RedBlueThing
redbluething.bsky.social
RedBlueThing
@redbluething.bsky.social
Developer, Digital Cartographer, Sceptic, Enthusiast, CTO Professional Superannuation Management

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I spent fourteen years mapping Patrick O'brian's Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels.

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Too many requests? Hrm. I wonder why that is.
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of these things first youtu.be/bzqe3gKL7r8?...
One of These Things First - Nick Drake (Josh Turner Guitar Cover)
YouTube video by Josh Turner Guitar
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October 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
48 hours of rendering later. #Blender

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This is my take on the articulated pod vehicle from @aptshadow.bsky.social's recent science fiction novel Shroud. You should probably read it, it's great.
Shroud Pod - Scene One
YouTube video by RedBlueThing
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October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Seven hundred and six frames to go. It begins!! #Blender
October 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Sparks #Blender
October 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Trying to get the Shroud atmostphere soupy while still clear enough to see the robotic limbs and creepy folliage. :P #Blender

/cc @aptshadow.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Working on some flora for my Shroud scene. #Blender
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Excited about Hedge Knight 🤞

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Inane Commentary and Development Progress by Tom Horn
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October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
On the flesh easting scarabs from the 1999 film The Mummy

"I like a film that has good acting roles for insects" @aptshadow.bsky.social

starshipalexandria.com
Starship Alexandria
The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...
starshipalexandria.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fake ATO is giving me Aunt Ethel from Baldur's Gate vibes.
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Test render for my current project. It's quite dark on Shroud.

/cc @aptshadow.bsky.social

#Blender
September 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
All gimbal'd up and ready to go.

#Blender
September 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Arm is borken #Blender
September 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
More progress on my Shroud pod. #Blender
September 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Fingers
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A system I work with uses this file name schema:

<file name prefix>_YYYYDDMM_<postfix>.log

You're welcome.
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"William Robertson in 1888 hated K so much he moved it up to the digit row."

aresluna.org/the-primitiv...
The primitive tortureboard
Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY
aresluna.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"The collar around the pod that had the legs fixed to it, with the main body of the pod designed to pivot freely within it, ensured that we, the occupants, were kept the right way up no matter what" @aptshadow.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"Evidently, these agentic coding tools continue to lack sufficiently secure defaults, design patterns, or systematic defenses that minimize the possibility of impactful prompt injection"

blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/w...
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. W...
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August 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
@aptshadow.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social The Master and Commander Starship Alexandria episode was great! Would love to hear what you think of my personal Aubrey Maturin project:

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August 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Spooky gnome
August 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Today I logged in to the social media and learned that there is at least one sitting US congress person who believes the government should ban the trails of tiny ice crystals created by passing aircraft...

It upsets me that I felt compelled to include the qualifier "at least".
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"a single, spherical device that can be used for typewriting"

sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents
Keyboard Patents
A gallery list of patents relating to IBM and family keyboard, typewriter and keypunch technology
sharktastica.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM