alex duner

I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.

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I made another scarf! #weaving #doubleweave

this is what listening to a more civilized age feels like too me

Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late. What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises? What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now? That would be a tragedy—the product of a mass delusion. What scares me the most about this scenario is that it’s the only one that doesn’t sound all that insane.

all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!

it was kinda wild to design something, plan it, and then actually have it work irl

i made a scarf!

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what we’ve been working on lately :)

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finished this doubleweave sampler and am really just thrilled with it #weaving #doubleweave

ok I’m kinda obsessed with doubleweave so far #weaving

warp is measured and ready for threading for my first doubleweave project!!! #weaving

It's crazy that whales (big) eat krill (small). It's like if we opened our mouths and shovelled in meat sand

Patti LuPone and Aubrey Plaza outside the Hayes Theater in New York City.

I gay panicked when I walked right behind Patti and Aubrey through the security detector at the matinee of “Cult of Love” today (good — go see it!). I hope they enjoyed the show despite someone’s phone ringing in the middle of the play 🫠

This is the single best Star Wars produced since A New Hope, it's good they made it

finally finished all the pieces of this woven jacket/sweater I’ve been working on.

definitely too big of a project for my second time #weaving but the panels are done!

now just to hand sew it all together…

Love it!

Oooh! Yes I have that PDF saved somewhere but now I’ll have to actually find time to read it.

I’ve been weaving!! bsky.app/profile/asdu...

anyhow… here’s some #weaving content

condemned to spend my time scrolling on tiktok

too jaded to post anywhere else now — but still nostalgic for the days when posting was good

Over the last five or six years I’ve basically stopped posting because the other place got bad.

But… do I want to post again?

what are you holding space for today

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The closest thing I’ve encountered so far is AdaCad which I am very excited to find some time to play with. docs.adacad.org

Profoundly niche question but does anyone know if there is interesting work or research on representing #weaving drafts and structures algebraically? Or tools that enable “explorable explanations” of weave structures?

should I make this an account that just posts about weaving?