Kate Compton

Kate Compton

@galaxykate.bsky.social

Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!

3,083 Followers 494 Following 829 Posts Joined Apr 2023
1 day ago

I can't believe we're literally running into @galaxykate.bsky.social's oatmeal problem on an existential scale.

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3 days ago
A old-style google blob happy face, getting eaten by a giant wave.  From https://emojikitchen.dev/

here's our new logo, from the google emoji kitchen

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3 days ago

✨ cheerful nihilism ✨

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3 days ago
"We're werd-berglers! we're bergling your werds" on the image of Greg from Over The Garden Wall (originally "we're burglers! we're burgling your turts", in reference to his many turtle-based crimes)
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3 days ago
The McDonalds hamburgler

"werd-bergles" is the new term for terminology, thus making people who coin new terms "werdberglers" which is like wordsmithing but for when you also want to do CRIMES

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3 days ago

also the best generative term was coined by Johnathan Pagnutti:

"largle langle mangles", for when you want to speak derisively about LLMs (often)

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3 days ago

Not that I recall?

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3 days ago

im sober, im only drunk on metaphor

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3 days ago

write drunk edit never

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3 days ago

its the night before the chapter is due, time to redefine generativity lol yehaw

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3 days ago

also cuz i can't spell "hold" without an edit button

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3 days ago

academia can't hod me cuz i keep it too real and also i make it up as I go so also i keep it unreal, surreal, and question the concept of the "real" in evolving practitioner discourse

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3 days ago

other academics: Kate why do you have such a light publication record?

me, writing an academic book chapter: "yo wat up nerds, its ya kate with some more generative terminology, or as I call it, werd-bergles"

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4 days ago

its a good melody

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4 days ago

kinda like

mrr-mrr-mrr MEE ow

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4 days ago

my cat has unlocked a new meow

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6 days ago

"The stars'r wrong, cap'n."

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6 days ago

There's probably a niche-but-lucrative market for a multi-sensor device that does a bit of everything normal and also takes a video feed of the night sky for an "I reckon" double check.

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6 days ago

hollerin "marine chronometer" in the cadence of "Leroy Jenkins"

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6 days ago

With GPS jamming in wartime, what are the odds sailors have to go back to astrolabes?

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6 days ago

Sending my love and fomo to all the lovely people at GDC this year!

I wish I was there with you ❤️

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1 week ago
title: your ai slop bores me

prompt: beautiful man high quality next gen large chest realistic

result: pen drawing showing very highly rendered face

wow it works

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1 year ago
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads

I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.

I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

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1 week ago

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

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1 week ago
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Slop’s ancestor Ten years ago, Kate Compton wrote “So you want to build a generator….” Nothing better prepared me for a world where text and image generati…

Why a 10-year-old Tumblr post by @galaxykate.bsky.social is still the most important thing I've read about generating text

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2 weeks ago
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A strange forest, full of unsettling creatures

#procgen

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2 weeks ago

The King is mad

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3 weeks ago
A screenshot from Dragon Care Tarot, featuring a three card spread: five of swords, six of wands, and king of wands. The text reads, "The cosmos beckons you to shine bright and leave the rest to fate. Take comfort in survival itself: the future happens at its own pace."

I want tarot gays to find my game! We worked so hard on the reading procgen, I'm so proud of the ~ * grammar * ~

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2 weeks ago

Ok, but have you had the yellow ones? The yellow ones have all the flavor, the pretty pink ones steal the spotlight.

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