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 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. 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: 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.  @exquisitecorp nice :) i have a similar one, albeit monochromatic https://days.cblgh.org What are some of the open source projects you support financially? 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) and possibly some more i'm forgetting. Rather than direct my money to subscription services I try to pay donations to the open source software I rely on daily. besides open source software, I make my largest annual donation to Books Through Bars in NYC, an all volunteer-run group that sends free, donated books to incarcerated people across the country. 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 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.' There's a print and play paper roguelike here called Chronicles of Stampadia https://www.kesiev.com/stampadia/play.html There's also a a digital way to play as well.  @exquisitecorp I'm glad Kesiev is still making stuff! My very first open source work was documenting a game engine they wrote I was motivated to recreate a shareware game I used to play 25 years ago, with my sister, on a CD-Rom of 100 games for Mac. (system 7?). I don't know the name of that original game but have attempted to implement my own version. it's a resource / survival strategy game like a simplified Oregon Trail game. Plays in the browser, has a pretty good soundtrack! @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" @exquisitecorp this was on my to-read pile but you inspired me, well, to read. thanks :) I'm trying to give my students the simplest process to make a blog in 2021. Fastest way go without setting up a static site generator or wordpress. One test right now is a repo as blog. Obviously as-is with markdown, or you can add config file and it will render as a website without the other jekyll stuff. For example, as a test I made this blog in a repo: https://leetusman.com/algoraves/ i'm writing with a frontend GUI by going to https://prose.io and signing into my github any other options? I looked as write.as but didn't see images allowed. bear.app is mac-only. tumblr is ...outdated, but great. zonelets is cool but extra steps. i suppose i could teach pandoc. another option is strapdown pages in a repo. https://strapdownjs.com/ i think my solution may be the most elegant though? just write markdown in a repo, click to turn into a github pages and choose theme. use prose.io for a frontend. profit. |
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@exquisitecorp I like this mode of making decisions