Recho Notebook, an ITP thesis project by Bairui Su (ITP '25), is a new open-source coding environment designed for algorithms and ASCII art.

Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with ...

The best art world movies of 2025 depicted a refreshingly of-the-moment take on that rarefied milieu: ambivalent, anxious, hungry for success, but uncertain of how it will be achieved in a rapidly ...

Along with vinyl records and vintage synthesizers, typewriters have made a nostalgia-fueled resurgence in the digital age. Take the Hemingwrite, a modern “distraction-free writing tool” promising ...

Your browser is the canvas—draw, edit, and collaborate on ANSI, ASCII, NFO, and XBIN art in a retro text art editor rebooted for the modern web. Offline-first or ...

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Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model’s behavior, and silently ...

Enigmatriz uses ASCII art to punch up and blow out public domain photos and illustrations — I love their style. From It’s Nice That: Using the Image to ASCII tool available online, Enigmatriz found a ...

JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI to functional programming, from the client to the server, here are nine ...

Think of your favorite piece of art—a painting, a song, a novel, a movie or even a video game—and try to remember why it made such a strong impression on you. Was it the color, the cadence of notes, ...

img2ansi is a high-performance image-to-ANSI converter built for developers who want to bring visual elements to the command line. It supports 24-bit color, animations, real-time processing, and ...

Gijon, an Aaron program that Cohen debuted in 2007, created jungle-like scenes—distinct from the figures created by the previous version of the software, Aaron KCAT. Whitney Museum of American Art, ...