Hive Wallpaper Collection 🐝

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/hive

#catsofmastodon "Get over here!"

#SilentSunday

When Twitter collapsed, it was great to see the flood of friends, game devs and other come to Mastodon. Over the next 9 months a lot of them vanished to Threads, BlueSky or just left. I want to thank all people who are still on Mastodon and make it a wonderful place. You know who you are.

How not to hate a company that provides great hardware, that works perfectly all the time, but then I do an upgrade, and just because "I really don't f**ing know" the external display stopped working on clamshell mode.

My M1 Pro Mac has been my workhorse, but it's flawless till Sonoma. Sequoia and Tahoe decided that since external monitor is not Apple let's not work.

Downgraded that crap to Sonoma again. One of the situations when someone said "this is working too well, let's put a bug there"

#pixelart theme from @pixel_dailies for today was #desert

Long time without doing any new piece but my iPad got full wipe and had to test the brush

One thing about "AI" is with the technology OpenAI has (large neural network plus manual tagging) you could've made the best search engine ever. There could be a Copilot where you describe what you wanted and it finds an example of it in the corpus of open source software. You could go from a fuzzy image description to a stock image. These would be better than buggy code and fucked up images. But they wouldn't do that because the *service* OpenAI provides is obscuring that the content is stolen.

I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Latest distraction from meaningful work: figuring out what makes BeOS icons look like BeOS icons and how to draw pixel art in that style

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@arstechnica I loved way too much this article and remembering the good old times

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE
- passwords should be random
- data should be backed up
- anonymity should be the default
- dishwashers don’t need wifi
- the drivetrain should be airgapped from the Internet

#caturday I laughed so much after this picture 😂

#pixelart theme from @pixel_dailies for today was #soon

Tricky word, not sure why it came to me as soon something will grow or flowering, wanted something to relax and what's better than a green forest

Just noticed this site exists:

https://justuse.org/curl/

#pixelart theme from @pixel_dailies for today was #stilllife

I just want another cup of #coffee today please 🥺

#caturday

#pixelart theme from @pixel_dailies for today was #lamp

Have been traveling and working way too much recently, so haven't had enough time for drawing my dailies but been progressing steady in the Godot course, already in the 4 / 30 from that crazy bundle.

Well, inspiration for today was basically missing those relaxed evenings with just a good book and a lamp.

My first ever conference talk is now online:
http://youtu.be/dSoxINozBKU

Based on my “Escape from Tutorial Hell” book but made more language-independent to suit the PyConAU audience.

#PyConAU