This is mostly a note to self. You know how you often have photographs of notes or forms that you need to print out, and there's a shadow or uneven lighting across the image which makes the print look bad?

These are the steps I take to make something like …

One week ago, on 7 March, I released my animated short Paramitha. I stared working on it in early February and just as I expected it took ~4 weeks of work to finish. I used Krita for the drawing and frame-by-frame animations, and Synfig Studio for things like parallax.

The …

You will often need to implement text that looks like this:

Now, it's fairly simple enough to do in HTML, but when you do it in React Native it looks a bit gnarly:

<Text style={styles.text}>
  You’re going to <Text style={styles.highlighted}>send a message</Text> to …

Flagitect just hit version 1.2.0, and so this is a brief introduction into the technical aspects of how the app is structured.

Stack

The app is written in React Native (currently version 0.62). There is no navigation library in use, as the app only needs some modals …

I created this little timeline graphic as a crutch for my non-American self trying to navigate the complex history, culture, and inter-network rivalries of American Late Night TV shows.

There are some shows that should be mentioned but aren’t, because they weren’t on the big three:

1. The Late …