hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0Interactive fiction, computational art, Democratic political tech. Studying native plant horticulture. Amateur scholar of fringe utopian sci-fi. I will pet your dog.
My mom (in her 70s) is always asking me questions about AI, so last time I was home I showed her how Claude Code works so we could vibecode a Wordle clone together. I also showed how I would normally write code in an editor to make a few final tweaks.
When we were done she said, “I had no idea what you did for a living was so boring.”
I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems
This year I’ve gotten way into native plant gardening, which is a hobby where you willingly dig up Flowering Emerald Princess Lily to replace it with Hairy Appalachian Swampthistle.
"A Letter Groove" for #nanogenmo this year: a program to produce images in the style of artists' books, given an #iiif manifest to a manuscript. https://github.com/lizadaly/a-letter-groove/
@retech@defcon.social I mean she's not wrong! It's been 30 years of typing in a chair