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i've got ideals and dreams that don't work in practice

head of scarab pathfinding research @ShieldBattery.net • infrared (and visible light) photography • programming

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missed this one on my first edit pass through my last set of photos, glad I gave them another look
A deep purplish-brown door in a half-wall painted white, at the end of a driveway between 2 residential buildings. Behind the wall, a bright pink tree grows upwards towards a bright white sky. The image appears very structured/clear at the bottom/foreground, and grows more fanciful towards the top/far edge.
August 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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finally made it outside before it got completely cloudy so I could shoot more infrared
A mostly featureless bluish-gray wall with horizontal seams along it at regular intervals. Extremely plain, square windows with black frames are placed in the wall. Along the outside edges, tall windows have a reflection of a tree with orange leaves, a street sign, and a traffic light. The reflection is in a different orientation on each edge. Along the inside, a shorter pair of windows reflect a smooth progression of various shades of orange. A leafy, bright pink plant with bright white flowers dotted along it, viewed from below. The plant is growing up a rough, gray-blue wall towards a bright white, almost glowing sky. A leafy plant with orange leaves grows out of a squarish hole along a rough concrete surface, with harsh mid-day shadows accentuating its edges. A small weed with orange leaves and 2 small white flowers grows out of cracks in a concrete stairway.
August 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Testing out these features gets more confusing every day, I hope we never add a 4v4 mode
July 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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another year, another cake
Me, standing against a wall along the beach on a windy day. A slice of chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. A chocolate cake on a serving platter with one slice missing.
June 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I assume the CSS police are on their way 🫡
A screenshot of CSS code showing a method for converting a length into a unitless value for use as a line-clamp setting.
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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these captcha prompts are getting pretty abstract lately
An image captcha with 9 different images and the prompt, "Select all images that match the label: undefined"
March 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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had to break out the 550nm filter again
A bright pink plant with long, thin leaves extending outward in all directions from its center, growing out of long pink grass next in front of a white apartment building on a sunny day. A barred window directly behind it has smoothly flowing shades of blue and a subtle reflection of the plant in front of it.
March 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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For instance, here's PresentMon output for Deadlock. First without the overlay, we get independent flip and minimal latency (0.99ms).

Then, if I enable the overlay and let it display something once, we get the second screenshot: composed flip (like a normal window, forced vsync), 17.32ms latency
Screenshot of PresentMon output for Deadlock showing it running in Hardware Independent Flip mode with 0.99ms latency Screenshot of PresentMon output for Deadlock showing it running in Composed Flip mode with 17.32ms latency
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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24 hr emergency
Photo of a very large blue door with many outlined squares on it, shot at night in the dim illumination of streetlights. Many signs are placed haphazardly on the door, stating things like "24 hr emergency", "warning", "danger", "caution", but with no reason given. Photo of a 2 story home shot straight on at night. On the bottom floor, only the front door is lit, showing a patterned window on the door and a stained glass window with red flowers above. On the second floor, 2 windows are lit, one half-covered by a large plant. Only the lit areas are visible, the rest of the frame cloaked in deep blackness. The top of a home with a steep roof and short, illuminated bay windows, shot at night beneath a cloudy sky.
March 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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yeah I'm having a really fun afternoon, why do you ask
Code comment stating: NOTE(tec27): Rounding seems very weird here, I know, BUT... Chrome seems to implement vw/vh extremely literally from the spec, which defines them as e.g. "1vw = 1% of viewport width." Thus, they pre-divide them by 100, and for some values (such as 954px): 954 / 100 * 100 => 953.9999999. When this occurs, rem and mod by 2px can return 2px instead of the 0px they should. Other browsers (e.g. Firefox) don't seem to have this issue.
March 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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the final boss of scrolling (he will try to eat your phone)
Dill, a fuzzy medium-hair tabby with a white chest lays on a desk, staring somewhat menacingly at the viewer. He is framed by several objects in the foreground that are nondescript and out of focus, and the whole shot has a shadowy, dark, blueish tone.
February 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Fig, Hoya R72
Fig, a small brown tabby stares at the camera while laying down in front of a window, paw outstretched towards the viewer.
February 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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he can't keep getting away with this
Dill, a medium-hair brown tabby with a white chest lays with his belly exposed, fast asleep in the sunlight from a nearby window
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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window boyz
Fig, a small short-hair brown tabby, stairs intently out a window on a rainy day, his paws resting on the window sill. Dill, a medium-hair brown tabby with a white chest, sleeps between bay windows in a sunbeam, the sunlight illuminating his fluffy mane. Dill, a medium-hair brown tabby with a white chest, lays in a sunbeam on his back with his front paws outstretched, his body playfully curled and his eyes open.
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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sorry he's too chill for that
Dill, a very fuzzy cat laying on his back and exposing his belly with his front paws crossed
February 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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had to get some new roommates, meet Dill Pickle and Fig
portrait of Dill Pickle, a fluffy medium hair cat with grey and white fur with black striping portrait of Fig, a small short hair tabby
February 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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anyway, slanted buttons with correct click target areas
A screenshot of the ShieldBattery client zoomed in on its main navigation bar, showing a group of buttons that are adjacent parallelograms
January 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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now if I could just avoid writing the 5600 lines in the first place we'd be in business
Screenshot of a github commit diff showing 82 line added, 5609 lines deleted
January 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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last couple from the other night
A window into a home lit up at night, shot from the outside. A single lamp fills the visible room with deep amber light. Next to the window, a small, gnarled tree curls around the window edge, its deep green leaves catching light from a street lamp above. A window of a Victorian home with closed curtains, shot from the outside at night. A light near the curtains illuminates them a deep amber color, brightest at the bottom.
January 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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waiting
A Muni stop in San Francisco, shot from the side at night.
January 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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been a long time since I did some night photography
An open doorway viewed from the side at night, in near darkness. Light from inside the doorway spills out onto a textured wall behind it and silhouettes a tree or shrub in front of the doorway. The remaining parts of the frame are featureless blackness.
January 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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my favorite 24 albums of the year, before someone releases something in the last 2 weeks of the year and I have to decide if it fits in the list

also the associated playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Vb...
Topsters image, my top 24 albums of 2024: 1) JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU 2) Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo 3) R.A.P. Ferreira - the First Fist To Make Contact When We Dap 4) Cults - To The Ghosts 5) Keaton Henson - Somnambulant Cycles 6) Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She 7) Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 8) Patrick Shiroishi - Glass House 9) Vince Staples - Dark Times 10) Joey Valence & Brae - NO HANDS 11) Charli XCX - BRAT 12) Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown 13) Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips 14) Elucid - REVELATOR 15) Heems - LAFANDAR 16) Previous Industries - Service Merchandise 17) Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future 18) Daniel Noah Miller - Disintegration 19) Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed 20) Hana Vu - Romanticism 21) Kendrick Lamar - GNX 22) Logic - Ultra 85 23) Wand - Vertigo 24) VeggieHammerr - VeggieHammerr
December 16, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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gotta add more angles to the sutro collection
Sutro Tower, viewed from Twin Peaks on a cloudy day.
November 23, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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self-portrait
Photo of me reflected in a garage door, with everything from the neck up blocked by the trim of the door.
November 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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glad they let the worst deadlock player have a friend this week
A screenshot of the Deadlock Initiate 1 rank description from tracklock.gg showing that it has only 2 players in it.
November 20, 2024 at 5:50 AM