Week of the 22/06/2020 - #26
Contents
Tech
- Practical Python Programming
- LSDJ Cheatsheet
Art
- Tweets
Practical Python Programming
Practical Python Programming. A course by @dabeaz. A very pleasant read which teaches basic Python programming. From the GitHub repos readme: “When I first learned Python nearly 25 years ago, I was immediately struck by how I could productively apply it to all sorts of messy work projects. Fast-forward a decade and I found myself teaching others the same fun. The result of that teaching is this course–A no-nonsense treatment of Python that has been actively taught to more than 400 in-person groups since 2007. Traders, systems admins, astronomers, tinkerers, and even a few hundred rocket scientists who used Python to help land a rover on Mars–they’ve all taken this course. Now, I’m pleased to make it available under a Creative Commons license. Enjoy!”
Tweets
Earthlings: Art by Korean-born and California-based artist Soey Milk (b.1989) [tweet]
Art student Sketchbooks [tweet]
Stealing images of Earth from satellites with software defined radio https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/signs-of-life [tweet] / How to construct a receiver https://pietern.github.io/goestools/guides/minimal_receiver.html / Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system. While the concept of SDR is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics render practical many processes which were once only theoretically possible. [wikipedia] / Tools for processing GOES satellites signasl [GitHub]
Grid - A Lua Game Engin Grid is a game engine for Lua built by Planimeter. It was designed for multiplayer-first game experiences. [tweet] | [GitHub] | [web] |
Light post from Aesthetic Sharer ZHR - [tweet]
Another post from Aesthetic Sharer ZHR
Altuna Sketchbooks - [tweet] / [tweet] / [tweet]
Details from Escher drawings - [tweet]
Ghost in the Shell - Masamune Shirow - 1989/1990 [tweet]
AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor - [tweet] / [web]
It’s Gomez Time (Again): Reflections on Demaking FEZ - [article] / [twitter] / [Henry Stadolnij @Jusiv_]
‘After the Thunderstorm’ (1879) by Arkhip Kuindzhi - The green, the light… [tweet]
Mathematical Journal… - [tweet]
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane - [tweet]
Pixel Art to reproduce on the Apple II - [tweet] / [tweet]
LSDJ Cheatsheet and other resources
This series of tweets has a lot of juicy insights:
- https://twitter.com/chipzel/status/1265612260308914179
- lsdpatch - “A tool for modifying samples, fonts and palettes on Little Sound Dj (LSDj) ROM images. Requires Java. If you have problems running the .jar on Windows, try Jarfix.” [GitHub]