Evan's Good Linkshttps://evan.aleatoric.website/good-links/2026-01-02T18:11:00.000ZEvan HallThe Clock – Areslunatag:evan.aleatoric.website,2026:good-links#25312026-01-02T18:11:00.000Z2026-01-02T18:11:00.000Z"In the 1980s, the dead space between our television programs was filled with… a clock."Holotypic Occlupanid Research Grouptag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#4868592025-12-05T02:19:00.000Z2025-12-05T02:19:00.000Z"This site contains ongoing research in the classification of occlupanids."500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format | Leah Hansontag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#4449972025-11-06T00:37:00.000Z2025-11-06T00:37:00.000Z"The goal of the Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is to make vector icon files as small as possible."Constructing a four-point egg – Tony Finchtag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#4034242025-10-08T03:44:00.000Z2025-10-08T03:44:00.000Z"I think it is a nicer shape than Moss’s egg."Ink traps and pals | Toshi Omagaritag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#3861782025-09-26T04:18:00.000Z2025-09-26T04:18:00.000Z"It is a solution to suboptimal printing conditions in which a larger area of graphics (e.g. line intersections) could result in ink smudge."Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantrytag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#3528492025-09-03T00:49:00.000Z2025-09-03T00:49:00.000Z"This essay will hopefully be the first post in a series (II, III, IV, A) covering some of the basics of how things in the past, particularly in the ancient world, were made."Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trietag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#3227522025-08-13T03:12:00.000Z2025-08-13T03:12:00.000Z"Displaying personal names in Icelandic user interfaces is surprisingly hard. This is because of declension — a language feature where the forms of nouns change to communicate a syntactic function."Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage | LOW←TECH MAGAZINEtag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2953722025-07-25T02:52:00.000Z2025-07-25T02:52:00.000Z"Compressed air energy storage is a sustainable and resilient alternative to chemical batteries, with much longer life expectancy, lower life cycle costs, technical simplicity, and low maintenance."CastlevaniaBottag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2735922025-07-09T23:52:00.000Z2025-07-09T23:52:00.000Z"CastlevaniaBot is a plugin for the Nintaco NES emulator that plays Castlevania."Erich's Packing Centertag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2520992025-06-25T01:39:00.000Z2025-06-25T01:39:00.000Z"Triangles in Squares, Circles in Squares, Squares in Squares, [...]"Domes — Shelter Publicationstag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2433982025-06-19T00:38:00.000Z2025-06-19T00:38:00.000Z"Here then are the results of an experimental voyage. The bitter and the sweet. The great idea (!) and the concrete reality."Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time | PhobosLabtag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2303852025-06-09T23:45:00.000Z2025-06-09T23:45:00.000Z"Introducing QOI — the Quite OK Image Format."The 12-bit rainbow palettetag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2216462025-06-03T22:06:00.000Z2025-06-03T22:06:00.000Z"A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue"Linear Clock: Solar · James Wilsontag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2088602025-05-26T01:00:00.000Z2025-05-26T01:00:00.000Z"I designed and built a clock that uses satellite navigation and astronomy to show time as a progress bar measuring the percentage of the day elapsed since sunrise."Machine with Concrete | Arthur Gansontag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#2001312025-05-19T23:31:00.000Z2025-05-19T23:31:00.000Z"With the motor turning at around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear can make but one turn."Ian's Shoelace Sitetag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#1955732025-05-16T19:33:00.000Z2025-05-16T19:33:00.000Z"Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces – and home of the Ian Knot, the world's fastest shoelace knot. If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces – this is the place!"Unidecode! (2001)tag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#1914682025-05-13T23:08:00.000Z2025-05-13T23:08:00.000Z"I wrote a Perl module called Text::Unidecode, which takes Unicode text using any writing system, and tries to convey it using just US-ASCII."The Whitworth Three Plates Method — Eric Weinhoffertag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#1883932025-05-11T19:53:00.000Z2025-05-11T19:53:00.000Z"By using the Three Plates Method, developed by Joseph Whitworth, flat surfaces can be created by using gravity and a simple hand-scraping tool, or by lapping the plates against each other."WAKULLA RECEIPT MAP – Aaron Koelkertag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#1857422025-05-09T23:42:00.000Z2025-05-09T23:42:00.000Z"This map was designed to be printed on six feet of thermal receipt paper."Security Envelope Patterns - 870 Pattern Collectiontag:evan.aleatoric.website,2025:good-links#1842832025-05-08T23:23:00.000Z2025-05-08T23:23:00.000Z"A collection of beautiful security envelope patterns spanning over 10 years. A rainbow of colors and patterns. Thanks for your help!"Writing Arabic in English - Personal Website for Sherif Elmetwallyhttps://evan.aleatoric.website/good-links#22025-05-07T01:00:00Z"My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard."The hardest working font in Manhattan - Areslunahttps://evan.aleatoric.website/good-links#12025-05-07T00:00:00Z"A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today."