I made a video about scripting an alarm clock for myself.

Quite obviously trying to get more comfortable with video. At least I'm appreciating more all the work that goes into the 'maker-style' videos I watch.

A great resource complete with video excerpts by Kristen Roos

From https://jamie-wong.com/2014/08/19/metaballs-and-marching-squares/

More crop and pan experiments

Prompting to transcribe and summarize my tabletop notes. Real question is where do I put these for single source of truth - I think a database, maybe I use the s3 image key as the id? That should be unique and could come in handy, thought it may also limit uses for non-s3 images...

From https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whomtech/roons-the-mechanical-computer-kit

New on constraint.systems: Image Paint

Image pixels are copied and pasted in the direction you click and drag. An attempt to make something tactile like paint, but that "goes with the grain" of its digital nature.

Image paint experiment coming into focus.

Morning 10 minute freewrite scrawl. I want to return to the timer concept today. Build out the frontend with the iframe portals. Reduce data scope down to just startTime, duration, and label (leave calendar time blocks for later). I think the shuffle mechanism will be the real small proof of what shared data/structure could do for generated apps. read on scrawl

Projections on all sides of a room. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uVf65bNgo

By Ken Isaacs

https://letsremake.info/PDFs/k_isaacs.pdf

I recorded a workspace tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhAWA8zBa0. Featuring computers, cameras, and lots of storage bins.

I've been thinking about what makes an app or program feel coherent. Like they have an underlying logic. read on scrawl

Four links I'm thinking about:

The Role of the Human Brain in Programming by Steve Krouse - I am super sympathetic to all of these points and arguments. Particularly the point that working on something 'from the bottom-up' informs and changes what you're thinking about. See also Max's slide: the goal informs the work, the work informs the goal.

God is a Parasite by Jason Yuan - I disagree with most (all?) of this one which I think makes it a good counterpoint to look at. Jason also has done a lot of work that I admire, and it's clear to me he's really wrestling with this stuff. He argues what AI's we're building are not tools but minds, and that their agency should be respected. I think they are tools - namely sophisticated interpolation and autocomplete - and that treating them as things with agency has potential to lead us to bad places. Seeing signs where there are none and following it down damaging paths.

Starting to add layers to the scrape experiment.

I got something more like a displacement effect working, but I don't like the feel of the kind of smooth circle erase versus the crunchiness of everything else. Think I'm going to cut it.