from danish's desk in the common room of my apartment, before it's moved
into his
## 14:32 more articles
### webgpu
- exposes direct3d, metal, vulkan directly to 'end developers' (browser
users)
- allows access to lower level gpu tools than webgl otherwise would
- advanced shaders are now available directly in the browser! much more
powerful computation. so excited - try all of these things out once
they've matriculated and matured!
### svg displacement filtering
can source svg displacement map and apply to image - any image - with
svgs. can have big performance implications, but it's far better than
computatinoally re-rendering every pixel or similar to try to get the
best result. **any** image can be applied as a distortion filter to
another!
filter primitive uses pixels value from image to in2 to displace image
according to
$$P'(x,y) ← P( x + scale * (XC(x,y) - .5), y + scale * (YC(x,y) - .5))$$ -
some cool experiments in tne article applying solid colors to cause
linear transformations to images like the mona lisa.
definitely something to come back to if i ever want to perform image
transformatinos in interesting ways dynamically, but i'll see whetheer i
need this in the future.
### cancelling newsletters
probably a good idea - carefully monitor my email. it's becoming ore and
more of a distraction. carefully moderate whatever comes in to see
what's going on and understand what i can cut - it's incredibly unlikely
that any new input from any of these newsletters will in any way affect
the trajectory of my work anyways, and only things that affect the
trajectory of my work really should be important to me. the rest is
noise! looking and waiting for new products, sales actually might not be
worth it - better for me to identify my need first rather than to allow
myself to be constantly advertised to. advertising bad, even if it is
information advertising - seek out sources yourself or obtain them from
close friends rather than being exposed to these things by others!
## 15:18 another user hostile software story
their definition: software
that doesn't care about the needs of the user, but rather the needs of
the developer; of course, the actual author of the code isn't the
problem, rather the entire ecosystem that motivates that developer to
produce a product. the nature of all of these accounts and services and
proprietary ecosystems at the end of the day produces an experience that
is overwhelmingly hostile to the end user, and it really doesn't have to
be this way!
- dashcam for car? need account to connect an app even if you just want
to sync data locally
- keyboards and mice requiring the installation of their own proprietary
(and often unique) programs and drivers just to access some of their
basic firmware configuration features!!
- disable telemetry? haha u wish
- software? actually it's an electron app, so download an entire chrome
browser to your local machine just to use it with an outdated nodejs
server and a ui. but in exchange you get to use css!!!!!!
- products die when companies go out of business… your hardware device
should not be bricked by the remote actions of some company. if you
hold it you own it and control it.
ultimately these are for profit and governance of items that the end
user *should* own and control, but inrtead have been optimized for the
actualization for the corporation rather than the end user. most
products add 'features' that ultimately are not of any interest to and
do not add anything to users!
everyone should always have the choice to disable things! (people should
have the right to modify their own software!) and privileges necessary
for the program to run should be completely minimized. don't impose
constraints and act ethically!
## 18:59 stop reading self help
there is too meuch repetitivcontent and it's designed to validate your
concerns. I've already read enough self help for a lifetime. when am I
going to get to the work? these advice columns do a lot to satiate
current behaviors, habits and encourage complacency. i know i want to be
radical and i want to be different, so self help is not for me.
## 19:50 physical package toc
agree to terms with progressive box opening; simulates virtual world!
have to unwrap portion to access the inner product, but to do that it's
necessary to at least read the ToC beforehand
## 19:56 getting around on my own
this note war made
on august 26 and revised today use 'you' frequently in writing - you as
an object of affection. otherwise tnis is just okay; light piece about
reassurance, finding confidence and self reliance, but nothing really
stands out
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