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Antomaton

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

This project was intended as a code snippet for my landing page but eventually became the entire site. The latter formerly featured a list of my interests, which felt a bit plain to me, given the exposure; that it shamelessly listed several private interests of mine, such as ASMR, parenting, or politics, did not help […]

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Effervescence

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Penner’s pretext: We’d’ve preferred the present/perfect tense, plenty letters except “E” et “Y” & plenty “Q” terms except “QWERTY” et “Q’d.” Nevertheless, these sentences were penned w/verve, hence the endless between-references where we erred. Never merely seek the expected, yet be perplexed, test thy self-exerted tenets, then tweet cheesy/lewd excerpts, eh?—Kelly Greendell Remember the week […]

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Abram 2 Zachary

Anton Hoyer — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

🐋 Aubrey’s body cannot decay extraterrestrially; fucking ground hogs — I’m joking — key locations match not “our perpetrator’s questionable reasoning”; savor the unemployment, Vegas wins; xoxo, your Zachary. 🐧 Amiable brother! Canadian Deutsch, “einem frère geht’s how?” I juggle knowledge, language mostly now… onto promising quests ’round summerly Texas, Us versus We? Xenophonely yours, […]

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WordLoom

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

The idea for this project originated when I saw an elderly person on the train solving a word search puzzle. Not that I am into this kind of time killer, but I immediately asked myself how these puzzles could be created automatically with maximum word density. And when I say maximum, I mean, how to […]

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Brand Name Generator

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:00:00 +0000

I named this little project “Brand Name Generator” because I figured it would be closest to what you might search on Google. However, it can be used to generate all kinds of artificial words for various purposes, especially online pseudonyms (which, admittedly, might be considered brands as well). Feel free to get creative with the […]

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Fantasy Name Generator

Anton Hoyer — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

My sister said she was struggling to find character names for her visual novel. Luckily, I had recently developed an algorithm called Babaism that creates artificial words and uses them to corrupt existing texts. Hence, it was a no-brainer to tune it a little, feed it some first names, and use it to generate names […]

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Pendulo

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Introduction True randomness, as unachievable as it seems, would revolutionize the world of cryptography because attackers could no longer make predictions. Forget the pseudo-random number generators that rely on timing and user hardware, as they are not cryptographically secure. Better are systems based on physical processes, for example, radioactive decay or filming 100 lava lamps […]

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Polar Cipher

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000

This encryption method was loosely inspired by the 2016 science fiction movie “Arrival,” in which the alien species uses a visual language composed of circular ink blots to form words and sentences. Since I am a fan of polar coordinates, a mathematical system often used to describe circular motions in orbital mechanics, I decided to […]

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Caidoz

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

This monoalphabetic substitution alphabet was inspired by the Zodiac Killer’s cryptograms. If you are not familiar with them, in addition to the Latin alphabet, he used several symbols, such as triangles, half-filled rectangles, and mirrored letters. While his cipher was homophonic to throw codebreakers off, meaning that one plaintext letter could have more than one […]

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Babaism

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Technically speaking, this project is not purely cryptographic as it was developed to produce experimental poetry. However, the final result could be considered a mild computer virus, so I placed it under science instead of literature. In a nutshell, Babaism is an algorithm that goes over an existing text and replaces words with similar looking […]

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Boonish

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

“Teo! Tėp? Gōa bȧognā bōoo lā’hēo. Gȯo hoȧ haān’bȧan? Mēp-bla” — William S. Burroughs Background This substitution cipher was inspired by the hallucinatory writings found in AI-generated images. Typically, the AI attempts to integrate words from the user prompt into the image, often inventing new words or even letters. To an outsider like myself, those […]

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The Foo Bar

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

www.mit.edu/net/app/PhD/src/?doc=the-foo-bar.php ACT ONE (Dan Foo ran the Foo Bar ((one dim inn/pub off Elm Ave, San Ely, USA)) for all sad men who set out and did ask him for aid and alc.) Ole Cox: Hey Dan, how are you? Dan Foo: Yoo-hoo, old Ole Cox. All zen, why ask? And you? Ole Cox: Not […]

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Successfulness

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Statistically, intelligence, keenness, opportunity, commitment, good connections & irredeemable lawlessness all guarantee success eventually. Nevertheless, originally cheerful cheerleaders Jenniffer, Jeannette, Merritt, Carroll & Colleen smelled moot efforts & worried excessively. Skinny, partially undressed (topless) schoolgirls stripping frantically & inappropriately between possessive, eccentric millionaires, suggestively offering pillowy boobs, freeing smallish cherry-blossom nipples, belly buttons & expressing […]

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Bridgeman

Anton Hoyer — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This encryption method is based on a standard deck of 52 cards and can be used with pen and paper or a computer. The default order of the deck is clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥), spades (♠). Within each suit, the cards are ordered as ace (A), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (0), jack (J), queen (Q), king (K). […]

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CHECKBOX

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

IN 830 BC, MOMMA TAMMY NIXON DID SINS TO SON TIMOTHY. “MOM, MAY I HATH A COOKIE?” “OH, MY MOUTHY SON, WHY HATH I COOKED DICED ONIONS WITH CHOICE HAM, SIX IODIDE IONS IN TOT., ECO UMAMI DOOKIE?” “UHM. OK. WOW.” TIMOTHY DID HOOT. HIS MOMMY CHIDED, “HATH THOU CHECKED THY CHECKBOOK?” “WHAT A HECK? […]

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Stegano Green

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Steganography is the practice of concealing a message, file, or information within another message, file, or piece of information in such a way that it remains invisible to anyone who is not intended to see it. The image depicted below, with dimensions 689 × 462, contains all 21,118 characters of the text “Dermatoglyphics,” hidden in […]

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Lexigraph

Anton Hoyer — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This symmetric encryption method is based on a dictionary, technically making it a nomenclator cipher. In fact, any digital dictionary can be used, the larger the better. I work with one that consists of several smaller dictionaries from various sources and contains 466,480 words in total. Consequently, the resulting ciphertexts are a jumble of different […]

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Speedcube

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 30 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Plaintext “In secret, I gaze at you, behold something holy. But this time a song won’t do to ground my soul.” IN SECRET I GAZE AT YOU BEHOLD SOMETHING HOLY BUT THIS TIME A SONG WONT DO TO GROUND MY SOUL Solved cube This substitution cipher was inspired by the Rubik’s Cube, a popular 3D […]

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