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A digital zine in 2024!? Blasphemy!
By Ahmad Moussa · June 1st, 2024
Last updated on June 22nd, 2024



















Samuel: A Silly Speech Model – Processing's 25th Anniversary – The End of Proprietary Software – How to Trust your Agents – CSS on the GPU

Physarum Sims with Brain - Unconventionally generated Turing Patterns - Rhizome's 30th B-Day - TypeSafe's Jev - Pacing the Frontier with Anthropic - Sharded Postgres Queries - Recreating Demoscene Sketches

Constraint-programmed puzzle games, dithered QR codes, OpenAI's Navier-Stokes drama + the Hugging Face sandbox escape, and the case for not understanding your codebase.

Self-modifying Quines - Realistic Cloth Sims - Virtual Pen Plotters - Procedural GLSL Sims - The QUERY HTTP method - The Fuss around Loop Engineering - Building an Agentic Newsletter

Learning Creative Coding - HTML in Canvas - Plottimation Tool - Intro to Shader Programming - New Shader Playground - CVPR 2026 Art Gallery - Pretext - Hyperblam - AI and the Erosion of Programming Careers + lots more

It's been almost exactly a year since I last posted here. A lot has happened in the meantime — I moved to a new place, I'm no longer part of fxhash, I had some gnarly health issues, and I'm slowly getting back to working on the things that I actually love doing.

Compute Shader Physarum Sims - Programming Software Rasterizers - New Fractal Formulas - Interactive A-Life Sims - The State of Devs 2025 - 5 years at Vercel - OAuth Explained - DOM Templating API - Diffusion Models for Video Game Graphics - AI Impact on Dev Productivity

Evolving Genart with fxhash - Flow Lenia for Emergent Evolutionary Behaviour - WebGPU Particle Life Sims - One Million Chessboards - 280 Character Shaders - JavaScript turns 30 - JPEG Format History - New PNG Spec - Search Engine from Scratch - LangGraph for Agentic Workflows

Open-form Genart x fxhash - One Million Chessboards - strudel Music live coding in the browser - Inigo Quilez & Freya Holmér on the Wookash Podcast - Reservoir Sampling - CSS Hell - Container Query Hack - Zip bombing malicious Traffic