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Camera3D and ColorBlindness Releases

processing

After many years of no activity, I have released new versions of my Camera3D and ColorBlindness libraries for Processing. I suspect that both libraries are no longer used by…

Feb 6, 2026

New py5 Release: 0.10.9a1

py5

python

The first py5 release of 2026, version 0.10.9a1, is now live.

Jan 9, 2026

New py5 Release: 0.10.8a4

py5

python

One final release before the year's end! The py5 version 0.10.8a4 is now live.

Dec 31, 2025

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

py5

python

holidays

axidraw

py5 greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 25, 2025

New py5 Release: 0.10.7a0

py5

python

Today I announce the release of py5 version 0.10.7a0.

Aug 27, 2025

New py5 Release: 0.10.6a0

py5

python

Today I announce the release of py5 version 0.10.6a0.

May 21, 2025

New py5 Release: 0.10.5a0

py5

python

Today I'm happy to finally announce the release of py5 version 0.10.5a0.

May 13, 2025

py5 at The Whitney

py5

python

I'm thrilled to share that py5 is now at The Whitney Museum of American Art. This is one of the most well known museums in the United States and it is an honor and a…

Apr 6, 2025

New py5 Release: 0.10.4a2

py5

python

I'm happy to announce the release of py5 version 0.10.4a2. This the fourth and final release of 2024.

Dec 30, 2024

New py5 Release: 0.10.3a1

py5

python

I'm happy to announce the release of py5 version 0.10.3a1. This is a big release with a new Live Coding feature. Also, some bug fixes.

Nov 10, 2024

New py5 Release: 0.10.2a0

py5

python

I'm pleased to announce the release of py5 0.10.2a0 and py5jupyter 0.2.1a0. Both are small releases with a few bug fixes and enhancements.

Jul 29, 2024

Underfoot / Overhead

art

The gallery show Underfoot / Overhead at Wasserman Projects with Marina Zurkow and Jasmine Murrell

Apr 30, 2024

New py5 Release: 0.10.1a1

py5

python

I'm pleased to announce the release of py5 version 0.10.1a1. It is a small release with two new small features and several bug fixes.

Mar 30, 2024

New py5 Release: 0.10.0a0

py5

python

I'm very happy to announce the release of py5 0.10.0a0. It is a major release with many new features and bug fixes.

Dec 30, 2023

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

py5

python

holidays

axidraw

py5 greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 25, 2023

New py5 Release: 0.9.1a1

py5

python

We are moving back to py5's previous release frequency of a release every 2-3 months. This is minor release with one important feature to support Thonny users, as well as a…

Jul 23, 2023

New py5 Release: 0.9.0a0

py5

python

It has been over 5 months since the last py5 release, which is a long time compared to previous releases. The main reason for this is the time and effort that went into…

May 1, 2023

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

py5

python

holidays

axidraw

py5 greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 23, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.8.3a1

py5

python

This is a minor release with a handful of bug fixes and small enhancements. Most of the bug fixes are small improvements to the documentation or error messages. Thanks again…

Nov 21, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.8.2a1

py5

python

This is a minor release with a handful of bug fixes. Some of the bugs were serious issues affecting Thonny users, such as # 117 found by Alexandre Villares. Many thanks to…

Aug 29, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.8.1a1

py5

python

This is a minor release with many bug fixes and several new features.

Aug 8, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.8.0a0

py5

python

This is a major release with some significant changes! I am very excited for the progress that has been made since the last release.

May 26, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.7.2a0

py5

python

The previous release had some unexpected and urgent OSX problems. This release fixes them, and in addition, expands the py5 functionality available on OSX. This is the first…

Apr 2, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.7.1a6

py5

python

Another big release, 2 months after the previous release.

Mar 24, 2022

New py5 Release: 0.7.0a0

py5

python

A another big release with two new features!

Jan 20, 2022

New Py5Vector Class

programming

py5

python

Over the past few months, one of the most requested py5 features has been a dedicated vector class. Since there is a lot of interest, I wanted to build a draft version of a…

Dec 28, 2021

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

py5

python

holidays

axidraw

py5 greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 23, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.6.0.alpha.2

py5

python

A big release with new features and important bug fixes!

Oct 30, 2021

Help Test py5 Release 0.6.0-alpha.1

py5

python

In an effort to improve the py5 release process, I am making the next release available on github for testing before I package and deploy it to PyPI.

Oct 20, 2021

Jupyter Book Documentation Now Live!

py5

python

The new py5 documentation website is now live! Go to https://py5coding.org to have a look.

Sep 18, 2021

Jupyter Book Documentation

py5

python

I'm enthusiastic about this prototype for py5's documentation website: py5dev.ixora.io. It is built with Jupyter Book.

Sep 13, 2021

Vectorization and Numpy

programming

py5

python

In this post I will discuss py5 performance tuning and the importance of vectorized operations.

Sep 4, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.5a2

py5

python

Shortly after the 0.5a1 release I learned that the run_sketch utility did not work on Windows computers. It was an easy fix, and critical to support tabreturn aka Trisan…

Aug 20, 2021

Better late than never Camera3D Release

art

processing

programming

Camera3D Release

Aug 13, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.5a1

py5

python

The 0.5a0 release was a bad release. I botched the py5bot kernel code in a poorly executed merge, and then didn't do sufficient testing to detect the problem. This release…

Aug 5, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.5a0

py5

python

What's new:

Jul 18, 2021

New Comment System

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New Comment System

Jun 23, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.4a2

py5

python

What's new:

Jun 13, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.4a1

py5

python

What's new:

May 23, 2021

AWStats and CloudFront Logs

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operational

AWStats and CloudFront Logs

May 23, 2021

Removing Google Analytics

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Removing Google Analytics

May 22, 2021

Finished py5 Reference Documentation

py5

python

I've done it. I finished the py5 Reference Documentation.

May 10, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.4a0

py5

python

What's new:

Mar 23, 2021

py5 Reference Documentation Progress

py5

python

Over the past month I've been pretty focused on improving the py5 Reference Documentation. Here's a quick update on what I've accomplished over the past month.

Mar 13, 2021

New py5 Release: 0.3a5

py5

python

What's new:

Feb 4, 2021

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

py5

python

holidays

py5 greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 16, 2020

Start of py5 Reference Documentation

py5

python

After a great struggle, I finally coded the basic structure of the py5 Reference Documentation. This was a rather intimidating task and probably one of the last difficult…

Dec 1, 2020

py5 Subdomain

py5

py5 subdomain

Oct 26, 2020

py5 blog

py5

python

This is my first py5 related post. The purpose of this series of posts is to document my progress developing the library. This includes the technical aspects of the library…

Oct 26, 2020

Happy Holidays!

art

holidays

Watercolors: Happy Holidays!

Dec 28, 2019

New Theme

nikola

operational

New Website Theme

Sep 2, 2019

Graduated from ITP

itp

Graduated from ITP

Jun 15, 2019

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

holidays

Processing greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 9, 2018

First Subdomain

aws

operational

itp

First Subdomain

Aug 29, 2018

New Host

aws

operational

New Host

Jun 2, 2018

Complete custom keyboard (Part 5)

technology

making

keyboard

Custom keyboard at ITP Camp

Sep 15, 2017

Nocturne #1

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie’s Nocturne #1

Aug 7, 2017

First Jupyter Notebook Post

python

The goal is to see how well this feature works. I’d like to be able to post Python code to my blog. Happily, Nikola supports that seamlessly.

Jul 21, 2017

Camera3D and 360 Video

art

processing

programming

360 video

Camera3D Processing library release, now supports 360 video

May 17, 2017

Lux Aeterna

piano

music

Piano solo: Clint Mansell’s Lux Aeterna

Mar 14, 2017

Mostly complete keyboard (Part 4)

technology

making

keyboard

Custom keyboard at ITP Camp

Mar 7, 2017

In memory of my lamp

art

making

lighting

My broken lamp, made out of a wine bottle.

Feb 21, 2017

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

holidays

Processing greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 11, 2016

Finishing a custom keyboard at home (Part 3)

technology

making

keyboard

custom keyboard at ITP Camp

Dec 1, 2016

Recently tuned piano

piano

music

Piano solos on recently tuned piano

Nov 7, 2016

Making a custom keyboard at home (Part 2)

technology

making

keyboard

Custom keyboard at ITP Camp

Aug 7, 2016

Improved Pachelbel’s Canon in D

piano

music

Piano solo: Pachelbel’s Canon in D

Jul 21, 2016

Attempt at Pachelbel’s Canon in D

piano

music

Piano solo: Pachelbel’s Canon in D and Erik Satie’s Gnossienne # 4

Jul 6, 2016

Making a custom keyboard at ITP Camp (Part 1)

technology

making

keyboard

Custom keyboard at ITP Camp

Jun 30, 2016

Gnossienne #4

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie Gnossienne #4

Mar 24, 2016

I made another lamp

art

making

lighting

Making a lamp out of an old wine bottle.

Jan 10, 2016

Happy Holidays!

art

processing

programming

holidays

Processing greeting: Happy Holidays!

Dec 17, 2015

Camera3D Documentation

art

processing

programming

computer graphics

Camera3D Processing library release

Nov 16, 2015

JupyterDay NYC

technology

python

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the first JupyterDay Conference in NYC. This was a one day event discussing the open source project Jupyter, formerly known as…

Oct 25, 2015

Gnossienne #2

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie’s Gnossienne #2

Oct 20, 2015

Gymnopedies #2 and #3

piano

music

Piano solo: Gymnopedies #2 & #3

Oct 11, 2015

Now with a freshly tuned piano

piano

music

Piano solos with recently tuned piano

Sep 14, 2015

Gymnopedie #1 with new microphone

piano

music

Audio recording, Zoom microphone

Sep 6, 2015

Presentation at MSFT Research Labs

iem

programming

python

Presentation for Microsoft Research Labs on Prediction markets

Aug 30, 2015

I made a lamp

art

making

lighting

Lamp made out of an old olive oil bottle.

Aug 23, 2015

Ready for Visitors

operational

nikola

Ready for visitors

Aug 15, 2015

Soundcloud

piano

music

Uploading music to soundcloud

Jul 19, 2015

Gnossienne No 3

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie’s Gnossienne #3

Jun 28, 2015

Art from years ago

art

ray tracing

figure drawing

Older art, ray tracing and pencil/charcoal figure drawing

Jun 7, 2015

Mouse Tracings

processing

art

programming

Mouse tracings project

Jun 1, 2015

More Gnossiennes

piano

music

Piano solo: Gnossienne #1

May 31, 2015

More Gymnopedies

piano

music

Piano solo: Satie’s Gymnopedies

May 17, 2015

Gnossienne #1

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie’s Gnossienne #1

May 10, 2015

Piano Music for Springtime

piano

music

Piano solo: Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie #1

May 1, 2015

The beginning

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First post

Apr 19, 2015

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