Mark
A few months ago I posted about Jaber Mall, the mall with a built-in park and located in the new Jaber Al Ahmad city. The mall is now getting ready to open and one of the first places opening there is Trampo. I passed by and got a sneak peek a few days ago as they were putting the finishing...
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- After the Fall - Arizona Sunshine - Audica - Audio Trip - Beat Saber - Breachers - Half Life Alyx - Hyper Dash - Karnage Chronicles - Paradiddle - ...
Abhijith PA | അഭിജിത്ത് പി എ
Last weekend, 4 people (3 DDs and 1 soon to be, hopefully in coming months) sit together for a Bug squashing party in Kochi. We fixed lot of things including my broken autopkgtest setup. It all began from a discussion in #debian-in of not having any BSPs in the past in India. Then twisted in to...
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Cassidy Curtis
THU was an unforgettable experience. If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it! I don’t have time right now to do a writeup of the full event, but I can tell you about one slice of it: my demo of Big Wet Pixels was a lot of fun! One big concern I had in the weeks leading up to...
Cassidy Curtis
Raquel practices guitar while my watercolor simulation paints her portrait. Here you can also see a first glimpse of the GUI I’m building for live performance. This was my first dry run of the whole system, including webcam and external monitor. Still could use some optimization: the frame...
Cassidy Curtis
Finding new shapes and textures. Who ever said pixels had to be square?
Cassidy Curtis
Spent some time refining control of the instrument: a richer parameter space for stroke planning; new colorspace mapping that handles poor camera conditions (over- or underexposure); two new types of limited color palette (inspired by the gorgeous plein air experiments of my friend Susan Hayden)....
Cassidy Curtis
Okay here’s something fun: this goofball will be speaking at the THU Main Event 2024 in Tróia, Portugal! For those who don’t know it, THU is an annual gathering of artists working in film, games, comics, and more. Or, as the organizers describe it: “a 6-day event designed to be a transformative...
adam
I am leading a Self-Hosting workshop at FOSSY 2024 this morning! It starts at 10:45am PDT. Workshop details Livestream info Latest news: “[Starting] Strong“ Buy ebook and subscribe to updates Buy paperbacks, donate, or hire me Tell me about bugs/typos or send me a patch...
Abhijith PA | അഭിജിത്ത് പി എ
I let go my domain abhijithpa.me. It was getting expensive and I don’t fancy that anymore. I never actually purchased this domain but came with a package offer. I then kept it for couple of years. I have now bought a new domain abhijithpa.in and pointed everything to it. So if you are seeing...
Abhijith PA | അഭിജിത്ത് പി എ
I was using a refurbished Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro (codename: sakura . I do remember buying this phone to run LineageOS as I found this model had support. But by the time I bought it (there was a quite a gap between my research and the actual purchase) lineageOS ended the suport for this device. The...
adam
I’m writing a small book. ~160 pages at 6″ x 9″. I want great-looking print editions so PDF output is critical. I started writing in Markdown, using a few scripts to pre-process for each output format (EPUB ebook, screen PDF, print PDF, HTML) and invoke Pandoc. It worked well at first, but...
Jon Danzig
I get out this old video every Christmas, just for a laugh (literally).It’s my first (and last!) attempt at stand-up comedy.It all came about when I booked to go on a weekend course called “The Entertainers” - for aspiring amateurs.I was supposed prepare something to perform on stage in front of...
adam
Folks in the Seattle area Friday and Saturday this week (or wishing to join remotely online): there are at least 3 relevant self-hosting talks at the SeaGL conference. Steadfast Self-Hosting: this is a preview of my book, with background and context. Demonstrates Ubuntu server, ZFS,...
adam
I created a website for my forthcoming book: Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud This book will free your data and empower your users. Send me a note at info@(that same domain name) if you want me to let you know when it is available.
Adam Horne
I was on a podcast a few months ago and really enjoyed it. It’s a general discussion about what it’s like in Sweden as an expat. I hope you like it. Source
Adam Horne
You get your nerd on and make a simple voice-based trivia game for the Amazon Echo. Introducing Future World Trivia, a fun game that tests on you history that hasn’t happened yet. This was a perfect introduction on how Amazon Lambara can work with the Alexa Skills Kit API. Despite a whole lot of...
adam
I am honored to be giving a talk at FOSSY 2023. The title is Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud. Event details Date: Saturday, July 15, 2023 More info Video Description Your data are essential to your life, your agency, and your future. Come learn how to save,...
Adam Scherlis
Take a very large chessboard (NxN, where N is huge). Remove some fraction 1-p of the squares at random, leaving a fraction p of them. Can you place a queen on the first row and then, via some sequence of legal moves, get it to the last row? This is probabilistic, of course, but it turns...
Abhijith PA | അഭിജിത്ത് പി എ
You might have already read my blog titled ‘Running PostmarketOS on my phone’. After running pmOS on phone, my mind kept talking “run Debian”. So I started preparing for that. At the moment no straight way tool exist in Debian like postmarketOS’s pmbootstrap. Well I can compile what is already...
Brian
Some things I might have posted to Twitter… if Twitter wasn’t run by this guy. So yes. Elon Musk picked a fight with a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular distrophy on a public twitter thread, hoping to humiliate a parasitic do-nothing employee, and instead revealed the damage...
Adam Scherlis
Epistemic status: whimsical Bees: a new unit of measurement for ML model size Talking about modern ML models inevitably leads to a bunch of hard-to-intuit large numbers, especially when it comes to parameter count. To address this, Lawrence Chan and I propose that we adopt a new,...
Adam Scherlis
2023=7×172 Maybe that’s not fun enough? Try this: 2023=211−52 Or better yet: 20233=(31176029+245568392)/(384321573) We can scientifically quantify how fun a math fact is, so we can rest assured that this is the funnest fact about 2023 ever discovered. But if it’s not to your...
Brian
Preamble soundtrack: Bat Hearse, “The Day Don McLean Died” One of the ways I’m a bad blogger is failing to post about the good stuff when it happens. Usually because the best moments are the hardest to get right, and I worry about seeming obnoxious in celebration, showing the right amount of...