@prologic@twtxt.net Absolutely! It is essential to practice and deepen every art 😄

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Programming is art. You become good at art by practising your art. You learn artistic patterns by being inspired by and reading others art works. The most importance however is that you practise your art.

@prologic@twtxt.net Sounds like art to me 😀

Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies
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‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
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Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You’re realling pushing it with those distances. 😅 I went for a quick 2km walk today, saw two deer, that’s it. 😅

What the heck is going on in 86.jpg? An art installation, apparently, but, uh, I wouldn’t trust that. 😂

The Art of Assembly Language
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Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers
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Nice Things with SVG
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@thecanine@twtxt.net contribution mine:

“Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost—thanks to @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org—entirely HTML 5 complient) website.”

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.

Switzerland’s Vinyl Turntable Roundabout: Unique Road Art
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There’s a secret art easter egg thing, hidden on my website ( https://thecanine.ueuo.com ), for this years April fools event - it’s been there for a few weeks, but now I can finally give hints.

The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson
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Bit of an update, there is now a general licence for all my stuff:

“Unless projects are accompanied by a different license, Creative Commons apply (“BY-NC-ND” for all art featuring the Canine mascot and “BY-NC” for everything else).”

It’s even included on my website, where most of the demand for a clear licence originated from:

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In practice this changes nothing, as I was never enforcing anything more than this anyway and given permission for other use too. Now it’s just official that this is the baseline, of what can be done, without having to ask for permission first.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-D

In the meantime, I tried to add English subtitles, so the international audience has a chance of enjoying some of them, too. There are a bunch of puns, so translations don’t work at that great.

I went to an exhibition of my fine arts teacher who passed away last year. He was a pretty cool dude and good teacher. I reckon I had him in 7th and probably also 8th grade. His Schelme (imps) were very famous here in this county and presumably well beyond.

Unfortunately, picture frame glas doesn’t mix all that great with a fairly dark light and my camera. So, sorry in adavance for the poor quality. Anyway, I photographed a few funny paintings. Watch out, it may contain saucy contents: https://lyse.isobeef.org/siegfried-wagner-farrenstall-2025-03-15/.

Zen and the art of microcode hacking
Now that we have examined the vulnerability that enables arbitrary microcode patches to be installed on all (un-patched) Zen 1 through Zen 4 CPUs, let’s discuss how you can use and expand our tools to author your own patches. We have been working on developing a collection of tools combined into a single project we’re calling zentool. The long-term goal is to provide a suite of capabilities similar to binutils, but targeting AMD microcode instead of CPU mach … ⌘ Read more

We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

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Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.

I didn’t come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.

I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bob’s view is on certain subjects.

I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And I’ve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While “one function should only do one thing” is a nice general rule, I’m 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesn’t help readability at all. Not even close.

To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I don’t mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bob’s camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.

Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. I’ll always do it the other way around.

I’ve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, I’ve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesn’t automatically mean that it is good and justified.

But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go John’s route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. It’s a hard art.

I perhaps should read up on John’s work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz franz von stuck is one of my fave artists and i was so delighted to see one of his pieces displayed in person but i got separated from my family when i saw it and just barely got a pic before my sister dragged me back to follow them away T__T next time i will see if the met has more of his art… https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/m/franz-von-stuck-inferno-1908/

Auf arte läuft heute Abend “The Cure”. Erst eine Doku über die Band und jetzt das Jubiläumskonzert von 2018. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120866-000-A/the-cure-anniversary-1978-2018/

changing my video site’s logo to this silly no thoughts head empty tux clip art. because i can. https://openclipart.org/detail/103855/tux-the-penguin

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz just spent like an hour playing with this and adding newjeans ASCII art this is the cutest shit ever

Goodbye Blender, I guess? 🤔

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A bit annoying, but not much of a problem. The only thing I did with Blender was make some very simple 3D-printable objects.

I’ll have a look at the alternatives out there. Worst case is I go back to Art of Illusion, which I used heavily ~15 years ago.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de tried translating that and it said Art lover/enthusiast, that could be correct since that despise of the artificial stems out of “Love for the Actual real Art” although that’s a subjective statement in itself; xD duckduckgo’s translation thing spat out “künstliche-Kunsthasser”

/me wantis to learn german so bad!

I’m not even supposed to do be doing any of this, I should be making stuff* with Shapes, forms and color instead of poking at software with a stick like a caveman. 😆

*Stuff: Things I make and refuse to call Art, unless I have to in a resume and what not.

Vu le Comte de Monte Cristo hier soir, avec le brillant Pierre Ninet. Je n’ai pas vu les 3h passer, ce film est une oeuvre d’art. Il y a un peu de tous les genres, les acteurs sont excellents et je parie que certains jeunes seront revus bientôt. Bravo! N’hésitez pas à aller le voir si ce n’est pas déjà fait

Chouette série d’Eleonore Costes for i in $(jot 8 1); do yt-dlp “https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/110114-00${i}-A/bouchon-${i}-8/”; done

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, that sh!t is pure (net)art!

21:30, madame est enfin rentrée, ses supérieures lui demandent de compléter le projet d’école et préciser des indicateurs de réussite. Elle est épuisée. Je viens de finir les bulletins, les cours de demain tiennent à peu près la route. Il faudrait vérifier tous les papiers pour la sortie de la semaine prochaine. Et répondre aux parents inquiets pour leur enfant qui va mal (à juste titre). Mon aîné a de la fièvre. L’environnement brûle. Ma patronne (AOC) se fout de la gueule du monde. Alors ce soir, tant pis, ça sera One Piece, j’ai du retard à récupérer. Eichiro Oda, tu as la lourde tâche de me redonner foi en l’humanité. Seul ce qui nous différencie des animeux le peut encore. Il y avait les peintures rupestres, il y a la musique, le dessin et les récits. La création, l’art, voilà tout ce qui permettra à nos enfants de tenir.

going thru my own old drawings, exploring those distant worlds, like an archaeologist. tracing origins and evolutions #draw #art #trip #mind

funny how looking at someone’s sketchbook might very well be like looking at an entire hidden world #art #draw #trip #phyilosophy

Un punto bastante interesante sobre la preservación de juegos ‘vieeeejos’ es tenerlos en museos y bibliotecas. El reto es poderlos disfrutar en toda su duración de una forma relativamente cómoda. ¿Tu cómo lo propondrías?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-art-world/the-puzzle-of-putting-video-games-in-a-museum

Art is not the medium.

The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.

Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net You are conflating “aiming your eyes at” with “viewing art”. These are fundamentally different activities.

@darch@neotxt.dk What do you mean when you say that art is a lie?

@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net

(1) You go to the store and buy a microwave pizza. You go home, put it in the microwave, heat it up. Maybe it’s not quite the way you like it, so you put some red pepper on it, maybe some oregano.

Are you a pizza chef? No. Do we know what your cooking is like? Also no.

(2) You create a prompt for StableDiffusion to make a picture of an elephant. What pops out isn’t quite to your liking. You adjust the prompt, tweak it a bunch, till the elephant looks pretty cool.

Are you an artist? No. Do we know what your art is like? Also no.

The elephant is “fake art” in a similar sense to how a microwave pizza is “fake pizza”. That’s what I meant by that word. The microwave pizza is a sort of “simulation of pizza”, in this sense. The generated elephant picture is a simulation of art, in a similar sense, though it’s even worse than that and is probably more of a simulacrum of art since you can’t “consume” an AI-generated image the way you “consume” art.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also think it is best called fake. Art is created by human beings, for human beings. It mediates a relationship between two people, and is a means of expression.

A computer has no inner life, no feelings, no experience of the world. It is not sentient. It has no life. There’s nothing “in” there for it to express. It’s just generating pixels in patterns we’ve learned to recognize. These AI technologies are carefully crafted to fool people into experiencing the things they experience when they look at human-made art, but it is an empty experience.

#event Upcomming Meetup in Copennhagen: algolab(the_art_of_live_coding) @ Støberiet / Computer Klub

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Dark Arts
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#uxn #noodle «awake» gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/art/noodle/awake.bit

Etegami https://beyond-calligraphy.com/2017/01/10/introduction-art-etegami/