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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-02 09:40:19

Yesterday I released new versions of thi.ng/wasm-api (and its add-on packages), a modular and extensible bridge API & toolchain for hybrid JS/TS/Zig/WebAssembly apps, now updated to be compatible with the latest Zig version 0.15.1...
The update addresses some of Zig's breaking syntax & build …

Generic, modular, extensible API bridge and infrastructure for hybrid JS & WebAssembly projects

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-02 10:23:18

Update: The "Mountain Life" calendars are all gone (#NoirCountry

B&W photo of a majestic and rugged mountain massif on the other side of a very steep valley. The view is from the ridge/pass. The vertical rock faces/needles in the foreground and some parts further back are illuminated by the autumn afternoon sun. The rest is in semi-shade cast by a layer of clouds moving in. Some parts of the massif are showing distinct traces of former glacial activity. A grandiose view!
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social
2025-09-01 20:32:11

Diktatur?
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he?
From deploying the national guard to targeting news channels and schools, the US president’s actions are anything from typical of a democratic leader

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-09-01 13:42:00

TL;RL: He is.
#dictatorship

Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he?
From deploying the national guard to targeting news channels and schools, the US president’s actions are anything from typical of a democratic leader

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-01 17:15:59

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war:
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
theguardian.com/global-de…

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-02 13:02:41

Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Short video of a deep cyan/blue mountain creek flowing through some rocky narrows, surrounded by lush forest
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-02 04:35:43

Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he? | Donald Trump | The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-09-01 16:30:37

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war (Annie Kelly/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/global-develop
memeorandum.com/250901/p45#a25

@_tillwe_@mastodon.social
2025-09-03 09:11:25

Manchmal hilft ja die Vogelperspektive. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter

Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised
How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-03 10:12:56

Needing more paths in more lives to be as beautiful as this...
(This hike & experiences further up touched me like not many others have...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small hiking path leads through beautiful colored mountain meadows into the distance, high above the valley below. The peaks on other side of the valley have remnants of glacier tongues. Further down, green meadows and first generation larch forest growing, for the first time in thousands of years. A single small fluffy cloud in an otherwise clear blue, hazy sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-02 10:54:08

Even though I've been there quite a few times, I never realized that large swathes of the UK's Peak District look like a series of abstract paintings in satellite view...
Are those traces of turf harvesting?
#MapSurfing #PeakDistrict

Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting with geometric shapes.
Detail satellite view from Google Maps of a section of the Peak District, showing complex traces of (presumably) some form of farming activity, reminiscent of an abstract painting of shapes & textures.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-03 09:48:09

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
albertofortin.com/writing/codi

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain • albertofortin.com
I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-01 14:20:50

Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years: benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/leadi

Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years - Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii, a renowned scholar of Ukrainian history, is stepping down as director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI) after 12 …

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-29 14:13:35

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs
David Obura believes humans have been using nature for free, and tipping points at some reefs have already passed

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-01 16:21:05

Beautiful colors and textures of Fallenbacherspitze (2723m) in the cool evening light of the last day of August... Timeless, yet a distinct feel of autumn quickly approaching...
The reds & browns are chert and radiolarite, key aspects of the larger Feuerspitze group this mountain is part of...
#MountainMonday

Photo of a rugged mountain peak with its main face showing layers of different sedimentary rocks, shades of white/light gray, beige, brows, deep reds. A few slopes on the side covered in grass, illuminated by the evening sun. The pass and valley below are already in the shade of the slowly setting sun. Clear, pale blue sky.
@samir@functional.computer
2025-09-02 07:35:33

Now a blog post.
functional.computer/blog/talki

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-01 23:01:41

Trump, emboldened by a Republican party that appears willing to let their leader do whatever he wants,
is now threatening to send troops to Democratic-run cities including Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco and New York City,
prompting outcry and accusations of abuse of power.
“He’s really planning a military, repressive force, to go out into the streets of the places that are most likely to resist his dictatorship and to just put down the whole thing by force.”

Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he?
From deploying the national guard to targeting news channels and schools, the US president’s actions are anything from typical of a democratic leader

@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-02 09:56:40

Testing Nambu-Goto approximation of cosmic string by lattice field simulations
Zizhuo Zhao, Ligong Bian, Jing Shu
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00685

Testing Nambu-Goto approximation of cosmic string by lattice field simulations
The precise calculation of gravitational wave (GW) and particle emissions from cosmic string networks is of significant theoretical and experimental interest. In this Letter, we perform numerical simulations of near-global and local string networks, comparing the GW spectra predictions from both lattice field simulation and the Nambu-Goto (NG) approximation methods. We find the discrepancy between the GW spectra computed via the NG approximation and the lattice field simulation is negligible fo…

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-06-28 12:42:42

Free speech target or terrorist gang? The inside story of Palestine Action – and the plan to ban it theguardian.com/politics/ng-in

Free speech target or terrorist gang? The inside story of Palestine Action – and the plan to ban it
It started as a group of activists on a budget – now it could be banned under terrorism laws. But were lobbyists behind the proposed ban?

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2025-06-28 08:03:03

Groot stuk in de Guardian over Klimaat in het algemeeen en Climate Tipping Points in het bijzonder, met links naar meer informatie.
theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-31 22:10:31

A new policy document authored by seven Chinese government departments outlines plans to create a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030 (Emily Mullin/Wired)
wired.com/story/china-is-getti

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-06-26 14:25:33

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-07-29 16:45:39

CISA to release telecom security report as its director nominee nears confirmation
nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025

CISA to release telecom security report as its director nominee nears confirmation
The 2022 report, which has not been made publicly available, has been used as leverage by Senator Ron Wyden to hold Sean Plankey from being confirmed as director of CISA.

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-06-27 17:31:18

I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.
(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and

Cast iron historical marker with the following white text on black: Pagdaong sa Nasugbu Sa pook na ito dumaong ang mga sundalo ng Unang Batalyon at 188th Glider Infantry ng 11th Airborne Division sa pangunguna ni Lt. General Robert Eichelberger, 31 Enero 1945. Nagsilbing kabalikat ng hukbong Amerikano ang mga gerilyang Filipino na pinangunahan ni Tenyente Koronel Marcelo Castillo at Koronel Eleuterio L. Adevoso.
Historical marker mounted vertically on a concrete pedestal with a few steps before it and surrounded by a low concrete wall.

Landing at Nasugbu historical marker
NHI historical marker for the landing of the American forces at Nasugbu during World War II

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-08-01 23:49:15

Trae Young Responds to Dallas Cowboys Micah Parsons Trade Request si.com/nba/hawks/news/trae-you

Trae Young Responds to Dallas Cowboys Micah Parsons Trade Request
For the second day in a row, an NFL superstar has requested a trade. After Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin requested a trade, Dallas Cowboys

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-03 08:21:59

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of pe…

samim (@samim@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6m, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* As a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. This spending is so big it’s acting as a sort of privat…

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-01 17:05:35

Playing the long game: why does Putin need a simulation of peace talks with Ukraine? #shorts: benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/playi

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-29 18:58:19

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-02 13:12:02

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DC. arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- To Offload or Not To Offload: Model-driven Comparison of Edge-native and On-device Processing
Nathan Ng, David Irwin, Ananthram Swami, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy

@mszll@datasci.social
2025-07-31 20:24:32

Upcoming special issue in Urban Planning (cogitatio): Citizen-Centric Urban Planning Through Participatory Sensing Data and Digital Tools
cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanni
Abstract submission deadline in December.

Future Issues | Urban Planning
Urban Planning is a new international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-30 16:00:06

"The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals - and you"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you
Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? Here is the story of how plastic contaminates entire ecosystems – and even the food we eat

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-01 19:59:25

NFL betting breakdown: Predictions for all 16 AFC teams reviewjournal.com/sports/betti

NFL betting breakdown: Predictions for all 16 AFC teams
Chicago-based handicapper “Dr. Alan” Dumond analyzes all 16 AFC teams, designating each squad as a contender or pretender.

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-07-31 18:27:01

Drifting of Mind and Snow #webstories muz4now.com/web-stories/drifti

Drifting of Mind and Snow
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-02 16:30:40

An oldie, but goldie for this rainy Saturday — once going, the deep floating perma strings, hypnotic main sequence, the drops and later some minimal 303 accents add some twist/interestingness to some otherwise fairly standard deep house...
Nhar - Wisdom (2010)
youtube.com/watch?v=W4sP0b5-UW

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-23 20:48:25

Chicago unlike DC is in a state & county. Does potus plan to deploy IL National Guard to the city? Will IL NG commanders follow that illegal order?
Does potus think sending another state’s NG to IL won’t have Pritzker sending IL NG to “greet them” at the border?
Does another state’s Air Guard send fighters escorting their transports to try to land without authorization at an IL airstrip?
Will some NG personnel risk courts martial to illegally follow potus?

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-08-02 19:16:12

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos (Allison Gill/The Breakdown)
muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-sui
memeorandum.com/250802/p42#a25

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2025-07-01 07:01:21

Das #DNIP Briefing heute mit Archivgeschichten und Werbung
dnip.ch/2025/07/01/dnip-briefi

DNIP Briefing #31: Im Archiv - Das Netz ist politisch
Die Redaktion präsentiert jeden Dienstag die Geschichten, die sie bewegt, aufgerüttelt oder zum Nachdenken angeregt hat.

@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-03 07:27:18

S\"{o}ze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weitao Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2506.00834

Söze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weighted bandwidth allocation is a powerful abstraction that has a wide range of use cases in modern data center networks. However, realizing highly agile and precise weighted bandwidth allocation for large-scale cloud environments is fundamentally challenging. In this paper, we propose Söze, a lightweight decentralized weighted bandwidth allocation system that leverages simple network telemetry features of commodity Ethernet switches. Given the flow weights, Söze can effectively use the tele…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-06-29 14:57:36

What I don't hear from the #establishment #Democrats is any discussion about how to actually reach out and #TalkWithVoters (They talk TO voters, but it's not a dialogue (they talk AT voters?)…

A roadmap to beat Trump? How rise of Zohran Mamdani is dividing Democrats
Many believe Mamdani’s triumph shows it is time for national party to evolve but others say his brand of politics will not appeal in key battlegrounds

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-20 10:10:18

Time to update my offline dictionary app/files.
GoldenDict-ng:
github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendi
Some excellent, freely available *.slob dumps:

GitHub - xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng: The Next Generation GoldenDict
The Next Generation GoldenDict. Contribute to xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng development by creating an account on GitHub.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-01 06:43:01

The moon last night, exactly 12h ago...
(Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/125s)
#Moon #AstroPhotography #BlackAndWhite

Photo of the waxing crescent moon with Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis and many smaller craters clearly visible...
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-30 13:22:47

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Mocky:
🎵 Music Will Explain
#Mocky
mocky.bandcamp.com/track/walki
open.spotify.com/track/4H0P7oN

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-31 16:24:18

Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)

A glacier side moraine with an almost imperceptible path on its ridge is leading into a sea of ice, rocks and snow in the not so far distance. The massive glacier is just a few dozen meters below from where the picture was taken. It flows & drops down from the peaks in the back (all ~4000m and around 1300m higher up for my position), forming a maze of large seracs on the way. Sunny day with blue sky and some wispy clouds.
View across a large glacier (from the same moraine & position as other photo) towards the opposite side of the valley with its 4000m peaks, hidden below a thick layer of snow and ice, some side glaciers and bare major rock faces dusted in snow. Some dried brown grass in the bottom-right corner.
@arXiv_csET_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-02 07:36:09

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Chao Zhang, Neha Arora, Christopher Bian, Yechen Li, Willa Ng, Andrew Tomkins, Bin Yan, Janny Zhang, Carolina Osorio
arxiv.org/abs/2507.00306 …

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Estimating Origin-Destination (OD) travel demand is vital for effective urban planning and traffic management. Developing universally applicable OD estimation methodologies is significantly challenged by the pervasive scarcity of high-fidelity traffic data and the difficulty in obtaining city-specific prior OD estimates (or seed ODs), which are often prerequisite for traditional approaches. Our proposed method directly estimates OD travel demand by systematically leveraging aggregated, anonymiz…

@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-08-31 05:30:02

Bro mit Haltung – Ein Friedhofsgespräch mit Ryan Wichert weddingweiser.de/bro-mit-haltu

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-07-31 06:33:19

Speaking Of Open
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Speaking Of Open Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-08-02 08:30:56

The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-31 21:20:42

Parting the clouds, the light showing us the path ahead...
(From a scenic hike two months ago, when we went over the pass [Rossgundscharte] above the tiny snow patch in the distance on the right hand side of the image...)
#SilentSunday #MountainMonday

Black and white photo of a layered mountain range partially illuminated by a gap in the (large cumulus) clouds.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-30 10:00:09

"Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants
Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-31 15:15:22

TIL about the Barnum effect: "[...]a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a broad range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some paranormal beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, aura reading, and some types of personality tests…

Barnum effect - Wikipedia

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-29 15:09:26

Thanks to a book recommendation by @… [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for #PermaComputing and …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-31 07:27:05

Just learned that my little visual cosine gradient generator tool (from 2015) is featured in this popular video tutorial (1.1M views) about artistic shader programming:
youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY?t=971
The tool is still here:

Screenshot of the linked gradient generator tool showing a RGB visualization of the contributing cosine waveforms, the generated gradient and the set of 16 sliders to control various parameters. At the bottom of the image are text boxes with param outputs and code snippets.

- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-29 07:22:57

Yesterday near Rossgundscharte, Allgäu High Alps
(Longest, most stunning & varied tour in a while, traversing Warmatsgundtal into Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley — 21km, incl. 1450 hm grueling descent over loose gravel...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

A narrow path on a steep mountain slope is leading into the void/sky. Below and next to the path is a large tooth-like rock cliff (unnamed summit). In the background the grandiose peaks on the eastern side of the Rappenalptal with green steep slopes further down. Semi-cloudy blue sky.
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-27 20:19:42

In the hands of someone like Trump,
deals are ways to evade, postpone or subvert the efficient work of markets.
Trump does not like markets,
precisely because they are impersonal and objective.
Their results – for corporations, entrepreneurs, investors and shareholders – are subject to clear measures of success and failure.
Because deals are personal, adversarial and incomplete,
they are perfect grist for Trump’s relentless publicity machine,
and a…

The key to understanding Trump? It’s not what you think
Everything the US president does is for money – and in serving his avarice, he’s managed to triumph over the market

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-27 14:10:40

Super busy week, but here's some #FootpathFriday for you (from our amazing sunset solstice hike last Saturday), along a ridge which is part of the DE/AT borderline... 😍
#LandscapePhotography

Short 30 second POV video of the last few meters of rocky path before a steep 400m precipice. The camera pans around revealing stunning rock cliffs, mountains in warm alpenglow and beautiful forest.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-27 09:27:06

Anyone else getting these ridiculous repo scraping spikes? A clean checkout of the thi.ng/umbrella monorepo is ~370MB. Over the past 14 days there were 222k clones (only 117 unique) of this repo which have caused downloads of a whopping ~78TB. WTF! 🤯

Screenshot of a Github activity line plot showing the number of daily clones per day over the past 14 days. In the past week the number of daily clones went up to 60k+ for 2 days, with the total number of clones for the entire timespan 222,356 with only 117 unique cloners.

thi.ng/umbrella

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-27 12:08:56

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

A small, shallow high alpine lake with clear royal blue water surrounded by a talus field of white sands/pebbles, located on a high plateau with autumn colored grasses in front of the large mountain massif of Crodon di San Candido. A big fluffy cloud is nestled around the mountain peaks. Otherwise beautiful blue sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 13:01:26

Various thi.ng updates, bug fixes, additions and new version of github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/ — now fully compatible with current Zig v0.14.1
On a more diary/devlog note: I also updated several of my Zig based work-in-progress art pieces to the latest version (some of them not touc…

Still image/poster of DANZA, an abstract, generative physics-based realtime animation. The composition shows multiple overlapping patches of cloth sims, each represented by tens of thousands of small dots, each patch in different colors.
Still image of S-TRACE, an abstract generative realtime animation based on omnidirectional sphere tracing and multiple agents exploring the constantly changing positive & negative spaces

GitHub - thi-ng/zig-thing: Small collection of data types/structures, utilities & open-learning with Zig
Small collection of data types/structures, utilities & open-learning with Zig - thi-ng/zig-thing

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-28 17:09:38

Something super special, beautifully arranged and the result of weeks of hard work by @… for this #MountainMonday:

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image At 7PM CEST, there will be a premier of a cinematic showcase I made for my latest map. Hoping to see some of you there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ragOrrtK9M #minecraft #terrain #photography #cinemastodon

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-27 10:40:44

A massive shout out and gratitude to @… for being a superstar and manually reviewing and comparing the expected outputs of the hundreds of code examples & snippets included in the readmes and documentation of the #ThingUmbrella repo. Over the past wee…

Literate programming code block tangling / codegen utility, inspired by org-mode & noweb

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-25 15:01:57

Alone[1] enjoying the peace & quiet at the end of the valley, in the cirque below The Great Wall (Grubenkarspitze, Karwendel)...
[1] Alone, apart from some adders in the grass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Short video panorama of a beautiful summer mountain meadow in full bloom inside a grand cirque surrounded (semi-circle) by massive steep rock walls, and later forested slopes... A small path is leading further towards the rocks...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-29 08:19:15

Since it's kicking in today, how long will the US "de minimis" debacle last?
(ICYMI carriers of at least 22 countries stopped shipping goods to US due to cancellation of the so called "de minimis" exemption and the resulting legal/administrative chaos...)

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-29 08:31:27

The Life We Choose... (if only)
What a track and E.R.P. using his skills to elevate it even more in this remix! Goosebumps, esp. once the pads come in!
Hardfloor - "The Life We Choose" (E.R.P. Remix, 2018)
youtube.com/watch?v=1LQF8npb65

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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-24 10:08:42

Approaching the great wall
(From a hike up a beautiful side valley in the Karwendel, September 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

A mixed group of trees in early autumn colors of different shades of yellows and greens in a wide post-glacial alpine valley with steep slopes on either side. In the background the main ridge of the Karwendel, a massive wall of rock faces several kilometers in length. Bright hazy day with pale blue/gray sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-25 09:03:25

For my #MountainMonday, I made a calendar... It's generic and usable not just for 2026. If you like my photography, do check it out!
(UPDATE: If you just got a blank page, please try again... had a temporary server config issue, sorry!)

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-26 13:08:10

We shape our X and then our X shape us.
vs
Our X shape us and then we shape our X.
(Where X ∊ { biases, beliefs, connections, data, emotions, environments, experiences, fears, languages, music, nature, networks, time, tools... })

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 15:15:51

Added a customizable 2D vector field plot function for #ThingUmbrella

20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small arrows and directions mapped to different hues. Vector lengths are normalized
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small arrows and directions mapped to different hues. Vector lengths are varying.
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small dials
20x20 vector field visualization with vectors visualized as small black lines with red arrow heads.

Declarative, functional & multi-format data visualization toolkit based around @thi.ng/hiccup

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-20 07:00:06

Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography

A mountain hut in a peaceful alpine valley, surrounded by meadows with grazing cows, forest and steep rock faces rising up on the LHS. The pass at the end of the valley is visible in the distance. Sunny day with blue sky and some streaky wispy clouds.
The same mountain hut in mid winter. The valley is covered in ~50cm snow. The nearby trees and forest appear almost black. The pass at the end of the valley is the only place lit by the sun, most of valley is in the shade of the surrounding mountains. Clear day with blue sky and a few isolated clouds.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-21 11:02:17

Why use hyperlinking if you can create videos recording screens recording screens, just to be able to document other people documenting your own work. The modern internet is just sooo amazing!
#Actiniaria #GenerativeArt

30 second video recording of an iPhone showing an Instagram story of my art piece "Actiniaria" displayed on a large Layer Canvas LED screen with the following text overlaid: "Look at this beauty. Infinite piece by @thing_umbrella running in real time on @meetlayer"
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 07:00:03

Summer solstice 2025
Short (5km), but absolutely stunning hike with my son to make the most of the solstice evening, with some grand views, sunset, radler and an adventurous T3 path along a steep 400m cliff drop-off... Back at the trailhead after 10pm, still not dark. Summer evenings...
#SilentSunday

Photo of an alpine ridge line with steep rocky cliffs and lush pine forest. The sun is almost dipping behind the mountains in the back and the sky is illuminated in golden glow.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-19 13:50:26

Been working on n-dimensional sampling/filtering functions for thi.ng/tensors and created an interactive Desmos graph to illustrate 1D Lanczos filtering/interpolation:

1D/2D/3D/4D tensors with extensible polymorphic operations and customizable storage

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-21 10:35:55

PSA for people using #Ziglang via the #ASDF version manager: The "official" Zig plugin seems to be unmaintained and doesn't support the new URL format of recent Zig releases, but there's a new fork of the plugin which does. You can switch to it via:
```
asdf plugin remove z…

GitHub - thaolt/asdf-zig: zig plugin for asdf version manager https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
zig plugin for asdf version manager https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf - thaolt/asdf-zig

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-19 09:01:30

Erosion studies from our morning hike yesterday, a ~500m long section of the valley exposing interesting structures and the fragility of life resting on the thin layer of top soil...
#Geology #Erosion #NaturePhotography

A heavily eroded steep bank of a small mountain creek flowing 20-30m below. Pale grey/beige sand with forest growing on top. Trunks of fallen trees are resting in some of the eroded creases.
A heavily eroded steep bank of a small mountain creek flowing 20-30m below. Pale grey/beige sand with forest growing on top. Trunks of fallen trees are resting in some of the eroded creases.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 08:44:25

Just found the video again of an old experiment from 2009, showcasing the volumetric voxel brush and mesh conversion of my Java geometry libraries. Even though it's very different, but as for the overall aesthetics, this is the first thing I thought of when seeing the White Tower...
mastodon.thi.ng…

16 second animation of a volumetric 3D model growing via a generative process, using multiple sine-wave driven volumetric brushes depositing material to form an undulating interleaving tower-like structure.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-13 13:23:47

Green Therapy
(an impression from an early morning hike last July)
#ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Photo of a small bay of a large mountain lake with rick green water, surrounded by lush mixed alpine forest. A small island (also forested) is further into the lake, outside the bay. A dense layer of gray, moody, deep hanging clouds is obstructing the view of the tall peaks in the background.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-25 11:06:28

Weekend list of critical reading links about the state[1] of Tech, AI[2] hype/finance/politics, mostly long form:
Ed Zitron's The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui
How to use computing power faster: on the weird ec…

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my free work too.  Also,

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-17 10:00:06

Peace & solitude on the Kessel ridge, the rim of a large doline funnel in the Ammergau Alps.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Panoramic photo of a narrow rocky ridge line with steep beautiful green grassy slopes, mountain passes and forest in nearby valleys. A small lake at the bottom of the doline (RHS in the photo). The rocks have a beautiful light gray color, almost the same as the overcast, cloudy and misty sky, heavy with humidity (80%+).
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-18 15:12:21

No footpath to be seen here, but a short impression from near the goal of our morning hike today, back down before more mountain bikers, hikers and horseflies arrived, then followed by a good day's work until late...
Ps. Sound on!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Short 20 second video panorama of a herd of young cows (each with bell) grazing in a beautiful alpine meadow, surrounded by large & steep mountains and forested slopes rising up nearby. Bright sunny day, slightly overcast sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-14 13:04:54

Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?
Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design in its many forms.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-24 09:34:05

Just the right energy for getting through today: Heavy, driving beats, abstract sequences, stabs, bleeps, slowly emerging background layers & space, great arc...
MŸnic - Blood Hound (2014)
youtube.com/watch?v=sI_z5KCmdH

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-11 12:34:14

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

Short 18second, 270° video panorama of a beautiful large & deep alpine valley from around 800m above. The ground drops off steeply directly next to the narrow path (already on a slope itself). The mountains on the other side are up to ~2700m above sea level and ~1600m above the valley floor with green & rocky slopes, forest in the lower sections. A small road is leading along the last houses towards the end of the valley (the border pass is briefly visible between 12-14 seconds). Semi-cloudy bl…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-13 16:36:58

Invisible waterfall (standing directly above it) — Engadin, Sep 2024.
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Photo of a glacial creek with milky beige water, full of glacial flour. The creek flows over rocks and along a large boulder covered in small pines and bushes in beautiful autumn colors. Low-hanging clouds above the forest in the background. A sliver of blue sky above.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-15 17:55:39

Once upon a weekend a year ago during Art Basel... (vol. 2)
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11260824

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-15 17:53:51

Once upon a weekend a year ago during Art Basel... (cc @… who was also part of this show)
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11260388

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-20 12:07:22

Live performance of "All Those Moments", a recent beautiful track by OORA with a great arc/evolution, full of analog sequences and layers...
youtube.com/watch?v=1MOp69-uum

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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 14:12:35

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Minecraft screenshot of an aerial view of a large mountain valley with a lake and creek meandering through it. Partially forested mountain slopes. Misty/hazy atmosphere.
Minecraft screenshot of an alpine lake surrounded by steep mostly bare rocky mountains. Some low-growth vegetation around the lake. Low hanging clouds and gray sky.
Minecraft screenshot of an high alpine landscape, half-way up a mountain slope and viewing across the valley to a small plateau with low-growth vegetation on the other side. Low hanging clouds.
Top down 2D view of the WorldPainter map (2560x2560 resolution) of the entire generated and painstakingly designed alpine terrain with snow capped mountains, lakes and rivers, talus fields, vegetation zones and transitions etc.

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 2 images The new map is officially out! Download here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/etelande-free-custom-realistic-minecraft-mountain-range-2-5k-x-2-5k-1-21-5/ #minecraft #minecraftmap #terrain

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-13 06:30:01

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Photo of the three major summits in the Allgäu High Alps with another mountain pass (hiding another valley in between) in the foreground. Some part of the rocks and the pass are in sunlight. The pass is partially rocky with some grassy patches with low-growth mountain pines. The main summits are partially shrouded in moody gray clouds. The telescopic view and depth compression lends the scene and shapes an almost abstract character (intentionally!)...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-12 06:30:01

A whole bunch of hex grid tessellation options (incl. more complex & colorful ones) for #TilingTuesday in this old thread...
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11249834

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-11 08:44:23

Bitter Willow & Mountain Pine by the lakeside.
(The beautiful blue backgrounds are the colors of the water)
#NaturePhotography #Photography #BloomScrolling

Close up picture of branches of a small bitter willow tree, with flowers and cotton-like fluff. The picture almost looks like a pattern of a kimono...
Macro photo of a single twig of a dwarf mountain pine with flowers at the tip. The background is a plain azure, the color of the nearby lake, completely out of focus.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-10 12:37:25

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Photo of a step mountain slopes covered in dense forest, with the fresh green colors of early summer. The extremely hazy blue light is nicely emphasizing each layer/slope. Talus fields higher up, the peaks out of view. In the bottom third, the forest is getting some direct sunlight and is reflecting in the completely still surface of a large mountain lake. The light and entire scene has the character of a classic landscape painting.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-07 15:21:22

There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka thi.ng/pixel-flow

Test video (a recent POV hiking clip posted a few days ago) showing optical flow information via color-coded overlaid field vectors. The white arrow/triangle in the center shows the current mean flow direction/magnitude

Naive, lightweight CPU-based dense optical flow implementation

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 15:29:40

Also, in other other #ThingUmbrella related news. My current consulting/advisor contract finishes end of the month, so I will have some time to write about various other recent updates (and unpublished work-in-progress) in early August... Please stay tuned! ✌️

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-06 11:19:32

#ThrowbackThursday meets #FootpathFriday
(Dolomites, late October 2024)
#LandscapePhotography

27 sec 360 degree camera pan near a small path in a majestic high alpine valley in the Dolomites in autumn 2024. One side (higher up parts) already start looking wintry, the opposite sides still in warm sunlight and the rocks are gray, yellow and peach colored. Big talus fields, some overgrown with dwarf mountain pines and larches in bright rusty orange.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-03 13:33:10

#ReleaseTuesday — New version of thi.ng/tsne with ~15-20% better performance[1] due to avoiding repeated internal allocations and skipping gradient updates where unnecessary...
[1] Benchmarked …

Highly configurable t-SNE implementation for arbitrary dimensions

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-16 16:32:24

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

Short POV video of a mountain river with crystal clear pale blue water gently flowing. At the beginning of the video some trees are bent over the water, the view then pans to follow the flow with mountains in the background...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-09 10:17:25

Saturday AM, a story in two acts...
(Incl. placing crumbs by approaching it like a #PoissonDisk / #BlueNoise problem... 😅)
#CakeDay

Top-down photo of sliced apricots on a thin layer of dough in a pink/rose cake form, waiting for a layer of crumbs to be added...
Top-down photo of the same cake form — the cake now fully baked...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-16 15:12:57

Pretty unique, non-clichéd, slow, minimal, dubby, syncopated, accented with vocal/vowel fragments:
Drames Rurals - L'empelt (2021)
youtube.com/watch?v=T3SSti6bdZ

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-17 11:48:59

Long time no listen to this fabulous track, today on repeat:
John Heckle - Inhuman Nature (Vercetti Technicolor's Undead Nature Remix, 2014)
youtube.com/watch?v=K0gXkKW0MR

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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-08 07:36:53

Launch pad.
(Not really, but that part of the Saalfelder Weg very much makes me feel like wanting to take off... Höhengefühle!)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View of a narrow ridge path going around some rocks in the foreground and leading straight toward a steep drop off in the distance. The slopes are covered in dry yellow/brown grasses. Further back the peaks of the Allgäuer High Alps (e.g. Hochvogel on the RHS) and the Lechtal Alps in the far, far back... Blue hazy sky with a few small clouds.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-08-19 17:29:56

Summer evening dessert time... (and my first 100% homemade tart in a long while...)

Top down view of a jelly-less tart (still in the cake form) with mirabelles, blueberries and red currants arranged in concentric patterns