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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Ken Isaacs Knowledge Box

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

Friday, June 13th, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How to build your own living structures

By Ken Isaacs

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

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Future of programming and AI links

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.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Carmack's reinforcement learning notes

John Carmack talk notes

Fun to see how he thinks about this stuff - lots of notes about what would be 'cheating' and trying to sort out what the fundamental, interesting challenges are from the incidental challengs.

Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Latent Reflection

by Rootkid

Monday, May 19th, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Niri

Niri (scrollable window manager) keeps adding features. They just released an impressive overlay mode - and one of my longtime faves: windowed fullscreen mode.

Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dreaming

by Chia Amisola

Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Motion extraction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yAMZF78

Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Screenshot Conf

My notes on Screenshot Conf

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Mobile music making rig

by ARIatHOME

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Livecoding Scanlines on the GPU

by ramsey nasser

Really cool results and I also love the feeling conveyed by "complete plasticity with the raster".

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Hockney photo collages

Sunday, April 27th, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Picture this by Linda Barry

Friday, April 11th, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Carly Ayres writing about Danger TestingCarly 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...

Saturday, March 8th, 2025 at 7:47 PM
How the Clay layout algorithm works

fantastic explainer videofantastic explainer video

https://youtu.be/by9lQvpvMIc?si=ltSrPIZ0q9h3oJO_

Friday, February 21st, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Making Audio Waves That Look and Sound Like Things

Wave forms as shapesWave forms as shapes

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUAHHPt-LY

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Devine's Desktop

i3 setup and custom apps by Devinei3 setup and custom apps by Devine

From reddit

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ink Console

Screenshot of the Ink Console interfaceScreenshot of the Ink Console interface

Cool idea for an interactive story device: Ink Console

Friday, February 14th, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Developer Voices podcast

Developer Voices YouTube pageDeveloper Voices YouTube page

I've been really enjoying Developer Voices. Most of the topics are a level beyond my expertise, but I think they do a great job of describing the shape of the concepts with enough detail that it feels concrete.

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