🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

Americans will really do anything to avoid using the metric system.

Hi Fediverse! We're EMMA, a small worker-owned creative technology cooperative from NYC. We are software engineers, artists, game designers, teachers & organizers.

We created EMMA in 2022 as a way to support each other & combine our freelance practices. We had a great first year and we're excited about 2023.

You can learn more about who are at https://emma.coop/

If you are interested in working with us or discussing coops & technology, this account is a great way to start the conversation!

#coop #cooperative #nyc #intro

And if you're in NYC, come out to Wonderville on 1/24 for the launch party and LIVE game!

https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/skirmish-society-launch-party

If you want to create some drama in your Discord, Skirmish Society will be released on Tuesday 1/24 for free!

You can sign up for the mailing list to get a ping when it is available!

https://skirmishsociety.com/

RT @i_ameztoy: Have you ever seen a "Port eating" ships? Look at how these disappear!

This is Aliağa Ship Facility in #Turkey where large ships are dismantled & recycled. 100 @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 🛰️ images presented in this mesmerizing timelapse: December 2020 to December 2022 #EO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1613467754576715777

This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.

The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.

https://vintageapple.org/byte

#retrocomputing #magazines

My piece “The Tapestry of the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence” is on view as part of the Cosmological Elements exhibit at @fosunfoundation in Shanghai through Feb 11.

The Voyager space probes went out with the famous Golden Records containing sounds - and encoded images - from Earth. If aliens found these discs, how would they understand them? I suppose they might interpret the encoded data as instructions for weaving a 40 meter long tapestry.

The Furby source code is public and heavily commented. For example, it turns the microphone off when the motors are running.

Furby was the 1998 version of ChatGPT and tons of people thought it actually slowly learned English words. The NSA was alarmed. However it turned out the "learning" process was just on a timer and the "microphone" only triggers on loud sounds.
https://archive.org/details/furby-source

The attached image from my recent curve explorations gives an interesting insight about cubic Béziers. It is an optimum curve fit for a sine wave (using fancy math to determine optimum subdivision points).

Any human designer would put the subdivision points at the peaks and troughs. But that's not actually optimum. A Bézier "wants" to have its curvature maximum just off the endpoint, not right on it.

@chengdulittlea
Our Paint 0.1 is released for Linux! Yay!

Download at https://ChengduLittleA.com/ourpaint

Borderless canvas, nodes brushes, color management, wacom support, and more!

(I have no idea if it runs on your machine, but there's an AppImage if anyone wants to try, otherwise you can compile)

5 minutes of work, 25 minutes of fucking about