The latest articles on DEV Community by Nick Clarkson (@clarky). https://dev.to/clarky https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F575848%2F1b3c194d-acf4-4dde-bbf5-18420bbb8741.jpg https://dev.to/clarky en Nick Clarkson Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:34:13 +0000 https://dev.to/clarky/experiments-with-jimp-3ko https://dev.to/clarky/experiments-with-jimp-3ko <p>Over Christmas I had some time on my hands and decided to revisit a project I was working on a couple of years ago.</p> <p>Inspired by some poster art I had seen ( I wish I could remember where to attribute ) I decided to use the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jimp">JIMP library</a> to essentially pixilate images in interesting ways. JIMP gave the ingredients to find colour averages over sections of images from there I converted these values to SVGs:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/netotaku/pix">The code is here</a></li> <li><a href="https://netotaku.github.io/pix/">The results can be found here</a></li> </ul> node javascript svg Nick Clarkson Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:27:50 +0000 https://dev.to/clarky/giving-this-a-go-because-507h https://dev.to/clarky/giving-this-a-go-because-507h <p>... tech twitter isn't what it used to be. I remember the old days of robust debate and genuine insight. These days it's mainly people trying to get into the industry and only slightly more qualified people taking advantage of that by writing endless lists with the word Javascript in them. ( What is twitter's obsession with JS!? ... and tailwind ) anyway, give me a follow. I'll be posting about insights in general, while I am opinionated, in a technical sense, remain openminded. I've been making websites for a very long time, there is no right answer, only preference, experience and context.</p> welcome