Ross Cairns
rc1.bsky.social
Ross Cairns
@rc1.bsky.social
Creative Engineer / Technologist / Designer seeks an alt-Twitter for reminiscing MySpace vibes.

Currently exploring Generative AI tools with Google. Previously world AR with Snap, Mixed Reality with Microsoft, and The Workers.

https://rosscairns.com/
Why think critically
January 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEr...

Scientists successfully train rats to drive tiny cars
Scientists successfully train rats to drive tiny cars
YouTube video by Nation
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November 29, 2024 at 2:39 PM
‘Flinging’ begin my term for applying matrices and the like through years of perseverance, grit, intuition and experience rather than mathematical understanding.

Feels like hitting the orange accelerator on Mario Kart thought.
November 29, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Everything is transferrable.

Years spent ‘flinging’ matrices about in augmented reality.

Currently doing flat design, and, who knew… browsers _sing_ with DOM and matrices.

Zoom, zoom, pan, pan, click, click.
November 29, 2024 at 1:32 PM
You're so vain
You probably think this laptop is about you
You're so vain (you're so vain)
I bet you think this laptop is about you
Don't you don't you

↑ Sung whilst disabling Creative Cloud from startup—again—and dismissing an inconsequential modal error message rendering above an OS error dialog.
November 24, 2024 at 8:18 PM
“Rome was not built in a day, as the saying goes. But it squandered its spirit with remarkable speed.”
FT
November 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
“Rome was not destroyed by outsiders. Its demolition was the work of barbarians from within.”
FT
November 19, 2024 at 11:42 PM
…theatre, typography, space, UX, bike packing, fleece fashion, writing, futures, fictions, ethics, robot arms attached to kitchen ceilings that do the dishes and wipe surfaces, products, realtime, game design…
November 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Needs to follow people doing cool stuff with code, art, installations, ai, ar, graphics, rendering, interfaces, design…
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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September 22, 2023 at 6:25 AM