This gives a whole new meaning to Pixelart: pixelated wooden sculptures by Taiwanese artist Han Hsu-Tung

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/pixelated-wood-sculptures/

#Art #sculpture #pixelart

im like a vampire you have to actively invite me to socialize with you otherwise i will just think you don't want me to

Are there any Baltimore area Pythonistas who would be interested in doing meetups?

#Python

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM.

It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.

https://hyperblam.how

Okay, let's go public. 😊

HowSketchy provides an overview of bands and artists, documenting problematic behavior as well as notable merits where supported by reliable sources~

It's not limited by genre or style.

So if you want to see which artists are safe or which ones to avoid, have a look:

https://howsketchy.org/

The database is still very small, but will hopefully grow quickly.

If you'd like to contribute making this platform better, you can become an editor:

https://howsketchy.org/become-an-editor/

"Linting with ruff in pants" does not sound like a software engineering topic, and yet...

Also, it's not unusual for a lot of your neurodiverse Systems to manage symptoms to break down and no longer function when you hit burnout.

Ask me how I know.

(Hint: I'm in burnout)

I use this all the time, very useful tip!

Unfortunately I've actually been going out in the Sun this summer and now my tone-match foundation is more like a highlighter and my highlighter is like a hooner's glaring high beams

If anybody knows who this creator is I would love to link to them. Unfortunately this version I saw had the attribution cropped off 😒

#MakeUp

Ouch

I've had a fucking couple of days on llm bullshit.

A project that looked neat on Tuesday turned out to be an llm plagiarism. And the project owners know the look is bad: they squashed the entire project to a single commit.

A long article with citations, except one of the core parts of the topic? Cited an AI "fact-checker" and the article didn't exist anymore.

And today, reading an article that says "AI is of course good" before spending 3 paragraphs describing an existential risk created by the AI and stopped by an exiting engineer who was burning out.

Llm boosters don't even fucking hear themselves anymore. They're destroying their companies, but who cares because "velocity".

Folks struggling to make it as indies should probably read this: https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/

Also he only mentions rich kids and day jobbers, but there's also "has a spouse with a good job", "their parent died and left them just enough to get ahead" and "managed to pay off house so don't have rent"

Any chance anyone could spot me $11 for my domain renewal? Im broke as sin rn but I really don't want to lose my domain that I use to get all my job application related emails in on. Boosts welcome and appreciated.

Edit: solved! Ty all so much!! 💜💜💜

If this sounds like a lot of words for "don't let your framework make demands on your data", you are already ahead of the game.

Reading an archive policy where they're shutting down. One of the reasons cited is the old archives are on software past its end of life (this is a good thing, unpatched servers are bad), but in doing so they're removing information.

This is one of those things that is why I am a relentless advocate of data first designs.

If your data is in a format that is portable in some fashion, you can't lose it when you switch app architectures.

SQL is of course first class, but it doesn't fit all uses (either because the data is not relational in some way or the people collecting/needing it are not technical experts in relational systems.)

I hate spreadsheets for this, but if you're disciplined about it, it is an acceptable compromise, just use an open format, though xlsx is very unlikely to just up and be unusable in the future.

And as always: Structured plain text files are going to be the most likely to be usable in the future.

I've given my accessible colour contrast grid tool (I can't think of a good name for it) a little design sprucing up, and like, favicons and stuff.

You can use it to do stuff like this!
https://colors.beeps.gay/?hash=MDAwLDRCNEI0QixGRkYsNTg4MTU3LDAwRTIwMCw3ODY5OTksN0M1NkZDLEZDMA%3D%3D

old and busted: delete failing tests

new and hotness: delete CI configuration

this is FOSS DoS; I have no other term for it

https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pull/1585/changes#diff-2e34befd0a8baf062ee92bf489a59da4b399ee4df628eae384f92b572ada48bb

computers were invented in the *mumblties* and you had to pay to program them
then in the late 70s, you could finally program them! for free! you just had to own a microcomputer! yay
but then in the 80s and 90s you had to buy compilers, which were expensive
by with the 2000s, rapidly compilers and interpreters became free again. anyone could program, for free!

and then in the 2020s someone invented "programming but you have to pay", again.

DON'T FALL FOR THIS TRAP

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/116885355514583164

In all seriousness, this.

It doesn't matter if you were "born" queer, straight, anything; you get to be who you choose, and be with who you choose.

I was born unable to talk... and now I talk. I was born with no sexual attraction to men or women, and now I have both. I was born with my eyes closed, and now they're open.

How you ARE is valid. Always.

I love living in the "Gender... MAYBE NOT" era of science

https://www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differences/brains-sex-differences-are-subtle-and-contradictory-large-mri-study-finds/

i really cannot emphasize enough how cool this effect is