Forrest O.
@forresto.bsky.social
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https://forresto.com/
(projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto
(parametric CAD for makers)
Cooking vid algo showed me someone making garlic powder... by toasting and grinding the skins. I know better than to reply. But it's such a weirdly specific confident wrongness, and doesn't seem to be intentional ragebait.
10 days ago
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Pekka Pulli
11 days ago
Hey, do you know string instrument teachers or have a beginner student at home? What if the material given to beginner music students for home practice were something that facilitates intuition and gives immediate feedback instead of being just ink on paper?
#violin
#viola
#musiced
#musicteaching
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$8/ gal = âŹ1.84/ l đ
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21 days ago
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Found a nice way to modify a QR Code that makes it friendlier for inlay, pen plot, laser score, 3D print...
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about 1 month ago
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Fixed! The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd. Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector.
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about 2 months ago
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I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space.
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about 2 months ago
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I really like Wes Hargis' series of illustrated stories of feral childhood in the 1970s.
youtube.com/shorts/8D4Fx...
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A huge wasp touches down in our backyard.
https://youtube.com/shorts/8D4FxCma360?si=-qhFRtEw20VORRoc
about 2 months ago
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I made it wavy by rotating the small squares. Catnip for parametric design... you can animate the parameters here:
cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Ti...
#CuttleXYZ
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about 2 months ago
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Cabel Sasser
2 months ago
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonaldâs, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, iâm blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy.
cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
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Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.
https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/
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Helsinki transport had a phase last year where they demanded ID to make sure you weren't using someone else's ticket / phone. Felt wrong, but I didn't look up if it was legal.
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2 months ago
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Thursday sky was doing some kind of optical effect with the sunrise, and
@jhilden.bsky.social
got this picture, which I had to enhance with fuego Elmo.
2 months ago
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Eric Lengyel
3 months ago
This is a reminder that every diagram from my book Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is available on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-4.0 license. They can be freely used in slides, papers, books, Wikipedia articles, etc., with proper attribution.
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I found Projective Geometries by wondering how the card game Spot It! works.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It!, the Beloved Family Card Game
The simple matching game has some deceptively complex mathematics behind the scenes
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/math-card-game-spot-it-180970873/
3 months ago
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đ«ïž Grant Forrest
3 months ago
Still thinking about worker vs boss mentality about AI.
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Little Bosses Everywhere
https://grant.leaflet.pub/3mcsi573sdk2k
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One way this could work: Amy replies to Bob's post, and it shows as a quote post on Amy's profile. If Bob approves it, then it also shows as a reply under Bob's post. This kinda unifies replies vs quotes, which people use inconsistently, and makes it easier to ignore bad replies,
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3 months ago
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Jonatan Hildén
4 months ago
Highly recommended to watch this 20min experimental docu
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#lemonPiglet
2026
4 months ago
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ben â¶
4 months ago
what if: arena survival game where you're a flock of boids đȘ°?
#gamedev
#pixijs
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Sorry
@zed.dev
and
@zen-browser.app
... one of you is going to need to add some color to your logo or something.
4 months ago
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Boomer family member AI-edited a summer family photo to add xmas sweaters. I can see that being innocent fun for them, but everyone under 50 was uncomfortable with it. We said please don't, but I wonder if there's some good articulation about why we shouldn't fake memories.
4 months ago
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#moonhance
but for stars (Stellarium screenshot overlay).
#helsinki
#mustikkamaa
#kruunusillat
#orion
4 months ago
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strayster2
4 months ago
Isn't it the friends we made along the way?
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If there is room, is it more efficient to keep 12 liter boxes of oat milk in the fridge, or in the cabinet and chill them as they are used?
4 months ago
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Hypercard / Flash / Dreams... all thriving creative scenes within a closed ecosystem. All kneecapped by business decisions. Could an open source tool build such a scene?
4 months ago
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fed my digipet today đ
4 months ago
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Love it when a plot comes together. Score wheel, pens, blade. ObservableHQ/D3 for map projections and Cuttle for Boolean ops on the vectors.
5 months ago
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scalloped edges on scalloped edges, or Venn fungus
#CuttleXYZ
5 months ago
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I still think that replies should need to be approved to show up. I've never really had "numbers" >10 though, so I'm speaking as someone who accidentally looks at replies on occasion.
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5 months ago
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Review of Lily Allen's new album: it's like a tv series of a messy failing open marriage. It's cool to turn an album into a coherent story. People that do creative stuff should keep coming back to it.
5 months ago
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Mia Forrest
about 1 year ago
Hello again Blue skies
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it's a spectrum
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5 months ago
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Considering making a boot-to
#Picotron
system, it is so cozy. This one-button gravity flow game introduced me to Tiki Pona, a cozy constructed language.
www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=154...
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Wavespark III: tawa suno wasoweli
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=154348
5 months ago
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Digital Geography Lab
5 months ago
#30daymapchallenge
17: A new tool Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.â13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists. This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool?
#GRASSGIS
solar modelling. By
@tadusko.bsky.social
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oh no they found my stealth glossolalia swarm mvp
www.forresto.com/spatial-glos...
(spatial webaudio tts headphones experiment)
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5 months ago
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Are there any body tracking computer vision thing for sports movements? One person? Groups? Open and local preferred.
5 months ago
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Blaise AgĂŒera y Arcas
10 months ago
After experimenting with Urban MĂŒllerâs minimal programming language, âBrainfuckâ, we created our own version, âbffâ â a soup of thousands of randomly interacting 64-byte tapes initially filled with random noise.
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Blaise talks about getting in "swing" with a rowing crew, the boat finding a soul. This is what it feels like to swing with a gym full of contra dancers.
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Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion
https://youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw?si=UlcsoNwHuDkCxC1t
6 months ago
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Gordon
6 months ago
This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis⊠Incredible.
overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0
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Blaise AgĂŒera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? â Long Now
https://overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0
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đź
6 months ago
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
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Or just be on us-east-2 j/k
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6 months ago
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Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.
6 months ago
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2025-10-10 Yhteiskerhotila Talas Talas Community Center
#Helsinki
#Kalasatama
6 months ago
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#Moonhance
app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including
moon.val.run
to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
7 months ago
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Sarah Drasner
7 months ago
đ„ did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope itâs helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.
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State of the collaborative Truchet tiling.
#mmott
(automerge and val town)
7 months ago
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I got my first PHP job by showing code that I'd written to make a Livejournal tag cloud. The template language wasn't PHP but I could explain it. So thanks Brad.
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7 months ago
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b5
7 months ago
"The iroh-lan UI is designed for zero-friction, ephemeral networking: no accounts, no central servers, no device lists. Name a network, choose a password, and youâre on a private L3 LAN with anyone who does the same, created out of thin air and gone when you leave." yup.
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Lehtibot
7 months ago
17.07.1913 PerÀ-Pohjolainen no 79, s.1
http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1277108?page=1
Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut aineistot
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you might not like it, but this is peak spatial communication.
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7 months ago
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Idea to sync a Discord channel and
@tldraw.com
board. Mozilla Hubs had something like that for VR spaces circa 2020. I could see using Discord and TLDraw together like a... bulletin board. Talking to
@stevekrouse.com
about
val.town
ideas yesterday.
7 months ago
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