I've been in the video games industry for going on 30 years (mostly) as a thoroughly average programmer. For the past 12+ years I’ve focused on pretty much every aspect of Augmented Reality. I've been very lucky.
Loves: #RetroGames, current games, #TheMuppets, classic simpsons quotes, #MST3k & #RiffTrax, #FilmNoir, #Philosophy, #TheKLF, #Pinball, #TwinPeaks and generally trying to pretend I understand things. #ActuallyAutistic
#Demoscene id: spacey-nz
Moody Blues
A late November morning in the south of the eastern coast of #Iceland, and we stop to admire the receding snowstorm.
Looking across Berufjörður¹ at pyramidal Búlandstindur (1069m/3507ft) with Hrossatindar (1010m/3314ft) beyond.
¹ 𝘽𝙚𝙝-𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘰-𝘧𝘺𝘶-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳
I have two positions open in my team in #Dublin, #Ireland! If you're an #iOS, #Swift, #SwiftUI, #ObjectiveC software engineer and would love to build apps that the #Apple employees in our Apple Retail Stores use every day, you should apply! Boosts Appreciated.
#Programming #Job #Jobs #Hiring #jobsearch #HiringNow #hiringdevelopers
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200605374/software-engineer-ios-financing-retail-systems-apps
I've been away from Mastodon for a bit, just really having a hard time as a fed employee and scientist trying to hang on to whatever we have left. For anyone who needs something peaceful right now, here's a sunset on the wilderness coast of Washington.
#ocean #sunset #Washington #PublicLands
peterson's rock garden, redmond, oregon, 1987
overall 5, sir goony golf, lake george, new york, 2002
al's oasis buffalo and covered wagon statues, b-90, oacoma, south dakota, 1980
This made me so effing emotional. When our bonds as people working together are at one and the same time the most real thing we have and yet so tenuous that it's frightening to just take a picture together
“The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack
A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.”
#Microsoft has put vile LLMs into everything including Notepad & Github: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/microsoft_ai_notepad
Escape this dystopia by switching to #FOSS alternatives:
➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly online office suite, used by the UN 🇺🇳
➡️ @libreoffice - Most popular free open offline office suite
➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Collaborative online fork of LibreOffice
➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - Online office suite, self-hostable
➡️ @thunderbird@mastodon.online (main) & @thunderbird@tilvids.com (videos) - Email & comms suite (RSS, XMPP, IRC etc)
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Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
"The NBER paper comes on the heels of other indications suggesting that AI’s potential, while tremendous, has been vastly overstated in the media and the market."
But they're doing the exact overstatement here with the phrase "while tremendous."
https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/
I went for a short walk up to the castle and decided to say something. About 24 by 12 feet, in rocks that required carrying to the spot, about a large carrier bag full per letter, so it took a while. But right in the centre view from the castle, on the rampart directly opposite, for all those visiting one of our major tourist attractions to see
Didn't have camera and it was dark, windy and wet, but shall return for better pics. These were with mobile
Love ya! 💕
#StopGazaGenocide #Cymru 🏴
New: I recreated Tomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise, Clavis Cælestis, and its accompanying sheets titled A Synopsis of the Universe. New posters are available in antique style and modern colors.
Explore: https://www.c82.net/clavis-caelestis
How it was made: https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=99
bomber gas, route 99 e., milwaukie, oregon, 1980
Parthenon Was Illuminated in Ancient Greece, Study Shows
“They Were Working With Special Effects in a Sense”
by Emily Snow
https://www.thecollector.com/parthenon-illuminated-ancient-greece-study-shows/
If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.
We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?
I was fortunate to spend today at Ōnuku, near Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula, NZ, helping the tūī team to catch and band tūī.
This is part of the ongoing effort to understand and manage the tūī on Banks Peninsula. The species was lost from the Peninsula due to forest habitat loss and pest mammals. Community restoration work has been reversing both of these and a new tūī population was kick-started by the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, with the translocation of birds from the Maud Island sanctuary in 2009 and 2010.
Thanks to the annual banding efforts, and the local community reporting the banded birds when they see them, we know that the population is now slowly growing and expanding.
All banding is done by registered Level 3 bird banders. My job today was to help spot the mist nets when the bird banders were busy with caught birds.
Published my Newsletter today.
Really needed to get this out of my system:
Abandoned loading dock.
#colourphotography #photography #darktable #urbanexploration #abandoned
