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@mayli I'm always interested to have people hammer on any of the constraint.systems tools! flow.constraint.systems and type.constraint.systems seem like the favorites. I think mosaic.constraint.systems is underrated and am currently excited about css-paint.constraint.systems

@rikard_io I would buy prints of some of these!

Refract, repeat Shader (hand coded) #creativecoding #genartclub

New essay: Beyond Slop Reflections on 6 years making creative AI tools and why the field feels stuck on content production rather than personal expression. We're building molds with dials rather than new clay. On embracing craft, process, and open-ended mediums (with some new demos!) joelsimon.net/beyond-slop

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans

Semi-regular atproto is interesting link: overreacted.io/a-social-files…

Bluesky has gotten good enough (especially with the third-party 'For You' algorithm) that it is actually a distraction risk for me now. Also lots of interesting protocol experiments over there, if you need a reason to check it out again.

Enjoy the weekend. My procrastination project is live.

Thinking Tree ⚡ Prototyping thinking interfaces using Gemini 3 in @GoogleAIStudio. The speed of Flash + search grounding is really great for rapidly exploring knowledge in new ways. Made w/ @GrantCuster Realtime screencap w/ sound 🔊

@left_pad braggoscope.com/about might be a good thing to look at i have a VPS as well but still do databases on railway bc it's simple/used to it. but may try someday i've been really impressed by embeddings - planning to build out a note-taking system around them

@GrantCuster oh and i'd actually be interested in doing it for hopeinsource.com too, against podcast transcripts would be interesting

looking if anyone has examples of archives (list or copies of their books, essays, etc) of someone's work, making one for illich (or if anyone is interested to contribute)

@left_pad i've been doing some embedding experiments (like cosine.constraint.systems) with postgres + pgvector on railway railway.com/deploy/pgvecto…. i embed w/ gemini but i think any major one would work - cost should be negligible. I know less about full-text search

also looking for advice on how to setup a full text search and/or embeddings for his body of work, simple approach in terms of implementation/cost, speed, etc? would be nice to be able to search across all the markdown files?

Full write-up at feed.grantcuster.com/post/2025-12-1…

If we had it place each voxel directly as data it wasn't as good. What we ended up doing was having it generate code to populate a voxel array. That way it could use for loops and other procedural methods to build out the voxels but in the scene we just placed the final array.

Prototyping at the Creative Lab Four recent experiments:

@theflowingsky I think it’s changed it — and I’m still finding/looking for the right new footing. Definitely harder for me to sit down and put two or three weeks into building a side project app than it used to be though.

Alternative rolling ball input

Painting with an IR touch frame, projector, and image-paint.constraint.systems

@nbhdlady i think it's a good critique of why gestural interfaces are exhausting but then also it just looks like a lot of fun "is laser from palm a good selection mechanic, actually?" is something i've thought

@GrantCuster what are a couple words you’d use to describe how it makes you feel (about 3D)

Good day I am thinking of the VR interface from Community today