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## Algorithmic Walk II ⚙️
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...transcribed from a voice memo recording I took at the end of my walk when I finished following my instructions
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> Ok, so this is the end of my second algorithmic walk. I'm about a mile from home, about 12 or 13 minutes. I've also spun in a crude circle but in a different route than my previous walk. This time my instructions were to go forward two blocks, right one, choose a random direction, then go forward 3 blocks, left forward one, and choose a random direction. Then repeat that whole instruction a second time."
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=> https://tildegit.org/exquisitecorp/PLOGO PLOGO: My own implementation of a LOGO language in Javascript, via p5.js library
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## A more playful algorithmic walk 🚶
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For the first week of class we tried out the LOGO programming language and created short scripts for the turtle to draw by following simple directions (turn right 30 degrees, go forward 90 spaces, turn left 45 degrees, back up 3 spaces, etc). Afterwards we composed our own instructions for taking an algorithmic walk. Like human manifestations of the LOGO turtles, we wrote out instructions for motion. My own walks, detailed in an earlier post, were okay I thought. I took a walk, saw some new places, took some photos, and experienced some of the limitations of humans (we're subjective! we're error-prone!), the limitations of algorithms (too literal! too brittle!). But I also asked folks to try out other people's directions. And I'm glad I did. I can now see my own instructions were too boring! I was approaching my directions all wrong: trying to craft something closer to machine pseudocode. When other students started posting their walks, I noticed some that intrigued me for taking advantage of the fact that we're human.
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I made it home, in pretty good spirits, and with a total walk time of a bit over 30 minutes. I didn't go on any roads that were new for me, but I had a fun playful experience trying out these different forms of randomness. 4 1/2 out of 5. Would algorithmically walk this again!
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## Welcome to the devlog for my 7DRL 2021 entry
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Every year is a weeklong 7drl (seven day roguelike challenge), to create a Roguelike videogame in 7 days. This is the first year I'm making something for it. I will hopefully post daily logs here.
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# Being part of an art collective
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Starting when I began undergrad college and continuing for 15 years I worked in small non-profit arts organizations: these were small art museums or art and performance-presenting organizations. After graduating from undergrad I joined a new residency program with individual studios and shared gallery. I was living at home so the studio and gallery gave me independence and gave me a meeting space and community. A few years later I began working with artist collectives. These were generally groups of 5 - 10 people that collectively had studios and a gallery space, or maybe just the gallery space. The kinds of collectives I've been part of:
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Beside the 'family' feeling part I also value being part of creative communities. Sometimes we work together collaboratively on art projects but more often we serve as sounding boards, emotional support or in intergenerational mentoring. There's also the aspect of trying to create the world that we want to see exist: the building out and living 'prefigurative politics' of creating the groups/world that we want to be part of. These are generally medium size groups where we know some people closely, intensely, but there are also past or tertiary related folks that we can meet or connect to in more loose ways. The community feels small enough to be close but large enough that there's room for growth and exploration. Importantly, none of these groups are organized around an individual or longterm position of power, and 'founders' or leaders rotate in and out. In many ways they demonstrate anarchy in action. That said, we have to decide how we relate to the wider society and even fit within capitalism and a structurally far different society than the one we want to be located within.
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Despite these being art collectives I've said little about art. The secret is that the art, while important, it's really the ingredient for us to be drawn together. We are all working on our art, sometimes together. But it's the shared creativity, the shared 'scenius' and shared commitment to supporting each other that binds us. Some of us make video games. Others make experimental 'walks' as performance art. And still others make paintings or zines or films or musical instruments. We will always do this. And we will always (try to) show up on a freezing cold and raining Thursday night to watch 10 people in an iron kitchen chef battle featuring the secret ingredient (cheeze wiz? i can't remember) while a naked announcer MCs from inside a cooking pot-and-makeshift-bathtub.
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# A List of Games I'd Like to Play And/Or Make
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A few months ago I participated in List Jam, organized by Em Reed on Itch.
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- a LOGO-like where the player issues the normal commands to move around and turn but also can augment and add arms, legs, other appendages like tank treads and strange abilities
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# Writing a gemini statistics program in fishscript
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As a member of Ctrl-C Club tilde community I enjoy many benefits including the hosting of this gemlog.
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Recently I encouraged someone to join Ctrl-C Club, the tilde community that I'm part of (probably obvious, as it's in the URL here). They were interested in joining a tilde to learn more about Linux and coding in a community. That's well and good, but after joining, it's not immediately obvious what you can do. So I thought I'd write a short post about how I tilde.
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This is a tutorial to install and use Lastpass password manager on your iOS device, in the command line (!), for free, to access your Lastpass passwords stored on Lastpass's server. It should work on Android as well but you'll have to find your own way to install the Lastpass-CLI package. You don't have to be a greybeard hacker to run this 'hack' but you should have at least a little bit of experience in the command line. Well, now's a great time to learn.
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If you don't use fish shell, you can find many resources elsewhere for creating login scripts for Bash, Ash shell (the default shell that comes in Alpine Linux), Zsh, etc. Alternatively, you can create a startup service using OpenRC. This takes a few more steps and I use Fish shell, so I'll leave that process as an exercise for the reader.
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This is a pretty short post/rant about the new phenomenon I've noticed of *likes* on our nascent Gemini network/protocol.
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This is a short post of freewriting about some nascent thinking on longform computing, which may be similar to or even the same thing as heirloom computing.
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In the future, I may actually start to build this using some of my old machines, and then write about the process. I may deploy some similar software as listed by Steve Lord. More than likely I'll make some alterations to the shell to launch some help, directory guide, and an ability to export / backup. It might be mostly text files and maybe a bash script that launches on start and links to launch lots of other linux software. Still in the brainstorming stage at this point...
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I wrote a previous post about constructing what I called a longform computer and in other places has been called "heirloom computing." Here I am writing about an overlapping but distinct project to construct an e-Ink screen based low power and portable computer.
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I'll post again possibly if I do get one of those Book things used or if I figure out how to root the nook. It's been on my mind for years and I keep feel like it's getting closer but that day never comes for me! Perhaps soon my dream of a solar e-ink cyberdeck (with removable tablet mode) will come to fruition!
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topics: generative music, beginning programming, code sketching
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I've been playing modular synth now for almost 2 years, though it's really only in the past 3 or 4 months that it's become a daily studio practice for me. Meanwhile, for the past several years I've mainted a daily code sketching practice, where I often (sometimes daily, sometimes.....not) make short little projects: games, generative visual art, strange visualizations, collage via code, and the like.
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Hardware where you have the full ecosystem laid out entirely in front of you can be overwhelming but at least gives you the full map of potentialities. There is a built-in "starter" when working with hardware that is nice to try replicate when working in code. All of these things take time to learn; you're not an expert when you first start. But expertise is not necessarily the goal at the beginning: developing some kind of ongoing practice of expression is the goal. From this practice gradually over time one develops the intuition that's needed to be a better practitioner and creator.
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I usually groan when I see these "What I use" blog posts about Linux software. It's so nerdy, like even nerdier than the nerd I already am. Okay, forget that. Here's some recommendations of the software that I use every day. All of it, minus bandcamp, is open source. Here's what I prioritize: fast, navigable with vim/keyboard, good defaults, and supports my life coding, making art and teaching.
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## Recommendation engines are not Staff Suggestions
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Growing up, in high school in the late 90s, I would take a train downtown a few times a week to go to South Street in Philadelphia. There were 5 or so record shops (well, mostly CDs and some tapes) that I would regularly visit. In particular, I loved Repo Records for international music and ocassional noise and jazz albums; Spaceboy for the latest electronic music; Relapse for noise; and there are others whose names escape me. I spent $10 to $25 a week (a lot of money for me) on albums, and would listen to tons of previews. I took trips up to New York to visit Tower Records and Other Music near Union Square, a 5 minute walk from each other, and conveniently near The Strand. There would always be listening stations at Tower and Other Music, and every store had staff selections and recommendations out. A significant part of my life was learning about new music from alternative papers (The Wire Magazine, Bull Tongue in Arthur Mag) as well as these listening stations, staff selections, and the stickers with staff notes on the used and new albums. More importantly, at these places I could talk to someone who worked at the shop. I liked Merzbow or Sun Ra or Red Snapper or No Neck Blues Band. Who else would I like? I had a really strong sense of my interests and 'bands', but it was nice to learn about new music. Listening and searching for new music took up much of my life at that point. I didn't buy music online, though I did use napster. But what if, unlike me, you weren't a teen with dozens of free hours every week to gratify your desire for new music? How could you get it?
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I was never a big Amazon user but stopped altogether by 2015. I haven't had a Netflix account since then and perhaps longer. Ocassionaly I'll be at a friends house to watch a movie and open it. I'm always disappointed by the suggested movies. When I had a subscription, the suggested movies were always frustrating: mass market schlock that held no appeal. At best they'd suggest a generic category like 'foreign film' or 'documentaries' or 'science fiction'. That's their precious recommendation engine? Please. Today there's probably some form of machine learning on the backend. These algorithms absolutely do influence selection of movies (or products, depending on the website). But if you're offered barely meaningful options from piles of (garbage) selections is that recommendation meaningful? To many people (who would certainly resent my language previously), I suppose it is. It's certainly 'convenient' in a certain sense. But it's a far, far cry from the chalkboard recommendation boards at video stores and bookstores, and certainly much less meaninful than the helpful employees at these shops.
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As I try to think of alternatives, for films I've found that I've reduced my intake. I do occasionally read reviews that help me make choices, or get recommendations from friends, but overall my watching of shows and things is way down. For music, I've gravitated to Bandcamp for finding lots of new music. They publish blog posts with embedded listening, and descriptions and recommendations. It's a digital version of the record shop recommended listening. And it works well for me. These are posts written by people, and the recommendations are meaningful to me. They're full of weird music selections, not the digital equivalent of Disney. Beyond that, I don't shop much online and can avoid the un-useful recommendation engines for the most part. Online book sites exist for people to recommend reading selections. I like to read blog posts occasionally of suggested books, and I read book reviews. And I read e-books from the library or visit small bookshops here in NYC now that they are open again in the pandemic. Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to argue that recomendation can't be useful to someone for certain tasks or needs; I just haven't found them useful for me. And so 'blog posts', word of mouth and recommendations from people are my favored way of finding new things I'll like.
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2021-01-19
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These reviews are possibly not going to say much because honestly Gemini is mostly JUST TEXT and a stylesheet, at least in my mind. So if they don't crash and look okay and are easy to navigate/use, that's 99% what I'm looking for.
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Rocketeer is available currently on the TestFlight app and requires a newer version of iOS than I'm able to install so I didn't get to try. I emailed the developer and they were sympathetic though.
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# Recommendations for small, fast, minimalistic browser clients
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*update 2021-08-09: added links2*
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2021-08-08
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A voice-controlled browser for the web. I have no experience using this.
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If you have other suggestions or comments my contact info is on my index.gmi page.
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2021-08-04
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Have you played a solo tabletop roleplaying game? I live alone in a studio apartment. During the pandemic there have been weeks where I couldn't really see anyone else in-person. But I love playing games and don't always want to be on my computer. I don't have much previous experience with solo tabletop roleplaying games but I found a few popping up on Itch.io suggestions and donated for a few.
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# We Strive to Build an Art Practice That....
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2021-08-23
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Temporary Services is a 23-year old group made up of artists and cultural workers, based in Illinois, currently made up of Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer and their collaborators. I've known of their work since I was in college in 2004 and worked on a thesis research project and website (now lost) about socially-engaged and critical public art practice. I stumbled across their work online and found it revelatory.
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Note: you can get in touch with me or leave a comment through contacting me via my email address listed on my index.gmi page.
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2021-04-13
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This is a short, extremely basic and purposely beginner-friendly post about how to theme Amfora, my fave CLI gemini browser.
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Amfora is created by makeworld.
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Note: As the Amfora software is still young this info about where themes are located and how to alter them could become out of date if ever makeworld changes the theming system for Amfora.
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# facsimiles of Alfie - Tribute to the Triadex Muse
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2021-04-15
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This week I released an EP (well, a sub 30 min album) on Bandcamp that I titled facsimiles. The final track, titled (dedicated to alfie) is a 7 minute tribute to non-human collaborators.
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Strymon Magneto
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The album is Creative Commons CC BY SA Non-commercial
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# Why Self Track?
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2021-07-15
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FYI: This isn't a rigorous post but an invitation to a dialog. Although my tone is critical, I am especially criticizing myself, who engages in some of this action as well.
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(Email checked sporadically)
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