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Weird Faces Study

Weird Faces Study

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Computer generated images have a certain aesthetics to them that make them immediately recognizable as such by the trained eye. Weird Faces Study is an attempt to combine my old interest in illustration with programing, to create something procedural that has a truly individual artistic touch to it and is not instantly recognizable as a generative art piece. Even though, the faces look hand-drawn, they are entirely expressed by algorithmic rules. Each face is random, each face is unique. Still, they look similar to my actual hand drawn faces.

Interesting and cool, especially for things like user profiles with missing avatars.

Upcoming release of Twitter Bootstrap 3.0

Upcoming release of Twitter Bootstrap 3.0

Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 is coming soon.  There are many changes and improvements, with “Mobile first!” being the main focus for this release.  Read through the checklist of the linked pull request for more information.

WordPress passwords and brute force

WordPress passwords and brute force

From the man himself:

Here’s what I would recommend: If you still use “admin” as a username on your blog, change it, use a strong password, if you’re on WP.com turn on two-factor authentication, and of course make sure you’re up-to-date on the latest version of WordPress. Do this and you’ll be ahead of 99% of sites out there and probably never have a problem. Most other advice isn’t great — supposedly this botnet has over 90,000 IP addresses, so an IP limiting or login throttling plugin isn’t going to be great (they could try from a different IP a second for 24 hours).