Ivan Reese 2025-06-02 20:46:22 One of my favourite recent youtube findings is Cat Graffam, who uses all sorts of "wrong" tools to do fine art. Every one of these videos is a combination of esoterica, hilarity, software design misery, and art theory. Good to put on in the background while you spend 20 minutes making fancy coffee, for instance.
A few favs:
(This might be less FoC-relevant for folks who aren't working on programmable drawing canvases, but… (A) there are dozens of us!, and (B) it's good software craft catharsis)
Kartik Agaram 2025-06-02 21:55:22 Roomy chat looks interesting. In addition to various levels of nerding out we can do over it, it provides an interesting looking workflow for a community to go from ephemeral chat to slightly persistent threads to more timeless long-form writing.
💬 #thinking-together@2025-06-02 FoC-esque test group. You need to authenticate using a Bsky/ATproto account.
Be aware it's all alpha software so far and might get torn down at any time. But in principle even if that happens we will all have the data or the group in our browser storage :shocked_face_with_exploding_head:
Kartik Agaram 2025-06-02 22:00:35 Oh yeah, there's a link right in the UI that lets anyone download a zip file containing the whole group's data at any time!
Spencer Fleming 2025-06-05 06:08:31 Just saw someone using Touch Designer
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchDesigner
It was really neat- real time Multimedia being chained through a pipeline while every element is visually shown in real time and inspectable.
It has very cool ways of making your own UI elements as well.
Made me wonder what it would be like if instead of multimedia it was also able to be used for screen windows as a desktop environment
📝 TouchDesigner
TouchDesigner is a node-based visual programming language for real-time interactive multimedia content. Developed by the Toronto-based company "Derivative," it's often used by artists, programmers, creative coders, software designers, and performers to create performances, installations, and fixed media works.
Kartik Agaram 2025-06-06 18:13:56 Dany 2025-06-07 13:47:42 I'd like to add the benefits of "strolling" (any better word?) meaning to look around into different corners to learn and discover things. I really want to push back on the focus on maximum productivity.. when tinkering / strolling is fun and beneficial.
Sure you can get the LLM to order pizza and have a full stomach in half an hour.. but Isn't life about taking unexpected detours, try new things and enjoying the path and people to get there?
Now that I think of it, I actually use LLMs often for strolling into areas I'm not very familiar.. sort of a talk with a senior at the water cooler.
