mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Audiovisual artist; one half of #OutputArts; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby #FlitterLang; @installations@social.emfcamp.org lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas for 2028!)
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My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.
You wouldn't believe my THINK usage. I am now non-stop THINKing: from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. With just a single brain I can write emails, code, draw diagrams, hold conversations… even make tea! Best thing? All this THINKing is powered entirely with biscuits! All you people wasting millions of dollars on Claude tokens are going to be left behind. If you're not THINKmaxxing now, you're an idiot!
It is the time of year where the bumblebees come out of hibernation in our chimney and the ladybirds come out of hibernation in the frames of the sash windows; we are now continually rescuing them from the house and helping them on their ways…
I’m sure the Astral tools are all very useful but, controversial opinion here, my preferred way to debug Python code is by reading and understanding it…
This is honestly the sort of web shit I live for – particularly that, of course, many of the horses are cats or crabs or… Also love that the website allows you to immediately order a mug with your drawing of a "horse" on it
Just been doing kite-design workshops with two classes of 9/10 year olds locally – equal parts exhausting and brilliant, as ever. Some of the designs are incredibly sophisticated.
So my EMF talk from last year, “I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist,” is now available for your viewing pleasure! I have watched only a tiny part of it because I can't bear to see myself on screen, but some people said nice things about it at the time.