Kyle McDonald
@kcimc.bsky.social
artist working with code kylemcdonald.net
after 2.5 years of vibe coding, my biggest takeaway? native apps are dead. iterating for the web is so much faster, has better tooling, and lower overhead. low-latency, multi-projector, 3d, spatial audio, custom hardware—ai will continue to have trouble with these.
January 7, 2026 at 12:14 AM
after 2.5 years of vibe coding, my biggest takeaway? native apps are dead. iterating for the web is so much faster, has better tooling, and lower overhead. low-latency, multi-projector, 3d, spatial audio, custom hardware—ai will continue to have trouble with these.
RPI stack overflow (2009-2026)
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
RPI stack overflow (2009-2026)
sailing from lumolumo to dawson island
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
sailing from lumolumo to dawson island
water witches and solar power
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
water witches and solar power
from the other side of the welcoming party
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
from the other side of the welcoming party
betel nut, berries, apples and coconuts
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
betel nut, berries, apples and coconuts
new cables and old ladders
October 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
new cables and old ladders
a short trip from alotau to lumolumo with an incredible welcoming
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
a short trip from alotau to lumolumo with an incredible welcoming
“transformirror” with daito manabe will be at cinekid this year 🤗
Come play in our Cinekid MediaLab: 18 - 24 October - open every day 10 am - 5 pm. Tickets & full program cinekid.nl/medialab2025 with works of @kcimc.bsky.social @haykranen.nl #xrlab #smartphoneorchestra and many more!
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“transformirror” with daito manabe will be at cinekid this year 🤗
i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc
the latest realtime video-to-video demos are wild
July 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
the latest realtime video-to-video demos are wild
icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles
ICESPY
Find ICE employees using face recognition.
icespy.org
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles
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The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny (2015) by Chris Sugrue, Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social, Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry → www.creativeapplications.net/project/the-...
The Augmented Hand Series - Playful, dreamlike and uncanny
The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.
www.creativeapplications.net
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny (2015) by Chris Sugrue, Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social, Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry → www.creativeapplications.net/project/the-...
has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers.
February 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers.
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social i would love to hear your take on the latest quantum news azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.
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February 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social i would love to hear your take on the latest quantum news azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...
the cross-disciplinary technical mastery in this project is off the charts. if you spend any time thinking about strange sensors, this is a must read.
February 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
the cross-disciplinary technical mastery in this project is off the charts. if you spend any time thinking about strange sensors, this is a must read.
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Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
are there any citizen science efforts to figure out what is actually in the air and in the ash in LA right now?
January 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
are there any citizen science efforts to figure out what is actually in the air and in the ash in LA right now?
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Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
Support CAN in 2025
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge —— with your support!
www.creativeapplications.net
January 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/
Reposted by Kyle McDonald
✨JOB ALERT✨
You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices.
It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome.
Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool!
art.cmu.edu/employment/#...
You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices.
It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome.
Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool!
art.cmu.edu/employment/#...
January 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
✨JOB ALERT✨
You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices.
It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome.
Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool!
art.cmu.edu/employment/#...
You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices.
It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome.
Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool!
art.cmu.edu/employment/#...
i'm building an experimental tool for exploring 25 years of my old sketchbooks, with image and text recognition powered by gemini
December 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM
i'm building an experimental tool for exploring 25 years of my old sketchbooks, with image and text recognition powered by gemini
one of my biggest concerns about LLMs is their ability to smother marginalized cultures with homogenizing hallucination. gemini 2.0 flash (released today) is one of the first models to explain the fijian wind compass clearly, succinctly, and accurately.
December 12, 2024 at 12:37 AM
one of my biggest concerns about LLMs is their ability to smother marginalized cultures with homogenizing hallucination. gemini 2.0 flash (released today) is one of the first models to explain the fijian wind compass clearly, succinctly, and accurately.
DID YOU KNOW??? 🤔
a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯
a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯
December 4, 2024 at 7:54 AM
DID YOU KNOW??? 🤔
a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯
a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯
if you're deep in machine learning and excited to work on something that's not ethically ambiguous, this postdoc bioacoustics job at the san diego zoo looks incredible us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
Job opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Post Doctoral Associate - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
us242.dayforcehcm.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM
if you're deep in machine learning and excited to work on something that's not ethically ambiguous, this postdoc bioacoustics job at the san diego zoo looks incredible us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
openai has a closed program where artists are helping them evaluate their video generator sora, and some of the artists just leaked access to draw attention to their “unpaid labor” techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/a...
OpenAI's Sora video generator appears to have leaked | TechCrunch
A group of artists appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what they're calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part.
techcrunch.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:29 PM
openai has a closed program where artists are helping them evaluate their video generator sora, and some of the artists just leaked access to draw attention to their “unpaid labor” techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/a...