long time. You can find some (mostly abandoned ones) on github, so this is my take on the topic (to abandon it eventually 😉).

It tries to be compatible with https://twigl.app/, supporting geekest mode and MRT as well (but only 300 es).

See details on github.

How do we see colors? How can we “define” them in a generic way? How do we compare them?

Well, this isn’t an easy topic.

Sometimes I have the itch to create something that’s not (just) useful, but pleases the eyes.

I’ve started experimenting with webgl a few years ago, mostly in shadertoy - but most of my experiments aren’t public.

This (fullscreen) is one of my favourites. But of course I’m still not entirely satisfied with it.

A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.

This one is not really a quine, but something similar, 1020 bytes of HTML/JS that animates it’s own code. Inspired by the great work of @aemkei.

Click here, to see it in action!

CSS Paint Worklet (Houdini) experiment to generate cellular noise based mesh.

Details on github.

There’s a simple function, which eventually can result in pure chaos:

x_n+1 = r * x_n * (1 - x_n)