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Dave Pagurek

@davepagurek.com

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Toronto artist and computer graphics programmer. I help maintain p5.js and its WebGL mode. Will probably answer your graphics questions if you ask 👀

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Nov 17

The Ontario Government is trying to strip out bike lanes we just got finished building and is adding lots of red tape to the process of adding new bike lanes. I got annoyed enough that I wrote, recorded, and animated this protest song in a week. Go call Doug Ford!! youtu.be/Z9vsHzj_-ZU

Blame It On The Bike!

YouTube video by Dave Pagurek

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 4h

Jad Abumrad back with a new podcast and it's about Fela Kuti? yes please!! open.spotify.com/show/320MJFB...

Introducing Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 4d

me and my cat looking at each other with our heads upside down

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 5d

Come take a look at what the Processing Foundation's fellows and grantees have been up to this year! openassembly.processingfoundation.org

Open Assembly 2025 | 12 Projects, 1 Assembly

Join Open Assembly 2025 - A 2.5-hour virtual festival celebrating Processing Foundation's 2025 fellows and grantees. Explore 12 creative coding projects spanning accessibility, performance, and intera...

openassembly.processingfoundation.org

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 9d

drawing some statues

Screenshot of Heavypaint on a phone of a man turning left into his hand

the original statue of that man, in an ensemble with a bunch more characters

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 13d

took a bit but it runs!
- has one bad RAM stick that broke things
- no PRAM battery yet but I don't need the date
- Classic OS9 would start after boot then crash at the end
- Turns out a bad date can do that. Had to stop it from starting on boot so I have a chance to reset the date first

Reposted by Dave Pagurek

Jaryd Diamond @jaryddiamond.bsky.social · 14d

I turned my Presto card into a magic wand and it went viral on the internet. AMA!

www.cp24.com/local/toront...

How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 24d

Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.

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Reposted by Dave Pagurek

Christopher @heychristofur.bsky.social · 16d

Puberty?

Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 16d

Eglinton Crosstown LRT expected to hit a major milestone this week

Revenue service demonstration is expected to begin this week, Metrolinx said, but did not provide a timeline for opening.

www.thestar.com

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 16d

New #CCFestTeacherCamp, which educators can join to learn how to use code to make art, interactions, simulations, etc. via p5.js. The program starts Saturday, October 18. Please apply via the form on ccfest.rocks/teacher-camp. And share with anyone that might be interested.

#creativecoding #p5js

Teacher Camp — CC Fest - Creative Coding Festival

ccfest.rocks

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 16d

it happened lol

cat crouching on top of a Power Mac G4 tower, next to an iMac G3

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 16d

pathetic fontacy perhaps?

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 16d

Side note: anyone know a word for like a visual onomatopoeia, where the font matches what the word is saying? That's one of the main uses for something like this, like in the example in the post of the poster for The Fall being long and stretchy like it's falling. "Onomagraph"?

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 16d

I wrote up a technique I've been working on for stretching text in any font while preserving local details! www.davepagurek.com/programming/...

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 21d

pigeon helped

Cat climbing on keyboard as i try desperately to read instructions on my phone

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 21d

how many software professionals does it take to set up a printer? apparently three, and two hours! thanks hp!!

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 22d

tonight's p5 development update: even though I got self hosted GitHub actions runners working before, it has security issues running arbitrary PR code. Now, it listens for jobs and runs each in a fresh container with a firewall!

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 23d

can confirm as a Toronto winter biker!

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 26d

nice, new Nine Inch Nails to listen to today! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Album by Nine Inch Nails

Listen to TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Nine Inch Nails on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 27d

It's been a little while now! Started may 2023. www.meetup.com/creative-cod...

Creative Code Toronto | Meetup

We are a group for local Toronto artists and developers interested in creative coding to get together, learn, and share what we're working on!Creative Coding refers to anything with an artistic compon...

www.meetup.com

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 27d

Our next Creative Code Toronto meetup is September 24! Come on out and show us what you've been working on!

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 28d

devastated by that ending :')

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Sep 15

the convergence of the CRT in my iMac is starting to become a real problem, but I don't think I trust myself to safely tinker with a CRT :') maybe it's time to look into getting an old desktop from that era...

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Sep 14

i have it set up to auto run in the background on boot now, in case *someone* unplugs it while sitting on the server

grainy photo of my cat sitting on the server

Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Sep 14

i had to journey to the depths of hell and back to figure out what flags and environment things were necessary but i got that green check :'''')

Screenshot of GitHub actions: "Testing / test (self-hosted, chrome) (pull_request)Successful in 29s"

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Sep 14

well, it's running, it's still failing to actually use webgpu though :')

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · Sep 14

ok this weekend, more than a month later, im trying again to get webgpu + chrome to work in github actions. this time: will it work if it uses a custom runner that is a linux server with an integrated gpu thats sitting in my apartment??

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