The first month is inputted with a 1 and exported as a 0.

The first day is inputted with a 1 and exported as a 1.

Also: January is not always the 1st month, sometimes it is the 0th.

1/1/2026 can be both Jan 1st, and Feb 1st.

It’s for the best.

Learning how code works is better than getting an LLM to produce convincing looking code without anyone having an understanding of how it works.

LLMs just teach students to paint themselves into a corner without them even realising why bad things keep happening to them.

More like “why the fuck would I walk all the way across the city now that I own a car”

That’s a bad analogy.

Using an LLM for coding gives you an initial speed up with the trade off being skill atrophy, and a build up of cognitive debt in the project.

A better analogy would be the Greek government before their national debt crisis. It would have been better to invest in themselves, not lie about their own finances, and not kick the can down the road. But they kept lying and kicking the can down the road because it was easier in the short term. Of course, we all know how that turned out in the end.

CSS has been considered turing complete for a long time.

So this isn’t a shocking revelation, but it is cool.

I’m usually programming, but I’ve got a few bits and pieces that can be shared:

• Weird blobs
  • made while offline on a plane, uploaded later
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/mydyrea
• Cellular automata experiment
  • A classic for anyone exploring creative coding
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/ExEqmaJ
• CSS-only mosaic pattern
  • Was exploring how different browser engines render the same instructions differently, ended up with this. Changing the zoom also affects the visual
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/Yzbmvbr
• Fixed grain noise texture overlay on animated elements
  • Was experimenting with a textured shadow effect inspired by the music video Lorn - Anvil
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/qBKBgPN
• CSS/SVG water color text effect
  • A friend wanted a water color effect on a website, I knew that a simple SVG shader could do it and came up with this as an example for them that they could customise later. For those who don’t know SVGs were originally intended to be a shader language. Plus by using an SVG as a shader instead of canvas, the text is treated as text (selectable, accessible, etc…)
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/xggjWz
• An animated background experiment
  • https://codepen.io/spartanatreyu/pen/OYrWpW

The rest are too experimental, or are released commercial projects.