- Hat and Teeshirt ✶
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Also just in the merch shop: The word “hat” set on a hat, and the word “teeshirt” set on a t-shirt.
- Color Theory Triangle ✶
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An equilateral triangle made of nine smaller triangles of primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors, available in the merch shop. After the color theory work of Joseph Albers.
Saturday, 16 March 2024
- Time Pencil Drawing ✶
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A pencil drawing of a malfunctioning analogue clock I made to represent “time” and remind myself that there is only now. No past, no future, just the present moment. Available on various merchandise such as t-shirts, stickers, and art prints at the shop.
- ♫ Blue Fish(青い魚) ✶
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Song by Sachiko Kanenobu(金延幸子).
Friday, 15 March 2024
- Vision Pro is the Northstar of VR ✶
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Hugo Barra gives a good overview of how Apple over-engineered their headset to set a VR gold standard with two main advantages:
- Feeling present and connected to your physical world.
- UI superpower with gaze & pinch.
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Vision Pro is the first VR headset that offers good enough resolution and visual acuity with little semblance of a screen door effect or pixelation artifacts. This level of presence and fidelity could only be made possible with an ultra high-res display, and it’s 100% clear that achieving an first-of-its-kind level of display quality was the internal launch bar for Vision Pro at Apple.
- ♫ Heart on Fire ✶
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Soulful driving song by Little Simz.
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Arma Reforger Update 1.1 ✶
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Resistance Ops coop PvE scenario for up to 5 players on the large Everon Island, basically AntiStasi in Reforger!
I’m particularly interested in the lighting…
Lighting both indoors and out has been significantly improved. Overall, the lighting is more vibrant, which is especially noticeable during the picturesque sunrises and sunsets of Arland and Everon. New clouds with more authentic and variable shapes cast more explicit shadows in cloudy weather. In addition, the lighting coming into buildings from the outside is more explicit, and foliage obstructs sunlight much more naturally, even from a distance.
…and AI improvements:
This update has introduced two crucial improvements to AI behavior making non-human players more formidable adversaries on the battlefield. They now demonstrate improved tactics like seeking cover from fire and employing smoke grenades when aiding downed comrades. These new behaviors are very noticeable in-game, and we think you will find your AI opponents (and teammates) to be much more effective combatants.
Saturday, 9 March 2024
- West with the Night ✶
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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.
Friday, 8 March 2024
- Iron Arachne ✶
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Tools for procedural generation of content for tabletop role-playing games by Ben Overmyer.
- Goodbye, Akira Toriyama ✶
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Creator of many heros, a shy hero himself.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
—The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Those days…
I was so excited at the opening.
I really believed that I could hit the ball.
—Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot - Commercial: “We are all Son Goku!”, auto-translated from the Japanese subtitles.
Via HN.
Thursday, 7 March 2024
- Meditations ✶
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Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone — those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us — a chasm whose depths we cannot see. So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress. Or any indignation, either. As if the things that irritate us lasted.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Gregory Hays translation, page 61.
- Regular streams should begin again in the next week or two once the storm of work and life has quieted a little.
- You can now have me read a random passage from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations using channel points to redeem “Meditation” when live on-stream. Perfect for when I’m dodging blades or bullets.
- Redeemable video Aeronca Thunder Kiss, also available as 65 bit cheer reward.
- ♫ Xenarthran ✶
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Beautiful song by musician and author Jonathan Meiburg.
- ♫ Il Mio Nome è Mai Più ✶
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A 25 year old song by Jovanotti, Luciano Ligabue, and Piero Pelù.
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
- ♫ Everything Matters ✶
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From Aurora’s third studio album, The Gods We Can Touch.
- ♫ Concerto grosso after Domenico Scarlatti No. 5 in D minor ✶
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Concerto V en Re Menor para Cuerdas y B.C. ‘in Seven Parts Done from the Lessons of Domenico Scarlatti’ (Londres, 1742–43) : Largo · Carlos Mena · Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla · Charles Avison · Nicolau de Figueiredo.
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
- Ace of Aces WW1 Dogfighting Boardgame Breakdown ✶
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Airplane, boardgame, math, and computer aficionados, this one is for you.
- ♫ Sajni ✶
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Arooj Aftab’s ethereal vocals, with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily, from the album Love in Exile.
- ♫ So What ✶
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From Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, with John Coltrane and Julian Adderley on saxophone, Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
Via HN.
Monday, 19 February 2024
- ♫ The Bug Collector ✶
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Phenomenal composition and performance by Haley Heynderickx.
Sunday, 18 February 2024
Prince of Persia
I first played the jumping and parrying to avoid death and find your love video game Prince of Persia on an IBM 386 at a friend’s house. I never saved the princess, though I did wall-run to the end of a later version called The Sands of Time.
Needing games that I can run from any computer while traveling I plan to play the original game, maybe SDL (source code) or JS versions, and also the latest Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, which has been compared to Hollow Knight and Ori, and see if I can reach their finales.
Jordan Mechner, the original game’s creator, has made an illustrated book about the making of the game which has been a joy to read, like most books that illuminate the creative process of talented people.
I also bought his graphic memoir, Replay, and in the spirit of the creative process will be keeping Prince of Persia gameplay notes and links to streams here, once they begin again.
Peace out for now.
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Tuesday, 13 February 2024
- Pixel Heart ✶
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A heart made of little squares called picture elements, or pixels, many of which are forming the image that you are looking at right now. In the merch shop just in time for Valentine’s day.
Monday, 12 February 2024
- Apple /// Horses Demo ✶
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Andy Hertzfeld, one of the creators of the Macintosh computer:
Someone disassembled and recreated an Apple /// demo that I wrote in early 1980, the colorful “Running Horses” demo that was used as part of the launch. It used images originally created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878.
See also: The Horse in Motion.
- Observer Eye and 10 Print Code ✶
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Two new computer-related designs in the merch shop:
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Observer Eye Symbol in the Miscellaneous Technical Unicode block, made in 2015. It is a profile view of an eye representing the act of observation. The pupil also looks a bit like a radio antenna.
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10 Print Code, a classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program that generates random labyrinths. Read a lot more about it in this book.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
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Wednesday, 7 February 2024
- Quick Alphabet ✶
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Letters moving quickly are now available in the merch shop:
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