Hello! I’m Lean /liˈan/🔊, software engineer who likes making stuff, code, art, and music.

This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

Making gifs with code; Almost all of my animations are created with the constraint of keeping the GIF file size under 5 MB. My primary goal is for them to be appreciated solely for their visual appeal, not for the process behind their creation.

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs, a museum of accidental art. Open for submissions!

Create art with code and share it with the world