thinking about various 3d objects having a dry-erase surface that you can draw on https://www.sargentwelch.com/store/product/28306847/whiteboard-globe

weirdly beautiful

oo https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10o3u0c/political_world_map_de_facto_labeled_january_2023/

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/PS/transforms.html interesting difference from HTML5 canvas (which otherwise has an almost identical API to PostScript) where you can set the matrix directly

there's a weird specific skill of looking at a bunch of papers and distilling them to 'this one proposes the actually useful technique in practice; all these others are later variations by other people that perform better on benchmarks but aren't really practical'

mulling whether to test Nvidia support by trying to set up Google Cloud Compute Engine workstation vs. trying to dig up my Jetson Nano and plug it into a spare display

they're both sort of weak, but the MS Bob approach actually seems slightly deeper than the Apple one / it takes the room/furniture/aesthetic at least a little bit seriously, instead of pasting a floating iOS on top https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel/111328018520066084

I was looking at "Pure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_(programming_language) out of curiosity or maybe a desire for an alternative to Tcl (small language, simple syntax, term rewriting, barewords, JIT, ...), then realized it's not in Homebrew (https://github.com/agraef/pure-lang/issues/34), and _then_ realized that it's basically completely dead and nonviable because it depends on LLVM features that were removed after LLVM 3.5 https://groups.google.com/g/pure-lang/c/nd__RPNI36I