David Pritchard
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David Pritchard
@drpritch.bsky.social
3D graphics : web + mobile : threejs

Apple
More cyberpunk, but “The Dervish House” was good.
September 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's true. Parasocial relationships with our favourite podcasters... is on the nose.
June 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Out of masochism - and a desire to stay in touch with “the regular folks” - I still often surf the web without an ad blocker. I’m talking about the Taboola type junk ads.
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The first week on my job, browsing the web through a US VPN, I was shocked at the mix of ads I got. I don’t know if it defaults me to the “average English speaker” or to “Silicon Valley male” but either way… wow. The gun ads, the bodybuilding, the drug ads. That said - it has clearly toned down.
June 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ditto Ottawa! Very helpful for my cellular-watch-maps-only child.
June 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
What, you don’t get 20 weapons ads in your feed per day to ensure you know the industry approved naming?
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“Yank tank”. I am definitely borrowing that.
June 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hm, and I guess latitude would be another candidate theory - provided that you accept “north is up” then “distance north of equator” would give y = up for a Eurocentric point of view. Ptolemy, 150AD.

Dammit, now I want to know.
June 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
For sure. Maybe someone can chime in with an actual historian. All I have on my shelf is this Playfair one from 1783, taken from Tufte’s discussions on the origins of graphs:
June 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My guess: from bar graphs, where “higher stack” = more, and that probably comes from stacking coins on a table. So y=up might come from gravity, not language?
June 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We got an electric cooler for this purpose, after food poisoning during our last 8 day power outage.

In a city where only 20% blacks out at a time, my car IS my powerwall, and I can drive it a few kms to refill.

Curious about this, though it voids the warranty:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter
Using a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power.
arstechnica.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM