Been thinking about visual programming languages (UE4 Blueprints, Scratch, etc) and have come to some realizations about why I'm not happy with any current approach. Thread... Visual languages come in two major flavors; "blocks" and "boxes and wires." Blocks attempt to be a direct analog to the structure of textual code, while the wire approach aims to depict a program's actual flow. However, each has flaws.

Here's a quick pixel art pro-tip for easy dithering in Photoshop. Set a dither pattern as your brush texture and change the mode to subtract This also works with my fancier dither pattern which allows you to select a dither amount by adjusting the brightness