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The ASCII moon tool is fun to play around with! No plans to build a library right now, but who knows. Feel free to grab what you need from the website's code! If I were to build a …

I did actually try out various alphabets e.g. Cyrillic, Greek and symbols (e.g. box drawing symbols), but ended up removing them: https://github.com/alexharri/website/commit/d969ef…

Looks very cool! Thanks for sharing. The resulting ASCII looks dithered, with sequences like e.g. :-:-:-:-:. I'd guess that it's an intentional effect since a flat surface would na…

Just pushed a fix, should be live in a minute or two, thanks again!

Good catch, thanks! I’ll push a fix once I’m home

Yeah, this is good to point out. The primary constraint I was working around was "this needs to run at a smooth 60FPS on mobile devices" which limits the type and amount of work on…

Author here. There isn't a library around this yet, but the source code for the blog is open source (MIT licensed): https://github.com/alexharri/website The code for this post is a…

Happy New Year from Reykjavík, Iceland!

Hmm, good idea. There are names that have the exact same pronunciation yet have different patterns of declension, for example: - Ástvaldur -> ur,,i,ar - Baldur -> ur,ur,ri,urs The …

It would be good to cover more names for sure -- that's an ongoing process at DIM. Names are frequently added to the approved list of Icelandic names, so there's always going to be…

As a native Icelandic speaker, I have an intuition for how to decline names -- I don't really think about it consciously. I'd assume that for most people it's just pattern matching…