I've got back to hacking on Shoebot, a project I started 13 years ago at Piet Zwart to make images with code (they seem to call it "creative coding" nowadays)
I seem to go back to it in yearly bursts, and thankfully Stuart is around to take care of things in the meantime.
Now that we're looking at implementing variable fonts, I noticed we had no apparent way to set a font's weight or style; it turned out it was mostly done in the code, but not documented. So yesterday I took care of that. Tiny victories are always encouraging and worth the effort.
oh boy this is actually working!
variable fonts in shoebot!
and after some back and forth on the Shoebot matrix channel, now there's a simple syntax to tweak variable fonts. I'm really happy with this
and a cool feature in Shoebot: a simple syntax to make a basic GUI to tweak any parameter in a sketch
@liaizon only spiritually :) but yes, back when I started it I was really inspired by _why's vision of creative coding for everyone (and not just for fancy designs done by designers who started to code)
@rlafuente I remember downloading Shoes and editing some examples as a kid and thinking wow this is as easy as making a website. Maybe I could make apps.
@rlafuente does Shoebot have anything to do with Shoes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_(GUI_toolkit)