"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art
Nathan Paul
@polarhive.net
A geeky student — interested in computers, minimalism, collaboration & the web. GPG: 0x78DBFBE8B325A5A9
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my friend rachel texted me randomly this evening and i’m not sure what’s happening but i don’t hate it
The consistency Randall Munroe has shown publishing xkcd 3 times a week for 20 years blows my mind. I know there are people who have done more for longer, but I’ve been reading xkcd since almost the beginning and the topics are close to home for me. Hits different.
For the past 4 weeks, @oppili.bsky.social and I have been building @tangled.sh—a fresh take on decentralized git collaboration platforms. Tangled is built on atproto, and designed to be decentralized from day 0. Read the introduction here: blog.tangled.sh/intro
introducing tangled
a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
blog.tangled.sh
We are 7 months away from Windows 10 EOL and Windows 11 market share is going down and Windows 10 going up amongst gamers, I don't know what there plan is but Microsoft better be thinking something up or they're in for some trouble
Wombat: Crawling @wikipedia.org! It crawls through linked articles (brute force) and dumps to a db starting from a --seed-url Future ideas include moving to a vector-db and introducing features like a "wiki race" where you compete against wombat to reach a target page using semantic search.
Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.