I like solving problems, always have, which is also why - up until I had to argue with managers and sit through useless meetings - I actually enjoyed my job for a very long time. Since I’m currently between jobs, and mostly busy in the garden (built a pond, then moved on to fiddle with the driveway), and since work hasn’t given me many creative problems to chew on lately either, I decided to cook up a little programming challenge for myself.

The goal was a small, ideally sub-1KB “website” that’s a quine - i.e. it prints out its own source code - should roughly fit in a desktop browser window, and ideally do something too.

I did something similar once before, when we “founded” my previous company where I worked, so this time I picked the logo of my next workplace as the theme.

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!

Random points

• true randomness is hard
• pseudo random number generators usually don’t have even distribution
  • or “slow”
  • or cannot be used in a parallel way
• OpenGL does not have random API (reasons above)

And in most cases higher “entropy” is more pleasant to the eyes.

One of the new CSS Houdini APIs:

• CSS Parser API - possibility to implement sass/less/etc support
• CSS Properties and Values API - more advanced CSS properties (variables)
• CSS Typed OM - CSS values as typed JS objects
• CSS Layout API - create custom layouts (like grid or flexbox)
• CSS Painting API - draw something in CSS