The front of a Framework Desktop with a red and black checkerboard pattern. It has a rainbow heart and the Framework logo.
Got the desktop after a few days of being held up in customs. I can't complain about the actual computer. It took me 5 tries to get it to dual boot, but eventually got windows and linux to play nice together. Now it runs LLMs and games at max ultra settings, and barely makes a sound.
Just bought a Framework Desktop:
frame.work/desktop
I'll be getting into training/tuning/futzing with AI models. I've been running local models for a while in LMstudio, but this will allow me to take it up a step or two.
Speed Run was successful!
4:05:16
That's a new record, though I'm the only one doing this challenge so far. Let me know if you try yourself. The video is uploaded to youtube as well: youtu.be/PWPBBWnKHA0
I'm about to go live for my speed run attempt, wish me luck! www.twitch.tv/jprodgers81
I came up with an idea for a speed run of @metaroot.bsky.social's The Farmer Was Replaced(), where you are not able to copy and paste any code. Everything is typed during the challenge. From fresh save to leaderboards. I'll be doing it live on Saturday 1/12/26:
www.twitch.tv/jprodgers81/...
Fastest Reset 29:52:07.568 Personal Best: 29:52:07.568 Global Rank: #287
I've been playing The Farmer Was Replaced(): store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/...
The game is all about automating a farming drone with python. I just made it on the leaderboard for fully automating my farm.
A Sandpile cellular automata running on top of a Day and Night automata. The sandpile is in the center, and is like a mandala, with it's 4 colors. Each color represents a different height of sand in the pile. Behind it are blobs of white pixels, all stable configurations of the cellular automata Day and Night.
Major update to my Cellular Automata Playground:
jprodgers.itch.io/cap
It now supports multi-treading, so even you folks with monster computers can feel them crawl to their knees running Day and Night or Game of Life at nearly your full screen resolution. Drop 10,000,000 sand and let it rip!
I've added a number of features to the program. You can enable grids, and you can draw and erase now!
jprodgers.itch.io/cap
Gifs like this are still manually exporting each frame, and then importing into gimp. Programs like these can run away from you on export, so I'm hesitant to add it yet.
I just made a quick overview video on how the playground works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwK...
I wrote a quick program in Godot 4.5.1 that visualizes various cellular automata:
jprodgers.itch.io/cap
The fun thing is that most of them share a grid, so you can run multiple at the same time. Ever want to have Langton's Ant running around on top of the Game of Life? Now you can.
I have uninstalled the @bsky.app app from my phone, as there was no resolution to this issue. Fix your shit @bsky.app
I've been having issues with the @bsky.app app logging me out every day, sometimes multiple times a day, and I'm tired of logging in again with my long password. So I guess I just won't use this on my phone, which to be honest, is half the draw.
All in all, I love these headphones. The OpenRun Pro 2 are a great step forward, and I highly recommend them for anyone looking for open ear headphones that use bone conduction.
My second issue with the Aeropex was just how loud the notification sound was. It was max volume no matter how loud you were listening to things. The new pair allows you to turn it down in the app, making it a sane volume level.
My main issue with the Aeropex was how uncomfortable they became after a few hours of wear. I addressed that by adding some leather to the ear rests. The new pair has been on my head all waking hours since they arrived, and after a few days they seem good. No pain, looks like they addressed it.
A new pair of Shokz Aeropex headphones in red, held in an outstretched left hand. The hand is floating above a laptop. The headphones have been modified with strips of leather around the upper ear portion.
A well worn pair of Shokz Aeropex in red, with well burnished leather around the upper ear portion. The headphones are sitting on a wooden table.
A pair of red Shokz Aeropex headphones next to black Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 headphones. The red headphones have been modified with strips of leather, while the black ones have not been modified.
My Shokz Aeropex of the past five years finally died, so I upgraded to their newest model, the OpenRun Pro 2. Other than the color, they are better in nearly every way, and the app is actually helpful and worth installing for the settings alone.
Catch all #OHS2025 talks on the livestream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ais...
7 large jars full of honey, and a slightly dirty looking cake of bees wax.
My friend Carly brought the hive over and processed it with me. For a dead hive we had a good yield. 15lbs 8oz of honey and 2lbs 3oz of wax. We pasteurized the honey since the hive had died. Lots of work though, and what's not pictured is the mess. Everything is sticky, and/or covered in wax.
Neat fractal pattern just getting started, with yellow wax starting to show in a dark brown liquid.
Fractal pattern has continued to grow in size and complexity.
The pattern now touches the sides of the pot.
Final pattern is almost cloud like.
Awesome cooling pattern in some rendered bees wax from a hive we tore apart(it had died).
A small bundle of tree seedlings held in a left hand.
Listing of all of the trees included: American Redbud, Sargent Crabapple, Washington Hawthorn, White Flowering Dogwood, Norway Spruce, and Fragrant Purple Lilac.
Ok, so this is 10 trees and two lilacs, that just came in the mail. I am not ready for this project, but it looks like I'm planting trees tomorrow.
Just got an email that my trees are being delivered next week, & I was very confused. Followed it up, and it was from a survey I filled out for the Arbor Day Foundation last year. I thought they were trees to be planted in a forest in my name, but nope, here they come. No clue what all I'm getting.
A beautifully browned rösti on a white cutting board.
Made a rösti for brunch. I love them, but it did take me an hour and a half. Low and slow gives such a deep crunch.
A random zoom from a Mandelbrot Set. It is dynamic and vivid in coloring.
Got a Mandelbrot Set zoomer and the Game of Life running in godot. Feeling slightly more confident about my possible abilities as a fledgling game designer.
Image of nested circles segmented into 504 sections, with 50,000 dots all connected through a loose web of lines. This is all shown in the godot IDE.
Took a fresh start this morning, pointed out the issues with ChatGPT, and managed to get this running in the godot IDE. With the godot IDE being significantly more powerful than the processing.org IDE, I'm going to try using it for my visual sketching more.
Lol, tried to use ChatGPT to generate the image in GDscript for godot, and it kept hallucinating to the point that I gave up in frustration. Guess ChatGPT isn't well versed in godot.
A circle divided into 504 segments, with 50,000 nodes that are sparsely linked together. The segments form rings radiating out from the center.
I'm still using processing.org for my generative image sketching even today. I should learn how to do such things in godot now. This is what a map in my game might look like, though the colors are currently randomly selected each time it's generated.
The lessons are well organized, the code is well structured, and the exercises were challenging but do-able. I couldn't recommend it enough if you're looking at getting into Godot 4.4
Laid off in January, & I've been looking for work since. I got a Udemy gift card as part of my severance, but I had already taken all of the job-related courses on there, so I decided to learn game development. I just spent the past 17 days working on an amazing course: www.udemy.com/course/jumps...
just thinking about the job hunting process for no particular reason
An image of a savory waffle, piled with sour cream and salsa, topped with a drizzling of olive oil. The waffle is on a colorful plate, with a fork hanging off the right side.
We made savory waffles for brunch today. They had a mix of farmers cheese, shredded cheese blend, herbs from the indoor garden, and some pepper. I've topped mine with sour cream, tomatillo salsa, and a drizzling of nice olive oil.
