An ASCII Art playground
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Highly recommend checking out Andreas' other work on https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/. Probably one of my favorite websites of all time, his body of work is what complete commitment to an idea looks like. Couple cool hardware projects in there too.
By performative 2026-01-050:33 ugh this is maddeningly cool
By brcmthrowaway 2026-01-0420:253 reply [flagged]
From my experience in the generative art scene, there’s 2 main types of people making NFTs. There’s the crypto-first people who are into them for ideological or monetary reasons, and existing digital artists who saw it as a way to monetize their digital art and cash in on the gold rush.
I have a ton of issues with NFTs and while I don’t love that a lot of my favourite artists got involved with them, I at least understand that perspective a bit more.
> there’s 2 main types of people making NFTs.
> (…) monetary reasons (…)
> (…) monetize their digital art and cash in on the gold rush.
Those are the same thing. Doing it for money is doing it for money.
I do think there was a short period where established artists going into NFTs was understandable. If you’re still promoting yours in 2026, not so much.
By gf000 2026-01-0518:34 > Doing it for money is doing it for money.
I'm fairly sure artists have to eat as well.
By gatkinso 2026-01-094:27 grow up
By zen928 2026-01-054:38 im sure the pictures on the snake oil bottles looked really cool too
The monospace font, LL Simple Console, used on this website is so cool. Seems like it is proprietary and cannot be used in other domains. See https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/css/simple_console.css
By matsemann 2026-01-0512:09 I'm surprised it's so little base64 to encode a font? Like, I would've thought it would be orders of magnitude more, lots of shapes per character etc.
By kens 2026-01-0417:20 This reminds me of mid-1970s ASCII computer graphics, except more advanced and orders of magnitude faster. In particular, it brought to mind "Mandala" from the book "What to Do After You Hit Return", which was an amazing book in 1975, full of BASIC games and graphics programs that you could type in. If you want the vibe of early home computers, take a look at this book.
https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn/page/n...
