[mattbgates]

When I was a kid learning programming, there was another kid named "PatorJK", maybe a few years older than me, and its crazy to see him still coming up with new app ideas, mostly just scripts that you can use on his website. The reason its crazy... I became familiar with him over 25 years ago, when I was probably around 12 or 13 years old.

Back in the days of Visual Basic, he would include the code to do it, which was always useful for me to see how it was done, being the self-taught programmer I was.

Too many years ago, he posted on his blog about what his website was... http://patorjk.com/blog/2007/09/24/what-patorjkcom-is/

I still pop into his website every now and then to see his latest projects. It's just a unique random mess of his life's work, but he's still somewhat active today.

[mnurzia]

PatorJK's Text to Ascii Art Generator[1] is still in my opinion the easiest to use tool to preview Figlet-style fonts/text and has almost every font under the sun. Still seems very popular and is among the top search results.

[1] http://patorjk.com/software/taag/