Yesterday I made a “plaything” for Igarashi et al.’s excellent SIGGRAPH 2005 paper, As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation! Works with a mouse, but it’s much more fun with multi-touch on an iPad. Link below 👇
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Everyone’s seen the Sketchpad demo. Few understand how it actually works. I reimplemented Sketchpad from scratch, and I’m making short videos that recreate Sutherland’s demos and explain how they work. The first 8 are up — from drawing a line to the famous rivet. Link below 👇
Every woman that I know in tech has similar stories. I do, my partner does, my friends, and so on. Anecdotally, that it's so pervasive is often cited as a main reason for leaving the industry
Lu wilson@todepond.com · 2w ago
@feelingof.london If you wanna know why it’s so special, they renamed it from future of code to feeling of compute and that’s all you need to know to know!
I LOVE this talk
Ivy Reese@spiralganglion.com · last mo.here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...
Nearly every general-purpose programming language is Turing complete. So ask not what you can do with a language, but what a language makes worth the effort. A short note on "effective expressiveness": www.inkandswitch.com/malleable-so...
Effective expressiveness
Everything is possible. What’s actually worth the effort?
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This week in Livelymerge, Dan Ingalls gives us a tour of Morphic: the scene graph, halos, text editing, and programming tools of the live, malleable kernel that lives inside an Automerge document.
I'm very lucky to do such fun computing every day with such great people 🌱 please watch and enjoy!
Ink & Switch@inkandswitch.com · 2mo agoToday we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.
We put a live programming system's entire heap inside an Automerge document — every object, class, method shared + persistent. It all worked, but it was sloooow. New lab note with Dan Ingalls and @pvh.ca on the optimizations that made Livelymerge 64× faster: www.inkandswitch.com/livelymerge/...
Hanging out at the Berlin textile coop during @localfirstconf.com fulfilling multiple of my long time dreams: text + textiles + computations
another one! this is Mavis and she is a Stoll machine
Mimi Reyburn@mimi.computer · 8mo agoi think there's a knitting machine in my future
“About half his texts were punctuated with a question about my thoughts and feelings. I came, finally, to understand where men are coming from. I didn’t want to talk about my feelings.” Lauren Oyler procures an AI boyfriend.
Lauren Oyler: What Happened When I Got an AI Boyfriend
Lauren Oyler asks what we lose when we outsource romantic connection to chatbots, and what we gain when we love other humans.
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when i was at school, we had 5 headteachers in 7 years. it's really giving deja vu rn
i saw a man on the lizzy line yesterday listening to music on a 3rd gen iPod, and I was so jealous i think the tech future that i want might be the past
unforeseen *benefits* include: - overhearing the neighbours' kids presenting a pretend tv show about their bug hotel (consider my faith in humanity restored) - making friends with neighbour's puppy over the wall - vitamin D
Mimi Reyburn@mimi.computer · 7mo agoi want to sit outside AND work on the computer, is that too much to ask?
unforeseen issues now include: - accidentally squishing ant into keyboard - neighbours doing loud building work - spine health
Mimi Reyburn@mimi.computer · 7mo agoi want to sit outside AND work on the computer, is that too much to ask?
It’s really that simple. Lovely talk from Mimi at Feeling of Computing last night.
@chee.party s write up on patchwork is so cute 😍 i wanna come work with yall and make patchwork good! 😅
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let’s talk
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FYI you can install Merlin Bird ID on Mac too! :)) It even sends little notifications if it hears a new birb 🐥🎶
Mimi Reyburn@mimi.computer · 7mo agoi want to sit outside AND work on the computer, is that too much to ask?
