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Door #9: Valonia ventricosa ("bubble algae") is one of the largest unicellular organisms – it has a diameter of up to 5 cm! https://advent.morr.cc/2019/9

@BerlinMiniJam@twitter.com Coding, art, and *ahem* "modelling" was done in 8 hours.

Super thankful that Lucas and Sami introduced me to Unity for this project! Using it and collaborating via Git seemed like a pretty smooth process.

(And isn't Michelle's & Daniel's art just amazing? :O)

At @BerlinMiniJam@twitter.com, Michelle, Daniel, Sami, Lucas, and me made a silly VR game where you're a snail shooting lasers from its eyes, fighting evil salt shakers! 🧂⚡️🐌

I keep all my config files here, if you wanna take a peek: https://github.com/blinry/dotfiles

The terminal is a plain "termite", which I picked for it's full color emoji support. 🤩 (Open to other suggestions!) https://github.com/thestinger/termite

The font is "Iosevka"! <3 https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Not pictured: the program launcher "dmenu2", and the notification daemon "dunst".

This is resloved's fork of "i3-gaps", which adds these lovely rounded corners! https://github.com/resloved/i3

Shadow effects are added by the compositor "picom", a fork of compton: https://github.com/yshui/picom

At the bottom there's a "polybar": https://github.com/polybar/polybar

My window manager is ready for 2020! *configuration intensifies*

Door #8: Why Chicago River is dyed green each year. https://advent.morr.cc/2019/8

Door #7: The Church Asylum of Den Haag – when a Dutch church held a non-stop worship service for almost 100 days, to grant church asylum to a refugee family. https://advent.morr.cc/2019/7

@CreativeCodeBLN@twitter.com For example, @holllyhook@twitter.com built a Twitter bot based on DialoGPT, a transformer-style neural network trained on human dialogue! @bott_fish@twitter.com

And @loloarmdz@twitter.com showcased a clever approach to simulating lots of particles on the GPU: https://twitter.com/loloarmdz/status/1202311368902422528

@CreativeCodeBLN@twitter.com Presented projects are documented here: http://stammtisch.creativecode.berlin I could probably spend days just browsing all the awesomeness there!

Went to the @CreativeCodeBLN@twitter.com meetup today, and had a blast! So many nice, inspiring, diverse people! There's a "meetup" every four weeks, with informal project presentations and plugs. And inbetween, there's a "jam" format for collaborating on projects. http://creativecode.berlin

Door #6: The Codex Seraphinianus is a strange book that no one can read: https://advent.morr.cc/2019/6

Door #5: Mukbang, an unusual entertainment format popular in South Korea: https://advent.morr.cc/2019/5

Door #4: The 52-hertz whale (is probably really lonely) 🎶🐋 https://advent.morr.cc/2019/4

Somehow, I anticipated the need for grid coordinate resolution. If I were to do it again, I would stay at the level of crossing straight wire segments.

For day 3 of #adventofcode, my naive solution had quadratic complexity, so I learned how to use hash maps in Haskell! My solution uses a "Map (V2 Int) Int" type to map grid coordinates to a present wire/to a signal delay. Then it's just a mater of finding intersections.

Door #3: Dahala Khagrabari was the only third-order enclave in the world. https://advent.morr.cc/2019/3

Participating in the ticket raffle for the Fusion Festival for the first time – you can do that until 2019-12-14. Who of you has been there before? :)