I wonder how many singers are known for a distinctive style that's really just a product of doing an impression of something else, and it's so god-awful that it sounds original. I mean something has to be going on with Elvis Costello.

Seeing everything built on nostr is bittersweet: social, communities, survey forms, wikis, journal apps, etc. Finally a protocol that is simple and open enough to see this kind of community input and software growth. But then the community has no urgency to create a more eclectic experience outside of circle jerking Bitcoin. It's very 1 note. Community specific relays and apps that utilize selecting them during user onboarding is one possible way to correct the course.

Working on a my new compooper so I can repurpose my old one as a home server and get away from a lot of the publicly owned web services and streaming platforms that keep screwing people over and ruining their own products for their shareholders. #happybirthdaytome #fuckyourcompany #ifarted

I've been hearing murmurs about folks working on community specific relays (or a group of relays for a community). I think it would have the biggest impact so far on user base adoption outside of the bitcoin religion. It sounds like Stuart from satellite.earth might be working on something, and also the mostr dev was talking about "Ditto" which I think might intersect with the idea. It would be interesting to see on the client side how a GUI might look like to switch between relays like one can switch through subreddits in a reddit app, or create custom named relay groups you can switch through in the same way. This would also decentivize people from all being on the same few big relays. Who is currently working on projects related to this that I can follow?

Not the biggest sports dude, but damn congratulations to our city the Chiefs did it again. Have to thank the Chiefs for giving me a day off Wednesday, because the parade goes right by my work so they have to shut down. Also the whole city is super nice to eachother for like 2 weeks. GO CHIEFS! #superbowl #kansascity #chiefs

Some pictures from O'ahu

In Oahu Hawai'i destressing. Awesome to see so many other poly people around me. #oahu #hawaii

#oahu #hawaii #fujifilm

I doubt there are any folks from Kansas City, MO, USA around but if you like loud music, come see us and support the touring band, Bog from Denton TX, with a few bones so they can get to the next stop. All our cover goes to touring band as usual. #kansascity #diypunk #noiserock #garagepunk #show #music

Design proposal for a new animation system for Blender

Blender Developers Blog

Animation Workshop: June 2023 — Blender Developers Blog

Speeding up animators (and others working with animation data) by reducing manual data management.

Sounds interesting. What are your thoughts on these thoughts? #b3d #blender #animation

Blackjack: Rust-based procedural 3d modeler https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack Check out this early development of a rust based modeler. This is kind of taking the base concept of Blender's geometry nodes and Houdini. So really would be a a good base to develop very powerful features in the future. Looking very cool so far. #rust #3d #nodes #libreart #procedural

GIMP 2.99.16 Released: GTK+3 port complete

GIMP - GIMP 2.99.16 Released: Wilber Week 2023 edition!

Release news for version GIMP 2.99.16

Read about the updates including that the port to GTK+3 is now finally complete. (I know GTK4 is already a thing, but that move is much easier now that they are on 3)

Test. Ignore.