Mastodawn

🚀 AI's latest magic trick: exposing the "senior engineer pipeline" as the emperor with no clothes. Turns out, the mystical path to #engineering greatness was just a series of happy accidents 🎩✨. Who knew the secret sauce was simply surviving the tech jungle without an AI-powered compass? 🤖🔍
https://blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-senior-engineer-pipeline/ #AI #TechJungle #CareerPath #HappyAccidents #HackerNews #ngated

AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.

Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

PixelNenzz Jan 31

Sooo I wanted to do an Indanthrone blue background … but well.. as you can see NOT a good idea if i want to keep the text readable 🤣🤣🤣 Oh well still like the quote, found it online and i think it’s hilarious 🤣

#happyaccidents

#Art
#Painting #MastoArt #Dutchartist
#artwork #watercolorpainting #aquarelle #artoftheday #watercolordaily #watercolourdaily
#aquarelle #aquarel #Watercoloursketchbook #Watercolorsketchbook #watercolorart #winsorandnewton
#watercolor #watercolour #watercolours #acuarela #aquarell

Landsil Jan 28

"Always ready with a camera" sound's less realistic when the lens used is 300mm 😅

📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5
🔭XF70-300mm

#Photography #Mountains #FrenchAlps #Winter #MontBlanc #Planes #LandscapePhotography #HappyAccidents

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@[email protected]Jan 19

I had some technical issues, so I presented using a pdf on one laptop and speakers on my personal laptop.

Not my best performance, but I hope /assume it got the message across. It was a lovely event & I learned quite a few new things about the #PublicDomain

In case you want to see more of my hobby with (mostly) Public Domain and/or Creative Commons licensed footage and sound tinkering:

https://makertube.net/c/musicamatica_channel/videos

#DIY #Jamuary #Music #HappyAccidents #BobRoss #Video #CreativeCommons

Musicamatica

Music & sound tinkering combined with mostly public domain footage

MakerTube

Toasterson (Till Wegmüller)Nov 13

Teamevent #artsandcrafts #ceramics I made a cup. Started with the scene from Gladiator then went Bob Ross happy accident style on it. #happyaccidents

Tally Michelle Nov 13

#HappyAccidents (2000)

New Yorker Ruby Weaver believes she has found the man of her dreams in Sam Deed, who is her best catch in some time--except that he assures her that he came from the future.
#TimeTripMovies #FilmMastodon

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0ALiiBmlg

dunk Oct 30

https://youtu.be/lJhv-3xSyAo

Experiment 456: "Blood Fountain"

#HappyAccidents - bug when the logo isn't visible yet, there was just a bubbling blob on the side of the screen, but still reacts to depth camera motion. Wheeeeeeee!

#creativecoding #unity #unity3d #madewithunity #vfxgraph #hdrp #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive

Experiment 456: "Blood Fountain"

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ISD Sep 17

Sharp-edged polygons filled in green and brown, lines remain sandy. That was my idea. Then I failed in applied mathematics (geometry) and colour theory: there are green/green and brown/brown pairs, which might work with the lines but sandy polygons would be a better idea to separate the shapes.

That brown is slightly too bright, and needs more darkening than just an oil wash, I think. Still, I'm not frustrated, it's not a mistake but a happy accident :D

#ScaleModeling #WIP #happyAccidents

Snowbird of Paradise Sep 16, 2025

Relearning Watercolour Painting

I have just started taking classes in watercolour painting through Elder College. The instructor is excellent and very encouraging of everyone’s efforts. My first attempts had been decades ago, and I had a brief later try a few years ago.

Without knowing whether or not they would work, I brought my old paints to the class and much to my surprise they were okay. Not great, but good enough for now. I am enjoying the way water interacts with the paint to create happy accidents. So here, with very tentative brushstrokes and aged equipment, are my first efforts.

#artwork #boats #ElderCollege #happyAccidents #mountains #painting #pebbles #seascape #trees #watercolour