Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider@botsin.space
PhD ABD, U Toronto: digital materiality, print culture, videogames. #botALLY and penny-rounding northerner. he/him. Edmonton, Alta // Treaty 6 Territory
made this lil page today http://poemexe.com
Hey all, if you see a particular instance being a source of *bad stuff*, consider reporting them to the admins of your instance for possible blacklisting.
We need to cut this stuff out at the root.
i like the idea of using colors to distinguish instances but please consider:
i am colorblind
I find myself tooting more on @mattlatailor than here, currently. Ah, the productivity of limitations.
("only" there should come with an asterisk, I don't make a categorical exclusion, especially when teaching for a narrow audience. but "only open source" is my guiding principle)
I teach tech and I'm often asked why I don't teach some allegedly time-saving proprietary tool/environment/whatever. the answer is that the risk of that proprietary tool just ceasing to exist are really high, and when that happens, the time I spend developing curricula against the tool goes up in smoke. by contrast, notes I wrote for, e.g., python text processing are just as good today as they were ten years ago. over the long run, I think I save a lot of time by teaching only open source tools.
I was doing a workshop last weekend and while I was showing my work I discovered that two of the pieces in my portfolio are just... dead links. both pieces were made on commission for organizations that no longer exist, and I was reminded of the fact that if you want something on the internet to last you have to host it yourself.
(this is why I'm a mastodon fan. not that I'm hosting my own account right now, but it's good to know that I could!)
cherry blossoms
across the evening waves
Make your own glitchy images w/ audacity!
- Save to an uncompressed format (.bmp works great!)
- import into audacity as Raw Input w/ Encoding: U-Law and Byte Order; Big Endian
- Play with effects on all but the first quarter second or so (to avoid messing up headers)
- export to format "Other uncompressed files" and click options, set Header to RAW and encoding to U-Law. If you have issues, rename from .raw to .bmp!
Example image:
Plz journalists publish "Mastodon Will Fail: Social Chat Can't Win Without That Fifth Symbol" it's my only wish
Do you like my toots but wish I'd stop using the letter 'e'? Check out @mattlatailor
"ok but what's mastodon's business plan"
posts are now toots
"what"
timeline goes chronological
*RasPi
You can tell I spend too much time thinking about Python and not enough time thinking about my poor little computer
brb, adding features and switching to lost pig!
@qonnyr Out of curiosity, would you be interested in posting a version of @adventure on oulipo.social that runs Nick Montfort's Ad Verbum?
Although it occurs to me that not *all* commands can be entered sans e, so I guess that wouldn't work.
Rats, I really talked myself out of this one.
If anyone's interested, I'll be tweeting lipograms at @mattlatailor
Lumberjacks, early 1900s
Spring Thing, a yearly #interactivefiction festival, has launched for the year with a huge number of free games and stories: http://www.springthing.net/2017/play.html
stillness
just one bottle
in leaf dew
