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Amusements

Some of the fun stuff I made over the years.

Stuff on the Internet

Xenoblade

I’m a huge Xenoblade fan.

I made the Xenoblade Unique Enemy Generator, and also this wallpaper from someone’s scan of the XC3 collector edition.

I made a simple wallpaper changer to cycle my Monado wallpaper based on time of day.

The AWS Icon Quiz

I am the original creator of the AWS Icon Quiz. I came up with it in 2019 and made it in an hour out of sheer frustration and pain.

I posted it on Hacker News and it went viral. I got over 15000 responses. It made it into at least one official AWS training.

Someone wrote that this icon reminds them of the device from Kafka’s Penal Colony. You be the judge.

Happily, this quiz is now obsolete. AWS has all new shiny icons :)

Reverse engineering

Colorshifter

I made ColorShifter which creates a color cycling effect on your system theme for Windows 7/8/8.1. All your windows would RGB in sync! You could set up all sorts of color palettes and options. It used an undocumented API which doesn’t work on newer Windows.

It was a great little program! Unfortunately, I doubt it could work anymore. There’s lag every time you switch colors in the settings, and the program relies on instant color changes.

MetaSquares

I patched the now-abandonware MetaSquares for iOS 6 to work with iOS 8. This patches out all calls to UIAlertView, which was deprecated in iOS 8, and unlocks levels up to level 32. It’s janky but playable.

I also made Hypocube, a fan inspiration written for MatLab. All assets and game logic are mine.

Patch MetaSquares inside the folder MetaSquares.app:

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MD5 sum of resulting file: b5d0f9cc576d91849c4e5773461e3202

3D printing

Stackable project trays

I designed a set of modular, stackable project trays for screws and small parts. I wanted to solve three problems:

These are the only project trays I use nowadays!

Get the STL files here!

Stackable project tray

Sample packs!

I recorded these two bizarre samples from a permanently closed store on 7th Avenue:

Where did all the websites go?

The Internet was a mistake.

I made a Synplant 1 sample pack. It has hits, atmospherics, percussions, drones, organics and inorganics, and more.

These samples are free to use in your music, even commercially. Just download and enjoy. Please credit “elfakyn”. Also please send me the music you make with these samples!

Music featuring my samples: