Author: Violet
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Being Trans in a Fascist Wave
TW fascism, and transphobia, and missed opportunities
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The Continual Reinvigoration of Mastodon And the Fediverse at Large
So it’s happened Again. Something on twitter has blown hundreds of folks over to mastodon and the rest of activitypub. This is great from a fediverse user perspective because the new blood is quite nice. There is opposition from a number of quarters. Those that object to FOSS for some reason Those that have been…
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Initial impressions of Orbtk
I’ve been meaning to get into rust for a long time, but there were some pieces missing from the ecosystem(good rust bindings for GUI applications appear to be hard to come by), but rust isn’t like most of those other languages, it requires a different approach because many of the gui frameworks that have worked…
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FFMPEG input/output as an abstraction
I am currently working on writing code to support the usage pattern that I have used in the past for making animations using ffmpeg to encode video. Really though, how complex does it need to be? Well, let’s put together a wish-list: It should always shut down the pipe at the end of executionIt’s really…
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Failure
I’ve been trying to think of something to write for a while now, some new topic, some new follow-up that I said I would do(environmental sensing in the L-Systems code would be nice). I’ve been struggling with my own concentration since I was a child, and honestly, it got worse in college, but then a…
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Flow
Have you ever been the world? Where you are the Climber and the Tree ? the skier and the snow? the car and the driver? Where boundaries dissolve into the Single, Continuous Truth? That atoms swap spit and humans exchange electrons All the fingers on all the levers And we still ask, why it is…
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L-Systems with shapes
Rendering shapes is a relatively small addition to the L-System code I’ve been implementing over the last few weeks, it consists of a few manual dispatches to drawing code based on the first symbol in a sublist. The immediate alternative is using defgeneric and the common lisp object system, which is probably the correct thing…
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Improving On L-Systems
The simplest implementation of L-Systems requires term-rewriting, and maybe turtle graphics. We already have arbitrary computation on the execution end, but what if we could add computation on the term rewriting phase? We can get a lot more flexibility without adding an infinite number of rules. Also the last L-System post has had its code…
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Traveling
Yesterday I traveled across the united states in order to visit my parents. Honestly, airports feel better than they ever have. Most people don’t want to face charges about not wearing a mask, so most people did. Especially on the planes. It’s odd though, the airport ads have hardly changed. Nothing about covid, just the…