Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- 3d
- Analog
- Arduino
- Bash
- Bookmark
- Design
- Face-Tracking
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Kirby
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Notes
- Opinion
- Output
- Process
- Processing
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Web
- Work
- ack
- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tmux
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
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- 21.05.18 My Fave Vim Colour Scheme
Colour schemes in coding IDEs are a very personal thing. For a long time I favoured Gruvbox, which I found really pleasant to work with. …
- 16.05.18 Deleting Thousands of Lines not Containing a Pattern with Vim
Here's a small demonstration of why I love Vim so much — editing large amounts of data such as csv and tsv files. Let's say I have a fairly …
- 16.05.18 Tube like structure made from coding commits
I like on this you can see the different moments of activity around the different major code releases.
- 05.04.18 This book changed my coding for the better
Apart from a night school course in learning Pascal, I’ve never done any formal training in programming. Whilst being self taught is great …
- 26.03.18 John Maeda — Design by Numbers
A book that really pushed forward the idea of designing with code to create new forms. A classic.
- 20.03.18 Eye Health and Working with Screens
For many years now I've been suffering from quite chronic dry eyes, brought about through working with screens, my lack of blinking (you …
- 19.03.18 Post from Instagram to Kirby
I'm a big fan of the IndieWeb movement and the idea of publishing your content to a place you own and control rather than exclusively on …
- 12.03.18 Test output for Form & Code Workshop later this week
- 12.03.18 Working on more examples for my Form and Code workshop @projectunitx this …
- 10.03.18 Goodbye XCode, Hello Vim and OpenFrameworks
Since moving to Vim over a year ago for all my coding, using another code editor is always a chore. Such is the case using Xcode when …
- 08.03.18 Dawesome Toolkit Update 0.9
A small update to the Dawesome Toolkit, my library for Processing. It's sometimes handy to be able to get a list of the colours your …
- 07.03.18 Crazy-Fast Finding and Opening Files on the Command Line
It's usually always the case that I have a terminal session open somewhere on my Mac — either managing a Git repo, working with a Nodejs …
- 05.03.18 Quicker Git with Handy Bash Functions
In the course of a typical day I'll write a lot of Git commits, typing out git commit -a -m 'a message' and then doing a git push again and …
- 02.03.18 Back your sh*t up!
This work that we all make — these little fragments of digital ephemera — well, I think it's important. Over the years that work builds up …
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects …
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 06.02.18 Automating movie file conversion to MP4
I’m always keen to try and automate processes I repeat a lot, so this is something I’ve done recently that I find handy for my …
- 31.01.18 Switching to Vim
Last year I made a decision to switch to Vim for all my coding and text editing. Many times before I’ve tried Vim but always ended up …
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got …
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to …
- 21.01.18 Might revisit this code I wrote to display a time based map of all my work. …
- 17.01.18 Whilst the majority of my work is coded, I still love to make things by hand …
- 08.01.18 Digital Harmony by John Whitney (1980). John Whitney was a pioneer of computer …
- 18.04.17 This is a close-up of the cover of an experiment I'm doing, creating a book …
- 13.08.16 Never stop tweaking! This is the previous code but with rectangles twice as …
- 02.08.16 Eventually found my way here. Taking those ribbons and rotating them creates …
- 01.04.16 Tools
A constantly expanding list of some of the tools and services I use to make things, both hardware and software. Things can only appear on …
- 14.03.16 Latest iteration of my presentation software. Redone in openFrameworks with …
- 18.11.15 Taking a break from generative code to print out slightly organic looking …
- 09.02.15 Preparing some Doris Le Bot parts for full colour 3D printing tomorrow.
A video posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Feb 9, 2015 at 2:59am PST
- 01.02.15 Quick and dirty controls for prototyping
Quick and dirty controls. #process A photo posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Feb 1, 2015 at 6:33am PST