✨ Luna 🌙 @luna@tech.lgbt

guess who got put in tw*tter jail 🙃

To explain the flags:
The logo starts 260 bytes into the ROM
The data is 48 bytes in length
The image is 48 pixels wide
It uses a 1-bit luminance format, in big-endian order (most-significant bit first)
The pixels are laid out in 4x4 tiles (rather than standard raster order)

You can find the tool on my github - I've spent this evening giving the docs a long-overdue rewrite :)
https://github.com/lunasorcery/file2img

It's always neat when you find a new use-case for your own tools that you'd never considered before.

Today I realised you can use my tool `file2img` to extract the Nintendo logo from GB/GBC games.

the C++ ecosystem is a fucking disaster and I need to just learn Rust already jfc

The video is the classic STNICCC2000 Demo by Oxygene, being rendered by matplotlib.

Polygon data and binary-format documentation was sourced from http://arsantica-online.com/st-niccc-competition/

so i think i got this python/matplotlib thing figured out?

makes you think

here are the six that I found after a lot of zooming and squinting

hi i'm angry about visual clutter in video games again

this is a screenshot from the new Worms game - can you spot the worms?

printf '\x1b[38;5;196;48;5;214m\xe2\x96\x8c\x1b[38;5;226;48;5;34m\xe2\x96\x8c\x1b[38;5;27;48;5;91m\xe2\x96\x8c\x1b[0m\n'

What I say: "I'm bisexual"

What people hear: "I'm attracted to men and women"

What I mean: "I'm attracted to women, enbies, and Olly Thorn"

It's been many years since I first saw this fantastic slide deck by Olve Maudal and Jon Jagger. At the time, I was very much the junior guy. It's amusing to me that, since then, I've transitioned towards being the other candidate in more ways than one :)

http://www.pvv.org/~oma/DeepC_slides_oct2011.pdf

I made a very useless machine

https://github.com/lunasorcery/useless-machine

whyyyy does git bisect need to be run from the top level of the working directory

answer's up on github,
but see if you can guess before looking :)

https://gist.github.com/lunasorcery/82aff9c6486dac03cb524d75aa5a8456

how did she do it?