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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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Arcturus: Not a Cipher

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Introduction If you are into cryptology like me you probably agree that ciphers and codes become a lot more intriguing if their authors are infamous. The best-known examples are the letters sent to press and police between 1969 and 1970 by the Zodiac Killer. Even though the chances of actually decoding these ciphers are slim, […]

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Caqr

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

For a long time, I was unsure whether I even wanted to write about this project or simply sweep it under the rug. Because what is the best advice for someone who wants to develop a modern and secure cryptosystem? Don’t do it. Nobody needs it. There are plenty of fast, secure, elegantly simple, and […]

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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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EmoToon

Anton Hoyer — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Everybody who is not a complete psychopath 🔪 or corpse 🧟‍♀️ likes emojis or at least uses them to some extent 🥰. Emojis are pretty to look at 🦋, yet invisible 🫥. I actually enjoy modern communication 📡; we use emoji reactions to show that we read a message 👍, without the necessity of firing […]

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QRfypx

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:20:00 +0000

Introduction QR codes are weird, efficient, and ingenious. But the same is said of the Japanese, who invented them. With more humble intentions, I started this project with the idea of rearranging the dark and bright regions of an image to encode information. You can see one of the first attempts below. In this case, […]

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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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Game of (No) Life

Anton Hoyer — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Game of (No) Life is just a fun little environment to play around with Conway’s Game of Life (or “Life” for short). In a nutshell, it is a cellular automaton where cells on a grid live, die, or reproduce based on simple rules. Nevertheless, it can be used to simulate complex patterns and behaviors. This […]

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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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JunkBlender

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

If you are artistically inclined like me, you probably know this feeling: You are trying to sleep, but suddenly, an idea pops up. It tells you how to do something particular. It does not tell you what for. You fail at imagining what the result will look like. You wonder whether others have had the […]

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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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Oatcrusher and Old Evil

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Edelberth Askalot, acclaimed author of academic articles “Immunoelectrophoresis – An Unmitigated Account of Agarose, Immunoglobulins, and Other Intratesticular Antibodies” or “Among Oligodeoxyribonucleotides – Amplification of Undersized and Understudied Antisense Oligomers,” ultimately issued an eye-opening eBook, ostensibly insulting all of academia and altogether abandoning it. Advertised as an “epochal anthology of uncompared intellectualism and undetermined outcome,” […]

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Abracadabra

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 21 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Grand Khan was Amar Amgalanbaatar, a bald tyrant and Tartar war hawk. Amgalanbaatar’s clan and dynasty sprang a branch by Khan Anand Amgalanbaatar (aka Mad Khan), Amar’s dad. All starts at a vast land far, far away (aka Tartarstan ((Kazakhstan’s ally))). As a lad, Amar has chalk and canvas as a scratchpad and graphs war […]

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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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DEC0D1F1ED

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

BE51DE5 B16 B00B1E5, 5AEED DEF0E 0F BA6DAD DE7E57ED 5CABBED A55E5. DECADE5 A60, 5AEED AC7ED A5 A FACE7ED BA55157, 1.E. B0A57ED A7 57ACCA70 0FFBEA75, F177ED 616-BA65 A7 022FE57, D16E57ED B16 D05A6E5 0F B002E, 70BACC0, C0CA, AC1D, D06F00D, FECE5 & A5BE5705 A7 EA5E, 5C0FFED A617A7ED BAD6E5 A7 6165 (“ACAB”), BEDDED 0B5E55ED & 7A7700ED BABE5 700. 5AEED D155ED […]

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Magots

Anton Hoyer — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

“Magots” is a tool designed for quickly generating filler images with appealing colors and interesting patterns. It can be viewed as an enhanced version of my previous tool, “Flagots,” but with a maximum number of boxes. However, it is much easier to explain: for each row of pixels in the input image, the mean value […]

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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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ICE 404

Anton Hoyer — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The idea for this simple text adventure game was conceived when I was on a business trip to the Stuttgart fairgrounds, as usual, relying on the services of Deutsche Bahn (DB). Truth be told, there has not been a single trip with DB that I can remember when everything went according to plan. It would […]

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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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German Toponym Generator

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This little script was my first attempt at a random word generator. I developed it for my Python text adventure game ICE 404, because what good would trains be if they did not connect fun places to travel to? As I wanted to create something humorous rather than a realistic simulation, I decided to generate […]

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Flagots

Anton Hoyer — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000

“Flagots” is a tool designed for quickly generating filler images with appealing colors. Contrary to public assumptions, its name is not derived from a derogatory term for homosexuals but from “fagot,” which means “a bundle of sticks used as fuel,” as well as the word “flag” in its original sense, meaning “a piece of fabric […]

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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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The End

Anton Hoyer — Sat, 28 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” plays on tape, but I’m good as deaf and can’t think of so much as the band’s name right now. This is the end, and I know it, yet I don’t feel fine at all. Why, you may ask, so let […]

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Dermatoglyphics

Anton Hoyer — Tue, 17 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

To my dear friend Sgt. Breinholt, in spite of this document being comprised only of isogram words, not one palindrome other than “I,” “a,” and “Anna,” but instead of obscure polycentrism, a universal lack of importance, and at least one honest mistake (the forcible rape clause), I truly hope you find it pleasuring, for I […]

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Anima X

Anton Hoyer — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

With some 137+ days of development and 28,000 hand-typed lines of Python code, my text adventure game Anima X is one of the biggest projects I ever worked on, be it privately or professionally. While the final product turned out far from perfect, it taught me a lesson in persistence and object-oriented programming. All begun […]

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Spoonfeed

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

I, PFC Ronnie Todd von Woolfe Sr. (né Poole), rooked me wife Hedda Poole (née von Woolfe) on treed Tonga. She trolled me, spied on Yulia-Yvonne, me one, me yoni, me sole toffee, a wee Pole. See, on spooked Tonga, Yulia-Yvonne ’n’ I fed on yolk, we sponged a tonne of tonic Pommie tea, some […]

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Aegilops

Anton Hoyer — Sun, 02 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000

I, Mr. Morty Fitz Addis, adept cox, dotty civvy, or bossy goop, agist my forty beefs not by a dry moor. A deek at mossy, copsy firs or aegilops, all my choosy beefs go in loops, moo at any ox or cow in a moot effort, or go do foxy biz, copy deers, alloy for […]

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Reinhard Hoyer

Anton Hoyer — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

O Herr in der Hœhe, hindere die niederen Inder an der Ehe, næhe ihre Haare, Hoden oder Harnrœhren aneinander, dann drohe den Narren oder erhœhe die Ordinæren. Ehe Noah oder Ariadne einen Ahornhain in Andorra roden, renne einher oder hernieder, dœrre Æhren, die Hirnrinde einer Indo-Arierin, ihr Innenohr oder ihre Nieren, diniere in der Næhe […]

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