Thomas Meerpohl

I have a single server for 15€ that hosts 7 services. Among those penoot, mattermost, paperless and a few webprojects.

Hetzner server with coolify.
They already provide a preset for coolify. VPS are cheap and flexible. and Coolify is amazing

homepage/src/pages/v2/grid.astro at main · Achder/homepage Contribute to Achder/homepage development by creating an account on GitHub.

You can find the code here:
github.com/Achder/homep...

Screen of a website showing a graphical tool to generate SVG graphics. The tool uses simplex noise and fractal brownian motion to generate a shape that resembles a mountain-like structure. The tool offers lots of parameters to tweak the output.

🆕 I'm finally diving into the world of noise. This is a grid distorted by simplex noise and fractal brownian motion.

It's fun play around with but I'm not satisfied with the results yet. I want to try domain warping next!

Check it out at:
🔗 meerpohl.dev/v2/grid?seed...

#creativecoding #codeart

🆕 I have refactored my interactive playgrounds to finally use relative units.
This makes them resilient to size changes which in turn allows me to switch up the page design a bit.

🔗 Check it out at:
meerpohl.dev/v2/meta-balls

#genart #generativeart #codeart #webdesign #graphicdesign

Where are going to exactly in germany?

GitHub - glennwilton/jsColorEngine: jsColorEngine is a color management engine using ICC profiles in 100% JavaScript. jsColorEngine is a color management engine using ICC profiles in 100% JavaScript. - glennwilton/jsColorEngine

My soft-proofing saga continues:

Sadly colorjs.io doesn't support #CMYK yet.

After some research I found #jscolorengine which I can use to load the ISO coated v2 #ICC profile. I can now convert my colors from P3 to CMYK and back.

That gives me a good estimate of what the image looks in print. 🫠

Oh my god, #microsoft #teams finally lets me resize the chat responsibly.

Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing Scribus

So my trusted printshop told me I should try exporting my prints as PDF-X4. I was sad to see #inkscape does not support this. But I found #scribus which seems to be the holy grail.

The UI looks a bit rough. Just as any good #OSS does. But the color management options are just wow.

I've been adding a font-selector to the wordy-playground.

I thought I'd have to scrap the idea because the outlines were drawn weird. After some research I found the magic #CSS:

paint-order: stroke fill;

It cuts my stroke-width in half but that's fine.
Check it out at: meerpohl.dev/wordy

🌟 I might have went a little overboard with the filters. But I was trying them out in inkscape so that I can include them in my tools. SVG in general are weird but maybe I get something out of it. Also, repeating gradients are great!

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

🖥️ Might look cool as a wallpaper?

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

Astro 5.7 | Astro Astro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.

#Astro's new experimental font API might finally prompt me to add a font selector to my Wordy playground. Unfortunately, I can't experiment with it just yet due to a bug, but I've already submitted a ticket. Once it's resolved, I'll dive right in!

🎨 New one with just a little more muted colors. Still pretty heavy

#creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

🐍🐍🐍

Make your own at:
🔗 meerpohl.dev/squaddle

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🤸‍♂️ Improved performance a little bit!

For those who don't know, this is an SVG in the browser. Depending on your machine, perf will still be bad. Reduce the number of shapes to get drastically better performance.

Check it out at:
🔗 meerpohl.dev/squaddle?str...

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An abstract wavey form

New sketch and new tool in the making

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VITURE Pro XR: Experience Next-Gen Clarity Making the parallel possible...

As a developer I'm super hyped for scroll driven animations. As a user I'm super annoyed because they get massively overused.

A good example is this:

pro.viture.com

This is driving mit crazy! Eversthing resizes and moves constantly. Scroll direction is changing. 😵‍💫

#css #webdesign

A colorful image of the word "POW!"

POW!

#graphicdesign #creativecoding

Freelancer Thomas Meerpohl An SVG tool for generating downloadable abstract SVG forms

You can check it out at:

Freelancer Thomas Meerpohl An SVG tool for generating downloadable abstract SVG forms

You can check it out at:

A colorful generated image of the word "code"

Welcome to the matrix but this time we're smooooth 📟

#graphicdesign #webdesign #creativecoding

Colorful generated wordart with the word "easy".

👨‍🎨 Finally back at producing some prints!

The colors on this one are extra saturated. I'm trying a new local fineart printing shop. Lets hope the color will come through.

You can try the SVG generator as usual on my website!
🔗 meerpohl.dev/wordy

#graphicdesign #webdesign #generativecoding

I think this just referring to the app experience, like page load speed and opening past chats. You can switch the model it's using but output speed is of course the one of the model itself.

As a user I generally feel disoriented by these kinds of scroll animations. I think it's very confusing if things don't move with the scroll.

I live in Dresden, Germany. The city is somewhat famous for the rise of the new right through the Pegida movement. It‘s so sad to see. US poltics has been a driver since trumps first term. I kind of hope the US right fucks up so bad that it sends shockwaves to germany. But I wouldn‘t bet on it.

Wait, Now Standing Desks Are Bad? What Office Workers Can Do Recent research suggests that standing won’t save you from the health harms of sitting. But before you ditch your standing desk (or your job), consider this expert advice.

But didn‘t you hear?

Hehe, I see what you did there

Freelancer Thomas Meerpohl An SVG tool for generating downloadable abstract SVG forms

I totally forgot that unicode characters are a thing

#creativecoding #webdesign #graphicdesign

Testing some other color themes

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