Forrest O.
@forresto.bsky.social
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https://forresto.com/
(projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto
(parametric CAD for makers)
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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Cabel Sasser
14 days ago
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m 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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16 days 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.
18 days ago
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Eric Lengyel
29 days 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/
29 days ago
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🌫️ Grant Forrest
about 1 month 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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about 2 months ago
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Jonatan Hildén
about 2 months ago
Highly recommended to watch this 20min experimental docu
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#lemonPiglet
2026
about 2 months ago
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ben âś¶
about 2 months ago
what if: arena survival game where you're a flock of boids 🪰?
#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.
2 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.
2 months ago
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#moonhance
but for stars (Stellarium screenshot overlay).
#helsinki
#mustikkamaa
#kruunusillat
#orion
2 months ago
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strayster2
2 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?
2 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?
2 months ago
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fed my digipet today 🌞
2 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.
3 months ago
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scalloped edges on scalloped edges, or Venn fungus
#CuttleXYZ
3 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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3 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.
3 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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3 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
3 months ago
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Digital Geography Lab
3 months ago
#30daymapchallenge
17: A new tool Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). 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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3 months ago
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Are there any body tracking computer vision thing for sports movements? One person? Groups? Open and local preferred.
4 months ago
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Blaise AgĂĽera y Arcas
8 months ago
After experimenting with Urban Müller’s minimal programming language, “Brainfuck”, we created our own version, “bff” – 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.
youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw...
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Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion
https://youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw?si=UlcsoNwHuDkCxC1t
4 months ago
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Gordon
5 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 Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now
https://overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0
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đť•®
4 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.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
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Or just be on us-east-2 j/k
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4 months ago
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Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.
4 months ago
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2025-10-10 Yhteiskerhotila Talas Talas Community Center
#Helsinki
#Kalasatama
5 months ago
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#Moonhance
app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including
moon.val.run
to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
5 months ago
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Sarah Drasner
5 months ago
💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s 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)
5 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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5 months ago
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b5
5 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 you’re on a private L3 LAN with anyone who does the same, created out of thin air and gone when you leave." yup.
github.com/rustonbsd/ir...
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Lehtibot
5 months ago
17.07.1913 Perä-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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5 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.
5 months ago
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Joe Beda
5 months ago
Check out this cool video from Frederico from
cuttle.xyz
on creating cool geometric patterns with their tool. It allows super easy creation of designs to be laser cut. I loved what they are doing so much I invested a while ago. (cc
@forresto.bsky.social
)
youtu.be/aGZKTK6hVkc?...
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Making Optical and Geometrical Art with Cuttle
YouTube video by Cuttle
https://youtu.be/aGZKTK6hVkc?si=NgCMjCb0daSaBxWz
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Working on 3D Export (~2.5D for this first version) for
cuttle.xyz
. We've been focused on X and Y for five years now, so it's fun to start playing with Z. (
#CuttleXYZ
#cad
#3dPrinting
)
6 months ago
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TIL India's time zone is UTC +5:30, and an Indian friend realized that India is the only time zone with a 30 minute difference. (From that perspective, lots of places had a 30 minute shift.)
6 months ago
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kĂĽlakiik = village swing There was one of these by a stage at the folk festival in Estonia. Bigger, 6 spots. Super physical and exhilarating.
youtu.be/bn0809qAm1c
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20180613-KĂĽlakiik
https://youtu.be/bn0809qAm1c
7 months ago
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Tactile labyrinth for Fab Academy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1En...
Docs:
www.forresto.com/fab-academy/...
#FabAcademy
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tactile labyrinth presentation
YouTube video by Forrest O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EnZgib5fY
9 months ago
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Good connections at the office.
@jhilden.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Amanda Ghassaei
10 months ago
Wanted to share a new project: PackCAD – a 3D modeling tool for designing folded structures.
packcad.com
PackCAD is initially targeting folded packaging workflows – though I’m aiming for this to eventually be a general tool for “structural origami,” with applications in engineering/manufacturing.
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