A screenshot of my Twitter banner showing my newly created heritage avatars, created dynamically for Twitter and using binary numbers to represent the day of the month.

Dynamic avatars on Twitter

The visualization tells me that the first publication from my Twitter bot, created to dynamically update my avatars daily was 20 December 2012. My bot was a simple Python script that generated images in binary to represent the day of the month.

Visual representation of the binary number 0b10100 indicating the 20th of the Month -- in this instance 20 December 2012
20 December 2020 via https://github.com/exponential-decay/binary-numbers/blob/334d417ad2fef1ac37e082e7d78f42412d176de3/binary-numbers-original-images/binary-numbers-original-images-all/20-12-2012.png

Why?

Well, doesn’t it get a little boring looking at the same thing every day?

Lets look at the details below.

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