It’s interesting to see the revival / mainstream spread of live coding / algorave go very popular on social media. On one hand it’s very cool to see, but on the other, the absolutely terrible incentive structure of social media means most posts are now just dressed up people typing off a script :/

I’m at Iterations symposium 2025 in The Hague ! 3 days of workshops, talks and performances on creative technology!

I got to meet French cats and they are EXACTLY as you might imagine them

Oh you have to try the classic French cuisine Various Softwares … I hope it’s ffmpeg

btw i need to rewrite all the code for ide.charstiles.com that was the intention, infact the github repo is called fantasy_ide_1 because i rewrote it after making fantasy_ide_0 which is a rewrite of fantasy_ide

Visiting Parisian livecode meetup. Good to know that film students gently filming livecoders in their natural habitat for their class documentary on strange people who do strange things is a universal livecoder experience.

uzu pattern language + shadertoy style environment + integrating any uniforms automatically (thanks @boggo.bsky.social for the idea!) makes that 90s rave flyer vibe so easy...

In the Lourve and a man walks up to me, takes out his phone, takes a picture of me point blank and walks away. I need to date a DJ who hates me, only to get cheated on, to offset the ego boost I just got

Went to the Louvre & their ticket website was so broken and bad I self scammed and went to a third party website that sells the same tickets w a markup… I was so annoyed I was like damn i get why they robbed em

Looking at my role models and studying how they say no 🧐🤔

this is the first time somebody explained dot product in a way that made sense to me wow bobacupcake.com/shader-basics

if the discussions and calls I've been having lately are any indication, we're about to see significant renewed focus on developer communities. reality is setting in and companies are realizing AI is not a miracle; it's a tool, and tools are only valuable if and when people use them to build things

Okay yay also can I get the song ID for Mamdani’s walk up song

Bad day to be a parade that doesn’t exist that should exist in nyc

i opted out of the facial recognition & the agent then held my passport picture next to my face, scanned back and forth ~6 times, i was like you have a multitude more power from specialized neurons for human face recognition than AI- quick glance is better than what the top AI can do at the moment

AI use for prototypes, not code that can stand on its own legs. samsaffron.com/archive/2025...

"Ecologies of Artistic Practice" by Ashley Lee Wong (2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxeF...

Feeling normal and accepted is like drugs to me

Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io

I was giving a lecture and keynote wasn’t playing my video and instead of restarting my computer, I spent 10 min telling students about how often times file types are just secretly zip files and if you rename a .key to .zip you can just open it up and find a video and play it using any video player

this was an after party to the wiki conference, WHICH was disrupted by a man with a GUN threatening suicide over wikipedia rules, anyways at the party all the wiki editors were upset over the tiny details the news got wrong and it was the most wikipedia editor way to respond to a traumatic event

Hosting an official Wikipedia hackathon game play night at Hex House this Friday! Open bar with Wikipedia themed drinks, free food and free silk screening luma.com/3tqaitoy

Posting a take every day until I get on subway takes: We don’t need pupachinos because dogs don’t savor anything

i have my first serious gig as a musician and the venue asked me for a tech rider, and they gave me a tool to help if i dont have a tech rider already and through this tool i discovered the maximum amount of trombones i can request is 12

🚫“My dad died on my birthday so I don’t really like celebrating it” -depressing -kinda makes it seem like my dad wronged me ✅“God smote my father on my solar return and annually I plot my revenge against God” -implies familial beef with god -no follow up questions needed -has an action item

What’s the opposite of vibes, Like we need an anti-vibe use-brain club

Great closing keynote from @monica.dev !! Full of really good advice for all creative coders. Check it out when the recordings come out! #virtualCCfest

#virtualCCFest is kicking off soon! It's a free, virtual creative coding festival, and there's still time to register at: ccfest.rocks

Honored to be giving the opening keynote at #virtualccfest ! Starting in ~10 min Organized by @saberkhan.bsky.social ccfest.rocks/register

30 seconds in getting off a bus in 42nd and 8th I sing to myself alicia keys’ New York (wet dream tomato version) out loud, I get hit on, I cut a guy off on my bike and I go into the subway where a guy is playing alicia keys’ New York (trumpet version) I AM LIVING

new goal drop: I want to be an artist in resident making graphics on neromorphic hardware 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I’m overthinking being nice again

Met my aunt and uncle for the first time as an adult and good news they’re chill and cool

#virtualCCFest is next weekend. Join us for keynotes, @charstiles.bsky.social & @monica.dev, & workshops from Caleb Foss, Missy Cooper, Tibor Udvari, Jesal Mehta, ash herr, Lisa Hauser, Ecy King, Tess Ramsey, Akanksha Vyas, Blair Subbaraman, Paul Way, & Sai Ram Ved V. RSVP at ccfest.rocks/register.

Bought this dress for a wedding this past weekend I need another excuse to wear this again.. can you guys fall in love faster pls???

Neta Bomani's 100 days of zine studies and experiments is one of the more inspiring self-publishing projects I've seen in quite a few years. If you don't know it, it's excellent: www.are.na/neta-bomani/...

#virtualCCFest features two amazing keynotes, @monica.dev, software engineer, community organizer, and @charstiles.bsky.social, computational artist, educator. All the details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks

Just a warning everyone this Sunday is GLSL’s 21st birthday

reading the original Euclidean rhythm paper cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/pu...

#virtualCCFest is back on Sunday, Sept 28, with amazing keynotes and workshops on creative coding lined-up. You can see and details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks. If you donate your funds will go to support the costs of the free event, Zoom licenses and small stipends for presenters and keynotes.

I gave a talk at The Intersection of Art and Technology hosted by @archive.org ! youtu.be/MUCyNRWmuyg?...

the most cursed canceled project i worked on got leaked www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sas7... working on this was like my entire summer when i was 20

Happy Labor Day, the holiday designed to erase May Day in America undercut ties with the radical globally united labor movement and promote a domesticated and patriotic vision of labor which is why there’s no general strike while fascism marches on, for those who celebrate!

When you’re doing “well” online it makes it so hard to not feed the machine more. like I had a video get 1m views and now I want to dedicate so much time to making more like it but I have to actively resist to invest in other things that I think will be better for my career but I’m not sure

Speaking at berkeleys open lab cnmat today! cnmat.berkeley.edu/news/cnmat-o...

There’s gotta be a new word for when you feel like a relationship degrades into them mining you for content. Like you say something funny to them and you see they tweet it or copied you for a tiktok.

This is my fav podcast

I am not yet 30 but I have realized the benefit of just paying for one of those pdf one click signing thru email services. Is this a sign of early aging ?

based as always 🫡

I can’t wait to be a 53 year old woman who has a little book where I write down conversation topics for when I meet up with my friends for our weekly group brunch “Ask Brenda how her tomato plants are doing”