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Sailing through forest fire smoke surrounded by the sound of breaching whales, but we can't see them.
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 Felix has release UF8 #forth! It makes use of the recent improvements to Varvara. UF is a graphics capable forth implementation in a 4kb kernel. 
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From Oslo to Santander, Spain, Seed Journey sails upon RS-10 Christiania, an 1895, wooden rescue sailboat designed by renowned shipwright, Colin Archer. futurefarmers have all sorts of pretty cool projects Fundamentally, creativity is a question of time. Mostly of our daily activity with computers happens through hopefully speedy but ossified software. We use the computer in “speedrun mode.” This is the paradox of creative coding: the coding part is supposed to make things faster, the creative part requires that things go slowly.  @neauoire I agree. I can identify two modes, one which requires creativity (or learning new skills) and one where I'm familiar enough that I can probably design at the keyboard. For the former I'll spend days thinking, reading if needed, and trying out different designs in my head until I have the whole thing figured out. That process is very creative and I can feel the familiar buzz as hurdles are overcome, things fit together, simplify and I can't resist the urge to go implement it. Flicking through this excellent little book. "To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security." The lack of wind forces us to stay put right now, keeping us in the forest fire smoke. Not ideal
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   Finished up the illustration of Yajnev's head bursting, causing the Vetetrandes to be engulfed in an opaque impenetrable lock.  @neauoire I'm a big fan of this world. I have a loosely related game idea called Late Motive where a solitary sentient atom in the remote future bootstraps a new reality after the Big Rip by solving puzzles, and optimal solutions create aspects of reality like Rotation, Locality and Charge, and suboptimal solutions generate things like Doubt, Adversity and Spite Fun little glitch from parallelizing interface drawing with a routine that stores a bit of state during self-modification.   @neauoire I once attempted to write a Visual Basic routine that would force a window to always be a square shape after resizing. However, I did it very poorly based on averaging the width and height, triggered by a resize event, so it would repeatedly trigger itself and slowly vibrate into a square shape, which was not at all what I was going for but was extremely entertaining to play with. Being able to drawn more than 1-bit pictures in #uxn is pretty nice. The program draws so little power, that even on a grey day like today, I can draw for hours at a time. 30 minutes of Gimp, or 2 hours of Oekaki, the choice is easy. Marvin Minsky, Tracy Kidder, E. M. Forster, Ellen Ullman, ... Personal challenge for 2024, read books that don't include the word "machine" in the title.
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 OK: We'll start heading south in a few days. We haven't been able to get rid of garbage since May, we have been stuffing all plastics into this jug, it's so dense now that it looks like it's about to burst. It'll be nice to get rid of that Not being able to trace guide-lines from outside the canvas' bounds was getting kind of a pain, added canvas viewport.
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Their gorgeous DIY vessel.
https://www.omick.net/adventure/minimus_ii/sea_trials/sea_trials.html
@neauoire We need versions of that site for different parts of Canada :) Like Edmonton for instance... /cc @chad