Woo! The @alpaca talks are all up for your viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxqmZjMvoVzw773-Fo9ajkujFfOThuFOP Looking forward to catching up on the second weekend, which I missed. I have forced myself to watch my own Flitter talk back and it is not as bad as it felt […]

Phew! Ill-advised Nextcloud upgrade just made me glad, once again, for ZFS auto-snapshots and rollback…

Ran a workshop on Wednesday at a nearby residential care home making Ojo de Dios using wool scraps and leftover bits of willow – great fun and really lovely results from a simple and meditative process #weaving #communityart #OjoDeDios

The cutting has begun for the next big project. This tabletop will be wrecked by the time I’m finished. Still, “eggs, omelettes” as Andy always says… #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

Woohoo! Just managed to get tickets to see five films at the London Film Festival. Sadly, the 6th that we wanted to see is sold out across all three showings already (tickets went on sale to the general public one hour ago…) #bfi #Londonfilmfestival #lff25

New achievement unlocked! I am now old enough to require two pairs of glasses with different prescriptions

This morning i made a paper record with Jo Kazuhiro at Alpaca. Very cool concept: drawing the groove in Inkscape and then etching it into card with a cutting plotter. #alpaca2025

It’s almost time! I am in Sheffield for the Alpaca conference and festival. I’ll be talking about Flitter this afternoon. You’ll be pleased to hear that I have now finished my slides, but have not yet got my talk down to 15 minutes… #alpaca2025 #flitterlang

Sheffield, I am in you! Looking forward to @alpaca tomorrow

Practicing alchemy in the studio today! #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

Shit’s getting serious: I’ve had to break out the big tabletop… #outputarts #inthestudio #lightart

If you carefully look inside it, Alpaca festival is made up of over 42+ incredible artists ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/artists/

Oh, hey! In other news: I keep forgetting to say that I'm talking about my visuals language Flitter at the @alpaca conference in three weeks https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/ I haven't thought about what I"m going to say yet, so if you're going and have ideas about what you'd […]

I have a lot to get done this summer, which is why I’m trying not to think about how many leaves there are on ground today…

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

This dial is infuriating! What are these non-standard cooking temperatures like 170? And where is the dot in the middle? 155? What the fuck is that?

WHATWG: literal motto on GitHub discussion repo, "All are welcome to participate." Chrome developers: "hey what does everyone think about us just switching off XSLT cos we can't be bothered to support it anymore?" All participating: "that'll break formatting of RSS feeds and further cement the […]

The adult wire-rope tool will shelter its young until it is mature. Although the little one has a sharp bite, it has not yet developed the molars needed to mash up their primary food source, ferrules #bbcwildlife #parenthood

You know how when you're deconstructing large cardboard boxes and you imagine yourself as a 19th century sailor rendering a whale… OK, just me then

Behold! Through an insanely long and drawn-out process – involving two kinds of willow, fabric dye and a Python script – I have succeeded in creating a ball #outputarts #inthestudio

Is it just me that likes to wave dramatically at automatic doors like I’m using magic to open them?

Fuck me! A PR I opened adding PCNT support to the ESP32 #micropython port *four* years ago last week has just been merged! Which is great news as I've got two projects in flight that are going to need it and I can finally stop maintaining my own fork

Having observed the geezers outside my studio for the last few days, I think that "scaffolder" may be a distinct gender

Been working on something for #emfcamp https://github.com/pikesley/tildagon-countdown It won't install from the app-store, it says it's Out Of Memory 🤷‍♀️ , but it works fine if you push it from your laptop

Ooh! New dark chocolate willow just arrived!

It's official… we're back! I know it feels like ages away, but if you're brewing a crazy idea for an installation/artwork in your head and you think you might need any support from the installations team, then the time to start talking to us is now! mailto:[email protected] In honour […]

Downside of a giant brambles bush in the garden: the constant battle to keep it contained; upside; blackberries! It’s gonna be a bumper crop this year… #garden #rewilding

Go on then, test our new self-hosted Peertube instance! #outputarts https://video.outputarts.com/w/uMV28YZ8Kq2vmNPDpeqVER

So I am looking to dump some BigCorp services and move to self-hosting more of my interwebs shit. I am thinking: - Raspberry Pi 5 8GB + a pair of M2 SSDs - Ubuntu LTS + ZFS - Ghost for websites - PeerTube for video - Maybe ownCloud Anyone got words for/against? Also, should I use docker? [I […]

Very much enjoyed this blog post on using an AI code assistant: https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

Just a regular day transporting a Chinese dragon on a London bus

Scored some street lithium on the floor of a night bus the other day, plus an incredibly cute 7-segment battery display! Oh my god, though, the smell of this vape taking it apart… gonna have to bag the other parts for the bin

I have spent much of today looking at technology curricula. Want to see an example of how teaching is political? Compare this Texas curriculum item: "describe the purpose of copyright law and the possible consequences for inappropriate use of digital content" with the comparable item in the […]

Output Arts have worked with four women with lived experience of domestic abuse and an expert from UCL to produce a free, short booklet that gives clear, practical advice on how you can help someone experiencing abuse. You can download on-screen and print-at-home versions from our website […]

Behold! The high-tech willow soaking/dying/curling apparatus!

Attempting to practice my belief in making art visibly by working downstairs in the library today #communityart #willow #making

Have ticked 16 things off my to-do list today, so I reckon that means I can go home!

With props to @solderandchaos and @AdamStuartSmith for the idea, here are all the distinct grasses that I can find in my garden. Think 2 and 3 here are the same variety, but I’m not an expert. My faves are the barley one and the massive frondy one on the right

Who are you calling a “swollen-thighed beetle”? 🪲 #garden #bugs

Last night saw the launch event for a 'zine that #OutputArts have been working on for the last year, alongside a researcher from UCL and a group with lived experience of domestic abuse. The 'zine contains practical advice on what you can do to support someone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Last night saw the launch event for a 'zine that #OutputArts have been working on for the last year, alongside a researcher from UCL and a group with lived experience of domestic abuse. The 'zine contains practical advice on what you can do to support someone […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

LIVE programming workshop open call: https://liveprog.org/ Deadline 21st July Get involved!

Back to my roots today, winding coils for an audio installation… #outputarts #soundart #installationart

Community printing workshop today in Hackney #outputarts #communityart

Ever get the thing where your code suddenly slows to a crawl and you panic trying to figure out what change you've made that broke it, only to realise that it's because the battery has gone below 5% and macOS is throttling processes to save power?

Not gonna lie, my anxiety is killing me this week. Let’s all try to remember that everyone else is not always doing ok and be nice to each other. M’kay?

I reconciled to my apparent lack of productivity some time ago with the realisation that my job is thinking and I am therefore at work whenever awake. Sadly, as a freelancer, very little of this work time is paid…

@jamesthomson did you see this one? I expect dragon-shaped dice in the next release… 😉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/your-next-gaming-dice-could-be-shaped-like-a-dragon-or-armadillo/

Excellent! Kate Nash hammering home exactly why I won't use the term "TERF": transphobia is not radical and it's certainly not feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2MoQJP-PhA