Charlie Gerard

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This is so cool! youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...

This weekend I ran the Double Up challenge at the SF marathon so 5k on Saturday and 10k today, and I beat my PR in both races! 😃🎉 Who am I?? I actually find running fun now 😂

And I also ended up doing a glacier traverse!!! 😃 That was so cool!

Trip update: we didn't end up climbing Mont Blanc because of bad weather but we did Gran Paradiso in Italy!
It was more challenging than I expected but because there was also drama in our group, one person can really ruin the experience for everyone... 🫤 Still happy I did it though!

Just got back to SF and the border agent said "welcome home" 🥹

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Getting ready to climb the Mont Blanc! 😃🏔️
We're starting with a test climb of Gran Paradiso in Italy and if it goes well, we'll climb the Mont Blanc early next week!
The weather forecast isn't good so I'm not super hopeful but if we're lucky, I'll be all the way up there at 4,806m (15,770ft)! 🤞🏻

I'm so used to speaking in English all the time that I keep forgetting that while in France I can just... speak French 🤦🏻‍♀️

Always love to watch Tobi (@baldower) make music live using samples from the previous speaker's talk! He's so good!

Bump Festival 2025 A creative conference on June 20, 2025 in Kortrijk, Belgium where you'll get your mind blown by graphic designers, creative coders and motion graphics artists.

I love speaking at creative conferences but boy do I feel like an amateur next to the other amazing speakers 😅
Feeling very inspired by all the talks!
bump-festival.be/2025/

I've been following Yehwan Song's work for a while so I'm so excited to see her speak live! Her projects are so awesome!

yhsong.com

Super excited to speak at Bump Festival today in Kortrijk, Belgium! 🇧🇪
I love the mix of art & tech talks! 😃

This is a really good example of the importance of friction as texture: an algorithm-driven interface is slippery smooth, with no natural point of interruption. It feels frictionless because it is making decisions for you.

But as soon as you *want* to make your own decisions, the friction appears.

Congrats and enjoy your time off!!

I'm at this bar/restaurant, catching up on work and I can't help but hear the people at the table in front of me who seem to be on a first date and they're really vibing talking about life, politics, etc, they're so cute, it's giving me hope that dating does work out for some people.

Thanks for joining!

Went for a run this morning on 4h sleep cause of jetlag and thought I was gonna struggle to do my usual 5k but turns out I ran 6k!🏃🏻‍♀️ Longest distance ever! 😃
I'm training to go slower to last longer and my new goal is to run my first 10k at the SF marathon at the end of July!

Made it to Amsterdam for @jsnation.gitnation.org this week! 🎉🇳🇱

A winding road to Mt. Rainier, with an illustrated portrait of Charlie Gerard. Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. Sept 18-19.

What if you could control a website with a wave of your hand? 👋

Charlie Gerard (@devdevcharlie.com‬) is coming to #CascadiaJS to take us through her research on building motion-controlled prototypes using LLMs in JavaScript.

#JavaScript #MotionControl #LLMs #MultimodalAI

More info ⬇️

Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?

I love this by @robbowen.digital: robbowen.digital/wrote-about/...
"Where industry peers were once chatting about what they were making and for whom, we now seem fixated solely on what we're building with."

🇫🇮🛫🇺🇸 Thanks again @futurefrontend.bsky.social for having me! I had a great time meeting really nice people 😃

Interactive installation where users can catch malware from near real-time threat data using gesture recognition.

Visual representation of the malware caught with an explanation.

Virus Archive is a set of screens displaying a visualization of famous malware.

I went to visit the Museum of Malware Art in Helsinki today!

It's really cool to see an exhibition mixing art and technology to demystify cyber threats. Loved the Virus Archive visualizing famous malware and the interactive installation with gesture recognition!

Congrats!!

Running a little interactive art installation with motion control using Tensorflow.js at the conference on a very old laptop so it's a bit laggy but I'm surprised it works anyway!! Actually curious to see if it runs all day without crashing.

I prepared 6 demos for my talk today so I'm definitely gonna challenge the demo gods 😬 Let's hope I win 😅

Yeah that's what I'm trying right now and I think it should work! 🤞🏻

I love adding live demos to my talks but it's always quite an adventure!
The talk I'm giving tomorrow is a new one and is demo based so of course I just realized nothing might work cause of some wifi configs I might not have control over 😅.
Scrambling a back up plan right now...🤞🏻

Excited to see you again! 😃

I'm in Finland for a conference and didn't realize how close it was to Estonia so here I am, taking the 2h "ferry" (more like a mini cruise boat 🛳️) to Tallinn to spend a few hours with a friend I haven't seen in a few years 😃 Feeling very grateful 🇪🇺

Here's another one without the voice command so gesture only! 👎👍✋✌️