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...

fantastic explainer video

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

Wave forms as shapes

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

i3 setup and custom apps by Devine

From reddit

Screenshot of the Ink Console interface

Cool idea for an interactive story device: Ink Console

Developer 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.

Repeating spirals

Doing some color work and thinking/learning once again about Phyllotaxis (by way of d3).

Teacups with handles added onto them

Bruce Sterling essay on the weird hand-made objects in Alexander Calder's home.

Glitch art of four Raspberry Pi Zeros

By Caræsten. From https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city/post/3lbaudnhaak2n

Post-processing effects demos

Link project generative video-loop series

https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/projects/link/

Making of thread:

Thread of latent space explorations curated by Prathyush

From https://x.com/prathyvsh/status/1852215239850225943

Screenshot of building a desktop from a broken fence

Enjoying Evan Monsma's Youtube channel. Featuring relaxed figuring-it-out-as-you go builds from salvaged scraps. Sometime I want to write about the connections between prototyping on the web and DIYing IRL.

Screenshot of Murphy bed tutorial.

Thinking about DIY-ing a Murphy bed and I appreciate this straightforward guide. Nice to connect with alternate aesthetics in the cause of making stuff. From https://www.littlevintagecottage.com/2021/02/diy-poor-mans-murphy-bed.html

Tweet by Omar: two reasons to program: 1. make cool unexpected things 2. feeling of mastery over the computer system

Obviously not every reason for programming, but I think about this tweet often bc it captures two of my favorites. From https://x.com/rsnous/status/1820489330839998621

Departure Mono font site

A great, free pixel font (packaged as vector). Probably too intense to use for a terminal font, but would be fun to try for some of my Linux system UI. Though at this point I have very little system UI to speak of... From https://departuremono.com/

A piece by Spacefiller from Fantasy Parameter Spaces Showing bold computational plants

Thinking about Spacefiller's work this morning. Specifically wondering how they're able to achieve such a feeling of solidity + presence for the plants. Part of it is the structure but I think a big part of it is the linework. There's no anti-aliasing and line's look like they're maybe four pixels wide (in visible world pixels, probably much higher in actual resolution).

I'm interested in creating digital spaces with a similar level of solidity. But I feel like introducing images often hurts the solidity - because the pixel pieces are too small to see. Obvious solution that I continue to experiment with is scale down the resolution and color of images, so that the pieces are more visible. That could hopefully make them feel more of a piece with a world like Spacefiller's. The dilemma is that often loses a lot of the semantic content (turns a face into a blob). This is part of why I'm interested in progressive pixelation that scales up or down in resolution depending on the content. Though my efforts there I think still lack the solid feel I'm after.

Accessing the warp zone in Super Mario.

Enjoyed an episode of the Eggplant podcast where they interviewed sylvie. A prolific maker of games including sylvie rpg. Where, if I understood correctly, they used multiples of 7 as a constraint, so the game world is 7x7 tiles and runs at 21 fps.

I really enjoyed Meeting Mr. Kid Pix by jeffrey aka Whistlegraph on Twitter. I appreciated the sincerity of both him and Craig Hickman. So nice to see people putting effort to understand + be understood.

This does touch on something I've tried to nail down before in regard to creative tools and video games.