Michael Barrett
Alexandra Gorczynski is an artist who creates digital paintings and websites. Her work is a bit playful with wry acknowledgement of the internet(s). I like the tension between photography, painterly marks, and fields of color.
Looking at this CMYK drawing robot makes me realize that the Zorn palette is basically the same thing -> thekidshouldseethis.com/post/spon…
Of course this is an option…
I’m very excited about the new iPad Pro. I’m excited about USB-C opening up the possibility of external displays. And I love that they shaved an edge off the Apple Pencil so you don’t have to plug it in to anything anymore. Wireless is the future. I’m on board.
I wish, though, that there was a better story for developers on iPad. There are stand-alone apps for accessing GitHub and organizational tools like Jira. But there are very few coding tools. Panic’s Coda is surprisingly good, but can’t support version control. And even if they found a way to bake in Git support - few projects are lovingly hand-coded HTML. We use build tools powered by NodeJS. We run dev servers. We connect to local databases.
Perhaps Apple sees a sharp divide. You can do “work” on an iPad as long as your work lives in an app or on the web. But Apple things development belongs on a laptop. I don’t think it needs to be this way.
Apple wants iOS to be locked down for security, simplicity, and ease-of-use. But developers need the ability to break things. I’d love to see some kind of sandboxed “environment” come to iOS.
I dream about a magical “Docker” app where a tiny VM has a mount point in the Files application, but runs a tiny Linux universe all safe and locked away on its own. Coding apps could access the files (in Files) while the VM app could provide a Terminal.
sigh
Oh this is neat. A NodeJS Canvas api wrapper for an image library. https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas
A mega-gram for the end of October combining a portrait study, some eggs, and a hazy Tacoma icon in the background.
I went by my local bookstore to pick up some trashy robot detective novels (what?) and discovered a book of collages by Lorna Simpson
A little while ago I was thinking that really, now, everything is a collage and then this book shows up and pats me on the shoulder.
I’ve been reading up on machine learning, trying to get my head around the basic concepts. It’s very probabilistic. But also trippy.
“The Orion”, is a retrofitted former old-folks home. They recently capped off renovations with a crown of color-changing neon. At first I hated it. But over time I’ve come to love it. Especially when the sun sets. It’s like a brutalist building marching in the pride parade
I am reading “Perfect Wave” by Dave Hickey. I am reminded how much his writing makes me nostalgic for things I have never seen and how I am cowed into looking up words I don’t yet know.
I was hoping for a podcast, but I found a recorded university lecture on Youtube. It’s shocking to compare the real person to the imagined author. The voice in my head is laconic and droll. I imagine a drag from a cigarette in between paragraphs. The real Dave Hickey climbs out of a busted-ass Honda to complain about the pie at your favorite diner. He does this with a desert drawl and a bewildered approach to microphones. How do these even work?
He tries to make innuendo laden jokes to an audience of woke college kids and keeps plowing forward when those jokes land like bricks on more bricks.
I’m watching this 2007 lecture in 2018. The parts that are true age well.
On macOS Mojave, Apple Safari’s ‘responsive design mode’ doesn’t include this year’s iPhones or even last year’s iPhone X.
Firefox and Chrome at least have the iPhone X.
