Adding to the reading queue. I work with a few designers. Do I actually want to know how they think? We shall see ... 😉

Excited to dig into my copy of "Context Window" by @scottboms.bsky.social. Awesome little book with thoughts on computing and quotes from Wendell Berry, Lewis Mumford, the Unix philosophy—just my kind of thing. Came with a bunch of cool stickers and riso prints too.

New (used) book haul. Continuing my autodidactic philosophy of technology studies.

Thanks to Byung-Chul Han, now lost in conjecture about what it would mean to live in a slow, leisurely society dominated by scent-based media instead of visual imagery.

Using #JuliaLang to replicate the algorithm used in Rough.js for "hand-drawn" sketched lines that have a natural bowing effect. Trying out different curve fitting approaches: Blue is Catmull-Rom, Red is cubic B-spline. Think I prefer the B-spline.

shihn.ca/posts/2020/r...

Good day for a gravel ride.

Woke up early to bake a Mother’s Day bagel breakfast. Hand seeded by my kids.

Weekend creative coding explorations: Messing around with sketchy "hand drawn" style hatching of Voronoi tessellations using #JuliaLang with Luxor.jl

This has been an educational side-project: vectorizing scans of handwriting in #JuliaLang. From top to bottom: scan, skeletonized, path extraction, SVG fitting simplified curves with Catmull-Rom splines.

Still some refinement to make on that last step.

Strange asemic writing explorations in #JuliaLang this morning.

Starting to build up my own little library of utilities for making pen plotter art. Fortunately, Julia's excellent Luxor library is so good and full-featured already.

Spent the past week camping with my family. Completely disconnected from the flood of the current news cycle, roasting marshmallows, playing on the beach, building "fairy houses" with my kids.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do to recharge and gather strength is just get outside.

Some #JuliaLang learning sketches this morning. Good ole' circle packing with my own quadtree. And starting to explore asemic glyphs inspired by @inconvergent.net's earlier work. (Delaunay triangulation, toss out the longest edge of every triangle. Now I need to traverse the graph as spline.)

Current reading: Lev Manovich's "Software Takes Command" There are many books on the history of computing and augmenting human thought. This is one of the few that historically situates *creative computing* and new media.

It's also free as open access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Resuming my relentless pursuit of the "perfect loaf."

Rainy day hike was just what I needed to clear my head and think through some personal challenges. Long, meandering walks remain the best “tool for thought.”

From “Augmenting Human Intellect,” Engelbart on augmenting human intelligence as a form of artificial intelligence.

I’d argue this should be the only point of AI—to augment, not replace.