Omar Rizwan

the Newark Penn Station superstructure gives the illusion of a suspended tunnel

Why did I think this was frinklang.org like the websites occupy the same part of my brain

There should be an equivalent of Letterboxd for buildings you’ve visited.

A fun image processing distraction today -- how to clean up the noisy background of a photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript? Thread, in which I use Photoshop, but similar tools are available in GIMP and other image processing software.

Woah throwback in the HTMLImageElement MDN

Sorry for vanishing, we arrived at Glas for dinner 😉 As Katrine said they were making statements as masters of their craft; calling them “artists” in the modern sense would have bewildered them as alien to the world they worked in — and in any case “artista” was for grammarian/logician/rhetorician…

HTML Energy!

yeah I want to be able to text an app to the group chat

“nostalgic design”: the tendency to create something for their idealized childhood www.goodreads.com/review/show/... via @omar.website

feel like I should have a blog or something where I make a post every time I get sent the same link by 3+ different people

singleride.nyc by @obtusatum.bsky.social !!!!! Amazing!!!!!!

always feel a little gross when I have a Makefile target to actually run the program, not just to compile it

Remember this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Goog...

save the date :0 !!! html day 8.8.2026 ! @htmlenergy.bsky.social

effects of HTML: - mood lift, euphoria - increased giggling and laughing - creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily - boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny - sensation of insight - intense feelings of wonder

need a dedicated device for messaging

why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.

memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though

Paying my water bill on the city's blog.

"blog" is now a synonym for what people used to call "website"

introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse

eee pc / other netbooks were cool category because for the first time they weren't 'laptop', where 'laptop' in the 2000s was a pretty expensive, slightly more portable replacement for a desktop

making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh

This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free. The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day. 1/4

​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

wifi network that your phone automatically connects to that only exists inside a Faraday cage box that you have to put your phone inside, so you can never see or use your phone while it's on the network

Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world. satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk

has anyone played around with Airpods apis (head tracking for spatial audio)? my hope is to play around with controlling an app without having to look at a screen.. would be an interesting design challenge and would be great when walking around, on the subway, or just a diff experience

They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone

Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔

Trying to find a good way to build intuition around distance field fonts: how about comparing it to a map? The land is the filled text, the beach is the outline, the ocean is transparent (optionally a glow/shadow effect). Not sure whether this will make sense to the reader.

Tag yourself

What if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code

welcome to my new forum: something nice. we'll pay you $10 to join.

I should have a "Recently:" section on my website

lazily evaluated environment variable

More shared context because ~everything is said out loud, in detail It’s makes computing more social and shared in the sense we understand what the other person is trying to doing on their otherwise silent and unshared screen. Doesn’t scale to more than a few people in a space, but nice for a pair

programmable barcode scanner