Should be cheering for Scotland, but I can't help but root for Italy after a strong first half. #6Nations #Rugby

I got a new turtle neck sweater. I like the way it looks, but it feels like someone has been strangling me gently all day. Others may like that feeling, but I'm not loving it. 😅

Might keep this running between episodes. youtube.com/watch?v=9uP_...

I’ve been reading through a copy of @wired.com magazine from 30 years ago. I used to have a copy and had always meant to read Neal Stephenson’s article, but never got around to it. no time like the present, it’s a nice bit of nostalgia. archive.org/details/wire...

100% on Absolum today. Take that Azra (and Absolum).

My favorite follows are people with three posts from today. To all of those followers, I see you, and I appreciate you. 🙏

Me in 2005: Moore's Law means that computers will get super fast over a very short period of time! Me in 2026: my computer freezes up if I leave my browser open for too long

Make multi-generational friends. Older and younger.

Sometimes, as I take a bite of a really good pear, I think to myself "this must feel like being truly rich". 🍐

Screenshot from my most recent login on Instagram. I ended up requesting a doggy bag and closing the app. Is it time to close the account? I used to like the content on IG, but the platform has _always_ been bad, with baffling UX decisions.

Sometimes you get a sign. For me it was on the 11 home tonight.

I was blown away by this article about how how dithering works. This is a great use of modern web development used to show how this complex subject works in an approachable way.

Taking a hot air balloon ride as a birthday surprise remains a top ten life experience for me. One of the added perks was getting to spit over the side to tell which was the wind was blowing (the fact that we were sailing over an ultra wealthy residential area made it all the sweeter).

I somehow missed the forming of @coincidence.games and the release of "Kaizen - A Factory Story". I'm now making up for lost time, and the game feels especially relevant as I transition to robotics and manufacturing work.

Autolux's "Turnstile Blues" remains one of my favorite music videos. It's been a while since I mentioned it, can't recall if I've done it here, so I'm happy to bring it up again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoC-...

Wild to see my alma matter (the California College of the Arts / Arts and Crafts, CCA/CCAC) be purchased by another university from the other side of the country.

This is such a silly conundrum. I'm going really interested in making some garments, but I feel compelled to finish one last space communist before putting the acrylic paints away. Need to wash the Commander or whatever, then work out the base.

To all the new folks arriving from Twitter I have two words of advice... Indie games

I've been winding down my nights watching sewing and fashion videos. Glory Allen has made some great videos and the patterns he makes seem approachable and inline with what I'd like to make. This video on fabrics was great, informative and has fun production: youtu.be/TFpLM52goYY

New Year's goals: • Watch 26 movies (down from 52) • Read 4 books • Knit a garment • Sew a garment

"I dont even know what this episode is about, but I enjoyed making it and I invite you to trust my process" by @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social is a fantastic specimen of a podcast. He describes a period of time 30 years ago that has be on my mind a lot lately.

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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

2025 was a wild year for us, and we ended it with a very full "good jar". Tonight we took some time to unfold the little written reminders of good things that happened to us and reflect. It's a nice way to say goodbye to one year and make room for the next.

they successfully destroyed the organizing locations online

There's a lovely explanation of how ordered-dithering and half-tones work at the front of this video about "surface-stable fractal dithering" by @runevision.bsky.social This type of graphical problem-solving is one of my favorites to learn about. youtu.be/HPqGaIMVuLs

Many young people will struggle to accept this advice: take a nap. Take a nap today, take a nap on weekends days. Just, find additional opportunities in your life to lay down, turn the lights off, and not look at things from 20-40 minutes during your day.

Outlook for the new year ...

Happy Hogmanay, Happy New Year. (I need more Scottish friends to make sure I say the right things)

This saved me a few hours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7k...

One of New Years resolutions from last year was to watch one movie a week. I only saw 35 movies this past year. Could/Should +2 hour YouTube documentaries and video essays count towards my movie list? Then I'd easily be double the view count. 😅

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Going to have to watch in parts, it's really interesting to see how things develop and play out. The production and is really well done, seems like a major undertaking to do some like this.

The Chair Company was fantastic.

I just picked up Absolum and have been loving it (exceptional art, great world building, fun brawling combat). I'm looking forward to multiplayer, though a little sad it's capped at two players. Would love some classic 4-player brawling.

My hair has gotten very long, it's time for a cut, but it's become very hard to find style references. A search that was previously littered with low-quality listicles now overflows with slop content. 💇‍♀️

Happy Birthday everyone.

Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄

If you're interested in some fun alternative Christmas tracks, you might like this playlist I've cobbled together over the years. Let me know if have any suggestions to add. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

In 2012, I made a linocut of Thomas Kinkade's mugshot as a Secret Santa gift for the art supply store my wife worked at. Thomas Kinkade was a modern-day Carrivagio, but meant in the most cynical way possible. He called himself the "paint of light™️", but was a pretty tacky and shitty dude.

Hey gang, what if posting on the Internet just isn't cool anymore?

13/12/25 - nocturn

In case you missed it, BIG HOPS has a release date now :)

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Anyone with an entrepreneurial bone in their body would have opened a Glasgow Wonkaland Experience Experience this year, and made it an annual ironic hipster tradition.

Sometimes I'll be reminded of Pinback, then get lost in their albums and associated acts for a week or two. Right now I'm playing the harmonies of XIY over and over in my head. Maybe you'd like to join me. youtu.be/aELlLMmSZQg

I started working on a new background texture for my desktop. I'm still tweaking the values and may go with something a little less saturated. It's nice to have the colors in the background to test the color contrasts of images. I'm curious how bsky handles 5120x1440 images.

When cartoon characters discuss numbers in base ten rather than base eight, it takes me completely out of my suspension of disbelief. Their society would not have developed that way.