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Camera blocks and blend modes

I read (listened) to Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice recently and then went back to the BBC audio versions of a bunch of the George Smiley novels. It's fascinating Harkaway can write Smiley so well when the tone of his own novels (which I also like) are so different. read on scrawl

Working on bringing scrawl back

My Linux GIF workflow is back up and working, and I've been enjoying Niri.

Opening and moving windows in Niri

Carly Ayres writing about Danger Testing

From https://carly.substack.com/p/is-it-a-product-or-a-performance

This is interesting - seems good to place next to 'homecooked meal' apps - apps as cultural artifact...

As part of my general blog tidying-up I'm revisiting this website for rough writing I put together: https://scrawl.grantcuster.com

Screenshot of Scrawl

In some ways I think this is the precursor to the Tabletop series I've been doing. The design of it really did make me feel like it was OK to write quickly. I think maybe I want to start writing in it again, though I'd want it to sit nicely along with garden.

Post editor with live previews

Making steady progress on moving this blog over to a React app built on Waku for server-side rendering. Finally I'll have live post previews that look exactly (not 98%) like they do when published.

Thinking about the One Unbreakable Law video from Casey Muratori

Did a little reset of the https://constraint.systems page. Using gruvbox and Departure Mono. Switched off Hugo and redid it with React/Vite because I'm just much more used to it these days. I'd kind of like to do a similar revamp of this site and grantcuster.com... Spring cleaning.

Tabletop used with a tabletop Crop and download images from your webcam.

https://tabletop.constraint.systems

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I've been looking for ways to quickly move between physical and digital. I'm trying a semi-permanent overhead camera set-up pared with a web app that makes cropping and capturing relatively quick and simple.