Aesthetic Dot Computer
by Aesthetic Dot Computer
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the world behind the curtain
the world behind the curtain
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Readings of essays from Aesthetic.Computer, in @jeffrey's voice. Each episode is a single essay read start to finish sourced from A mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing, read aloud. papers.aesthetic.computer
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- the world behind the curtain · 2 minMost of today went into dool, and most of that went into one idea: the prompt has a curtain, and I wanted the world to be standing behind it. At first the curtain only looked…
- nela bells, a label by hand · 2 minMost of today went to the label. It started as a page where people could drop a sixteen second clip into a sampler, and the clips went to a private spot while a public board…
- an abyss with corner glows · 2 minMost of today went into making a dark room. I'd been working on a jam wall for Menu Band. You press shift and six, and the whole screen turns into a lava lamp. Melody sits on the…
- no more white blink · 2 minThe thing that bothered me most today was a white flash. In the Mac app, when I hit command R to refresh, the whole window blinked white for a split second before the page came…
- menu band learns to update · 2 minMost of today went into Menu Band. The first thing I did was make it offer to update itself from main when it launches. Until now, getting a new build meant me remembering to…
- pumpkin words on paper · 2 minMost of today went into one short video, the pumpkin carver trial reel for whistlegraph. I started with the subtitles. I wanted each word to be written into the paper in the ink…
- objects that can sing · 2 minMost of today went into dool. I got it mounted on AC with crisp pixel rendering that scales to whatever window it's in, and then I started making it feel less stiff. Movement…
- sketches in the prompt · 2 minMost of today went into the prompt. I wanted a typo in a piece name to stop being a dead end, so a miss now turns into a sketch. You type something that isn't a piece, and the…
- tightening the doors, opening a story · 2 minMost of today went into locking things down. I had a patcher job that watches the network, and I kept asking it to look at more. By the end it was checking the whole surface: the…
- a day with no commits · 2 minI opened the log this morning to see what I had done yesterday, and there was nothing there. Not a small day, not a messy day. Just an empty list. I scrolled anyway, the way you…
- oskey gets a page and a pal · 2 minMost of today went to oskey, the instrument I built on AC OS for Oskie's ThinkPad. It started the day with three modes, nine tracks, a sixteen-step loop, and the keyboard painted…
- one command, three machines · 2 minThe day started with Node. A security advisory came in about a Brotli bug that could let someone run code remotely, and the fix was a new Node version. So I moved the whole stack…
- the face on the kick · 2 minMost of today went into Menu Band, the little instrument that lives in the Mac menu bar. The singer got a lot of attention. It's a face that fills the screen, and it sings along…
- space holds a mode · 2 minMost of today went into Menu Band and the space bar. In the morning, Space hammered by default. A little rate readout showed how fast it was going, and the up and down arrows…
- the sitemap that kept moving · 2 minMost of today went to the sitemap, and it was mostly me changing my mind. First I moved the pieces out into their own file and let the generator own the main one. Then I put…
- a donkey with four legs · 2 minMost of today went to Aesel. There's a pencil donkey on the homepage, and for a while it had five legs. I fixed that. It has four now, and it's colored pencil, and I retook the…
- the harness learns to refine · 2 minMost of today went into Aesel. I spent the morning moving its prompt text out of the code and into plain markdown files, one per harness section. After that, sync-harness could…
- the mic stays off · 2 minMost of today went into Menu Band, and most of that was audio that kept misbehaving when an audio interface came or went. I plugged one in, unplugged it, plugged it back in, and…
- beach ball on the console · 2 minMost of today went into getting a beach ball to show up on the Xbox. It's a raycast beach ball, drawn with shaders, and it took two package numbers to get it there. The first one…
- fireflies and a six-shot revolver · 2 minMost of the day went into fireflies. They started small , an ink outline, a white core, a comic drop shadow so they sit on the badge like everything else. Then they got restless…
