Thread by @sableRaph

Independent tool makers appreciation thread 💜🛠💻🧵

Let's send some love to the individuals (or tiny teams) who tirelessly create and maintain the tools that enable our #creativeCoding 🥰

This will be far from a complete list so please add your favorite indie tool makers! 🙏🏻

Olivia Jack (@_ojack_) makes Hydra, a livecoding visual synthesizer that runs in the browser.

🔗 hydra.ojack.xyz

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo @patriciogv is the creator of GlslEditor, a "Friendly GLSL Shader editor"

🔗 github.com/patriciogonzal…

Jess Hewitt @rustysniper1 and Alex Ayars @occi are the makers of @noisedeck, a generative art synthesizer that requires no coding skills

🔗 noisedeck.app

Benjamin Kuperberg makes Chataigne, an "Artist-friendly Modular Machine for Art and Technology". Chataigne lets you connect other tools and devices via OSC, like a central hub, and do much much more than that.

🔗 benjamin.kuperberg.fr/chataigne/en

Rebecca Fiebrink @RebeccaFiebrink created Wekinator. "It allows anyone to use machine learning to build new musical instruments, gestural game controllers, computer vision or computer listening systems, and more."

🔗 wekinator.org

Freya Holmér @FreyaHolmer makes Shapes, "a real-time vector graphics library for Unity"

🔗 acegikmo.com/shapes/

Rek and Devine @hundredrabbits created tools like Orca, "an esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers"

🔗 100r.co/site/orca.html

PS: the story of their trip across the North Pacific ocean is a must read 100r.co/site/north_pac…

Thomas Mann @pixtur makes Tooll, "a free open source solution for creating interactive 3d content and animations"

🔗 tooll.io

Oz @ArtSeeClarke Made Handsfree.js, a pluggable library that lets you add face, hand, and pose tracking to your web projects, and use existing websites hands-free 🙌🏻

🔗 handsfree.dev