"Rule #1 of any interactive installation: No Wi-Fi. Never rely on Wi-Fi"

an … odd readme https://github.com/libprima/prima#why

this feels like a pattern that keeps happening in the history of computing & a lot of the reason people adopt new computing platforms (spreadsheets, PCs, cloud) -- wanting to get away from incumbents that have had time to grow IT/security/cost-control bureaucracy that prevents actually doing anything https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/110742922988799639

there's a thing like "God is no respecter of persons" that it feels like operating systems should not adjust for specific applications by name https://raru.re/@roobre/110735385689082243

Hmm https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians

"These days you kind of have to consider models and textures to be basically the same thing; just different data sources that get fed into your shader and accessed in different ways, and you can often move data back and forth between them depending on the exact effect you want to get."

webcam is short for web content-addressable memory

feel like the fundamental problem with Apple / Apple alumni is that the iPhone was so successful that it basically destroyed any real culture of personal computing in the compny