The picture above may seem a little blurry, but if you move your face away from your screen just a bit, you’ll see it’s actually a piece of art, showing a bunch of color shapes. If you look closer, on ...

[Fathy] gets a kick out of doing odd things with Chromium, and Carbonyl is a clever byproduct of that hobby. In this case, it’s what you get when you connect chrome’s renderer to an SVG output module ...

We’re not exactly sure why they’re doing it yet, but a self-described ‘Web standards fanatic’ named Mathias Bynens has discovered that Facebook and Instagram are automatically making ASCII art ...

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We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s. Times have moved on ...

If you ever wanted to share you system information with another user, whether that be in a support forum or to show off your rig, its always nice to do so in style. A program called Neofetch allows ...

Here’s a fun, amazing fact about Facebook: every time you upload a picture, the service is automatically generating an ASCII art version of your photos. All you need to do is grab the link to an image ...