eskild.art: building for the future

Art and AI but not AI-generated art. Updated Tech Stack During this recent holiday break, I had some time to work on eskild.art, and I’m excited to share those updates here. Although I haven’t added any new art (yet), the site has been redesigned from the ground up. The initial version was a FastAPI app on GCP Cloud Run using basic HTML Jinja templates; it was simple but got the job done. The new version is now running Django with Tailwind CSS using Postgres deployed on Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE). ...

January 5, 2025 · 3 min

Jumping off cliffs

Grand Canyon (1924) by Gunnar Mauritz Widforss We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. This quote by Kurt Vonnegut has been on my mind since I encountered it about a month ago. Good quotes can capture a truth about the world in an elegant and poetic ways, always making you wish you had come up with it yourself. The difficulty in trying to describe certain truths is that they cannot, by their very nature, be expressed in language. ...

June 2, 2024 · 3 min

eskild.art: going live

eskild.art is now live! I have plenty of ideas on what this might morph into but for now, it’s simply a gallery. Can you solve the riddle to view the image?

July 30, 2023 · 1 min