A coffee chat in links

"I'm curious about coding and stuff," said my friend.

August 12, 2024

Good thing I have a collection of links that I try to kind of keep for this purpose.

Some music stuff? Kind of trying to find things that you might be interested in.

And interesting text stuff:

And starting to get into websites and blogs — I have some friends online who just have these gorgeous websites or writing sites, and I just think this is the power of being able to code even just a little bit! You can make a space that can feel like your own with not very much at all.

Oh, back to text — there's some interesting stuff for using code to play with text and write poetry.

There's actually a really interesting community around making text stuff with technology; here are a bunch of publications and a really helpful list that my friend Katy had curated.

Some really friendly and accessible tools for just getting into creative tech and exploring some of that creative freedom and seeing what's possible without having to do a massive amount of coding.

I haven't really managed to spend a lot of time with Bitsy but shoutout to Dri and their games/stories/zines.

I'm really interested in trying to explore kind of constrained or formal writing through coding.

Oh, I forgot to mention this for sound, but Tiger does these really interesting pieces where he uses sound not really as music but as part of a really atmospheric experience.

Heck yeah. My journey started on Tumblr... just trying to figure out how to make a nice theme for my blog and get nice colours and cool effects when you hover on stuff!

OK but how do I actually make a website and put it up on the internet?

It can be so simple and lovely! :)