antoine @focus404@merveilles.town

@focus404 Attention is a helluva drug.

I get tempted sometimes too but I always come back to thinking that the biggest beneficiaries are the already wealthy people who get paid to put ads next to your post. And I don't want to run my life like a PR manager, lonely in the din, competing for attention.

https://same.energy

---minimal visual search engine

The fablab I've been working at for this past year did a little fabacademy-themed inteview with my instructor and me (en/it):

https://medium.com/@OpenDot_fablab/6-q-a-with-a-fab-academy-student-inside-opendot-87c6f8a6c407

To be truly countercultural today, in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform, which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.

https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

19-21 February, there'll be a weekend full of live coding streams from TOPLAP nodes + friends from around the world https://transnodal.toplap.org/

Illustrations of hands labelled with figures on the fingers to calculate the date of Easter and perform mathematical calculations (British Library, Egerton MS 3314, f. 73r, detail) / British Library, Public Domain

#analogcomputing

https://brewminate.com/medieval-science-and-mathematics/

💿 Free loop pack! 33 lo-fi analog drum loops created with my homemade modular synth 💿

Available here (audio previews too): https://archive.org/details/beckstrom-modular-drum-loops-1

Free to use however you want, license is CC-BY - royalty free. I hope you'll find them interesting, useful, and/or inspiring.

Please boost, especially if you know people who like weird audio stuff

#samplepack #looppack #modularsynth #free #sounds #analog #diy #audio #samples #springreverb #drums

I spent parts of January working on a new kind of search engine. Instead of indexing the unfathomable internet, it focuses on enabling search for neighbourhoods of related websites—webrings, or other kinds of topically similar sites.

The search engine is called Lieu.
Try it out: https://lieu.cblgh.org
See the code: https://github.com/cblgh/lieu

The User Condition: a conclusion

[Dynamicland](https://dynamicland.org/) is a "non-profit long-term research group in the spirit of Doug Engelbart and Xerox PARC." Their goal is to invent a new computational *medium* where the user doesn't interact only with symbols on screens but with material objects in the physical space. Few lines ago I stated that a serious discussion on computer literacy can't ignore the issue of time. Well, Dynamicland's time-frame is 50 years. What follows, then, will come as no surprise: one of the founders is the frequently aforementioned Alan Kay (the other one is programmer Bret Victor).

The new computational medium envisioned by Dynamicland is not a device but a place, an environment. This environment is both physical and virtual. It looks like a beautiful, communal mess. Within it, users (kids, adults, the elderly) interact with paper, toys, pens and, of course, with each other. Because togetherness and participation is valued by the folks at Dynamicland. Borrowing from gaming, they say that's "as multiplayer as the real world."

🎉 🙏 PSYCHED about the alpha release of open-source Figma killer @penpot TODAY ⬇️⬇️⬇️ this is BIG

https://penpot.app/

Day 31 #jamurary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R653xGU333g&feature=youtu.be