Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
17 posts total
Jack Rusher

Periodic thread of what I think of as extremely Berlin moments:

Stopped at a red light on my bike while riding home from the gym yesterday, I hear a familiar beat slowly coming into audio focus behind me. Smiling, I look back to see a tall person of indeterminate gender piloting a speaker-laden cargo bike containing an extremely chill golden retriever. All three of us seemed to be bobbing our heads in unison to The Prodigy’s Firestarter.

Jack Rusher

Later in the day, while walking home with groceries from the nearby market hall, I see two skinny 20-something lads struggling to hand transport a very tall potted plant. Once I’m close enough I see that it’s a very healthy, leafy, and productive Cannabis plant (newly legal to grow for personal use). After our paths cross, I smell it for the rest of the block.

Jack Rusher

‘We're always rationally explaining and articulating things. But we're at our most intelligent in the moment just before we start to explain or articulate. Great art occurs—or doesn't—in that instant. What we turn to art for is precisely this moment, when we “know” something (we feel it) but can't articulate it because it's too complex and multiple.’

Photo: Akira Kurosawa / Text: George Saunders

Jack Rusher

To all my #clojure people, you probably want to sign up for this:
application.garden/

Jack Rusher

A lesson many projects, including Clojure core, would be wise to internalize:

“Another thing we didn't get right up front was the documentation. We wrote a lot of it, and thought we did a good job, but […]The key missing piece was examples of even the simplest functions. We thought that all you needed to do was say what something did; it took us too long to accept that showing how to use it was even more valuable.”

commandcenter.blogspot.com/202

A lesson many projects, including Clojure core, would be wise to internalize:

“Another thing we didn't get right up front was the documentation. We wrote a lot of it, and thought we did a good job, but […]The key missing piece was examples of even the simplest functions. We thought that all you needed to do was say what something did; it took us too long to accept that showing how to use it was even more valuable.”

Jack Rusher

“Ideally, adults over age 60 should be lifting weights two to four times per week.”

Younger adults too, but it only gets more important with age.

bigthink.com/health/most-damag

Kartik Agaram

@jack I am coming around to this, the trend line in particular. I'm still doing body weight stuff so far, but I seem to be sticking with it. So I have a few years to get into weights 🙂

It's easier now to stick with it than when I was younger, because I see the results in increased capability much more quickly, usually the same day. And I also see the effects of missing 2 days in a row.

Jack Rusher

In September, a bunch of us took a 3-day train ride from Seattle to St Louis for the last edition of Strange Loop. This video documents that journey, which we called the Trainjam.

Featuring @neauoire @spiralganglion @avi @akkartik @pvh @disconcision @aconbere @mkvlr @unkai
@mattwynne @blaine
(and a couple whose Masto handles I couldn't find.)

youtube.com/watch?v=9qVT0URkkG

Jack Rusher

This #clojure procedural animation was inspired by the design aesthetic of the Penguin paperbacks I read as a boy…

ok

@jack This is amazing! I've just gotten into Clojure and creative coding. Out of curiosity, is this made with Quil?

akahn

@jack that is so lovely. What libraries/tools are you using?

Jack Rusher

This 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made…

Jack Rusher

TIL when Peano wrote the 1890s textbook that established much of modern mathematical notation, he did the first few editions in French and the 5th in Latino sine flexione — a simplified Latin of his own creation!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_s

Devine Lu Linvega

@jack I didn't know that, that's amazing. It reminds me of Polgar.

Jedi

@jack Interesting! If we could also drop gender and declension that'd be handy heh... it's also kinda neat that reading the "language examples" of the Wikipedia page isn't that tough!

Devine Lu Linvega

@jack Anyone looking for an example of what that looks like

Konrad Hinsen

@jack Looking forward to... the recording. Geometric algebra deserves to be much better known!

Jack Rusher

Half of what’s wrong with American tech-adjacent intelligentsia stems from reading too much Heinlein and not enough Lem.

Jack Rusher

The simple beauty of modulus arithmetic extended to 3D, coded in #clojure. Inspired by some of @guidoschmidt recent renders :)

Guido Schmidt

@jack Dude 😍 this is so cool. I think this is the first time I am credited as inspiration 🤘

Go Up