Rob Norris

@tpolecat
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dijkstra would not have liked this

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://old.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

Another little project I worked on this week is a power supply for my weird doodads. Not perfect but it's fine (3D printering involves a lot of eh, it's fine).
A lucky typo made my rainbow go crazy. I like it. 3/3

I’ve long admired the old ALDUS logo from the early PageMaker days on the Mac. I’ve used that style to create a #PenPlotter rainbow portrait of Alan Turing for pride month.

CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop, in the Wildcards gallery. https://shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

As with all things LED it looks better in person, but I think I turned out great. 3D printer + FreeCAD have been a really fun addition to my toolbox. 2/n
I'm kind of in between projects so I hacked up a diffuser for my 16x16 LED matrix, which is one of the first parts I bought when I started messing around with hardware. 1/n
Somewhat related, basically 100% of Scala macros are broken in one way or another, and my magic power is provoking them to fail. Macros are bad. It's a bad feature. Everyone should feel bad.
I'm finding the intersection of significant whitespace and my editor's "smart indent" behavior to be somewhat treacherous. As I have noted before, I have done Scala for a long time so I'm used to everything being venomous, but this is probably really frustrating for beginners.
Excellent storm this afternoon. 10/10 would storm again.