brennan

brennan

@brennan.computer

unlicensed back alley alchemy digital ⇄ physical, 3D and AI research. living in a world of magic and vibrance

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and then you also get cool interplay stuff for free: what if the framed art on your wall was someone's Grain photography, what if you had a cross stitch that was a bisk that makes you laugh. a faux subway map that shows your friend network all sorts of dynamic art with all this data

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I like the idea of a reverse-NFT where you don't get any street cred for exclusivity, you get street cred for making the <chair> that 300 people have in their protopartment incentivize the creators, incentivize wider sharing, incentivize curation over collection

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brennan@brennan.computer

plugged my Liene PixCut S1 into claude and now I have my own editor / cutter software running directly in the browser completely free, no accounts or anything dumb: brencut.brennan.computer

oh no

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

so we should make a combined screening program for autism, psychopathy and English comprehension and if you score above a certain level we hire you to interview financially important people

I'm at the climbing center I'm at the shooting center I'm at the combination climbing and shooting center

man if this isn't the most interesting character study I feel like I could make a whole docudrama about it, like a Zero Charisma or a Tiger King -- everyone is wrong in a different unique way, and then they all collide in the middle over something that never really mattered

philpax@philpax.me

i wanted to be sympathetic to someone watching their hobby/income disappear to ai but good lord the vibes here are rancid for *everyone* rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10...

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it's tricky! there's a really fine line between project stewardship and personal fiefdom, and opinionated software (namely: opinionated software development) has a looong history of being on both sides of that line the ideal amount of fiefdomness is not even zero! direction includes protection

then you get into funding and income, and like, money is a whole other psychology and topic and skillset on its own, so now the surface area of people and personalities clashing over those motivations add even more chaos gremlins I dunno, I don't really have a point. I just find it so fascinating

man if this isn't the most interesting character study I feel like I could make a whole docudrama about it, like a Zero Charisma or a Tiger King -- everyone is wrong in a different unique way, and then they all collide in the middle over something that never really mattered

philpax@philpax.me

i wanted to be sympathetic to someone watching their hobby/income disappear to ai but good lord the vibes here are rancid for *everyone* rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10...

I am sympathetic in the broad sense to the challenge of open source changing from personal stewardship to being defensive all of my stuff is "open source" which is a word that means you can read the repo - I've had like ten PRs in all this time, from friends, with good intentions, etc. that's easy!

and so you have these passionate archetypes who are quietly chugging along on something and suddenly they have 500 monkeys in their kitchen and that's a very different management verb and skillset from whatever code they were whittling before I totally see how that sucks, and is changing so fast

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looking to read anything published by a cop horse, if anyone has suggestions

Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social

hey horsesky: who has good reading resources on the treatment and training of cop horses, not written/published by pro-cop sources

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japanese webcams with threatening auras

Shodan Safari@shodansafari.lol

ASN: AS4713 Location: Tokyo, JP Added: 2026-10-21T08:06 #shodansafari #infosec

+100 either you made the best software or not we're in this phase of shipping fast janky things and I'll be the first to say it's fun and often useful, but we will also see big new tentpoles calcify into 'best' with sustained evolution and polish, with care, with firm thoughtful direction

codewright@codewright.bsky.social

To me the right reaction to being told "I don't want to try it because it was made with AI" is not self-righteous indignation. The right reaction is to keep on working until it is undeniably the best and most useful thing it can be, out-competing alternatives by a mile.

and some people still won't use it, that's fine, that's their prerogative I knew artists who refused to use adobe for personal reasons and like, great? you probably won't get an industry standard job only using gimp but you can still make your art; that's their thing and they owned it

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i got bored of imagegen/video/sunoslop and figured: what if demoscene? here's ring0, a 64k intro for native macOS arm64, single self-contained 53,304 byte Mach-O, no static assets used, all completely synthesized in C and arm64 assembly. opus 5.5, "make a native 64k intro" and a single moodboard

what is the most recent movie (by release year) you've listened to the soundtrack for

brennan@brennan.computer

even pop music soundtracks - Better Off Dead, Streets of Fire, like, Shrek had really iconic soundtracks that were mixtapes of a dozen popular songs you don't really get that anymore

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@brennan.computer @braket.bsky.social @cee.wtf someone should seriously start an ai-positive gamedev discord server ok taking matters into my own hands i setup a server called SimclusterDoesGamedev, if you're reading this you're invited: discord.gg/dxuS6pQAC

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There's nothing quite like watching a rocket launch from your bedroom window! 🚀 Today's CERES-1 Y8 rocket lifts off just offshore from Rizhao, China, offering a spectacular view from the comfort of home.

making a game right now, I literally cannot imagine making it without the tooling that I generate every day it's just grunt work. I made a thing that lofts two curves together in a certain way so I didn't have to manually repair the mesh every time. probably saved 20 hours of the dumbest labour

Glenn Fiedler@mas-bandwidth.bsky.social

Being anti-AI coding in games makes zero sense. With AI you can quickly make amazing, customized tools and engine code for your team that were cost prohibitive to make before, and these tools empower real artists, designers and programmers to make better games.

"wah wah, loss of artistry" skill issue. if you're giving up artistry that's on you if you're an artist, this is a way to do MORE artistry because you're not in the friggen geometry mines all day. now I get to make stuff with curves everywhere because I can more instantly. net win for art intent

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I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

this is why I can't get involved in the culture war, I need to die from something cool like riding a motorcycle through a flaming snake hoop

dame@dame.is

live by the culture war, die by the culture war

another thought I had was: this is just vectors and web serial, which means y'all could make and remix websites that generate procgen art and we could, say, make cards or something. maybe atproto data or maps, etc simcluster collab series

it's working!

brennan@brennan.computer

I'm glad to have made my little personal CAD program experiment, but at this point I think I just don't even need an interface at all here's my sketch, here's what opus spat out printed it as-is; there's one dimension wrong it couldn't have known about, but otherwise everything works perfect

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lifting is just balatro for calorie burning like, sure, you can run for an hour and burn one oreo worth but you really need some mult in there. you want to burn calories while you sleep. while you're at work. just sitting there every pound of muscle is an extra joker adding chips to the fire

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they should auction seats in these things in exchange for fire fighting donation money I'd pay a pretty penny just to strap in and ride the ride

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

So badass…salute to all the pilots and crews out there doing this amazing work on the LA fires