RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110849335930734521 Reposting for #genuary2026 #genuary8: A City. (Don't let empty thumbnail mislead you, it's an animation starting from empty space...)

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110876118123200681 Reposting for #genuary2026 #genuary8: A City.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115859753627064390 We're there too, can recommend switching...

My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Short progress update of refining my Kallitype recipe & workflow: - Left: a couple of months ago, initial homemade formula, very rusty brown, blotchy and low contrast - Middle: mid December, double coating, no more staining, better contrast, but not fully […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Just this one trick... to massively inflate the number of Copilot users... Just rename the entire MS Office suite into Copilot https://www.office.com/ (via @khm)

Penumbra (Being at the right place at the right time, the geography lining up perfectly to funnel the last light through a steep valley and making the sky glow from this perspective... The silhouettes of the ruins of Castle Eisenberg in the penumbra on the […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Penumbra (Being at the right place at the right time, the geography lining up perfectly to funnel the last light through a steep valley and making the sky glow from this perspective... The silhouettes of the ruins of Castle Eisenberg in the penumbra on the […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Allgäu Evening walk.

Frozen silence. (Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #winterwonderland #forest #frost #hiking

Sam Barker's album Stochastic Drift is pure balsam for your ears and mind, focused on the slower and abstract end of his spectrum with incredible & impeccable sound design and signature production style... Barker - Stochastic Drift (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpIVQYuLU3Q […]

Frozen silence. (Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #winterwonderland #forest #frost #hiking

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115815961061014546 Happy New Year, everyone! Never give up, never surrender, keep on realizing your dreams, build up resilience, be excellent to each other, focus on community, be human(ist), be creative and bring & share the light to keep the encroaching […]

And just before the year is over... I'm finally a supporting member of @Codeberg - yay & thank you for all you do! 😍 Donate: https://donate.codeberg.org/ Join as member: https://join.codeberg.org/ #opensource

The last light of 2025.... (...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!) #landscapephotography #sunset #alps #mountains #hny2026

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115808306629909320 New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory meets my own Rot Economy Thesis in a […]

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling... 1/3 #fluidsim #fluiddynamics #simulation #marbling #generativeart

Wow, ARTE produced a beautiful concert with the inimitable Kruder & Dorfmeister. And it's not just some deck magic of their best tracks/remixes, but actual live versions including a full band for support... Kruder & Dorfmeister - Konzerthaus de Vienne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXz1UqAuRg […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924 Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people in CompSci... (see @robpike for another example) […]

My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Morning walk with a mood befitting the end of the year... #morningwalk #monochromemonday #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #noircountry

The ability to schedule posts is really one my favorite https://phanpy.social features which I've been using a lot this year. 🙏 Other than lack of dev bandwidth/resources, not sure why the default Mastodon UI doesn't support it if it's actually part of the official API. There's an open issue […]

LLMs cannot be allowed to become Limited Liability Machines

Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more […]

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540 One of the most radical things you can do in these unstable times is to know things: actual, solid things that can be the foundation of a system of knowledge on which we can rebuild the wreckage of the reality we once shared.

Update: Very happy how uniform this print turned out... Still waiting for more chems to arrive which should help with getting deeper tones/contrast. (Ps. See other replies in this thread for more context explanations of the physics sim used to create this form...)

Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017) (Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...) #FootpathFriday #ForestFriday […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

The new Zygote issue 39 is featuring stunning art by Kate MccGwire[1] and articles about: Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly Interview with […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Tree Almost 50 years ago, this was our Christmas tree. My folks got a live tree for a change, and planted it after Christmas. It has taken over this half of the front yard, swallowed up the power and phone lines, killed all the grass underneath […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around it now. The most important new things are these: https://thi.ng/units now includes a Lisp-like […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/115773722160154268 Easy! What's the worst that could happen here... 🫣 Just casually converting a 40+ year legacy codebase to Rust (using "AI" of course): "Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’" Welcome to Software […]

Prepping a digital negative of one of my old generative art projects (from 2008) for #Kallitype printing tomorrow. The form is actually _not_ 3D, but merely the time trace of a 2D physics sim of a single line (over hundreds of frames) and using spatial […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Belated #monochromemonday / #mountainmonday: A moody winter day in the Ammergau Alps. A view down the snowed-in river bed of the Linder with the Notkarspitze summit catching the last light in the distance... #landscapephotography #photography #blackandwhite #noircountry #alps #mountains

A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin. (Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #alps #mountains #switzerland #winterwonderland #snow #goldenhour

A Golden Morning At Piz Beverin. (Luckily, the dense fog was just starting to lift when we arrived, revealing the silent spectacle beyond and the majestic peak...) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #alps #mountains #switzerland #winterwonderland #snow #goldenhour

Morning hike in the Lechtal Alps (October 2024) We seemingly had the valley all to ourselves, for the first few hours the valley floor still mostly frozen with crunchy hoarfrost until the sun was high enough in the sky. The cirque at the end of the valley […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in […]

A cacophony of colors, textures, temperatures and climate zones (That rubble actually is a tiny section of the side moraine of a glacier, with a several hundred meters drop down to the ice flow directly behind and its vast carved out valley opening up […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/115737870313508332 Been afraid of similar knowledge for many years myself & still hoping to make the world a better place, at least a teensy bit... But yes, the right to "use for any purpose" has always been the weakest point of all major open source licenses and has […]

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from. https://wapo.st/4p3YwDx

And don't tell me about mass storage !last box of 10*140kB floppies was $54, which is $40500/GB (but you can make it twice cheaper with this weird trick that Big Storage hates!)

This is blowing my mind https://mapfight.xyz/map/saskatchewan/ Saskatchewan is bigger than every European country?!

I got a linkedin "year in review" email. I didn't open it but it assume it says * 10,000 people tried to join your professional network, you knew 3 of them * You got notified about a bunch of posts that a written in a language that is suspiciously like English but is too grindset […]

A cacophony of colors, textures, temperatures and climate zones (That rubble actually is a tiny section of the side moraine of a glacier, with a several hundred meters drop down to the ice flow directly behind and its vast carved out valley opening up […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

More Conforce goodness: Grace (2010), from his debut album on Delsin records, with a hypnotic bassline slowly revealing itself as central element and a multitude of layers constructed around it. Track! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrNyq_EJ4rM #music4coding

This sentiment expressed by @figwit below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me […]

Writing an absurd amount of scheme code to simply try and figure out how to continue this pattern I started a few months ago (and after several studio moves) lost an important piece of paper... #weaving #tabletweaving

Took a while to find this, and it's affected me somehow. A hidden and forgotten place that could instead be an important destination to explore what it means to be part of human society. In 1967 an oil tanker sank off the coast of Cornwall called the Torrey […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

RE: https://mas.to/@jacomyma/115728809850655964 #quoteoftheday: "A blurry picture of a sharp thing must not be confused with a sharp picture of a blurry thing."