Subpar Sketches

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Drawing as a verb

These drawings are nothing remarkable: they are maintenance drawings, subpar sketches to keep me sane and slightly satisfied. It is the process and practice of making them that has been enriching: that even at the end of the day, I could take 5 minutes to draw something, just for the sake of it.

Of course, I didn’t do this every day. But some days I stuck to it.

My Generated Valentine

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Writing poetry with Tracery, a text-generation JS library

I’ve been playing around with Tracery recently: it’s a perfect casual creator tool, easy to pick up, simple, and powerful. I figured a valentine generator would be a fun little project, so I scribbled out some sentences one day, while procrastinating over something else.

🌹 Try it out here! Just refresh the page for new versions. 🌹

Code

Here’s the entire Tracery grammar that makes My Generated Valentine. It’s really simple, built around just a few sentence structures.

Fun on Charisse

Subpar Sketches

Drawing as a verb

My Generated Valentine

Writing poetry with Tracery, a text-generation JS library

Code