new blog post on the London livecoding scene https://blog.vbuckenham.com/why-i-disagree-with-mike-livecoding-is-not-the-future/

I made a little game in @v’s Downpour! It was really fun :) now I wanna make more games~

https://laeastra.itch.io/

https://blog.vbuckenham.com/im-doing-visuals-on-the-27th/

👀 #pastagang

@spiralganglion saw you post about gesture recognition! dunno if you looked at the way Flutter does it, it seems like their "gesture arena" approach is similar to yours

@ingrid sentence submission:
“There was a saint in his high-school class, recently moved here from Salt Lake City, one Robbie Swindon, who never had a bad word to say about anyone and who always had a smile and a word of positive thinking for each (we all know the type), in addition to which he was not only good-looking, the president of his class, and liked by all the girls, and boys, too (we all know the type), but his private parts, which Randy had witnessed in the ever-popular gym period, brought out a strange sensation in Randy’s mouth which made him want to know that type, too.” from Faggots by Larry Kramer

Downpour is showing at The Photographers' Gallery! And I'm running a workshop there on the 31st of March! https://blog.vbuckenham.com/downpour-at-the-photographers-gallery-and-how-to-make-a-receipt-printer-thing-for-an-exhibition/

I'm going to be showing my boardgame about sausages at the V&A on the 27th! https://blog.vbuckenham.com/return-of-the-sausage/

London AlgoRhythms livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/8qwSbHKV5eQ?si=uTdLKednnVZDtaD5

saw The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover last night, and, in short: wow

(in long: https://letterboxd.com/vtwentyone/film/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-her-lover/)

A second blog post in one day! Why don't people write picture books for adults? https://blog.vbuckenham.com/i-oiled-a-lock/

new blog post, a conversation i had recently about the use of AI chatbots in public service provision https://blog.vbuckenham.com/make-a-chatbot-about-it/

interlude, screenshot, trs-80 (1980) https://www.mobygames.com/game/167497/interlude/screenshots/trs-80/1062250/

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M.O.T

@TodePond Sorry imagination overrun must be prevented https://slab.org/2008/01/14/following-your-imagination/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy/116023550599610970

i talk a lot about "making a little house on the computer" as one of the earliest innate drives of mass personal computing bc it's the one that really laid its eggs in my brain as a child but "make a little person and dress them up" is equally historically significant IMO, and is perhaps better represented in current entertainment/creativity software

new blog post, where I write about playing what is, by some margin, the most complicated tabletop game I have ever encountered https://blog.vbuckenham.com/six-thousand-words-on-the-seven-part-pact-2/

new blog post: https://blog.vbuckenham.com/some-thoughts-about-tool-design-and-ai/

new blog post: https://blog.vbuckenham.com/i-just-passed-my-driving-theory-test/