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jamez

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Xennial, exogamous xenophile. Humanist nerd, recidivist startupper. Maker of things, enjoys coding for expressive purposes. Dreams in tongues, hears in colors.

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jamez, to mastodon
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I've given some serious thought to creating a server just for the sake of merging this account to the instance bridging my blog to the . It just feels such a burden to maintain all that just for the sake of presenting a clean, single entity on Mastodon.

jamez, to wordpress
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Still on the <=> front, it feels powerful to give readers the alternative to reply with comments on a post using either WP or Mastodon. Hat tip: @michael

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paulrickards, to random
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If you like my art and want to enjoy it in your home, I have an online shop where you can browse and purchase my works created with modern code and vintage pen plotters. I ship worldwide. https://shop.paulrickards.com/

Pen plotter artwork of swirling array of colors.
Pen plotter drawing of an array of swirling colors.

jamez,
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@paulrickards Just snatched something from your gorgeous Vanishing Point Floppy Disk series. Please never stop doing what you do.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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I'm a sucker for weird and esoteric tags, like these word squares someone has been writing in our neighborhood lately. Each square is a type of acrostic that can be read horizontally or vertically. For example:

T R U S T
R A N C H
U N D E R
S C E N E
T H R E E

A trash can where a tagger has written the words: mind, idea, neat, data
A section of sidewalk where a tagger has written a word square. This can be read horizontally or vertically and it says: Heart, ember, abuse, resin, trend.
A tag on the wall that says: feast, earth, armor, stone, threw. Each word is written above the other word in clear columns, so the words can be read vertically or horizontally.

jamez,
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@docpop Fun!

Some 20 years ago I wrote a program to generate all horizontal and vertical magic squares for a given word.

It didn't look for backward readings, because it limited the amount of combinations too much...

https://github.com/zkg/sator-arepo/tree/master

jamez, to random
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Pontypool had one of the best post-credit scenes in the history of cinema.

jamez, to random
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Five terrifying words in a row:

"sufficiently chemically skilled malicious actor"

Finding the source is left as an exercise. Happy Weekend!

jamez, to random
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Always nice when the security bug you encountered while migrating to a new hasn't been fixed since it was opened 3 years ago... 🤦‍♂️
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716240

jamez, to random
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It didn't take much before Livia discovered her own website. I am wondering what will happen when she'll visit it...

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jamez,
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@john_fisherman just wait until she starts looking at and improving her own code.

jamez,
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@john_fisherman the future's so bright I gotta wear shades

jamez, to random
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This will be fun! If you are near LA, join us!

jamez,
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@john_fisherman Come to Malibu, you won't regret it!

jamez, to random
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21st-century horror vacui is sitting in front of a browser without any tabs open.

jamez,
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@john_fisherman how do we always go back to the infamous 'cappuccino senza schiuma'?

Tekchip, to llm
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Sorry my posts have been kind of negative lately. Check out this cool and somewhat hilarious clock!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/genmon/poem-1-the-ai-poetry-clock

jamez,
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@Tekchip Thanks for the encouragement! I'm a bit PTSDed from B2C, for the time being. I might try it when I feel brave.

ernie, to ai
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I think the elephant in the room right now around is that it reflects a divergence away from creativity’s symbiotic relationship with technology.

For decades, creativity and technology made one another better. Now tech companies have found a new, cheaper hotness. And it could get ugly.

https://tedium.co/2024/02/29/technology-creativity-generative-ai-impact/

new @tedium

jamez,
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@ernie @tedium well written, Ernie. I felt every single word, very personally.

jamez, to random
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” P. K. Dick

jamez,
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@john_fisherman Very nice.

jamez, to random
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@paulrickards thank you for this awesome plot.
Should I try it on my SX64?

jamez,
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@paulrickards I could write 1989 Block Out on it... just kidding, I don't want to risk ruining this beautiful plot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7m00zP-pc

jamez, to System76
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New Year, New Laptop.
Last time I computed on something so light was on an ePaper tablet. Already love it.

jamez, to random
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I like to call it Xitter because in it sounds "shitter".

jamez, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3gcFliV8O8

Rant: copy-pasting stuff out of Spotify is hard, I suppose it's their version of a walled garden. Next to that: copy-pasting lyrics out of any Japanese lyrics website is equally hard. It makes it hard for people to learn while singing along.

sake ga nomeru nomeru zo sake ga nomeru zo

jamez, to random
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Celestia is a wonderful piece of free software. Its absence from the usual software managers is baffling. Simulating an from any viewpoint is so easy!

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I can't believe is 20 years old. Time to dust off the soundtrack.

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