It's been a few days since we released and submitted this, but here it is:
In Companion Plant, you return home after a personal loss with a box and a dying plant, and attempt to re-learn what it means to take care of yourself as you nurture the plant back to health.
https://myonenpixel.itch.io/companion-plant
Enjoy! Would love feedback on this little jam game.
Yesterday morning I went out for a walk in the neighbourhood and felt like drawing the landscape using the pen and notebook I had on hand. This felt really relaxing.
Anyone in the #heidelberg area want to guess where this is?
Regarding the artwork I just posted: I am participating in the Narrative Design Awards jam with a team consisting of one author, another developer and me.
I'll be doing the art part on this mostly, which is pretty new, but definitely an exciting opportunity to learn.
And here is me using the perspective guides in Krita on a book with simpler geometry before.
I have been tweaking my art workflows a bit. And I have to say it really helps to talk to actual artists about this. At first I was like, isn't it cheating to use perspective guides? But they laughed at me and said, they just greybox their construction stages in Blender. That works pretty nicely!
I will no longer get hung up and having to master the art of drawing by hand when there are more efficient processes.
Ich könnte den Networking-Teil meiner Arbeit gamifyen, indem ich Visitenkarten in einem Album sammle.
I should clarify that I searched for 車内に人々 (~ people in the car).
Indeed searching for "people in the car", I do find automobiles. Interestingly, the German "Leute im Wagen" somehow yields a mix of horse carriages, very old train cars and carnival coaches.
Languages are so fascinating.
A curious observation learning Japanese. I just learned 車内 = in the car. I usually do an image search on new vocabulary to find an associated picture to help me memorize the word. My expectation was automobiles filled with people. What I found instead were photos of crowded train cars. The English word "car" clearly skews differently.
Using CSS to accomplish weird outcomes is fun. 😎
irgendwie vermisse ich bei mediziner:innen manchmal eine gewisse abgrenzung zu anthroposophie und anderem humbug. ich finde es ja persönlich sehr comfy, wenn meine ärztin klar erkennbar wissenschaftliche methode anwendet.
Step 1 is making a website for my friend I promised to do since February ;)
She's an astrobiologist, so it's bound to be a cool project with slimy creatures in it.
Yesterday I had a quite enlightening seminar on visibility for marketing. So now I will just visibly do work and offer that to others. This seems more pleasing than worrying about the perfect marketing strategy and partaking in a bunch of dreadful activities like LinkedIn slop and a million networking events where mostly AI grifters speak.
I keep making diagrams of the polycule (as in loosely connected social network of polyamorous relationships) around me. and it just grew to feature a fully connected pentagram in it. I am astonished by the mere existence of that.
A very confusing thing about the current bubble is that everything remotely related to machine learning (or just data analysis tbh) is called AI now for marketing purposes. This makes a little hard to distinguish slop from useful tech.
I'm so busy networking this week in hopes of finding some clients for the baby software company @theJayWay and I are launching.
Not the mode of work I am used to, if I'm honest, but it is surely interesting to leave my comfort zone (Neovim) occasionally.
Coming up with an ethical sustainable business model is kind of hard, but I think we are slowly getting there. I am getting slightly tired of the narrative of AI being a necessary part of everything though.
I was embarrassingly unaware of the fact that brainstorming in groups is indeed less efficient than everyone having a go at a solution on their own first and then comparing notes. 😱
Anhebung der #pendlerpauschale ist mal wieder so eine unsoziale fossile Idee. Es entlastet natürlich nur jene, die hinreichend viel Steuern bezahlen und das auch erst bei der nächsten Steuererklärung. Und es setzt natürlich ohnehin den falschen Anreiz weiter so viel Öl zu verbrauchen wie jetzt.
no idea why the thumbnail for the link refers to the German language 🤔
I signed up to @inventaire and ended up scanning a bunch of my books with it. I like the idea behind that platform.
Just in case you are curious about what I read or even want to borrow some books…