Burnout for me right now means I am stuck between wanting to make something, and drawing a blank as my creativity well is completely dry.

10 Pilgrimages Around the World That Aren’t Religious
When we think of pilgrimages, we often imagine spiritual journeys to sacred sites, but the concept of a pilgrimage can extend far beyond religion. A pilgrimage, in its most profound sense, is a journey or quest to discover something meaningful—whether it’s self-discovery, adventure, culture, or history. All around the world, some paths draw people for […]

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Show me a picture of your cat, and I’ll draw ‘em! ⌘ Read more

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KDE Plasma 6.3 brings drawing tablet improvements
Speaking of KDE, Plasma 6.3 has been released. It brings with it a ton of improvements aimed at digital artists, such as much improved management and configuration of drawing tablets. You can now map an area of the tablet’s surface to a part of the screen, change the functions of stylus buttons, customise the pressure curve and range of a stylus, and much more. The entire settings panel for drawing tablets has also been redesigned t … ⌘ Read more

i fucking love tux paint it’s so cute i wish i could draw

My December ‘24 and my 2024 in Review
The month, and indeed the year, are drawing to a close – a time to pause, reflect, and revisit all the small and big moments that made up this journey. ⌘ Read more

OpenTelemetry.io 2024 review
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog by Severin Neumann (Cisco), Patrice Chalin (CNCF), Tiffany Hrabusa (Grafana Labs) As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and share some insights and accomplishments from SIG Communications, the team responsible for… ⌘ Read more

AAEON’s PICO & GENE Boards with Intel Atom x7000RE Processors
AAEON has introduced the PICO-ASL4 and GENE-ASL6 boards, both incorporating the Intel Atom x7000RE Processor Series (Amston Lake). These boards are optimized for edge applications, combining durability, scalability, and low power consumption with a maximum power draw of 12W per processor. The PICO-ASL4, built on the 100mm x 72mm PICO-ITX form factor, supports Intel Atom […] ⌘ Read more

** You, and me, and the HTML5 canvas, pixel art, and quest logs **
As we start to round out the summer I haven’t been reading as much, so I don’t have much to report on that front, but I have been keeping busy!

I made yet another pixel art drawing tool, pixel pixel pixel pixel pixel pixel allows folks to draw chonky pixel art creations on pretty much any sized canvas. This was fun to make. I’ve spent so much time with the HTML5 canvas lately that I’m rea … ⌘ Read more

Pascal’s Wager Triangle
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Pascal’s Wager Triangle
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@prologic@twtxt.net I normally use gimp, but this project is pretty intense: https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama

for simple and quick drawings my kids use https://pixelart.com

Tick Marks
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Tick Marks
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Drawing histograms: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/708682/_

Somewhere I read that changing location, like entering a room, can rejigger neural pathways so that some thoughts and memories are somehow associated with the space. It’s the same for me when picking up a laptop. My purpose feels clear until I open a blank web browser window and my mind goes blank, too. In all the moments where I’m drawing a total blank, and then suddenly the thoughts come easily again: maybe that’s my brain looking for the room it was in before.

Dynamo vs. Sporting KC in draw this weekend
Get ready for the Dynamo’s upcoming Champions Cup second leg tomorrow night while we reminisce about the electric atmosphere of Saturday’s home opener against Sporting KC with a live report from Fox 26 Reporter Nate Griffin this morning. ⌘ Read more

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Remko Tronçon: Uxn in WebAssembly
While watching a Strange Loop talk on concatenative\
programming,
I learned about Uxn,
a small virtual machine that runs games, editors, drawing programs, … Uxn has been ported to various platforms, including classic consoles such as the Nintendo DS … ⌘ Read more

going thru my own old drawings, exploring those distant worlds, like an archaeologist. tracing origins and evolutions #draw #art #trip #mind

funny how looking at someone’s sketchbook might very well be like looking at an entire hidden world #art #draw #trip #phyilosophy

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him “do you support rape” he would not say “no”, he’d go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I’m mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn’t say “no” right away, he’s saying “yes”, except with so many words there’s some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that’s why I give him no slack.

There are people in academia who believe adult men should be able to have sex with children, legally, too. They use the same manner of talking about it that Peterson uses. We need to stop tolerating this, and draw hard red lines. No, that’s bad, no matter how many words you use to say it. No, don’t express doubts about it, because that provides justification and talking points to the people who actually carry out the acts.

A little app for drawing graphs: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love

Wineries ‘rapt’ as infield grape sorting makes processing quicker and easier
As the grape harvest draws to a close, trucks are delivering fruit to wineries — but their loads carry more than just grapes, which is why infield sorters are growing in popularity. ⌘ Read more

Data Quality
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Data Quality
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Lunduke Journal says no to “A.I. written articles”
As many Tech Publications (like CNET) are moving away from human writers, the Lunduke Journal draws a line. ⌘ Read more

You start playing with you words… And once you start enjoying drawing attention to yourself with your words…  theres no turning back Writers of Dramaland: Park Hae Young - MyDramaList

@thecanine@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net In drawing guessing games over here one often quickly starts with dog, cat, mouse.

@thecanine@twtxt.net And so the quest for the smallest number of pixels required to draw a dog continues. Still recognizable, no issues. And not bad of a result either. :-) I just have to squint a bit.

A bridge too far? Taipei mayor draws fire for proposal to link Quemoy and Xiamen
Ko Wen-je revives project to join Taiwan islet to mainland city, contending it would help ease cross-strait tensions, but opponents call it a ‘Trojan horse’ that would aid a People’s Liberation Army invasion. ⌘ Read more

China-India border: state media marks second anniversary of Galwan Valley clash in lead-up to new talks
CCTV military channel publishes three-minute video salute to four dead PLA soldiers on social media, drawing 4.36 million views on Weibo by noon on Thursday. ⌘ Read more

China’s party congress promotions to emphasise political security
Appointments are expected to sharpen focus on potential threats to the state and draw a line under the corruption scandals of recent years. ⌘ Read more

I built an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. http://akkartik.name/lines.html

Work just sent out a communication about drawing up 5 year plans. I don’t have to start referring to my coworkers as “comrade”, do I?

Annotate PDFs on Linux
This post is about a GUI tool called pdfrankestein that
fills a gap on mostly Linux machines where a powerful and easy to use
PDF annotator does not exist.

Adobe Acrobat® on Windows and Mac allow you to add text, drawings and
signatures to PDF documents. This is useful when filling forms or
marking notes to send back to someone. Such a tool with similar
capabilities and easy of use does not exist on Linux. The reason that’s
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** A quick and dirty intro to the .pbm file format **
I’ve been fiddling with writing programs that draw pictures. I started with PostScript for this, but have since moved to writing programs that output in the .pbm format.

My goal here is to write noise to a .pbm file.

A .pbm file is the lowest common denominator among image file formats.

An example of the format,

”`hljs plaintext
P1

5 5
1 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0
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Android open source pixel drawing tool

Language: Kotlin

Star: 40

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tldraw/tldraw
A tiny little drawing app.

Language: TypeScript

Star: 4043

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I wrote a ‘banner’-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

https://app.diagrams.net/ diagrams draw draw.io

That said, I wouldn’t buy orange-blossom water just to dump into my tea. It’s much more useful as a cheesecake-batter addition, but in order to draw it down in a timely fashion I’d have to bake two cheesecakes a week.

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saw this great writeup once on how somebody visualized data by drawing faces with them, and letting our brain’s natural face feature-extraction algorithms interpret the data. Kinda want to try to do that with some of these samples and waveforms I’m curating. #halfbakedideas

How to Draw a Rectangular Box Around Your Content in BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/draw-rectangular-box-around-content.shtml

Berlin…divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea , and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea . Turtleocracy | Hacker News

Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/

Bad idea of the day: drawing a unicursal hexagram in the center of the Magic Roundabout in Hartfordshire

The Draw of the Gothic https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/29/the-draw-of-the-gothic/