mathling

mathling, 5 hours ago to random

Hmmm.... Here's something; another species of dictionary spam kinda

I get a lot of bots hitting my website. A lot. I shut out a lot of them (esp. SEO and AI scrapers) and some of them even honour my rate controls and refusals but today I'm seeing a swarm of what I assume are bot requests with the user agent listed as various random letters of the alphabet. The letters seem to be working together as they sweep through various directories.

Anyone seen this or knows what it is?

mathling, 1 day ago to genart

#GenerativeArt interlude

I announced the new version of my art code yesterday, and a new slew of solid geometry stuff and hooks to my art shell was part of it. So here's a little bonus treat made with these things:

"large red fish fills portland dodecahedron at center"

#XQuery #SVG

mathling, 1 day ago to genart

#GenerativeArt interlude

New release of my art code libraries

Implementations of the Archimedean solids plus a few other fun ones and an integrated better 3D rendering of them. Pens. Hobby curves.

There's also a lot of future-looking infrastructure here (see: "maker functions" in the release notes), a fair amount of clean up, performance, etc. Click the "browse" link for detailed release notes.

https://www.mathling.com/

#XQuery #XSL #SVG

mathling, 3 days ago to random

From somewhere off in the distance, steel drum music is drifting in on the warm breeze, and I am here for those relaxing summery vibes

mathling, 3 days ago to photography

#SilentSunday #Photography

mathling, 5 days ago to photography

#Caturday #Photography

"Aren't I the cutest ever?"

mathling, 10 days ago to random

My most excellent children came over for Mother's Day and made me fresh pasta and lemon tiramisu

I think I raised 'em right

mathling, 11 days ago to photography

#SilentSunday #Photography

mathling, 11 days ago to photography

#Caturday #Photography

Diablo

mathling, 13 days ago to random

#BloomScolling

I can't believe I waited so long to replace my dying lawn with this

mathling, 18 days ago to photography

#SilentSunday #Photography

mathling, 18 days ago to random

Spotted in the wild: a cybertruck painted rust-colored. Well, that's a time-saver, I guess.

mathling, 19 days ago to photography

#Caturday #Photography

Halki, not quite settled on this lap

mathling, 24 days ago to genart

#GenerativeArt interlude

Triangulation experiments

Stupid simple:
Draw a curve from hither to yon
Draw another curve from hither-ish to yon-ish
Interpolate N points on each curve
Draw a chain of triangles
Colour

#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding

mathling, 24 days ago to random

Another day, another power outage. I don't blame PG&E this time: I blame the idjit with the oversized vehicle driving to fast for the road smashing into the power pole.

mathling, 25 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling #Photography

mathling, 25 days ago to random

Hmm... it appears someone had crashed into a power pole down the street, knocking out our power for lord knows how long. On the plus side, it means I am spared watching the trainwreck that is the Quakes as they stumble towards loss number nine ⚽ #quakes74

mathling, 26 days ago to photography

#Caturday #Photography #CatsOfYore

"Spuds" as he came to be known. A mellow cat beyond belief. He started life on the streets, but was utterly inept at taking care of himself. He almost lost an eye, a leg, his tail. He did end up with a smashed jaw and a snaggle-tooth.

After taking him in for emergency care the third week in a row (for a "cat-engine interface" event, as the coworker who called us described it), we just adopted him.

No regrets.

For the record, this was my brother's idea

mathling, 26 days ago to random

Well, this is just great <sarcasm/>

Some private equity firm sent us a "check" with a low-ball cash offer for our house. It looks in all respects like an actual check, complete with the signature area on the back.

It all feels quite slimy, like an attempt to trick people into selling their house.

Nothing says "vibrant community" like scores of empty houses run as vacation rentals.

Gods, I hate PE and all its works

mekkaokereke, 26 days ago to random

Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

mathling, 29 days ago to genart

#GenerativeArt interlude

Supernova remnant

Noise + sheets of translucent triangular faces + perspective

Here I'm using a billowy fractal noise function, which creates the jagged appearance

#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding