Nicholas Macias

I kinda want to hook up a mediapipe script so I can just furrow my eyebrow / Paddington Stare it

1 year later, @anisota.net will be the first social media app with a fog of war

But the danger of being vague is that negatives and doubt can turn right answers into wrong answers so be lazy carefully

For things like programming it is a big lever to know that the answer *is* probably somewhere there on the gradient and that you just have to provoke it, unlike ourselves where we hit a limit and have to actually learn more to go forward. Often, vague criticism works as well as explaining in detail.

The funny thing is sometimes it’s not even direct correction but you just say something like “ha, no”

But like it’s building insanely complex 3D artifacts for each little modular step where I can visualize all kinds of edge cases and think through problems with a spatial model of the math and it’s truly a bicycle for the mind

A lot of complexity takes the form of “I can’t load this library so I’ll roll my own based on my superficial knowledge” and honestly in that regard it’s the most real engineer

I just went through this with a computer vision pipeline, and I basically switched it from code to explaining each bit of math with an interactive visualization and then from *there* I was able to make huge strides in directing a clean specification; so far seems to be working and more resilient

To me, this event is the ultimate summary, but to be clear I was not there.

I met him before Twitter, socially, and I think the woke to alt-right-y arc reflects less that he's rich and more that he doesn't have a strong point of view that is his own

when the influences are good, magic, if a little strained by overanalysis; but can be glimmered by effin' Elon just the same

the easiest way to process this is that he's not actually that smart and has a hard time making decisions

Like the origin story of the Ketchup Song

Claude even has a “Soul” markdown file at root, which, depending on the accuracy of a recent WaPo article (debatable!) needs some searchin’

So recently I've been re-exploring the Fourier Transform. I learned about it a long time ago, but didn't realize it could be applied to images too.

It's fascinating to see how sine wave patterns can add together to form an image.

made with #animejs and #threejs

Immediately this made me think of a virtual bathroom stall door with scrawled posts lol which would also be a fun project

I missed out on Blaseball but it sounds like the PERFECT social game to bring to life on atproto. Does anyone have a good recap of the season(s) for someone catching up on it after the fact?

Stupid Kids

rhythmically, though, the new Master Peace EP has a little more in common with wet leg and also deserves a mention

So now that macOS runs on an iPhone chip who’s going to put macOS on their iPhone

Then maybe maybe I also advise on a tangential UK discovery:

Swim School

Can you run Doom in a styled <select> tag

Imagine posting a whiteboard drawing that is just immediately and efficiently viewable but can also open as editable. And then you can link them together like Muse or this kind of thread based murderboard.

So like @tldraw.com should do this with tldraw metadata embedded in pngs or such. Perfect distribution.

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there are a bunch of roles on my project (and others!) on careers.blizzard.com/global/en

I don't come post them individually on here, but just a note to game devs - take a look!

If you have (NDA-permitted) questions about the studio or the culture, mutuals feel free to hit me up.

working on a task tracker for sisyphus (compatible with any boulder and hill)

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

Where's My Phone?

this new Mitski tune is a special kind of earworm

when i was sketching this out for myself, thinking of how i'd make obsidian work like i wanted, I thought maybe i'd use a cloudinary api key because it handles all the conversion utility one might want for rando image urls

What keeps me from using obsidian (I’m sure this can be fixed but I’m lazy).

The ideal handling imo is a pasted or web image url gets cached to an (owned) cloud url, though, i never thought through how to handle deletions. I guess file based in a cloud folder is good enough.

I keep hearing this is the way kuycon.us/monitors/G32P and I think it comes in 27” too

No war with Iran. Impeach, remove, and prosecute President Trump.