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Jonathan Romano

@luxaritas.com

Software development and creative endeavors. Currently working at the crossroads of biotech, games, and crowdsourcing @frameshifter.org @eternagame.org https://luxaritas.com

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The community being built on display here is so inspiring πŸ’š

03.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only the best organic, non-gmo cookies

03.03.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta boost @protopro.blue

02.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Robofish was also good)

02.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was, legitimately, *such* a good fish

02.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

*Frenetic acceleration ensues*

01.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please tell me why on seeing this my mind immediately went to Hakuoki πŸ˜­πŸ˜…

25.02.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Or that case is undermined)

24.02.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

IMO a tragedy of AI’s trajectory (amongst other complicated feelings I have) is that it theoretically has the potential to be powerful as a tool for play, but the reality is contrary

24.02.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Concert ticket (and obscured pamphlet) for β€œSkye Consort & Emma BjΓΆrling” at May Memorial UU Society, through the Folkus Project (with an amusing logo of a cow standing upright playing a banjo with pink spotted swim trunks on a yellow surfboard and the tagline β€œgreat acoustic music pure and unpasteurized”

Concert ticket (and obscured pamphlet) for β€œSkye Consort & Emma BjΓΆrling” at May Memorial UU Society, through the Folkus Project (with an amusing logo of a cow standing upright playing a banjo with pink spotted swim trunks on a yellow surfboard and the tagline β€œgreat acoustic music pure and unpasteurized”

My heart is so full tonight at this concert. Amazing music, and especially a joy to get to chat with the group. Haven’t smiled like this in ages, I so needed that. πŸ™‚

21.02.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

9.94, that is unreal 🀯

20.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Initially I swore I saw some parallax effects that aren’t actually there. Though I think that would make it extra cool πŸ˜„

20.02.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shoutout to Fleet Foxes

20.02.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we have 6 different clouds all collaborating:
- Dynamic mask clouds based on "cloud cover" parameter
- High up stylized cirrus clouds to create direction\interest
- Far static horizon cumulonimbus, to create a "back plane"
- 2x static midground clouds for parralax
-"bounce plane" clouds

18.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, I’ve found a new obsession.

20.02.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hey I was wondering about the viability of this. Want to look into implementing this under @vite.dev Vitepress (for the @frameshifter.org site and eventually my own once I finally get around to migrating off VuePress and implementing the blog stuff I’ve learned from building that)

19.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
AI as Friction Indicator If stakeholders use AI to "translate" your organization, you've lost the narrative. Learn why shadow AI is a friction signalβ€”and how boards can reclaim the mission.

Corollary to an argument I've been making recently: If you're applying AI to solve something for you, maybe what you actually have is a UX problem.

open.substack.com/pub/signalsn...

19.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A couple months late, but finally got to write about some exciting work that was finally published and the broader impacts. Link to the full blog post in thread!

18.02.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I think Python can do this, I think for any class? Regardless it is indeed handy

15.02.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or is it just, that’s not actual operator overloading, and you can’t do that as an operator overload because indexing is generally not an operator

15.02.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I can’t see why that couldn’t be done in an operator overload. At least you could do that with Python’s __getitem__

15.02.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why metatables vs operator overloading or… whatever python calls those double-underscore prefixed+suffixed methods that do something similar? (Not super familiar with Lua)

15.02.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is, unfortunately, a mood. Love u Javy <3

14.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the direction I’m hoping to go after in the scientific software and participatory science space - there’s a similar problem in academic ecosystems in particular as grad students/postdocs move on, etc. Don’t know if it’d be helpful, but open to chatting about that if it is.

14.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d be interested to see if in higher dimensions I’d be in closer proximity to other clusters. It’s not super surprising that I’m put in a software-focused cluster, but I could imagine being in a few other areas

09.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another argument for returning to Latin declensions πŸ˜›

07.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint, as someone who originally monitored a noreply: You wind up getting tons of automated responses (vacation auto responders, mailbox full, …)

06.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My initial assumption was sports reference (ie, thing that gets you to a win quickly with limited resistance)

03.02.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting, good luck! I had a similar experience my first time doing that last year

28.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Totally into new solo tabletop stuff!

22.01.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0