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Three short stories about targets

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-01-08_using-targets/

Published: January 7, 2025 13:00

About 18 months ago I wrote a post about balrogs and makefiles. The post was long, strange, but also cathartic. It had bothered me for years that I didn’t really understand make as well as I wanted to, and it was really helpful to write up some notes about…

The schools of magic

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-01-01_schools-of-magic/

Published: December 31, 2024 13:00

In the dying days of 2024 I found myself doing Tidy Tuesday again. I really like playing around with data wrangling and visualisation in these exercises, and I wish I were able to find the time to do it more often. But life so often gets in the way, and I…

Art from code VII: Pixel filters

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-24_art-from-code-7/

Published: December 23, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code VI: Tiles and tessellations

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-23_art-from-code-6/

Published: December 22, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code V: Iterated function systems

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-22_art-from-code-5/

Published: December 21, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code IV: Shading tricks

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-21_art-from-code-4/

Published: December 20, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code III: Polygon tricks

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-20_art-from-code-3/

Published: December 19, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code II. Spatial tricks with ambient

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-19_art-from-code-2/

Published: December 18, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Art from code I: Generative art with R

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-18_art-from-code-1/

Published: December 17, 2024 13:00

A couple of years ago I gave an invited workshop called art from code at the 2022 rstudio::conf (now posit::conf) conference. As part of the workshop I wrote a lengthy series of notes on how to make generative art using R, all of which were released under…

Baby got backreferences

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-12-16_regex-backreferences/

Published: December 15, 2024 13:00

At least once a week I experience a particular kind of despair that is all too familiar to programmers. I am sitting alone with my laptop and my code, minding my own business, working quietly. Out of nothing a yawning pit of black despair opens at my feet,…