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@jack@berlin.social

Former kernel hacker and Bell Labs/AT&T Researcher, currently making art and technology in Berlin.

https://jackrusher.com

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Always nice to see my work in situ 😊

jack,
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@glitzersachen They all do

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“I had [the] incredible fortune to work for the last few years on a substantial embedded system project in Common Lisp.”

Norwegian tunnel evacuation system built using CL.

http://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/

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“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

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We are hosting a Future of Coding meetup in Berlin on June 1st, coinciding with the Berlin Local First conference. If you’re interested in that kind of thing, please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflFgM0rmy7J4cpSoJPdScSP6SUbO3JptlvPzwx8AEXq6BhdQ/viewform

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Bret Victor on the end of large scale public funding for research:

“If this continues, things will stagnate and everyone will say that it happened because all the low-hanging fruit has been taken, but really there’s plenty left. You just need the right kind of research environment.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJm44LJDU44

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A reminder for anyone struggling with craft that Rembrandt once drew a woman with three arms. Het Ledikant, 1646.

moritz, to nyc
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Any tips in the next few days, accounting for bad weather and travelling with teenagers? Considering MOMA, Met, Staten Island ferry, … other ideas?

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@moritz Highline early in the morning before it gets crowded, end the walk with a meal at Chelsea Market (my favorite spot is Los Mariscos — superb Mexican — but there’s something for everyone). In the same area, https://littleisland.org is very nice. If you’re interested in soup, https://www.ramenishida.com is the best ramen I’ve had outside Japan. The Met is like the Louvre, you need to choose a subset because there’s just too much. Consider the Museum of Natural History!

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‘We're always rationally explaining and articulating things. But we're at our most intelligent in the moment just before we start to explain or articulate. Great art occurs—or doesn't—in that instant. What we turn to art for is precisely this moment, when we “know” something (we feel it) but can't articulate it because it's too complex and multiple.’

Photo: Akira Kurosawa / Text: George Saunders

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Sometimes, and today on one of those times, I feel like we got some parts of the good future. In particular, I’m seated comfortably in the quiet car of a train going 200+ km/h through the German countryside while reading poetry on an e-ink tablet and listening to one of my favorite jazz records.

  • German trains should be faster, serve better food, have better WiFi, &c, but this still feels rather like civilization.
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On the record in question: ‘Roach and Mingus were given “a lead sheet that just gave the basic melody and harmony”, plus a visual image described by [Ellington]. One example was, “crawling around on the streets are serpents who have their heads up; these are agents and people who have exploited artists. Play that along with the music”.’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Jungle

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUQed1b4zlI

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I’ve been bingeing on Wislawa Szymborska’s poems. She’s amazing, and somehow until recently I didn’t know her work at all.
https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice

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I’ve been thinking about coding interviews in highly artificial settings that have little predictive power regarding future job performance. The practice reminds me of this classic scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoCK5r2TWg

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“The success of open source code is perhaps the only thing in the computer field that hasn’t surprised me during the past several decades.”

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856

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A nice introduction to Clojure written with Clerk 🙂
https://github.clerk.garden/anthonygalea/notes-on-clojure/commit/1f7a15e4de6b61c363185691b340c74c95412f04/

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Organum, 2022, .

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hamoid, to genart
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Doing some finger warm-up exercises with https://github.com/openrndr/orx/tree/master/orx-shapes#arrangementdemoarrangement01 and https://github.com/openrndr/orx/blob/master/orx-color/README.md#demomixspectral01

I'm having difficulties getting started with something that feels too big, so I do something small.

jack,
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@hamoid 👋🏻 just had an in-person look at Lifecycle. Nice one!

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Sadly, I have heard that the author of this absolute classic died last week. If you somehow haven’t read it, today is your day…

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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Auto-generated Bauhaus-styled busy spinner, , 2021. An old piece that matches a recent prompt. 🙂

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A set of command line tools in the spirit of sed and awk, but using (and implemented in) Common Lisp…

https://inconvergent.net/2024/lisp-query-notation/

jack,
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@liaizon Anders is great. I’m trying to get him to come to Mastodon, but he’s not willing yet 😆

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On the long list of ideas I wish were more widely distributed, here’s a (hopefully directly linked to 17:33) demo of the “advanced” features of http://maria.cloud (our teaching environment for Clojure). The combination of dataflow and ad-hoc UI makes many otherwise difficult/tedious things so much better…

https://youtu.be/CUBHrS4ZzO4?si=hXCM8XoOy0tU27T3&t=1053

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A lesson many projects, including Clojure core, would be wise to internalize:

“Another thing we didn't get right up front was the documentation. We wrote a lot of it, and thought we did a good job, but […]The key missing piece was examples of even the simplest functions. We thought that all you needed to do was say what something did; it took us too long to accept that showing how to use it was even more valuable.”

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html

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Really good interview about choosing Common Lisp — and writing a new implementation with excellent C++ interop — as the foundation for a synthetic biology toolkit. Key points: performance and long term stability.

“All the Python I wrote in the 90s is dead. This time I wanted a forever language.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytGL8vzGeQ

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