I am trying to see what VR is like these days without giving money to Meta so I bought the world's shittiest phone-mount VR headset at Five Below only to discover that YouTube removed VR headset support from their iOS app at some point and there's not much else out there. Seems like mobile virtual reality has just disappeared.
For literally no reason I've updated the Javascript on my non-interactive GORILLAS.BAS browser port. I originally wrote this in 2014…in CoffeeScript. You can read about why I made it on this article I published at the time, featuring a lot of dead links to Twitter and perhaps the cleverest title on this website.
Just learning about genre painting, a style which depicts ordinary people in everyday life. This article in Art UK offers a ton of examples full of forensic storytelling. I was considering new inspiration for my experiences and realized that instead of thinking of the medium as a small stage, it might serve me to think of it as a large canvas. We'll see!
In my mind, Ice Spice's verse on "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" is full of confident assertions about Yosemite Sam. In reality I think she only mentions him maybe once
From a blog post about generating dynamic prose by Aaron A. Reed. She loved chocolate bar.
Another day of trying to convince Frontend Engineers that they deserve better than CSS-in-JS, another day I want to throw my computer in the river
There are a lot of good reasons to leave Instagram, but for some reason I find the network effect stronger there than it was on Twitter. I think some of that is how high the garden's walls are; I get a lot of specific information about people and local businesses I care about from their Instagram Stories which can't be seen without an account and usually doesn't exist anywhere else.
I wish I could tell those people—indirectly, collectively, with only the slightest provocation—that they are the reason I'm still there. I bet many of those people feel the same way, about me or others, and wish they could do the same. We could probably use that information to lift entire slices out of the Meta social graph all at once.
I still go to cohost dot org almost every single day even though I am fully aware that there will be nothing new to see
Another banger from Ted Chiang: Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
For those of you who chart the weather by my watch band: I switched from leather to nylon today so now it is warm
I wrote my own dang forum software. Come check out my little baby community if you please!
I hope Owen Pallett is playing Animal Well
I installed phpBB on my website yesterday to see what it's like. It apparently hasn't changed! I'm glad to see this software is still maintained but we really put up with a lot of cruft in the 2000s I guess. I am not going to link my installation because I don't think I'm going to keep it, but I do like the idea of fostering a little forum. I think I gotta write my own dang forum software.
Between my live jams and released songs, I've apparently recorded forty hours of music! That's as many as four tens, and that's awesome.
I discovered this because I've collected everything into a streaming radio station which you can tune into now! Everything is just shuffled but at some point I'd like to program this into more of a set of shows or something.
Also, the next time I play live, it'll be broadcast here, so keep it tuned! (I'll also announce when this will be once I figure it out.)
This station is a part of (and exists because of) the Cohost Icecast Webring, so if you're tired of my synth noodles you should see what else awaits you over there.
Do they reuse the Super Bowl commercials for the Oscars? These seem like Super Bowl leftovers.
I always try to get my Google CAPTCHA just a little wrong to poison the image recognition data. Usually it can just tell that I did a bad job and makes me try again and my life gets the slightest bit more challenging.
I generally really enjoy Why We Bleep but I had to stop the most recent episode about half an hour from the end because the guest started talking about things he's doing with ChatGPT and that is never not the most boring topic in the world. It's like telling someone about a dream you had but also you falling asleep melted the polar ice caps a little more.
There is a motif in the score for Droomvlucht that sounds like the America’s Funniest Videos theme song.
Another visit to The Met, another gallery I’ve never seen before! This time it was 106 in the Egyptian wing which is very modest but includes a cool old-ass wooden door