Ivan Reese

Ink & Switch • programmable ink
Future of Coding • podcast
Spiral Ganglion • music
Hest • vapor pl

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disjoint: he/him
ointment: https://ivanish.ca
rejoinder: https://futureofcoding.org

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2024-08-07 04:31:10

Teenage Engineering Medieval?
More like Jodorowsky's Zune.

2024-08-05 22:14:47

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They're just so long, is the thing. We're trying to do shorter works.

2024-08-05 18:06:12

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Oh cool! I actually used `with` a bit back in ActionScript 2. It's underrated.

2024-08-05 12:42:12

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not yet!

2024-08-05 05:39:26

It feels good to write css.

2024-08-03 03:55:48

Tonight was ESB — "Luke, I am your father" — with my kid. Big nerd-dad moment.
That's all. I'll be back to VPL shitposts now, sorry.

2024-07-30 23:43:54

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Dreams got ever-so-slightly closer. And there are things like Incredible Machine, or (arguably) Factorio. Gotta get away from the use-mode/edit-mode distinction.
Do you Eskil Steenberg's “game” LOVE, and the ecosystem of tools around it? That might be the closest. Things like… in the modeller, a space ship sometimes flies by and shoots at your mesh.

2024-07-30 23:30:22

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AFAIK, instead of AppleScript, they now heavily encourage App Intents (and related, like Siri Intents), which are used by Shortcuts, some Siri features, and especially Apple Intelligence. So the principle is similar, though the interface changed significantly. (I think for the better, but I suspect this is a hot take.)

2024-07-30 23:24:58

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A) The GUI happened
B) Multimedia happened. My school curriculum included Logo, Photoshop, Macromedia Director and (eventually) Flash — not counting optional stuff I studied like 3D animation, video production, etc.
C) The web happened. I knew a lot of kids in the late 90s/early 00s who made websites, but not more traditional "software”.

2024-07-30 23:17:42

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oh heck, you got me.
Also — I'm very likely going to switch FoC away from a managed podcast hosting service and just hand-roll the RSS feed. I do that for the Hest podcast and it's so much less hassle.
I have a raging flaming poisoning case of "not invented here”.

2024-07-27 17:22:22

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I wish the politics around LSD (in particular) weren't so messed up. I wish microdosing wasn't so intertwined with the general shittiness of Silicon Valley culture.
Anyway, this is a great reference. Would love to read an experience report from Engelbart. Can you imagine?

2024-07-25 17:18:08

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So it's "dake-stra" not "dyke-stra”?

2024-07-25 17:10:42

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booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 👏 👏 👏
(…DIJKSTRA!)

2024-07-22 05:36:57

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say more

2024-07-22 02:09:40

What would it mean for programming to be "quiet" or "loud"?

2024-06-24 20:33:22

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Yes, this. I don't want to pay the costs of moving FoC off slack until either slack gets worse (because it's *always* been roughly as bad as it is today, and is in some ways better than ever) or until we have some alternative that is so much better as to be worth paying the switching costs.
We've been teetering on the edge of switching for years, and I'm now willing/able to pay some of those costs, and slack is about to get worse. Seems like it's time.

2024-05-04 00:19:46

Let's say I wanted to make my own webfont from scratch. Like, even drawing my own glyphs. Where do I start? Good tutorials?
Also, let's say that I care a lot about the number of bytes in the font. Then what?

2024-04-18 23:33:39

The soft hum
from the disk.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/294/836/017/558/389/original/0ef9774206c7afae.png

2024-04-11 13:35:25

To whoever needs to hear this:
Your blog is better without an image than with an AI-generated one. I came here to read your words — let them stand for themselves!
If you *must* use an image, and some soulless AI mockery would suffice, do this instead:
Step outside, and take a photo of wherever you are.
Include a lot of sky, if you can.
This implicit "here's where I am" is a better reflection of your work than whatever midjourney or stable diffusion would splort out.