Forrest O.

Everyone’s seen the Sketchpad demo. Few understand how it actually works. I reimplemented Sketchpad from scratch, and I’m making short videos that recreate Sutherland’s demos and explain how they work. The first 8 are up — from drawing a line to the famous rivet. Link below 👇

I have a home lab that works like this, and I've been wanting to make it easier to share parts of it. It looks like @imbue-ai.bsky.social has designed something that could be... your next best group chat.

exactly! self-modifying social tools and spaces when?@wattenberger.com wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai-...

(you have to sing the soundtrack yourself)

I've now learned this was culturally insensitive as many people switch to peanut butter jelly time tonight

TIL html forms have an <output> element... developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... (since 2018)

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

Propellors

10 years ago I had ramen with @yosh@toot.yosh.is and experimented with for Voronoi diagrams to find the closest hit point on a Choo graph (frontend pattern). #timeloop

I thought someone had made the duo hand as a bit, but it is a real marketing image. Erased the device, no notes.

I asked my homelab (tinkering environment) to write scripts against its own session logs, and ended up with a report of costs and value: $6 for 40 hours of entertainment over 10 projects in a month.

Prediction: your next best group chat will be in an exe.dev container. (Or tailscale into a friend's homelab.)

This helped me so much with my stamps! And @forresto.bsky.social's Apriltag component was an important part as well.

I case you have not visited the baby button quail corner of the internet. youtube.com/shorts/RQuV6...

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

I can't look away from these lost interfaces. I want to document them carefully and return them to the commons before they disappear: to empower artists, preserve public knowledge, and keep capable hardware out of landfills.

I was writing a Polish friend (in Poland) and Gmail offered to "polish" my writing, which made my brain record scratch for a moment.

Does @standard.site require more from a server than a static site? I like that an RSS feed can be built as a static file.

Found a nice Sudoku algorithm, and made it Cuttle-ified, which means arbitrary glyphs and seeded random. I solved this one and it took a while for the emoji to click, but it was fun doodling. cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Su... #CuttleXYZ #puzzle

Biggie Smalls vs Thomas the tank engine

Click around there. 😎 I made one of the "T" sketches, a port of my animated Sierpiński curve. Impressed with the other sketches, music, and background effects. Good company.

Hey, do you know string instrument teachers or have a beginner student at home? What if the material given to beginner music students for home practice were something that facilitates intuition and gives immediate feedback instead of being just ink on paper? #violin #viola #musiced #musicteaching

$8/ gal = €1.84/ l 😅

Fixed! The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd. Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector. observablehq.com/@forresto/or...

I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space. observablehq.com/@forresto/mu...