2020-10-14

some interesting finds for the day:

懐かし自販機～味わいの昭和レトロ自販機コーナー

(translates to "nostalgic vending machines - charming showa era retro vending machine corners")

a whole web site devoted to cataloging showa era rest stop vending machine corners across japan.

libsixel

Wikipedia: Sixel

a neat way of formatting bitmap graphics so they can be displayed in terminals, and a library to facilitate the encoding of more common graphics formats into sixel format. I vaguely knew there was a way to do this, but the stuff available that supports turned out to be way cooler than I was expecting