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David Newcomb Morales
@arbourtrary.com
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🎨 Creative Developer
🌿 Gardener (digital)
✍🏼 Poet

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Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Tiny Awards are open for nominations! ⚘

the past two winners were One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv/) and Rotating Sandwiches (rotatingsandwiches.com/)

nominate a site for "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" here: tinyawards.net
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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After watching the Pacers & Thunder hit 50-40-90 percentages as a team in the Playoffs, I looked further into NBA teamwide shooting excellence

Monospace inspo from @codeistheend.bsky.social and table inspo from @owenphillips.bsky.social, @crumpledjumper.bsky.social

#nba #dataviz #pacers #thunder
NBA Teamwide 50-40-90's
A deep dive into some of the NBA's most efficient teamwide shooting displays.
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June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Started collecting my favorite beige styled websites. I was first drawn to how it evokes old books and humanity. Interesting to see how some LLM websites (Anthropic) have co-opted the beige + illustration + serif style

#beige #design #creativecoding

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Beige
A list of some of my favorite blogs / gardens / websites / products / projects that use a beige style.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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As long as I can remember, I've enjoyed taking photos mostly of nature - trees, oceans, lakes, flowers. Sometimes there's cool geometry in a building or a bridge or my favorite wonder of the world: the Alhambra

#digitalgarden #creativecoding #photography #trees #alhambra

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Photos
A selection of my photos mostly focused on the natural world - trees, forests, rivers, clouds - and some geometry in the built world.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Wow - hats off to Gladeye - an amazing immersive experience. Can't wait to dig into some of the details of this work

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March 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: buff.ly/2HCCTc8 #OTD
March 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Pattern in Islamic Art, an incredible heritage & beautiful online resource.

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Blue and white tesselating pattern of squares and crosses Black and white patterns largely triangle based Dense overlayed circles with intersecting lines in blue and brown
March 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Started adding a dark theme to the website - worked better than I'd expected and helped me organize my CSS variables

#digitalgarden #creativecoding #css
March 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Had a lot of fun going back through all the songs I've loved over the years. I wrote a little blurb for each song evoking some memory or feeling

#music #playlist #creativecoding #digitalgarden

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Music
Tracing a quasi-chronological path through the evolution of my musical taste. So many incredible songs and genres.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Working on some project-specific summary pages

#portfolio #creativecoding #svelte #dataviz
February 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Revisiting some of my favorite books. Primarily poets at the moment, but I'll keep adding to the list

#creativecode #kensukekoike #poetry #waltwhitman #maryoliver #langstonhughes

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Books
Making a list of books that have really stuck with me, changed my outlook, inspired me, surprised me.
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February 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Collected as many of my poems I could find, scattered across years of notebooks and scribbles and files and folders. Put them in the garden

#digitalgarden #poems #poetry

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Poems
An ongoing collection of my poems, sometimes written out of reluctance. Sometimes in rapture.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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In a previous iteration of my personal website, I'd collected some silhouettes of my favorite trees to climb. Took those and added them to my current website as a little data sketch

#creativecode #digitalgarden #climbing #trees

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Climbing Trees
Reminiscing and collecting silhouettes of a few of my favorite trees
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January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Interactively learning the fascinating symmetry of the Cistercian numerical system that can represent the numbers 1 - 9999. Big thanks to the project by @yzahk.in - I primarily used that canvas code to draw the ciphers

#creativecode #digitalgarden #cistercian

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Cistercian Ciphers
Learning the interesting symmetry of the Cistercian numeric runes with an annotated interactive
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January 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I've been refreshing my site after seeing all the awesome digital gardens compiled by @den.dev at blogscroll.com

#digitalgarden #minimalist
January 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Saw the inspiring series of peakscapes by @chaneyswiney.com and reproduced this style for various islands. Started with Tahiti / Mo'orea and will add parts of Puerto Rico soon. Gonna keep gardening on this one

#creativecoding #digitalgarden #peakscapes

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Island Peakscapes
Taking inspiration from Chaney Swiney's peakscapes and creating beautiful gradients of some of my favorite islands
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January 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The artist Kensuke Koike has meticulously created countless wonderful, disorienting image transformations. I recreated one of those effects in code and applied it to a variety of paintings and artworks

#creativecode #kensukekoike

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Image Sampling
Recreating an image processing effect from the artist Kensuke Koike, finding beauty in the approximate
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December 31, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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Working on a collection of all the little idiosyncratic words my toddlers create as they learn to speak. I only have a few entries at the moment, and I'll keep adding as they go along in life

#creativecode #linguistics

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Childhood Dictionary
An ongoing collection of all the brand new words, chimeric words and otherwise original language that come from my toddlers
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December 28, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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I made animated, squiggly svg versions of Wacław Szpakowski's beautiful line drawings. Tried to give the code sketch a soft emergence on the page

#creativecode #waclawszpakowski #svg

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Line Drawings
Vectorizing and animating a handful of Wacław Szpakowski's beautiful, mazelike line drawings
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December 10, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can.

Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.
Image of the Black Mountains in North Carolina, cast in a gradient reminiscent of sunset hues: orange at the top to dark purple at the bottom. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations. Image of Half Dome and its surroundings in Yosemite National Park, cast in a gradient of yellowish blue. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations. Image of the Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park, cast in a gradient of yellow to red. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Using what data I could quickly find (Etymological Wordnet), I collected all the words on my website with direct etymologies (i.e. no complex branching ancestry). Excited to see this one grow as I write more

#creativecode #etymology #linguistics #digitalgarden

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Direct Etymologies
Scraping my own website to find etymologies of words that are the result of a direct lineage
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November 29, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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At what point does a regular polygon look indistinguishable from a circle? Little canvas sketch to draw n-gons and learn their Greek-derived names

#creativecode #polygon #circle #digitalgarden

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Polygon or Circle?
The Platonic circle does not exist, but at what point can we no longer tell the difference?
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November 29, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Code sketch animating letters - words coalescing slowly, evolving, synaesthetic, dissolving

#creativecode #linguistics #synaesthesia

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Coalescing Text
Code sketch animating letters - words coalescing slowly, evolving, synaesthetic, dissolving
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November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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My digital garden where I write a little bit, try out some code sketches and generally enjoy learning how to design a website

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Trying out a couple concepts. Writing about nature, tech, poetry, mathematics. Providing safe arbour in a darkening forest.
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November 22, 2024 at 1:29 AM