Slowly going out on a limb. Making experimental creative tools on the web at constraint.systems. He/him.
Brooklyn
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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
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Thinking about tabletop frame and file mechanics:
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Wrote about an Eno quote from How Buildings Learn. Thinking about how the gradient of constraints in a space give you an entry point into its story.
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Working through creation and deletion on the tabletop. Two-finger tap feels a little more reliable than double-tap, and paint-select feels great.
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I recorded a tabletop version of my digital tabletop talk: piped.video/watch?v=hwhvjYm5…
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Giving a talk on my tabletop setup at Brooklyn Web Workers tonight - tickets at pools.events/event/QZru62tO/…
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grant retweeted
a friend lovingly created an open source ebook reader (really a programmable e-ink touch screen you can write code for it, it comes w beautiful ebook software) if you had a goal of reading more (& want to say fk u to kindle/amazon) this is 4 u (RT pls)! crowdsupply.com/oddly-specif…
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when I saw this dataset I knew I had to UMAP it!
in addition to the included embeddings, I also extracted vision latents from Marlin-2B for each clip.
getting everything rendering smoothly in the browser was also a mix of fun tricks. interactive map and writeup linked below 🎥
AI can help make video archives searchable by what actually happens on screen.
I tested that on 370 hours of public-domain film. The whole index cost about $10 in GPU time to build.
Search “typing on a computer keyboard” and jump straight to the moment it happens.
I processed 1,864 films from the Prelinger Archives on @internetarchive, cut them into ~60-second chunks, and ran the open 2B video model Marlin-2B on @huggingface Jobs to generate timestamped descriptions.
The result: 23,148 searchable moments.
Try it:
huggingface.co/spaces/davans…
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Steward Brand wrote:
> the most important tool for organizing projects is lots of horizontal space and immediate-to-hand storage
He used a shipping container to edit _How Buildings Learn_. I want to make a digital version of this.
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CSS styles and text are applied per cell based on position. Global styles can be applied at the top.
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This carries over a lot of ideas from css-paint.constraint.systems… but transferred to touch-drag tabletop mechanics.
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I finished True to Life, the Hockney interview book recommended by @tobyshooters
Weschler is always visiting his house to find him absorbed at his work table, full of ideas of things he wants to try. It made me think "I want a working life like that".
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Thinking about how space on the tabletop should work in light of new features:
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