Thomas Meerpohl

🚂 built cho-choose — for indecisive humans. pizza or tacos? logo A or B? spin up a poll, share the link, let the crowd rate the options. no account to vote. loud neo-brutalist design, full PWA, text or image options. can't choose? let the crowd choo-choose 👇 chochoose.meerpohl.dev

🥳 Vivaldi just released a new version of their #browser, that restricts pinned tabs to the current domain. Outside links open in a new tab. I‘ve been waiting for this forever!!

⚡️I've released my app to the public! All other fitness trackers are just too bloated. This allows you to: - create training plans (either using AI or by hand) - check each day once you're done - some basic analytics for your ego :) Check it out at: fit.meerpohl.dev #fitness #excercise #training

🆕 I have refactored my interactive playgrounds to finally use relative units. This makes them resilient to size changes which in turn allows me to switch up the page design a bit. 🔗 Check it out at: meerpohl.dev/v2/meta-balls #genart #generativeart #codeart #webdesign #graphicdesign

My soft-proofing saga continues: Sadly colorjs.io doesn't support #CMYK yet. After some research I found #jscolorengine which I can use to load the ISO coated v2 #ICC profile. I can now convert my colors from P3 to CMYK and back. That gives me a good estimate of what the image looks in print. 🫠

Oh my god, #microsoft #teams finally lets me resize the chat responsibly.

So my trusted printshop told me I should try exporting my prints as PDF-X4. I was sad to see #inkscape does not support this. But I found #scribus which seems to be the holy grail. The UI looks a bit rough. Just as any good #OSS does. But the color management options are just wow.

I've been adding a font-selector to the wordy-playground. I thought I'd have to scrap the idea because the outlines were drawn weird. After some research I found the magic #CSS: paint-order: stroke fill; It cuts my stroke-width in half but that's fine. Check it out at: meerpohl.dev/wordy

🌟 I might have went a little overboard with the filters. But I was trying them out in inkscape so that I can include them in my tools. SVG in general are weird but maybe I get something out of it. Also, repeating gradients are great! #creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

🖥️ Might look cool as a wallpaper? #creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

#Astro's new experimental font API might finally prompt me to add a font selector to my Wordy playground. Unfortunately, I can't experiment with it just yet due to a bug, but I've already submitted a ticket. Once it's resolved, I'll dive right in!

🎨 New one with just a little more muted colors. Still pretty heavy #creativecoding #codeart #graphicdesign #webdesign

🐍🐍🐍 Make your own at: 🔗 meerpohl.dev/squaddle #creativecoding #codeart #webdesign

🤸‍♂️ Improved performance a little bit! For those who don't know, this is an SVG in the browser. Depending on your machine, perf will still be bad. Reduce the number of shapes to get drastically better performance. Check it out at: 🔗 meerpohl.dev/squaddle?str... #creativecoding #codeart #webdesign

New sketch and new tool in the making #creativecoding #codeart #webdesign

As a developer I'm super hyped for scroll driven animations. As a user I'm super annoyed because they get massively overused. A good example is this: pro.viture.com This is driving mit crazy! Eversthing resizes and moves constantly. Scroll direction is changing. 😵‍💫 #css #webdesign

POW! #graphicdesign #creativecoding

I totally forgot that unicode characters are a thing #creativecoding #webdesign #graphicdesign

Testing some other color themes #creativecoding #graphicdesign #webdesign

Alright, it's ready! Check it out and make some nice SVGs. meerpohl.dev/wordy #creativecoding #graphicdesign #wegdesign

Font wobble all day long. I‘ve got a feeling I‘m gonna make some sick posters with thise one. Also, first post made with @flashes.blue app! #creativecoding #graphicdesign #webdesign

⚡ Next one in the making! ⚡ I just realized that styling text can actually be more fun in #SVG than #CSS. You can just outline text in SVG! #creativecoding #graphicdesign #webdesign

It finally arrived as a print and I love it! A1 FineArt Giclée print on Canon Premium Photo #graphicdesign #webdesign #graphic

Finally switched the homepage to SSR with #astro. Now I can dynamically generate my opengraph images! Testing: meerpohl.dev/swirly

Love to see it. I don‘t like video feeds because of their addictiveness. But add least bsky does not shove the feature into my throat like youtube or instagram.

This one's just to show that all my tools are just simple shapes and no 3D. Turns out all you need is just a lot of slight changes. The first one looks like a psycedelic blood cell. The second one makes it clearer that it's just slightly offset ellipsis. #graphicdesign #webdesign #digitalart

New svg playground dropped on my website. I like this one a lot because it's just a little variation on another playground but the results are so different. This was basically finished in an hour! Try it at: meerpohl.dev/swirly #graphicdesign #graphics #webdesign

That one's going to the printing press today. 🥵 #graphicdesign #graphics #webdesign

The bright colors from a nice giclée print don‘t get old quick. Though I‘m a bit pissed about the cut. There‘s fine white line on the right edge. All in all happy with it! FineArt giclée print - 150dpi on A1 180g/m² Canon Poster Premium #graphicdesign #webdesign #graphic

This one got a little out of hand. 🫥 Added opacity sliders for fill and stroke. It's a bit surprising to me I didn't add them to begin with. But to be honest I feel like that's the last addition. I have 21 parameters in this playground. It's like adding more limits creativity.

New fine art giclée print on A1 180g/m2 paper arrived. You can‘t see on this photo but the colors are super vibrant!

Quite happy with that one 🐍 🍭 🍬

Damn, Gemini 2.0 Flash is fast. And the answers are very well structured and it even gave me a nice comparison table at the end (that I can export to sheets for some reason). First impressions are great!

These metaballs finally produce some promising results. I'm now using colorjs (see colorjs.io) which allow me to using some of the more advanced color spaces. Next up is a color space selector to find the right gradient. Colorjs supports like a couple of dozens. 🤤 #graphicdesign #webdesign

I just found out by accident that if I give my metaballs a negative radius they create negative space. Which gives them this lovely squeezing capability. I'm super excited right now because of all the possibilities! 🥵 #webdesign #graphicdesign

SVG controls are now persisted to the URLs search parameters which brings us goodies like: meerpohl.dev/squaddle?str... I should probably generate proper opengraph previews next.

Two twisted variations with a colour scheme instructed by my 4-year old. Loved it! #webdesign #graphicdesign

Here‘s two other views from my SVG playground. If you choose the colours right you can create smooth wave landscapes. You can also download the SVGs for further processing! meerpohl.dev/squaddle #webdesign #graphicdesign

This is from another SVG playground on my personal website. It needs some time to get good result but it can produce beautiful output. I need to persist the parameters to the url for better shareability. Check it out! meerpohl.dev/squaddle #webdesign #graphicdesign

I like to implement little fidget toys on my personal homepage. Today I have a mesmerizing metaballs playground for you. So far the amount of balls is fixed and the size is random. I make that a little more interactive soon. meerpohl.dev/meta-balls #webdesign #graphicdesign