Yes, yes, I'm one of those AI users now
What my chess app taught me about the future of multi-user software
I was skeptical that AT Proto was anything more than Bluesky-with-extra-steps, learnt how much potential the protocol has after building a multiplayer chess app, entirely client side and "on protocol". The real value is that apps become different views into the same data.
Into the Great Wide Open, or, Road-trippin' in South Dakota
There is a place in the United States of America where if you happen to glance out your window as you drive past on the highway, you might see a metal sculpture of a skeletal man leading an equally skeletal T-Rex toward a small western town. Skeleton Man and his pet live “between.” They’re in that hazy world between the place you left and the place you want to be. They are a part of the ride that you live through before you get to where you were really going. There was a time when families used ...
I'll tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Sherman, set the WABAC machine to about 2006, I guess. I hadn't actually had anything other than a point-and-shoot camera in my hands in quite some time. I used to borrow one of those Sony Mavica MVC FD90 cameras from work just about every weekend though. Anyone remember those? You'd put a 1.44 MB (that's megabyte, not gigabyte) floppy disk in the thing as your storage medium. The disk would hold about six shitty 1.6-megapixel images on it, so if you were going anywhere, you'd either have to be ...
Sean Bonney - "poisons, their antidotes"
Before I started cataloging the items in my suitcase, I’d previously resolved this year to read more poetry- starting with the handful of poetry volumes and chapbooks in my collection. Frankly, I feel like I need to take a class or something to get in the mindset of poetry appreciation – from 1000 feet up poetry shares many of the attributes that make photography so interesting to me (particularly the scale of individual works and the history of artists publishing), but it’s difficult for me to ...
This is not my first blog post.
In fact, if I ever decided to make a real tally, I think the result would be in the high hundreds. I have had a lot of different blogs over the years, in many different blogging platforms. I've witnessed the slow death of personal blogging and the birth of aesthetic curated posting, themes going from quirky and fun to the nauseatingly pervasive white clean aesthetic we see today. I've followed blogs from teenagers and witnessed them become adults with careers - some abandoning blogging altogethe...
boterismo makes me smile
i have wanted to talk about the art of fernando botero for a couple weeks and part of me wanted to wait until i spent a day with my dear pal, juan, who i had not seen in person in at least a year until last week. here we both are in 2015 dressed as wayne and garth from wayne's world. wanna feel old? a decade ago, i was working out of bocoup's nyc office near canal plastics. we had an awesome wall mural by my then-co-worker, isaac durazo. it was the coolest part of that office, followed closely b...
I'm 35
A birthday is not so fun anymore. Sure, I didn't plan on doing anything, and instead I took a gig so I mostly just worked on my birthday. My fault, I could have planned something. I could have said no to the gig and went to the aquarium with my sweetie and invited my friends to the bar. Oh well. I can still do all that. But an opportunity to run sound for a jazz gig that also introduces me to new people who can hire me? Don't wanna pass that up! But even still, it was uneventful. And I'm 35 now....
How to make Turtle Bread 🍞🐢
June 1, 2024: I made the turtle bread from the Alpha Bakery Children’s Cookbook. It came out so cute!! I haven’t gotten a chance to taste it yet but I hope it is tasty :) edit: it was tasty ! Alright, let's get right into the recipe: