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AxiDraw serial protocol
Very low level plotter control; move the stepper motors
2021-02-26
axidraw • plotter • programming • robot • art • tootme
AxiDraw low level python
API for controlling the plotting robot. The low level Python API literally just lets you move the thing in straight lines and control pen up / pen down.
2021-02-26
robot • axidraw • plotter • api • tootme
gan.style
GAN smashes Youtube audio into something that sounds like choral or strings. Choral is sort of horrible and great on Alles in Allem.
2021-02-26
music • gan • ai • tootme • via:waxy
Morph
Beautiful kinetic sculpture / light thing, a pulsing sphere of hexagons
2021-02-26
art • tootme • hexagon • sculpture • morph • via:jwz
Same Energy
A new visual search image; machine learning does "find more images like this"
2021-02-26
via:waxy • image • search • machinelearning • tootme
svgpathtools
Python library for doing some calculation and manipulation of SVG paths
2021-02-24
drawing • python • software • plotter • svg • tootme
svgwrite
Python library for creating SVG graphics
2021-02-24
svg • python • graphics • drawing • plotter • tootme
Pretty JSON
Various forms of JSON data in increasingly readable forms. Includes SEN form which is not valid JSON but 1:1 convertible
2021-02-23
json • programming • data • readability • via:hackernews • tootme
Google Howard West problems
Google's outreach effort to a historically black university went poorly.
2021-02-23
google • diversity • howard • hbcu • tech
Unregulated power
Texans bought into a cheap electricity plan with no limit to the price of power. Now it bit them in the ass. A story of why civilized governments regulate utilities.
2021-02-21
texas • regulation • politics • power • pge • republicans • tootme
Live Starlink Map
Shows all the satellites and their footprints
2021-02-20
space • spacex • starlink • map • visualization • satellite • constellation
Skittish
A web social space being designed and built by Andy Baio, aka Waxy
2021-02-16
social • socialmedia • waxy • waxpancake • andybaio • skittish • tootme
15th century Venetian glass
Found in Alaska, before European settlers discovered the eastern coast. Trade is amazing
2021-02-16
trade • america • anthropology • history • venice • beads • tootme
Covid freezer failure
Houston, TX has to distribute 8400 vaccine doses in a hurry
2021-02-15
houston • covid19 • coronavirus • riceuniversity • vaccination
Cistercian numerals
A 13th century writing system for numbers 1-9999
2021-02-14
cistercian • writing • numbers • monks • history • tootme
Safe space for bad ideas
Group of privileged tech dudes want their safe space to talk about dumb ideas without consequences
2021-02-14
politics • tech • nyt • anonymity • tirefire • siliconvalley
Trump's death toll
At least 40% of Covid deaths avoidable. Other deaths that were also the consequence of Trump and Republican policies
2021-02-13
gop • republican • deathcult • politics • america • health
New phone service requirement
CPUC requiring 72 hours of working phone service even during power outages
2021-02-13
fire • safety • cpuc • phoneline • regulation • tootme • california
Dead of Night
Melancholy Orville Peck song
2021-02-12
music • orvillepeck • brothel • chickenranch • nevada • country • tootme
Trump was sicker than they said
No surprise, but another Trump administration lie; his Covid-19 case was more serious than they said
2021-02-11
politics • trump • covid19 • coronavirus • disease • lies
Do a kickflip!
Heart warming Tony Hawk video of him celebrating ordinary skaters
2021-02-11
tonyhawk • skating • skateboard • perseverance • tootme
Trump's coup, in video
Excellent summary of the day's events from Trump's incitement to riot to the riot. Caution, there's a lot of brutal violence in this.
2021-02-09
capitol • trump • politics • violence • fascism • impeachment
Saxi plotter GUI
Web based UI for the AxiDraw plotter
2021-02-08
plotter • axidraw • nodejs • software • tootme
Saving election 2020
A bipartisan group worked hard in the background to ensure a legitimate American election
2021-02-06
politics • election • america • 2020 • trump • biden • democracy
Awesome Plotters
List of code and resources for plotter
2021-02-06
plottertwitter • plotter • hacking • code • drawing • art • tootme
FieldKit
Modular outdoor sensor package for monitoring the environment
2021-02-06
science • monitoring • sensor • fieldkit • jerthorp • tootme
Vaccine centers
Photos of large vaccination centers
2021-02-05
covid19 • coronavirus • vaccine • photos • tootme
PS5 storage architecture
Details of the breakthrough in speed. Customized bus, hardware compression, other tricks make for 5-10GBytes/second data transfers
2021-02-05
ps5 • storage • ssd • speed • games • tootme
Card based dungeon crawlers
Very detailed list of games like Slay the Spire
2021-02-04
games • slaythespire • ccg • cards • roguelike • tootme
Newsmax clown show
Ridiculous right wing TV is increasingly ridiculous
2021-02-02
newsmax • funny • crazy • politics • trump • mypillow • mikelindell
Craziest Trump meeting
Dec 18 meeting where the super conspiracy folks ran headlong into the vaguely sane Trump advisors
2021-02-02
trump • politics • coup • insurrection • batshitinsane
Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election
A remarkable coherent narrative of Trump's progress from lunatic lawsuits to actual armed insurrection
2021-02-02
politics • trump • election • coup • insurrection
Google pay bias
Laughably small settlement to cover over their system underpayment of women, other classes of employees
2021-02-02
google • discrimination • wages • dol • ofccp • tirefire
#Murica
Mailbox shaped like a pistol, with an American flag cross underneath
2021-02-01
politics • funny • guns • religion • america • mailbox • tootme
One vaccine failure reason
Federal program to supply vaccines to nursing homes is very badly designed
2021-02-01
vaccine • covid19 • warpspeed • trump • politics
Ubiquiti USG failover
Configuring WAN failover on the Ubiquiti Security Gateway, including with the Unifi LTE
2021-02-01
lte • ubiquiti • failover • stability • router • networking • tootme • watchdog
Biden's Covid start
First 10 days mired in trying to understand the mess the Trump people left behind
2021-02-01
trump • politics • covid19 • coronavirus • biden • epidemic • vaccination