@bront.rodeo told me broadway also hires more people than the coal mines broadway: 76k via nytheaternow.com/theater-indu... coal: 39.2k via fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES10...
702ajf@vegasgello.bsky.social · 5d ago
smh
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teaching creative code @ NYU, New School, CUNY Hunter thinking about soft software, http poetics, and the nice internet. making stuff sometimes too. samheckle.com blog.smarmy.space l5lua.org cal.red destructionjunket.com tldr.nettime.org/@L5
702ajf@vegasgello.bsky.social · 5d agoDon’t date robots! A middle school hygiene class propaganda film youtu.be/JPQJBgWwg3o?...
Don't Date Robots!
YouTube video by Mgtow Smurf
youtu.be
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last wk.the risk I think we're sleeping on is that we wirehead ourselves into a "La Belle Dame" state by using coding agents to build increasingly addictive videogames, or inventing conversational partners that people genuinely prefer to other humans
we've shared previously that we were planning another community day for August 22nd at @recurse.com, here are the details! more to come soon on talks and workshops 👀
atproto.nyc community day 2026
Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!
blog.atproto.nyc
This summer I've been working on #l5lua, which centers sustainable creative coding. Try it: l5lua.org We just added both a VSCodium & VSCode extension :) We also made an L5 account on the fediverse: tldr.nettime.org/@L5 I've been blogging about my L5 work on my leaflet: blog.smarmy.space
L5: A Processing Library in Lua
l5lua.org
for fellow freaks who want to render sheet music by writing plain text inside of markdown inside of Astro, well, I made something for you! astro-lilypond converts text to SVG and works in markdown or with a <LilyPond> component. zero client-side JS. 🎶 docs and install: lilypond.ky.fyi
Astro LilyPond
Render LilyPond music notation to images with Astro.
lilypond.ky.fyi
“By popular demand!” The Shape of Apps: an essay about app icons, “Squircle Jail,” and where we go from here. parakeet.co/blog/the-sha...
Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps
parakeet.co
does anyone have resources in which to host websites completely privately without any connection to those hosting? send me a dm!
really frustrating interaction w @vscode.dev CS where i reached out for help on my azure.dev account on making a publisher for the L5 extension with this error
made an extension, got mad at m$, some other things
An L5 OpenVSX Extension
Help test the beta!
blog.smarmy.space
July atproto.nyc meetup — who's in?! 🌀 Tues, July 7 🌀 5:30pm (talks ~6:30) 🌀 Brooklyn, near Atlantic Terminal 🔹 Pizza & drinks 🔹 A few short talks 🔹 Good conversation Please ping @schlage.town if interested in doing a ~10 min talk & share with friends / communities who might like to come!
atproto.nyc - July 2026
Join us once again for pizza, a few short talks, and a whole lot of atmospheric conversation! ## When The evening of Tuesday, July 7, 2026. - Come at 5 to help set up - Doors at 5:30 - Pizza at 6 o...
atmo.rsvp
mindswap #5 happening on july 25! chaotic artist presentations and performances, capped at 8 minutes. rsvp: luma.com/8pvno90g and made this poster in #l5lua 😎
terraforming my room to never go outside again (ac + humidifier + uv lights + fan + ocean sounds)
so like is there anyone suing over freedom 250 and misappropriation of taxpayer funds?
You'll be up to your eyeballs in little guys by the time I'm done with this site.
New publishing challenge — seeking Atmosphere Field Reporters! Write a weekly report on a particular corner of the Atmosphere & we'll hook you up with free Leaflet Pro ✨📝🧭 🌀 indie comics? 🌀 scientific subfield? 🌀 local community? 🌀 niche news beat? 🌀 we want to read about it! Details here!
Atmosphere Field Reporter Corps
Lab Notes 031: we're drafting a corps good at drafting — apply if you'd like to write a weekly digest on an atmospheric community, and in exchange, get free Leaflet Pro!
lab.leaflet.pub
We are excited to share the program for our fully online @eliterature.bsky.social ELO 2026 Conference, coming up this July! Check it out and consider registering to join us if you haven't - it is free for all ELO members! stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/comb...
week 3 has a big overhaul on the website which i've written about! woohoo for consistency!
L5 Navigation Updates!
Huge if true (it is).
blog.smarmy.space
MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...
Manifesto Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-06-07 to 2026-06-14 hosted by haraiva. MANIFESTO JAM 2026 A Manifesto for Manifesto Jam, 2026: SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN VISIT YOU AND EXPLAIN MY PASSIONS I'm sick of talks. I...
itch.io
atproto touches grass! come hang
atproto.nyc@atproto.nyc · 2mo agoJoin us Saturday 6/13 for an atmospheric summer picnic! We'll do another regular meetup in July — this is casual, unstructured, fun in the sun 10am til 1 or whenever, by The Picnic House in Prospect Park Bring friends; bring families; bring things to eat / drink :) atmo.rsvp/p/atproto.ny...
wrote about some design considerations for L5 documentation website!
L5 Week 2 Round Up
Updates on week 2 of work on L5, a Lua port of Processing.
blog.smarmy.space
it's a small thing in the grand scheme but it is a huge bummer how hard AI has made it for me to be impressed/excited by creative tech projects. the effort is a lot of the point!