Site-specific - in the later stage of his career Robert Irwin switched to exclusively doing site-specific installations. He would go study a space and come up with an intervention designed to make you feel the space more. To make you aware of it. There was a lot of variety to what he used - sometimes landscape adjustments, sometimes scrim fabric. It focused on material and placement. read on scrawl
Containers for thought - I've been doing experiments with book logging and album-focused music players. Partly because coding agents make dealing with spotify integration or a book database easier for me. Partly I think because in time where everything is changing it's nice to spend some time engaging with works of art that sustained attention and stay constant. read on scrawl
Making another custom spotify interface - focused on surfacing 6 random albums from a collection I've put together.
Making another custom spotify interface - focused on surfacing 6 random albums from a collection I've put together.
Thinking about phenomenology - studying your own subjective experience of the world - and how it might relate to a world of super-capable AI. Meditation can be a way of doing it. read on scrawl
Working on a book log, with multiple short entries per book.
I read "Turning the database inside out" by Martin Kleppman. I've also been thinking about better ways of providing concise context for LLMs. Both have to do with stream processing. Especially struck by the Kleppman description of state made up of derived data from an append-only log of immutable facts. Which I think is also how people are starting to do memory for agents. read on scrawl
Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length? read on scrawl
I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit. read on scrawl
I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes Sirens Call), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manage attention. read on scrawl
Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there. read on scrawl
Returning to the winamp skin shuffler connected to Spotify.
Neovim as window manager preview
I recorded a video of my current Neovim + Niri setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbwL1iRWXk
Testing out printing little foldable music boxes with the barcodes. Fun to try and decide on the dimensions - I'd really like a spine.
Also not sure what I want to do for structure. I put a cardboard in one of these - I bet I could cut up some scrap 1/2" plywood to use as blanks...
Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital.
Working rough player scanner. TODO: I accidentally mirror-flipped this video
Spotify IDs are kind of long to do directly so switched to sequential IDs and a lookup
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
Looks like a barcode scan amounts to clicking into an article - probably feels satisfying to do
Receipt printers seem to be in use as well
WIP booklog