Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
Satisfying Smudging Satisfying Smudging Satisfying Smudging No more muddy mixtures, smudge brush is now your friend! It’ll help you bring natural gradients into your art. No more muddy mixtures, smudge brush is now your friend! It’ll help you bring natural gradients into your art. No more muddy mixtures, smudge brush is now your friend!
OpenAI’s Board: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
From an un-bylined post from OpenAI’s board of directors on Friday: The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission. We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined. Investors want to back us […]
The Cody Computer
The Cody Computer Site Introduction The Cody Computer is an 8-bit home computer intended to be built as a DIY project. Inspired by (but not compatible with) the Commodore home computers of the 1980s, it’s built around the Western Design Center’s 65C02 and 65C22 and the Parallax Propeller microcontroller. It doesn’t compete with your modern […]
Stripe V2
I happened to notice by way of a Slack bot today that Stripe released a V2 version of their API. I thought this must’ve been a soft launch right before the holidays, surely to be followed up by a more formal blog post, but the Way Back Machine clocked the page in early October, making […]
Om Malik – The Story of Stent
Today is my 17th re-birthday. If you’ve been a longtime reader, you know why I call it my re-birthday. If you are new around here, well, here is a short recap. Just after I turned 41—17 years ago—a life of poor habits and family genetics caught up with me. I had a heart attack and […]
Brave Care Has Closed
It is with heavy hearts that we share Brave Care has permanently closed its doors. It has been an honor to care for our patients and families, and we are deeply grateful for the trust you placed in us. For any inquiries or to access your health records, please contact Cariend, our designated health records […]
Where are Mr. Beast’s early sponsors now?
Mr. Beast is probably the biggest channel on YouTube right now by a lot of metrics. But it wasn’t always that way. He, like all YouTubers, started out making small videos from his bedroom playing video games or doing random challenges by himself. And like many YouTubers, once he started getting some traction, he was […]
Visualizing memory layout of Rust’s data types
The Zombocom Problem
Welcome to zombocom… you can do anything at zombocom… anything at all… the only limit… is yourself… This is the Zombocom Problem: sure, it can be anything, but first it has to be something specific. Many attempts at no-code, low-code, nodes-and-wires, end-user programming, wikis, malleable software, moldable development, super apps, protocols, and platforms have failed […]
Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems
I am a Computer Hardware professional. I started working with computer technology in the early eighties. I have seen the evolution of technology starting with closed platforms like the game console era and then the move toward open platforms like the Home Computer Golden Age. In the last 5 or 10 years, I have witnessed […]