So this has been something that has burned a number of hours (pleasantly) for me over the last few days: https://thomaswc.com/2025.html
Having finished it, I wish I could start it over, but in the style of a community puzzle, on a computer in the middle of a common area. It was plenty enjoyable on my own, but now I have all these thoughts about which things are in certain categories together and nowhere to put them.
from Decorative Patterns of the Ancient World, by Petrie Flinders, 1930: "Octopus" and "Cross Emblems, Pagan and Christian Age"
The book is free on the Internet Archive with over a hundred pages of blackline motifs. I would love to find a similar book with more East Asian, Islamic, or pre-Columbian designs.
https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.39205/mode/1up
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It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
Welp. OpenAI acquired Astral, the developers behind uv, ruff, and ty tools for Python.
How long before there's core functionality in these tools that relies on OpenAI? Or can they get away with just having better integration in their developer tools?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-buy-python-toolmaker-astral-take-anthropic-2026-03-19/
It's #BandcampFriday tomorrow! What's on your wishlist? I've got my eye on a few albums:
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I've just published a 3d model for a printable whistle with the number for LUCE on it. It shows up well if you put in a color change, which is pretty easy in Prusa Slicer, at least. I didn't design the original whistle, just added the phone number to one that I've found prints and works well. Hope it helps. Feel free to share with anyone who can make good use of it.
Edit: Including a link to LUCE: https://www.lucemass.org/
https://www.printables.com/model/1565877-luce-massachusetts-whistle
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