People started conflating hallucinations = LLM, but humanity was using different plants, rituals, and chemicals for hallucinating for thousands of years. It just have been a while since we last saw shamans being used in prod.

Whenever I'm grating parmesan on my dinner I grate it all over the dog as well, like it's raining cheese. He absolutely fucking loves it.

@tymwol Mark Fisher had something to say about the psychedelics and consciousness raising. I wonder what he would have had to say about LLM.

Tried (unsuccessfully) to articulate that idea myself, of whether ritual co-hallucinating with AI has any benefit:

https://www.eventidesystems.com/the-curious-hauntings-of-ai/

Jury's still out, IMO, but it's still interesting enough to keep exploring.

You own more than 75,000 books. Yes, they are yours! Come get them!

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#Ebooks #PublicDomain

In systems change, we speak in terms of logic: processes, frameworks, workflows, outcomes. This language is great for charting impact, but it flattens the emotional impact. It rarely makes room for care or contradiction.

As we design a new Theory of Change platform, we keep asking: what are we missing? What’s gone unmeasured not because it’s unimportant, but because it’s doesn't use corporate-speak?

https://www.eventidesystems.com/toc-platform-ritual-and-purpose/

#TheoryOfChange

@davidr I think you are right. We've been pitching ideas at folks I assume know what theory-of-change is about, though you get a lot of variation in that crowd as to what actually a ToC is.

It's probably wise to let people know what *we* consider a theory of change and work from there.

Thanks for the feedback. We've always been a back-of-office outfit so it's quite confronting having to market stuff. Hugely appreciate you taking a look.

So, we're building an open-source Theory of Change platform in public, starting with our initial musings.

https://www.eventidesystems.com/toc-platform-starting-at-the-start/

Any feedback welcome.

#TheoryOfChange #SystemsThinking

I had an architecture class where the professor spent an entire class discussing doorknobs. It was one of my favorite classes.

So the headline was all I needed to click this link:

“On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs”
https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/

#accessibility

Shaved my beard off this weekend, to discover a fat man had been hiding inside it for years.

The world may be ending, but Pulp just played at Glastonbury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC42DqhQC6U

#Pulp #Music

Success in bug-fixing is finding many, many new bug "friends" along the way.

#programming

I use SVGs a lot - and so should you! They're great.

Here's how you easily inline them. No need for any additional gems. Twelve lines of helper method are all you need 👌

#ruby #rubyonrails

@PuercoPop Heh, no... more just out of pure frustration after things not working as simply as it does in Rails-land. Once it worked, I just stopped thinking about the problem.

Will follow your advice here. Thank you.

When it comes to AI, I find it hard to be either a booster or a naysayer. The real interest seems to lie in the spectral zone between.

https://www.eventidesystems.com/the-curious-hauntings-of-ai/

#Development #Tutorials
Charts in CSS · Yet again, but now with new techniques https://ilo.im/164i2q

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#ModernCSS #Demos #Charts #Data #Visualization #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS

@pluralistic My copy has been handed around to friends, so apologies for not helping drive demand, but it's great to hear how your and Rebecca Giblin's work is circulating so widely. Awesome sauce. Congratulations.

I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.

Going deep with MS Copilot it's hilarious seeing how it copes with being asked about applying post-capitalist desire to the design of software applications.

It's taken to ending every response with this sort of verbiage. Kinda lovely in its own way.

@bkuhlmann Awesome sauce Brooke. Thank you for this - feeling inspired.

@ferrisoxide If it helps, I wrote Hanamismith to make building a Hanami app much smoother: https://alchemists.io/projects/hanamismith

I'm also the architect behind Terminus (https://github.com/usetrmnl/byos_hanami) if you like using Hanami with TRMNL e-ink displays.

All of this is open source so might be of help and give you guidance. You can also search for my "Hanami" articles on my site if you need deeper dives (since the Hanami documentation is quite lacking): https://alchemists.io/articles