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Same thought! Home Movies is one of my favorite shows.

And it looks so similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcBL9JPfZw&list=PLqIbkxo6OP...

Err, that’s if you consider McGuirk the main character. Which sometimes I could see, haha.

Small voiced his namesake in that cartoon.

I remember watching this show at 3am as a teenager, while my sister and I ate breakfast before heading out to our jobs on a dairy. We did not like this show, but it was really the only thing that was on at 3am. It was followed by The Oblongs which we vaguely remember as bizarre and joke about it being a shared dream we must’ve had when we fell asleep on the job.

I immediately thought the same and figured I just got one that looked kind of like that to start of with, and reloaded and reloaded and reloaded and was so pleased when I just kept getting ones that looked like Home Movies. Because of that, they all strike me as charming and amusing more than they do ugly.

Brilliant show. I grew up watching Science Court by the same creators. It's got a very sly sense of humour.

Brendon Small voices the main character. H Jon Benjamin is one of the supporting characters (coach McGuirk)

Home Movies carried me through the pandemic, fond memories of the show

You can change the branch to main and see the code. (I agree that having the pages branch as the default branch and uploading built code instead of building it with a GH action is still odd)

I just looked at the source map in the browser — you can check it out there.

Additionally, there's no copyright license on the files. (Tangent: even if there were a free software license, the software wouldn't be free software by the FSF's definition (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html) because source code is the form that the author prefers when the author modifies the software, and minified code usually is not that.)

You mean uglified

It would get this guy absolutely murdered if one of the funny faces looked racist.

Too risky

You'll need a library that can render to some 2D-context that can then be converted to PNG.

JS is probably where you should look. You might be able to find a good PHP drawing library but I've never come across that in my work. Lots of image converting libraries out there (usually just a wrapper around ImageMagik), but "drawing images" usually a client-side thing and you'll find more support for it.

In JS, you'll draw the image to a `<canvas>` element, which can then be downloaded as a PNG. You could go the SVG route, too, depending on the art style. Canvas is the safer bet.

If you want to deterministically generate avatars for your users, you're looking for "identicons". Googling that will yield several libraries for any common language.

PHP is nice with GD or ImageMagick.

Make a circle.png

Use GD to overlay colour over the radius of the circle

Apply facial details

Then finally anything extra

You could generate svg.

ImageMagick?

BoringAvatars [1][2] or Robohash [3]

[1] https://boringavatars.com

[2] URL service: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars-service/bl...

[3] https://robohash.org

burgeoning startup opportunity right here

You have dark reader on?

very entertaining.

if it's not a lot, can you have another UI that display more than one avatar at a time? say, 3x3 or 4x3 grid?

Thanks

Why only on April 1st?

Are they too ugly to exist though?

Just url redirect it to this repo page, if your not doing anything with it.

Might as well point it somewhere.

Pareidolia, or, more generally, apophenia.