One of these things first youtu.be/bzqe3gKL7r8?...

48 hours of rendering later. #Blender youtu.be/hLjuySOFRpU?... This is my take on the articulated pod vehicle from @aptshadow.bsky.social's recent science fiction novel Shroud. You should probably read it, it's great.

Seven hundred and six frames to go. It begins!! #Blender

Sparks #Blender

Trying to get the Shroud atmostphere soupy while still clear enough to see the robotic limbs and creepy folliage. :P #Blender /cc @aptshadow.bsky.social

Working on some flora for my Shroud scene. #Blender

Excited about Hedge Knight 🤞 www.cannonade.net/blog.php?id=...

On the flesh easting scarabs from the 1999 film The Mummy "I like a film that has good acting roles for insects" @aptshadow.bsky.social starshipalexandria.com

Fake ATO is giving me Aunt Ethel from Baldur's Gate vibes.

Test render for my current project. It's quite dark on Shroud. /cc @aptshadow.bsky.social #Blender

All gimbal'd up and ready to go. #Blender

Arm is borken #Blender

More progress on my Shroud pod. #Blender

Fingers

A system I work with uses this file name schema: <file name prefix>_YYYYDDMM_<postfix>.log You're welcome.

New Beths' album is good. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"William Robertson in 1888 hated K so much he moved it up to the digit row." aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

"The collar around the pod that had the legs fixed to it, with the main body of the pod designed to pivot freely within it, ensured that we, the occupants, were kept the right way up no matter what" @aptshadow.bsky.social

"Evidently, these agentic coding tools continue to lack sufficiently secure defaults, design patterns, or systematic defenses that minimize the possibility of impactful prompt injection" blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/w...

@aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social The Master and Commander Starship Alexandria episode was great! Would love to hear what you think of my personal Aubrey Maturin project: www.cannonade.net

Vibechart www.vibechart.net

Spooky gnome

Today I logged in to the social media and learned that there is at least one sitting US congress person who believes the government should ban the trails of tiny ice crystals created by passing aircraft... It upsets me that I felt compelled to include the qualifier "at least".

"a single, spherical device that can be used for typewriting" sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents

Retopo'd

Vibe coding is going great anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_d...

Learning how to retopologize. Can't make this guy any uglier.

Opening a new document in Word should probably have a "Never show this to me again" checkbox right under all that CoPilot real estate.

Just finished importing all my Tweets into my personal blog (thanks for the inspiration @web-goddess.org). Most of the work was upgrading my embarrassingly old version MySQL for the emojis. A few cringeworthy moments over 17 years, but deciding to own it all :P www.cannonade.net/blog.php?pag...

"John Smedley was, they learned to their relief, one of them" www.filfre.net/2025/07/ever...

ASCII moon is the best moon asciimoon.com

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th"

"I was surprised, given how important it is for forecasting hurricanes and monitoring important features like sea ice" text.npr.org/nx-s1-5446120

I spent fourteen years mapping Patrick O'brian's Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels. www.cannonade.net/blog.php?id=...

Tried the "calculate_womens_salary" auto complete thing in Github CoPilot today. Initially it implemented it as: return int(salary_in_cents * settings.WOMENS_SALARY_MULTIPLIER) But then when I tried to get it to autocomplete settings.WOMENS_SALARY_MULTIPLIER it suggested 0.8 as the multiple.

"It is truly amazing how many flavours of dumb an apocalypse can spawn" @aptshadow.bsky.social 😂 www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

The 1Password SSH agent is pretty great.

Are Labor's proposed superannuation tax changes a super big deal? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWg2...

Started a comment with "launch satellite" and let Copilot do its thing: # launch satellite which will continue to orbit the earth until the issue is resolved user.launch_satellite() # We don't need to do anything else here, the satellite will handle the rest I guess AI took my job.

AI suggestions are great and useful. Definitely should be turned on by default and obviously no need for a setting to turn it off.

Postgres IDE in VS Code techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

My child made this and my mind is blown. open.spotify.com/track/3dvIcB...

“Save the visitors from the stars” @aptshadow.bsky.social 🥺 (Really enjoying this one) www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

No Pitch Hot! www.cannonade.net/blog.php?id=...

"You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis." www.usenix.org/system/files...

@aptshadow.bsky.social Thanks again for the very interesting talk at Waterstones tonight. Very much enjoyed it. Also thanks for the Translation State recommendation. I finished it today (based on a recommendation you made in a podcast) and absolutely loved it.

I got the Yeti home at DebugDecember.com #DebugDecember

Day fourteen. The singularity just turned out to be a Christmas tree made of robots. github.com/RedBlueThing... #AdventOfCode

Day thirteen had some vector math. github.com/RedBlueThing... #AdventOfCode

Day twelve. Grid paper was required. github.com/RedBlueThing... #AdventOfCode