Tim Holman

Network of webrings visualized as a subway map

I've been working on a network of webrings to connect people's hobby sites! I have multiple lines that I visualize as subway lines, so I call it the Smallweb Subway!

Every station is someone's website. You can explore it here:
gusbus.space/smallweb-sub...
#smallweb #webdev #webring

stranger: what do you do for work?
me, shamefully: computer

since no one asked, my pet project is doing great!
I gave up on the inner parts and now I use a fairly sophisticated instanced geometries to handle sub-geometries, multiple UV sets and N-dimensional layouts. #debugviewart

Wow so cool!

Following @goodtrailcams.bsky.social is the cleanser everyone needs.

Screenshot of a Thatcher effect optical illusion showing an upside-down face that appears normal at first glance, but the eyes and mouth are upright within the inverted face, creating a distorted, unsettling appearance.

Twist your brain, with the Thatcher Effect: the faces are wrong, but they seem right upside down, because our brain loves to make sense of things, even when they don't.
(rotation animations might be motion sickness triggering)

optical.toys/thatcher-eff...

old prototype, from the vast pile of old prototypes

Beautiful animated trailer for "Terre ou Lune", the new comic book by Jade Khoo (published in France by Morgen).
>> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

Been bumbling around with this animated ascii river/generative audio experience for the last week or two, as a little reminder and helper to slow down, breathe and take it idk, as it comes.

> patience.toys

Recent work – visual system based on lissajous shapes

Shoe Lacing Ratings View the ratings of each Shoe Lacing Method (1 to 5 stars) and compare the popularity of the various methods.

Peak internet right here... Ians shoelace ratings - www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lac...

I'll read it!

a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.

relevant to many of yalls interests.

This is the smallest run-cycle I've ever animated but I have to say I'm quite smitten #gamedev #pico8

There’s a kinda split, sometimes I value the idea and don’t mind an ai execution, sometimes I want to puzzle it out an get things perfect to how I imagine my APIs and experiences. But the sands shifting so fast.

Not that I’m against ai, it’s p damn impressive and a part of my workflow now, just a big transition mentally for me of how I value my own time and work on creative endeavors, and a bit of rebalancing of my own mental reward models.

Been ruminating on this lately as a maker of small one-off things… years back I’d made console.frog github.com/tholman/cons... … prob took a few hours, would take ai 1 minute. It’s not that my enjoyment from executing on an idea is gone, but the way my work is perceived has shifted.

The glory days of ActionScript 2

So much serenity!

櫻井先生ｷﾀ―――(ﾟ∀ﾟ)―――― !! 写真撮り忘れで、足だけ。

#genuary 27: lifeform. Here's a frog. A p5.strands shader warps it in an arc as it jumps. openprocessing.org/sketch/2857739 #p5js #p5v2

I have wanted this!

Electric Border ...

Also damn codepen.io/BalintFerenc... ... feels like I need to take an SVG filter course... this stuff getting insane.

Egyptian Hieroglyph Picker ...

I love me some glyphs codepen.io/equant_org/f...

And then I can focus on the important things, like delivering toys for ants. ant.toys

I'm doing the thanking here! But again truly, incomparable amounts of time saved, convenience delivered... idk, the little things like the bumping of build servers, versions, certificates, deploy images. It adds up exponentially. I know you know that but 🤷‍♂️. So good.

Not gonna lie, I think it was the certificate management that confused me for 5 minutes and it felt like time to move. Still don’t know how it goes.

"self portrait"
still lagging behind #genuary and this took me forever but it was fun. mediapipe, three.js and a bunch of custom shaders.
barradeau.com/2026/genuary... if you want to try it at home (you won't see my pretty face though 🤷)
audio 'Brooklyn' by Young Brass Band
#genuary13 #genuary26

In 2018 I migrated about 10 sites I had off a static aws bucket (lol) to Netlify, and since then that’s probably bubbled to close to 40 sites. Pretty much can’t imagine building without them. Very proud to be one of the 10 mil!

Reluctant adventurers.