Craig Phares

Yeah, I was a skeptic too. But AI is definitely just another tool in the toolbox. I had to scrap a lot of things the AI tools generated and rebuild them myself. I wouldn’t dismiss them entirely if you’re a maker.

How I Built and Launched a Micro App in 3 Days With the Help Of AI Incorporating artificial intelligence into my development toolchain helped me to rapidly build ShinyTimer, a tiny macOS menu bar app.

I built a tiny macOS menu bar app
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Day 31: Pixel sorting.

Pixel sorted ANSITUNES.
ASCII Charset: ≡☼─█▀▄▌▐

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Day 30: Abstract map.

ASCII Rogue maps.

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Day 29: Grid-based graphic design.

PETSCII Charset: █

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Day 28: Infinite Scroll.

Lately, all my art is an infinite scroll, so I had a little fun with this one.
ASCII Charset: █┌┐└┘─│▌▀/\

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Day 27: Make something interesting with no randomness or noise or trig.

Combining 2 logic fractals: (x | y) % 7 and (x | y) % 29.
ASCII Charset: •◘

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Day 26: Symmetry.

ASCII Charset: ░▒▓▄▌

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Day 25: One line that may or may not intersect itself

ASCII Charset: │┐└─┘┌█

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Day 24: Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape.

PETSCII Charset: ●○

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Xevious rocks 🤘

Day 23: Inspired by brutalism.

PETSCII Charset: █◥

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Day 22: Gradients only.

ASCII Charset: ░▒▓█

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Day 21: Create a collision detection system (no libraries allowed).

As glitchy as every other collision detection system.
PETSCII Charset: ╭╮│╰╯─ ▒

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Day 20: Generative Architecture.
PETSCII Charset: ┼ ▂ ▎╲
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Day 19: Op Art.

PETSCII Charset: █ ▌▍▎

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Day 18: What does wind look like?

PETSCII Charset: ─\│/•

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Day 17: What happens if pi=4?

🔵 π = 3.14159
🔴 π = 4

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Day 16: Generative palette.

Some color theory-based palettes from ANSITUNES

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Day 15: Design a rug.

ASCII Charset: ▌▐║│▀▄═─

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Day 14: Pure black and white. No gray.

Charset: █▐▌▀▄║│═─∙·

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Day 13: Triangles and nothing else.

PETSCII Charset: ◥ ◤

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Day 12: Subdivision.

Charset: ▄▌▐▀■▲▼

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Day 11: Impossible day

Been meaning to figure out an isometric ASCII setup. Charset: αßΓπΣσµτΦΘΩ

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p5.js code

Day 10: You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed.

PETSCII charset: ▌▄▔▁▗▂▎▍▃▖▝▘▚

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Day 9: The textile design patterns of public transport seating.

PETSCII charset: ╮╰╯╭.

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Yeah, not sure how to avoid that. This would look slick on a thermal printer.

Day 8: Draw one million of something.

50x40 PETSCII characters rendered over 10 seconds @ 50 FPS = 1 million characters!

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Day 7: Use software that is not intended to create art or images.

ECA in iOS Messenger, built from my ANSITUNES algorithm.
Charset: ╔╗╚╝═║╠╣╩╦╬ █

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