Pixel art for Pixel Dailies on the penultimate day of April Fool’s Month, themed “paperweight.” I searched for Ghibli cat and got among others a plushy, which I used as reference.
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Pixel art for Pixel Dailies on the 28th day of April Fool’s Month, using the theme “dive.” I went for a cartoon duck diving into a swimming pool, because silliness? Anyway, loads of fun making this one .
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While writing about this month’s art challenge, seeing all those pixel paintings (still 3 to come!) makes quite some impression on me. How I live from day to day, hardly look back. Journaling certainly gives perspective. No nostalgia, though. The best is still to come, after all!

Had to use the Wayback Machine, but next month I’ll have been blogging for 23 years, see here. Back then it was pure HTML by hand.

Also notice “Tips for happy downloaders” at the bottom. I started this project in early 1998.

Pixel art. Today is the 27th day of April Fool’s Month and the Pixel Dailies theme was “skewer.” It’s Kuroko Shirai from the Anime series “A Certain Scientific Railgun”, a 13 year old level 4 teleport master, who can teleport those spikes into baddies.
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I still see people (including myself) having old-fashioned ideas about gender, body type, skin color and cultural background. The ideas aren’t right out bigotry, but certainly inspired by bigots, other than who utter those ideas. Change is hard, social change doubly so, it seems.

I don’t yet know what today’s theme will be for Pixel Dailies. I do know that day 27 of April Fool’s Month is Kingsday here in the Netherlands, or, as we call it: “Koningsdag.” It’s one of those oddities in a parliamentary monarchy.
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Parallelization in Fortran Wiki

I heard about this on Retro Computing Roundtable 254. It seems the first high-level language is still in use and rather relevant for parallel computing on multi-core CPUs and graphics processors. Fortran was designed to be everywhere and very fast

The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 344, With Glenn Fleishman

My take-away… Despite the negativity around Twitter’s acquisition by Elon Musk, the social network could get better if cooler heads prevail and good ideas are implemented instead of running around to put out fires all the time.

I just counted 6 printed pages over 10 days for my Dutch language running blog. Over 14 years I’ve written 6800+ pages, or over 2660 characters per day, every day 😳

Pixel art animation. On the 26th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “phonebooth.” It immediately reminded me of the S-guy.
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I suppose one could construe that me using for an art prompt Pixel Dailies, which is restricted to a social network, which in turn was bought by the richest troll on the planet, made me stretch April Fool’s day to a month. However, no Nostradamus resides in this mortal coil.

Pixel art. I suppose an abandonned family pet best illustrated today’s Pixel Dailies theme “bleak."
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Pixel art. I spent too much time on this piece. One thing I learned is that lettering in perspective is hard and the result rather disappointing. I suppose it’s best to avoid it, whenever possible.
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I suppose, like Facebook, Twitter is on a decline. I can’t blame users for being annoyed by all the advertising and tracking, combined with bullying by long-lost acquaintances who think of themselves as “good friends.” It really is a cess pool of the worst of humanity.

Plant photo. My guess is that this some kind of hyacinth, found today, growing in the wild on a piece of urban development area, most likely for future housing.

I didn’t know what tab groups were, so I looked it up. To easily open several tabs at the same time. Obviously, a web browser power user feature, so I can skip it. I seldom have more than one tab open. Now for other useless (to me) iOS features, there are a lot, too many, alas.

Pixel art. The 24th day of April Fool’s Month had a Pixel Dailies theme “table.” I tried to make it a fancy table in isometric perspective.
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Pixel art. On day 23 of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “sea food.” I interpreted as “sea banquet”, which is a kind of chocolate delicatessen in the shapes of stylized sea creatures.
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Pixel art. I made this piece to practice design and lettering, both subjects that need practicing a lot in my case (I’m weak in these). My inspiration were the Viking myths. FYI, horned helmets on warriors were never a thing in reality, nor would they’ve been practical.
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