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Waving my hands around in front of a computer until it does what I want. https://rockinghelvetica.com

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A screenshot of Nedry, an Aether OS app for browsing atproto records in a 3D viewer inspired by SGI computers old 3d filesystem navigator. It's styled to match the UI from the hacking scene in Jurassic Park.

A screenshot of Nedry, an Aether OS app for browsing atproto records in a 3D viewer inspired by SGI computers old 3d filesystem navigator. It's styled to match the UI from the hacking scene in Jurassic Park.

It's a UNIX system?!
Nope, just the FSN inspired atproto record browser in @aetheros.computer.

Calling this app, Nedry. πŸ¦–πŸ§¬

11.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

pokemon just released basically what is their version of animal crossing to broad acclaim and i am just asking what did the pokemon company know and when did they know it

05.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Face It

I once got so mad when I caught Moby at Coachella by mistake and he was going entirely harder at the crowd than my hater self was ready to give credit for, so we're doing this tonight

11.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

11.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 905 πŸ” 306 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 36

I had to remove "meta acquires moltbook" from my dead internet theory black mirror episode script because the other writers agreed it was a little too on the nose

10.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

A licensed Baja Blast colorway for $499 and free wifi at participating Taco Bells would be the funniest way to launch a post Tim Cook era.

10.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Google Knowledge graph trying to kill everyone showing answers to questions like 

β€œis a 3mg liquid or 5mg pill the more appropriatecdose when freebasing melatonin”

(Bad advice follows)
Determining the appropriate form and amount of melatonin depends on individual response, with health professionals often recommending starting with the lowest effective…

Google Knowledge graph trying to kill everyone showing answers to questions like β€œis a 3mg liquid or 5mg pill the more appropriatecdose when freebasing melatonin” (Bad advice follows) Determining the appropriate form and amount of melatonin depends on individual response, with health professionals often recommending starting with the lowest effective…

My body has rejected the concept of time altogether but Google’s AI powered Knowledge Graph has helpful DST strategies

10.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not, but, heard. Peace.

09.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In my defense, I am currently a little drunk.

But I do think the argument that it’s hella random doesn’t meet the plot. There is certainly more nuance than β€œlikely next thing” at hand in modern LLMs

09.03.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

IMO this is one of those technically correct things that betrays too much

Maybe that’s close to how we work, for one, who knows

09.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Industry hits people with high finance jargon and mechanics with few pulled punches, much of it relevant to plot. It can just work!

07.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could probably be honed as a skill md file tbh. I might practice more with it and dial it in.

07.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDevelop module 1 as a single page with interactive visuals that explain each step. Make sure it reads perfectly on a phone screen, and pause to consider the needs for the other modules, because we’ll reuse this work continuing along”

07.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦ about what needs to be learned by someone trying to come up to speed on the math and library functions involved; outline a lesson plan.”

Then adjust depth of said outline and kick off like:

07.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Try it. Take up a OpenCV demo or similarly scoped generated thing and say,

β€œthis thing does x, y, z.

1. it can be better, so notes are welcome, but more important
2. I want to better understand the concepts of what this does, so in the course of analysis also think…

07.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I kinda want to hook up a mediapipe script so I can just furrow my eyebrow / Paddington Stare it

07.03.2026 05:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1 year later, @anisota.net will be the first social media app with a fog of war

07.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

But the danger of being vague is that negatives and doubt can turn right answers into wrong answers so be lazy carefully

07.03.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For things like programming it is a big lever to know that the answer *is* probably somewhere there on the gradient and that you just have to provoke it, unlike ourselves where we hit a limit and have to actually learn more to go forward. Often, vague criticism works as well as explaining in detail.

07.03.2026 04:55 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The funny thing is sometimes it’s not even direct correction but you just say something like β€œha, no”

07.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

But like it’s building insanely complex 3D artifacts for each little modular step where I can visualize all kinds of edge cases and think through problems with a spatial model of the math and it’s truly a bicycle for the mind

07.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of complexity takes the form of β€œI can’t load this library so I’ll roll my own based on my superficial knowledge” and honestly in that regard it’s the most real engineer

07.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just went through this with a computer vision pipeline, and I basically switched it from code to explaining each bit of math with an interactive visualization and then from *there* I was able to make huge strides in directing a clean specification; so far seems to be working and more resilient

07.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To me, this event is the ultimate summary, but to be clear I was not there.

06.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I met him before Twitter, socially, and I think the woke to alt-right-y arc reflects less that he's rich and more that he doesn't have a strong point of view that is his own

when the influences are good, magic, if a little strained by overanalysis; but can be glimmered by effin' Elon just the same

06.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the easiest way to process this is that he's not actually that smart and has a hard time making decisions

06.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like the origin story of the Ketchup Song

06.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude even has a β€œSoul” markdown file at root, which, depending on the accuracy of a recent WaPo article (debatable!) needs some searchin’

05.03.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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So recently I've been re-exploring the Fourier Transform. I learned about it a long time ago, but didn't realize it could be applied to images too.

It's fascinating to see how sine wave patterns can add together to form an image.

made with #animejs and #threejs

05.03.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Immediately this made me think of a virtual bathroom stall door with scrawled posts lol which would also be a fun project

04.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0