Andrés Cuervo

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

Whenever one of these guys trots out a "badass Spartan" quote, i find myself asking "and then what happened?"

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

If Cloudflare's analysis is correct -- and I've no reason to doubt it -- this is shameful behavior from Perplexity blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

I'll be bringing a @folkcomputer.bsky.social Gadget with me and possibly making one for www.akiyacollective.org when I'm in Japan!

I'm going to Taiwan and then Japan (August 6 → August 22nd, exact dates/locations TBD)

Anyone want to meet up / see the Folk Gadget?

Also happy to do a talk, lab visit, or just grab coffee with anyone! DM me here or send me an email at cwervo@folk.computer :-)

I use agents (namely Claude and Gemini these days) to generate first drafts and ideas — *toys* — because, as @maggieappleton.com says, “vibe coding is legacy coding”.

For @folkcomputer.bsky.social I never use AI *because* it’s so new syntactically no AI agent tools can help

Yayyyyy green little fortune cookie webstone!!! Go go go!!!

Omg peak new combo move @leaflet.pub x @spencer.place web stone

i keep the stone in my kitchen and literally just tap to the leaflet where i record my recipes

life. changing.

I scored 85%! So it was a useful pre-screening knowledge tool actually :-)

I enabled this Quiz beta feature on a PDF I bought of ostep.org, (Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces) it was really useful to test my knowledge this way!

Funnily enough because it operates in PDF open I got the quiz when I re-opened the book’s PDF this morning, only 2 pages into the chapter

A pop up Quiz modal in front a black and white PDF reading: Cuestionario ✨ Why do modern operating systems perform lazy loading instead of eager loading when creating processes? - To enable better process scheduling - To prevent security vulnerabilities - To support larger executable files - To reduce memory usage and improve startup time

Looks like @notability.bsky.social is beta testing a Quiz feature going: PDF → ML → spaced repetition flow like @andymatuschak.org has dreamed of.

Instead of SR this quiz activates on-PDF-open at unknown intervals.

I found it really useful & engaging! Hopeful for more AI edu tools like this

Figma with a bunch of pictures of a white cat in white boxes, selected is a sticker called "glowing" with an photo of an illuminated yellowish tinted white cat

Figma with a bunch of pictures of a white cat in white boxes, selected is a sticker called "confidence" with an photo of a close up of a cat looking proud wearing an orange collar

having a very normal Friday night making @signal.org sticker packs of my cat

If you ever thought, 'I'm done with the screen. Let me escape... but god, let me keep programming...' then you'll definitely want to watch @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social's talk on Folk Computer and the Folk Gadget:

This was an awesome talk! I am glad I was able to attend it in person.

Both @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social knocked it out of the park.

Definitely worth checking out for folks 😉interested in HCI and Physical Computing.

Omar and Andres demonstrating the folk Gadget by projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it.

Omar demonstrating the folk Gadget by aiming a triggered, handheld device and projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it.

Andrés and Omar at a podium presenting a slide with many pictures that says "What is Folk Computer?"

A shot of the crowd at the Recurse Center's Brooklyn hub. About 95 people are watching the talk.

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!‬

They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
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Watch the recording below:

How many Palestinians had to be slaughtered before you could say the obvious out loud?

Maybe next week's headline will be the bombshell that Bibi has been letting the genocidal Kahanists get their way since he let them get into the coalition? Or that demolitions serve no military purpose? Like.

It is kinda funny how MAGA has spent a decade talking about Epstein and now they’re all like “Just get over it already.” Incredible stuff.

A plate of immaculate looking French toast.

Been a minute. French toast Sundays.

Turns out the thing engineers and economists said would work is working, despite Hochul's best efforts.

Weird how.. Uh... Research and forecasting works, I guess.

I know it’s obvious, but it’s worth saying anyway:

The reason rage bait is such a bad thing (for society) is that editors are trying to publish stuff that hurts people—because people tend to react when we’re hurt.

It’s a formula for oppression.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Sunset this evening.

Branson's going through some kind of a mutation lately. And instead of deformed red blood cells or lactose tolerance, it means an extremely demented, dynamic comic that shocks and excites every time I click that 9 month old link. Check it out if you haven't!

2.1. Tool Command Language

oh yeah, the link for this page:
www.intel.com/content/www/...

"Run Intel® Quartus® Prime software in batch mode, or execute individual Tcl commands interactively in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Tcl shell." highlighted in blue — then entire page reads: 2.1. Tool Command Language Tcl (pronounced “tickle”) stands for Tool Command Language, and is the industry-standard scripting language. Tcl supports control structures, variables, network socket access, and APIs. With Tcl, you can work seamlessly across most development platforms. Synopsys* , Mentor Graphics* , and Intel software products support the Tcl language. By combining Tcl commands and Intel® Quartus® Prime API functions, you can create your own procedures and automate your design flow. Run Intel® Quartus® Prime software in batch mode, or execute individual Tcl commands interactively in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Tcl shell. Intel® Quartus® Prime software supports Tcl/Tk version 8.5, supplied by the Tcl DeveloperXchange.

absolutely fascinating document

#tcl is such a funny language, it shows up in the most interesting, mission critical places, it's "everywhere" (kind of like Java) but people are always very skeptical / confused / assume I work in a hobby, niche, toy language for @folkcomputer.bsky.social lol

New app always points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy iPhone compass app made with AI assistance locates the heart of the Milky Way.

Reminder that last year I made an iPhone app that always points at the centre of the Milky Way

It peaked at 87 in the US App Store free apps chart (Travel category) haha

Here’s what Ars Technica said about it

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

What if books about abstractions didn't have to stay flat?

Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing by Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social www.3dprintmath.com Johns Hopkins University Press 2016

Model www.printables.com/model/167505... on @printables.bsky.social

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