I cannot tell if i should get a ticket to XOXO fest. I would like to go and meet the folks who will be there, but it is a lot of money for me (including airfare, place to sleep). i am going to go on a bike ride to the park and see what my brain tells me when i get back.

Spent some time with my art collective today. I've been part of the group 8 years, though it's existed in some form for over 20 years. Some of us live together in different permutations. Others live elsewhere in the world. We meet weekly or monthly, people filtering in and out.

Having longterm community, especially for those of us without traditional family units, not part of a longterm religious grouping, etc- 'showing up' to eat, sing, check out each other's art/music is so life-affirming.

I wrote about the old computer challenge again, this time for the art and technology community. My previous Gemini post was more about the software, install and tutorials. This blog post on my main website is aimed at a more casual audience.

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/old-computer-challenge

Irony of ironies: I ordered Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the posthumously published book on an anarchist pirate community, by David Graeber, and it was stolen from the porch after it was delivered! I had to order another copy. Serves me right 🏴🏴‍☠️

Hi academics, do you have examples of writing in donating/paying for open source software as part of your grants, that was accepted by your school? I'm working on a grant at my school and would like to include funds to donate to some libraries/languages and the like that i teach with, but finding it hard to argue to donate to them

I put a copy of the annual season clock up here:
https://leetusman.com/everyday/272/

It takes 365 days to rotate around once. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like too :)

In the northern hemisphere it is winter. The hand hovers between purple-violet and blue

I find it fairly calming and randomly pull up the clock every month or so.

What are some of the open source projects you support financially?
This year I donated to (in no particular order):

Regolith (desktop environment), Amfora gemini client, Thunderbird email client, Lurk (server, community), Merveilles (server, community), Neovim (text editor), Imagemagick (image editing swiss army knife toolkit), ffmpeg (video editing toolkit swiss army knife), Krita (image editing software), Wikimedia, Kde (for kdenlive and Ghostwriter), Love2d (Lua videogame framework)

I made an ambient noise field recording microcassette tape 2 weeks ago.

It's up here https://leetusman.com/everyday/250/ and on soundcloud.

Features me singing loops, recordings of drunk danes singing slowed hip hop, modular synth, generative music software i wrote, eating, a baby crying, etc.

Just came across DIY Methods 2022

A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote-Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange

https://www.diymethods.net/

Was just talking to a student yesterday, who didn't know the game Dope Wars, and i was thinking 'damn, kids are deprived today. they don't know the good life with dope wars for TI-83 graphing calculator.'
i'd love to do a gamejam where people make resource management games like this, re-imagining what the game could be, detourning it, addressing sex, race, class, drugs, politics.
would especially be fun for those just learning to code, or trying a new language. or maybe a TinyBasic game jam

There's a print and play paper roguelike here called Chronicles of Stampadia
https://kesiev.com/stampadia
A new dungeon is generated each day.

https://www.kesiev.com/stampadia/play.html

There's also a a digital way to play as well.
I played one game, interesting mechanics translating from computer "AI" (randomness) back to paper (since D&D is often cited as one of the main inspirations for roguelikes).

@darius for some reason, this article made me think of you! (both as botmaker, someone who writes about structure, as well as your talk on "how i won the lottery"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/magazine/garfield-twitter.html