Dominikus
@do.minik.us
generative artist and prof, data visualization developer, identity-challenged dataviz: https://do.minik.us art: https://dominikus.art
the machine reached out with its little taste feeler. „that‘s so chic“ snarled the human appendage.
The sixth installment of "How The Heck" is live! This one is all about synths. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
How The Heck Do Synthesizers Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how synthesizers work: from additive sine waves and ADSR envelopes to resonant filter sweeps.
perthirtysix.com
That AI models usually produce something better when asking them to "work extra hard on this" really sends the wrong message to middle management.
I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
sinceyouarrived.world
I had the immense honour of being invited to work on the World Bank's Atlas of Global Development 2026 project last year and today it finally launched. I couldn't be more excited, it has been a career highlight to work with such an amazing team on this.
Atlas of Global Development
The Atlas of Global Development presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations on key global trends related to people, prosperity, our planet, infrastructure, and digital transformations.
data360.worldbank.org
this seems very plausible www.warman.life/blog/2026-04...
The Moat or the Commons — Warman Notes
American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly. Open-weight models are commoditizing the capability that monopoly was supposed to protect. The collision between the...
warman.life
I love this essay very much!!!!
Shawn "Smith" Peirce@silversmith1.bsky.social · 3mo ago@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...
One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com
XOXO
XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
xoxofest.com
Last chance! April 30th is the deadline (yes, only two weeks from today!) for submitting a paper to the @visualisingclimate.com summit. 📊 🇮🇹 Note: Uploading the FULL paper is required by that date! Same submission deadline, April 30th, for a ‘talk only’ (without a paper) 👉 visualisingclimate.com 👈
Visualising Climate 2026 — Conference
The first global conference dedicated to how data visualisation can transform public understanding of climate change and support informed decision-making.
visualisingclimate.com
I've been working on a new shader language called "easl". The goal is to bring the conveniences you'd expect from a high-level language to the GPU. It's still got some rough edges, but if you're into shaders or creative coding you should check it out! More info in the thread 👇
[Worth reading] Ooof, I was not expecting to be mindblown on a Tuesday morning but here we are: "what if the exhaustion everybody feels isn't a moral failure but the completely rational response to being made responsible for an ecosystem of objects that never stop asking?"
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
terrygodier.com
So many of us are now textual Case Pollards, physically averse to pre-digested, mass extruded machine verbiage just as William Gibson's Pattern Recognition protagonist was made physically sick by fashion and brands.
Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust quit reading a CNN article that was so obviously ChatGPT written that I started to get queasy. Chatbot writing is now for me experienced as having a literal flavour - saccharine with a bitter hint of aluminum
Generative AI systems are Dunning-Kruger machines, competency simulators that give the illusion of being able to do something _precisely_ because their users are NOT able to do it (and thus their internal evaluation of the results fails).
Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...
Heerich Website Demo
YouTube video by David
youtube.com
The discourse around AI and coding tends to resolve into either anxiety about job displacement or hype about productivity gains. This week a secret third thing: a new generation of makers and explorers. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/unde...
under the hood
This week I’ve been thinking about what it’s like for a new generation to make things with computers. When we were talking in Berlin, Luce made a point that...
newsletter.sachajudd.com
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
higher ed will collapse as soon as the first "improve your grades by threatening your profs with a barrage of AI-generated emails" startup gains traction.
