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random white tiled triangles. in each is a kind of eye shaped black blob with a concentric white and black circle in that.

Eye contact

The worst part about 12/12 intermittent fasting is when I just forget to have that last cup of tea before 7pm. I don't need it, but I am sad that I forgot it.

Sharp eyed viewers might note that I'm using <C-a> which of course decrements a number. But vim also treats the dash as a negative sign, so yes, I'm decrementing from 05-07 to 05-08

Another reason I love (neo)vim. I'm writing chapters in markdown/html. With image tags like this:

<div class="img_wrapper">
!Figure 05-07
</div>

When I add a new image, I copy and paste the last image tag in and was updating the numbers by hand.

In vim, I made a keymap that increments the […]

If you got a measles vaccine in the 60s, it may not be effective today. Later vaccines were better. I talked to my doctor, he concurred. Said we could do a test for antibodies, or just get a booster. Got the MMR booster this morning. Read up, ask your doctor. You don't want to get measles as an […]

But back on topic, I never felt, throughout the 80s and 90s, and 2000s and 2010s, that as technology was advancing, I was dumbing down or understanding less. I was learning more and more about new things.

I know AI fans will say it's the same, but I am not feeling it.

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I felt a lot of the same way when I was doing a lot of wood and metal working and I'd see people downloading a 3D model and hitting print on their 3D printer. But at least then, people were going into programs and making these models and figuring it all out. It can still be a craft.

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You can think of it all as removing barriers and doing new things.

The current tech advances are of course all focused on AI. And yes, it makes some new things possible and can make things faster. But if feels like the primary barrier they are removing is the need to know stuff, to understand […]

As I look at the progression of computer technology through my life, I was always excited about new breakthroughs and products. When I think about it, it was mostly about things being faster, cheaper, or smaller, or being able to do more things, things that just couldn't be done before. Know […]

glowing white lines on black background formin ga sort of grid of circles that morph into loops nearer the edges and center.

Another random morning sketch.

10 years ago answer to everything: "have you tried jquery?"

Today's answer to everything: "have you tried Claude?"

a roughly drawn diagonal grid with circles in each cell on the top left, but as it moves down and to the left it morphs into different looping shapes. white on black.

I little morning sketch as I'm working out an idea.

Not sleeping well these days. Benefit is the ability to get a lot done between 4:30 and 6:00 am.

I was going to do a book on coding color next, but that one needs to percolate in my brain some more. Maybe later in the year.

I started writing a new book last week and I've done almost nothing else in my free time. 90 pages so far. But this will take months. It's going wonderfully though. I'm very excited. More info as it gets closer.

I love the Crafsman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7dmomiVuo

oof https://cybernews.com/security/lexisnexis-breach-400k-users-gov-accounts-aws/

Shift from Personnel Management to HR Management... Over the last 25 years, there has been a significant transformation in the way organizations view and manage their workforce, transitioning from "Personnel Management" to "HR Management." This shift is not just semantic; it represents a fundamental change in the approach to managing people within an

I'm 99% sure this article was written by AI, but I stopped reading when I saw "the strategic alignment of human capital with organizational goals"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shift-from-personnel-management-hr-shijo-mathew/

My thought was maybe "personnel" had military roots, but it does not. It is of course used a lot in the military, but the core meaning of the word is not related to that.

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It's one of the rare cases where I think we had it right last century with a "Personnel Department"

"Personnel" is the English word for "a body of persons usually employed (as in a factory or organization)".

Why did we feel the need to change that?

I've always been bothered by the term "Human Resources" as in a department of a company. It ranks people with the raw materials you buy and sell and use up and replace. And ironically dehumanizes people by calling them "humans".

Recently some companies have started having a "People Team" […]

I have a large monitor that's hooked up to my Windows PC (mainly for gaming) but also acts as an external monitor for my work MacBook. I just switch the inputs as needed.

This morning I turned it on and was checking my personal email, mastodon, etc. for a good 10 minutes. It was only when I […]

slack plugin page for claude app "Anthropic's helpful, honest, and harmless AI assistant"

in our slack now. helpful, honest and harmless. sure.

Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools - slanted Slanted #47 – Digital Tools examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice and offers a diverse insight into the global creative scene.

I just pre-ordered this. Expensive with the oversea shipping, but it kept calling to me. https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-magazine-47-digital-tools/

Is Slack just completely broken? It will show I have unread messages or activity but I can't find them until I refresh via the menu. It used to do this once in a while, but it's been consistently doing this for months. I need to refresh several times a day.

Keith Peters Keith Peters has been writing code as a hobby since the mid-80s and as a profession since the late 90s. He currently works as an engineering manager. His creative coding work has won awards, including an Emmy and two Cannes Lions and has been featured in publications such as Scientific American. Kei

To celebrate a successful first week of sales of my new self-published book, Coding Curves, here's a 50% off code for my other self-published book, Playing with Chaos: XE3M0JS

Find both here: https://bit101.gumroad.com/

@toxi I mean, it's not a block buster, but it sold a few dozen copies and my other book benefited with the added attention. With the amount of marketing I did, I'm happy with that. Starting to look at other venues to promote it and other platforms to sell it on.

Keith Peters Keith Peters has been writing code as a hobby since the mid-80s and as a profession since the late 90s. He currently works as an engineering manager. His creative coding work has won awards, including an Emmy and two Cannes Lions and has been featured in publications such as Scientific American. Kei

To celebrate a successful first week of sales of my new self-published book, Coding Curves, here's a 50% off code for my other self-published book, Playing with Chaos: XE3M0JS

Find both here: https://bit101.gumroad.com/

So for a fraction of the time I spent trying to create a BMP parser, I now have any image parser, standing on the shoulders of imagemagick.

Next, I'll do the same to save to any format.

My graphics lib is backed by cairographics, which is very centered on PNG images. (it also supports SVG and PDF as vector formats). You can create a surface with a PNG with NewSurfaceFromPNG(path).

I just created a mew method, NewSurfaceFromImage(path). Behind the scenes is runs imagemagick to […]