Aslan French
@jcklpe.bsky.social
Designer working in civic tech.
I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...
Code the ultimate UI: A UX designer designs a programming language.
YouTube video by Austin Tech Live
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November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...
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there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.
Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.
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Our meetup next month features @jcklpe.bsky.social discussing Enzo, a programming language of his own design, join us! www.meetup.com/eff-austin/e...
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Our meetup next month features @jcklpe.bsky.social discussing Enzo, a programming language of his own design, join us! www.meetup.com/eff-austin/e...
I'm a ux designer and I designed and implemented my own programming language called Enzo.
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm a ux designer and I designed and implemented my own programming language called Enzo.
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
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Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
They Might Be Giants (For Kids)
You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween
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You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween
bsky.app/profile/ianb...
They Might Be Giants KEXP set!!
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
Everyone should be forced to read Wittgenstein for this reason. It would save this world so much trouble if we just strangled linguistic prescription in the cradle.
found a freak
August 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Everyone should be forced to read Wittgenstein for this reason. It would save this world so much trouble if we just strangled linguistic prescription in the cradle.
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I have one anti-talent and it's the total shutdown of my brain when I have to spell something over the phone. "It's B as in uhh Bichael"
August 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I have one anti-talent and it's the total shutdown of my brain when I have to spell something over the phone. "It's B as in uhh Bichael"
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the point of the Turing Test was not so much to set a test as much as a trap. Turing was "OK, this is the most objective way I can imagine to conceptualize intelligence. If a machine passes this [1] you must either accept the machine to be intelligent or revise the definition"
Since Turing's paper in 1949 there was an immense amount of philosophical discussion that the Turing Test is not particularly useful or important in judging the intelligence of a machine.
August 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
the point of the Turing Test was not so much to set a test as much as a trap. Turing was "OK, this is the most objective way I can imagine to conceptualize intelligence. If a machine passes this [1] you must either accept the machine to be intelligent or revise the definition"
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Absolute bangers from a 4th century joke book
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Absolute bangers from a 4th century joke book
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where do they FIND these people?!
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
where do they FIND these people?!
Literally have a note that it's poetry env in my co-pilot instructions and it still constantly forgets.
We will have achieved AGI when Claude Code doesn’t also forget to check to see what virtual environment is active in this project.
July 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Literally have a note that it's poetry env in my co-pilot instructions and it still constantly forgets.
I'm almost done implementing my programming language, Enzo. It's a toy implementation, and really meant to be more like an art project by a ux designer interested in syntax but I think there are some pretty cool and unique features to it.
July 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm almost done implementing my programming language, Enzo. It's a toy implementation, and really meant to be more like an art project by a ux designer interested in syntax but I think there are some pretty cool and unique features to it.
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great stuff in the personal life section of Shigeru Miyamoto (designer of Mario, Legend of Zelda, etc)
![Miyamoto enjoys rearranging furniture in his house, even late at night.[3] He also stated that he has a hobby of guessing the dimensions of objects, then checking to see if he was correct, and reportedly carries a measuring tape with him everywhere](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid46akqalk4adigke4gikkamkeuwlcl75rhjma47d63v5t4hd7mnq@jpeg)
July 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
great stuff in the personal life section of Shigeru Miyamoto (designer of Mario, Legend of Zelda, etc)
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I only said the car would be "self driving." You assumed that means it doesn't hit people. That's on you
June 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I only said the car would be "self driving." You assumed that means it doesn't hit people. That's on you
UX designers who are impressed by Apple's liquid glass ui are also huge fans of jangling keys
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
UX designers who are impressed by Apple's liquid glass ui are also huge fans of jangling keys
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median AI post by social network:
Twitter: here's how I 10x myself at work (unclear if true)
Facebook: here's some AI slop (unclear if person is aware it's not real)
Bluesky: I made AI do a dumb thing, please clap (unclear if person doesn't know what AI is actually for)
Twitter: here's how I 10x myself at work (unclear if true)
Facebook: here's some AI slop (unclear if person is aware it's not real)
Bluesky: I made AI do a dumb thing, please clap (unclear if person doesn't know what AI is actually for)
June 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
median AI post by social network:
Twitter: here's how I 10x myself at work (unclear if true)
Facebook: here's some AI slop (unclear if person is aware it's not real)
Bluesky: I made AI do a dumb thing, please clap (unclear if person doesn't know what AI is actually for)
Twitter: here's how I 10x myself at work (unclear if true)
Facebook: here's some AI slop (unclear if person is aware it's not real)
Bluesky: I made AI do a dumb thing, please clap (unclear if person doesn't know what AI is actually for)
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I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
November 10, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
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"as a Utilitarian Consequentialist, I believe in Virtue Ethics because every time some group of people abandoned 'Virtue' the outcomes were really awful" is a funny take but also, like, true
May 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"as a Utilitarian Consequentialist, I believe in Virtue Ethics because every time some group of people abandoned 'Virtue' the outcomes were really awful" is a funny take but also, like, true
Went paddleboarding and then saw Jaws in theater today
May 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Went paddleboarding and then saw Jaws in theater today