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David Newcomb Morales
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🎨 Creative Developer
🌿 Gardener (digital)
✍🏼 Poet

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Excited to write and create more often in the coming years

#poetry #creativecoding

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Broken Watch
Even a broken one gets it right twice a day
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December 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by David Newcomb Morales
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) β€” https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thank you for the heads up - let me go fix that up
August 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thank you! I've been reading your work for a good while and the homepage animation is so cool
August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by David Newcomb Morales
Tiny Awards are open for nominations! ⚘

the past two winners were One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv/) and Rotating Sandwiches (rotatingsandwiches.com/)

nominate a site for "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" here: tinyawards.net
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I upped the stakes to filter for a more exclusive teamwide 60-60-90 shooting club and found 14 instances of this (0 in the playoffs). As a Mavs fan, made me very happy to see a Dirk-led team in the list

#MFFL #DirkNowitzki
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In the regular season, a teamwide 50-40-90 has happened 1000+ times. And 7 times both teams in a game faced off with dueling 50-40-90s
June 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The teamwide 50-40-90 game has happened 64 times in the NBA Playoffs. In the past 2 Playoffs, only the Pacers and Thunder have achieved the feat
June 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
After watching the Pacers & Thunder hit 50-40-90 percentages as a team in the Playoffs, I looked further into NBA teamwide shooting excellence

Monospace inspo from @codeistheend.bsky.social and table inspo from @owenphillips.bsky.social, @crumpledjumper.bsky.social

#nba #dataviz #pacers #thunder
NBA Teamwide 50-40-90's
A deep dive into some of the NBA's most efficient teamwide shooting displays.
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June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
May 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Started collecting my favorite beige styled websites. I was first drawn to how it evokes old books and humanity. Interesting to see how some LLM websites (Anthropic) have co-opted the beige + illustration + serif style

#beige #design #creativecoding

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Beige
A list of some of my favorite blogs / gardens / websites / products / projects that use a beige style.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The blurred, grainy style on the page is inspired by the Photo Gradient tool by @dan-d.bsky.social

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Photo Gradient
Generate beautiful gradients from colors or from a photo
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March 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
As long as I can remember, I've enjoyed taking photos mostly of nature - trees, oceans, lakes, flowers. Sometimes there's cool geometry in a building or a bridge or my favorite wonder of the world: the Alhambra

#digitalgarden #creativecoding #photography #trees #alhambra

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Photos
A selection of my photos mostly focused on the natural world - trees, forests, rivers, clouds - and some geometry in the built world.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Wow - hats off to Gladeye - an amazing immersive experience. Can't wait to dig into some of the details of this work

www.nationalgeographic.com/into-the-ama...
March 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reposted by David Newcomb Morales
Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: buff.ly/2HCCTc8 #OTD
March 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by David Newcomb Morales
Pattern in Islamic Art, an incredible heritage & beautiful online resource.

patterninislamicart.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Started adding a dark theme to the website - worked better than I'd expected and helped me organize my CSS variables

#digitalgarden #creativecoding #css
March 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Added a #honeycomb to the front page - was interesting doing the #geometry for these elongated #hexagons
March 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Had a lot of fun going back through all the songs I've loved over the years. I wrote a little blurb for each song evoking some memory or feeling

#music #playlist #creativecoding #digitalgarden

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Music
Tracing a quasi-chronological path through the evolution of my musical taste. So many incredible songs and genres.
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February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Working on some project-specific summary pages

#portfolio #creativecoding #svelte #dataviz
February 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
February 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Revisiting some of my favorite books. Primarily poets at the moment, but I'll keep adding to the list

#creativecode #kensukekoike #poetry #waltwhitman #maryoliver #langstonhughes

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Books
Making a list of books that have really stuck with me, changed my outlook, inspired me, surprised me.
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February 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Collected as many of my poems I could find, scattered across years of notebooks and scribbles and files and folders. Put them in the garden

#digitalgarden #poems #poetry

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Poems
An ongoing collection of my poems, sometimes written out of reluctance. Sometimes in rapture.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
In a previous iteration of my personal website, I'd collected some silhouettes of my favorite trees to climb. Took those and added them to my current website as a little data sketch

#creativecode #digitalgarden #climbing #trees

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Climbing Trees
Reminiscing and collecting silhouettes of a few of my favorite trees
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January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thanks! Always cool when you come across an existing project for some random interest
January 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM