Forrest O.
@forresto.bsky.social
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https://forresto.com/
(projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto
(parametric CAD for makers)
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 days ago
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fed my digipet today 🌞
5 days 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.
12 days ago
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scalloped edges on scalloped edges, or Venn fungus
#CuttleXYZ
20 days 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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23 days 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.
28 days ago
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Mia Forrest
11 months ago
Hello again Blue skies
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it's a spectrum
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29 days 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
29 days ago
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Digital Geography Lab
about 1 month 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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about 1 month ago
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Are there any body tracking computer vision thing for sports movements? One person? Groups? Open and local preferred.
about 1 month ago
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Blaise AgĂĽera y Arcas
6 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
about 2 months ago
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Gordon
2 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•®
about 2 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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about 2 months ago
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Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.
about 2 months ago
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2025-10-10 Yhteiskerhotila Talas Talas Community Center
#Helsinki
#Kalasatama
2 months ago
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#Moonhance
app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including
moon.val.run
to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
2 months ago
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Sarah Drasner
2 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)
2 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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2 months ago
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b5
3 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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https://github.com/rustonbsd/iroh-lan/blob/main/README.md
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Lehtibot
3 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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3 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.
3 months ago
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Joe Beda
3 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
)
3 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.)
3 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
4 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
6 months ago
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Good connections at the office.
@jhilden.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Amanda Ghassaei
8 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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Here's jäähaka, later in the post meltyhaka...
www.forresto.com/fab-academy/...
#Helsinki
#FabAcademy
8 months ago
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cow tools daily
8 months ago
it's all about mindset đź§ đź’°
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On wear and repair.
https://www.forresto.com/2020s/shade-fail-fix.html
#mundanePosting
#repair
#laserCutting
#CuttleXYZ
9 months ago
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Made a TV stand with slot-together joinery for Fab Academy CNC milling week. Don't miss Frank the vacuum's maiden voyage. 🤦
https://www.forresto.com/fab-academy/07-computer-controlled-machining.html
#FabAcademy
#FreeCAD
#CNC
9 months ago
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Collected some Sierpiński curve projects.
https://www.forresto.com/2020s/sierpinski.html
Now I can watch my animation homage while the 1972 Topology Films Project synth plays and Nelson Max says "it's my favorite."
#mathart
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Sierpiński curve animation
https://www.forresto.com/2020s/sierpinski.html
10 months ago
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nat alison
10 months ago
I'm looking for my next software engineering role. If you need someone to make intricate cool visualizations (or anything really) send me a DM! A couple of my projects:
tesseralis.site
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FIT: Five Intersecting Tetrahedra Enhancing the WWW with inspectable 3D embeds of a tricky modular origami construction puzzle. Maybe I'll find it again in 20 years when I try to fold it again.
https://www.forresto.com/2020s/fit.html
#origami
#mathArt
#OpenSCAD
#Blender
#FabAcademy
10 months ago
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Fab Academy week 02, evaluating CAD software, comparing Zoo, picoCAD, SolveSpace, FreeCAD, and Cuttle. Conclusion: cardboard aided design is still my favorite.
https://www.forresto.com/fab-academy/02-cad-comparison.html
#FabAcademy
#CAD
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Week 02. CAD Comparison
https://www.forresto.com/fab-academy/02-cad-comparison.html
10 months ago
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Is there an argument for/against hosting a static home page on gh-pages, netlify, dreamhost, home server?
11 months ago
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A couple of weekends with Blender Geometry Nodes, and I made what I had in mind. A curve gets turned into a rope with physics constraints and growth. Fun tool!
#Blender
#GeometryNodes
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11 months ago
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I messed with Blender over break enough to learn to make this with Geometry Nodes. Learning journal:
https://fopub.notion.site/3d-Singh-s-Rope-Tutorial-XPBD-1774337bf87d801ab9abe458eeedd8cc
shout-out 3D Singh
#Blender
#GeometryNodes
11 months ago
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Synonym for "empty office or studio space" is "real estate" Occupy... everything?
about 1 year ago
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does it recompress, does it loop
#vector
#animation
#loop
#CuttleXYZ
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about 1 year ago
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I searched "pokemon controversy" and there was something about a character design, but nothing about... a society based on making pets fight? How to talk to your kids about...
about 1 year ago
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Max Lederman
about 1 year ago
Any time I’m feeling down I listen to this wonderful poem by
@astrokatie.com
and I feel better. I don’t know why but it always works.
youtu.be/2wT1-bRj9wI?...
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Disorientation by Katie Mack
YouTube video by NC State
https://youtu.be/2wT1-bRj9wI?si=2bHzUNYTLzK9_EG3
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