A place for web experiments, trying new things, and pictures of my cat.
I changed my tilde.club page. The more I learn about code, the more I want to share little scripts that play with language in different ways. Until recently, I would write these scripts in Python and share them with a few friends, but I wanted a way to create things that people could use without the command line (and without requiring me to set up some big web framework). So I've been learning a little JavaScript (jQuery, really) and slowly converting some of my Python scripts into tiny web applications.
Tilde.club was the perfect testing ground for things like this, which are not yet ready for my main website or their own GitHub repo. That said, I can't guarantee that any of it will work, since this is partially for my own testing. Still, there are a few things up right now that are roughly working (try MysteryBox!).
I couldn't part with my original, throwback homepage, so you can still find that here. Though there's less activity on tilde.club now, I'm still very grateful to ~ford and the whole community for giving me this space to experiment.
A few JS experiments, mostly using the wonderful RiTa library for processing text. Some of these are finished, others are works in progress. I can't always tell which is which.
Given lines of poetry, this function will attempt to scan the meter of those lines into stressed (1) and unstressed (0) syllables.
Given any text, this function will change the nouns according to the N+7 technique created by the experimental poetry group Oulipo. It's similar to the great N+7 Machine, but uses part-of-speech tagging in RiTa to only change the nouns.
What else is the Internet for? As promised, here are some pictures of my cat:
For this site I'm using the IM Fell English typeface, which has a pretty interesting history if you're into that sort of thing.
n.b.: Everything on this site is an experiment, and a lot of it may not work (now or ever!). Swim at your own risk.
