Kodsnack 542 - The whole software is in your hand, with Daniel Eke

Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic, polygon drawing tool Handstract, and photo polygonizer Centroid.

Code lets you create art which is interactive and immersive in a way many other art forms can’t.

Develop your side projects so that you save time - re-use code, structure it in ways which make things easy and fast for you.

Focus on hard problems rather than getting all caught up in low-hanging fruit and simple feature requests.

Learn the systems you are using, look at others to learn more tricks.

Try stuff out, and don’t worry too much about the tools. Build it inside something you already have. Or, use Apple’s Shortcuts - that might be much easier than setting up some service to run a script.

The magic of programming is that you can create something valuable by thinking through problems and expressing the solution in code.

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• Daniel
• Winamp
• Ferromagnetic
• Daniel’s blog
• Sine function
• Code for Winamp visualizers
• Lots of Winamp visualizers
• Daniel Ek - founder of Spotify, loser of the surname game
• Handstract
• Centroid
• Kaleidosync
• Spotiffy’s audio analysis API
• Replaykit
• Mapbox
• VLC
• Blog post by Daniel about getting started with creative coding
• Static objects
• Metal shaders
• Scenekit
• Opengl
• Crashlytics
• Firebase
• Gradle
• Daniel’s home dashboard application
• WWDC presentations from 2023 - previous years are also available
• Flappy bird
• Singleton
• Shortcuts
• Mapbox unboxed: location technology - video with Daniel - among others - talking about measuring rendering performance of Mapbox maps

• Your hand as a polygon
• Vector graphic finger painting
• The best thing is to listen to slow songs
• Start with a desktop application
• Use the whole capability of the phone
• All the secondary things
• The whole software is in your hand
• I like creating art more than playing games
• Value out of nothing
• A totally even distribution