I plan on using date- and time-stamps in a variety of forms (human-readable, machine-readable) on mrmurphy.com. Earlier, whilst yak shaving, I discovered Luxon [https://moment.github.io/luxon/], a powerful, modern and friendly wrapper for JavaScript dates and times. Eleventy uses Luxon for dates and times and importing DateTime

> Gibber [https://gibber.cc] is a creative coding environment for audiovisual performance and composition [with an emphasis on live coding]. Gibber is designed and maintained by Charlie Roberts [http://www.charlie-roberts.com/]. Gibber's alpha playground [https://gibber.cc/alpha/playground/], which gathers extensive tutorials, is the best

A list of punctuation marks and other symbols used in typography, organised alphabetically. > Next to each glyph name the Unicode and HTML entity are listed, as well as the ASCII code [if it's] available. The whole site looks interesting. [https://www.prepressure.com/fonts/basics/character-names]

Patai Gergely’s Z80 Assembly [http://sgate.emt.bme.hu/patai/publications/z80guide/] is a low level guide to assembly programming. As Gergely states: Assembly is a low level language… The Z80 does not even know how to multiply two numbers! This is up to you to code. I will

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. —John M. Culkin, A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan [https://webspace.royalroads.ca/llefevre/wp-content/uploads/sites/258/2017/08/A-Schoolmans-Guide-to-Marshall-McLuhan-1.pdf] [PDF]

You don’t have to be a mathematician to appreciate Eric Schechter’s The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics [https://math.vanderbilt.edu/schectex/commerrs/]. Amongst other observations, Schechter, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, notes: That certain mathematical errors are common among students may be partly a

Founded in 1960, Project Xanadu [http://xanadu.com] is the original hypertext project, designed by Ted Nelson. A pioneer of information technology, a philosopher and a sociologist, Ted Nelson’s ideas were critical to the understanding and development of connected media. As Nelson put it, in ‘Visibly Connected Pages and

The Backwards Index [https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/01/26/backward-index-clever-pre-digital-hack/] – a pre-digital dictionary hack – is an index card catalogue of every word in the dictionary spelled backwards. Developed between the 1930s and 1970s, the index offered a solution for editorial problems pre-digitisation, enabling browsers to identify related words or

The thing about pieces like this is that they are actually of almost infinite length. They simply don’t reconfigure the same way again. This is music for free, in a sense. The considerations that are important, then, become questions of how the system works and, most important of all,

Tero Parviainen’s How Generative Music Works: A Perspective is a wonderfully interactive guide to the history and practice of generative music. As John Pavlus puts it in Co.Design: “Think of it as an encyclopedia entry crossed with a mixtape….” Whilst you’re exploring it you might like to

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. —Anne Lamott Almost all good _______ begins….

The Serving Library [http://www.servinglibrary.org] is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing.

MuirMcNeil are featured in – and, uniquely, on the cover of – Eye (No. 94, Vol. 24, 2017): We are trying to establish sets of conditions and then to play them out. —MuirMcNeil Their work, “constructing typefaces through mathematics, systems and experimentation, pushing hard at the boundaries of alphabetic form,” revels in

Rune Skjoldborg Madsen’s Programming Design Systems [http://printingcode.runemadsen.com] is a graduate course focused on the intersection between graphic design and code. The course fuses an exploration of: graphic design principles, including form, colour and typography; and computational principles, including randomization, repetition and transformation. As Madsen puts it:

A collection of quotations, courtesy of MuirMcNeil, exploring the question: What is typography? [http://iindex.tumblr.com/post/169088988792]

Computers afford us the ablity to create design systems that are, by their programatic nature, entirely dynamic. By establishing the constraints within which a design system will work, but allowing an algorithm to determine the final design within these constraints every time the system is set in motion, the designer

Written in JavaScript, Processing.js [http://processingjs.org/articles/p5QuickStart.html] converts Processing sketches into JavaScript and displays them using HTML5’s <canvas> element. Currently at v1.4.8 [http://processingjs.org/download/], Processing.js is a port by John Resig [https://johnresig.com/blog/processingjs/].

Unit Editions’ 384pp ‘Octavo Redux’ – lovingly designed and printed (as you’d expect from a collaboration between 8vo and Unit Editions) – is available to buy in an edition of 740 [https://www.uniteditions.com/products/octavo-redux-1-1-a-record-of-octavo-journal-of-typography-1986-1992] .

Originally published by the RAND Corporation in 1955, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_100,000_Normal_Deviates] , is an important 20th century work within the field of statistics and random numbers.

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, includes a number of digital ‘extensions’, designed to supplement – and extend – the book (now in its second edition). Casey Reas’ Extension 4: Print [https://processing.org/tutorials/print/] explores the impact of digital technologies on

Brendan Dawes’ Plastic Player [http://brendandawes.com/projects/plasticplayer2] is an open-source analogue interface for digital music. Exploring the dematerialisation of music, it relocates the physicality of packaging that has, to all intents and purposes, been lost in the age of streaming.

http://www.op-art.co.uk/op-art-gallery/bridget-riley/white-disks-1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nGzG5aLoxYU

Network topology is the arrangement of the various elements – links, nodes and other components – of a communication network.

http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/100cc/hqx/i900.html