This post is a short tutorial which would guide you through some of the Canvas API in practice - I will draw a simple christmas tree using JavaScript and html canvas element.

Generating a color palette While playing with p5.js I often stumble upon a problem of color palette choice. The colors that I use in my artictic/programming playground are (usually) randomly generated. Even though I’m familiar with practical superiority of HSL/HSB over RGB colorscpace and I seldom use RGB in my scripts, I haven’t tried to create a color palette algorithm myself. I’m sure there are many such algorithms. There are plenty of pages that allow the user to enter a color and they helpfully output a set of matching, somehow related colors that form some kind of a palette.

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Java 18 release is planned for 2021-03-22. Let’s have a look at what to expect in this release. I invite you for a quick overview of the features. Prepare yourself a cup of good coffee ☕!

At the end of November my whole familly (me included) got ill. Lots of coughing and sneezing, tons of medicines and headaches. Together with a very poor physical health I experienced also some time of intellectual “downtime” and my blog did not receive enough love from my side. Today I write about something that let me pick up the pieces and renew my creative and intelectual powers. Drawing course One day I took my pencil and - after usual, daily session of doodling monsters and cats for my daughter I decided to draw something else.

Notes about Gradle What should I know about Gradle? How to create a project with submodules? Or maybe: how to create simple project? Or how to use Gradle with Kotlin? Notes unordered This post is a set of very random notes, too chaotic to treat them as any valuable source of information. I write as I go through the Gradle documentation. Information you can find here may be not only random, but also factually incorrect.