Tootfinder

#ReleaseDay https://thi.ng/column-store is an in-memory database with customizable column types, extensible query engine, bitfield indexing for query acceleration, JSON serialization with optional RLE compression.

In-memory column store database with customizable column types, extensible query engine, bitfield indexing for query acceleration, JSON serialization with optional RLE compression

PSA: Not that it was ambiguous beforehand, but these are times for stating things more clearly...
All #ThingUmbrella package readme files are now clearly stating that these projects are "LLM-free, human-made and cared for software, maintained as part of the https://…

thi.ng/umbrella

In case this hasn't already circulated:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/15/climate-activists-exxon-hired-hackers-trial
Fossil fuel company hired Israeli private security company to hac…

Birthday Morning, Mountain Spring (Early May 2026)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Oh dear, this is all a bit naive, even if the thesis of power (slowly )ebbing away from the USA and the resurgence of China is incontestable.
E.g.
"With major oil and gas producers now led by ever more erratic and menacing authoritarian leaders, other countries are looking for alternative ways to generate power. Electric cars, for example, have never been more in demand."
Electric powers generate power, eh.

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116951656558788471
Maybe just check what kind of dependencies you have in your applications, and once a year consider donating a bit of money to them.

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege (George Joseph/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/20/amazon-sellers-price-raises-california
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p64#a260421p64

Color Therapy. Noisy evolution.
Two snapshots of my piece C-SCAPE, 2022, a multi-organism 1.5D cellular automata simulation. Patterns of symbiosis and annihilation.
Made with #CSCAPE

When 20-year-old climate activist
Eva Lighthiser isn’t deciding her major
– she is leaning toward environmental studies
– she is preparing testimony for her lawsuit against the US president,
Lighthiser v Trump.
She and 22 other young Americans are accusing the US federal government of violating their constitutional rights by passing executive orders boosting planet-warming fossil fuels.
Even though a court dismissed Lighthiser v Trump in the fall, Lighthis…

TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…

SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's "Connectivity" business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-ipo-filing-off…

Nakakahinayang na hindi nahalal na senador si Chel Diokno noong 2019 o 2022. Pero buti na lang nasa lupon siya ng mga taga-usig kasi nilampaso niya ang magkapatid.
#phpol #impeachment #DuterteImpeachment

A Conjuring Of Clouds
Yesterday's evening walk... It's been a great week for cloud spotting, but with dozens of storm cells & hail moving through the area all week...
(Also thinking about the connotation to wildfires raging in Canada... 😢)
#MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

#DNIP Briefing #68: Eine Frage des Alters https://dnip.ch/2026/04/21/dnip-briefing-68-eine-frage-des-alters/

Such a long article that can be summarised in "Venezuela is a US's banana republic and there won't be elections any time soon because Trump & friends only care about its natural resources".
Honestly, the article is a shame.
https://…

‘Feels like an illusion’: how Trump seizing Maduro has changed little in Venezuela
Some feel optimistic change will come, but for many it’s business as usual for the movement Hugo Chávez started

Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…

More Voting Frustration
This week I'm venting about low voting turnout in a recent Oklahoma election.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/more-voting-frustration/

More Voting Frustration – Bob Mueller
In which I vent about the low voting turnout in the recent Oklahoma primary election. And I watched a movie.

For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…

How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

Ranking 5 biggest needs for Dak Prescott's Cowboys heading into 2026 NFL training camp https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-ranking-5-biggest-needs-dak-prescott-cowboys-heading-2026-nfl-training-camp

How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples (Andy Beckett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com…

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

from my link log —
Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2019/12/24/testing-for-no-std-compatibility/
saved 2019-12-27

Some incredible shots in this year's International Aerial Photographer contest:
https://www.internationalaerialphotographer.com/
Awards book (preliminary):

First Results of a New Inversion Tool for Thermospheric Neutral Mass Density Computations During Severe #GeomagneticStorms: #satellite Trajectory: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/taking-the-pulse-of-atmospheric-drag-to-predict-satellite-trajectory - scientists present a new method for estimating the density of the upper atmosphere to account for atmospheric drag when predicting satellite trajectory.

#DNIP-Briefing #81: Heute u. a. mit Notaus-Knöpfen und Bürozeiten fürs Internet und KI-Risiken für Pensionskassengelder
https://dnip.ch/2026/07/21/dnip-briefing-81-ausschalten/

Very informative. I've been wondering about this. The "K-Shaped Economy" is sad
Why does the stock market keep going up? | Stock markets | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/ma…

War, inflation and Trump’s tariffs have shaken the US. Why does the stock market keep going up?
Wall Street has proved incredibly resilient to instability, and while consumer confidence has dipped, shares have soared

For some it's an ego surfing metric, for others an indicator how much of their published material/output was present in the training datasets of LLMs and now is encoded in their model weights...
https://intheweights.com/
"This site queries all models with something like "Who is ? Give up to 10 results, e…

RE: https://genart.social/@sableraph/116787749241365206
Also maybe interesting for the Farbrausch OGs here: @…

Recently, at the library...
"Have you got their new book 'Silk switch system problem'?"
"No. Is that the sequel to 'Equiconnected nanosky oasis'?"
"What's that?"
"Oh, you've never read the 'Magnetic haze cycle' series? That's just too bad. It's full of cool ideas like the ultra-iridescent opcode sentinel, infraconnected division boundary, or even beige frontier mirror..."
"Dude!"
"Yeah, it's real porcelain ultra-peak! Absolutely life changing epoch omnicurve vision!"
…

Birthday greetings for President Trump as he turns 80
– from Greta Thunberg, Piers Morgan and more
Let him eat cake!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/ju…

Stuibenfall, Tyrol's largest waterfall (October 2025)
A major landslide on the opposite side of the main Ötztal valley around 7000 years ago created a new 300-400 meter tall hill on this side, acting as a dam and causing a large lake to form in the higher up side valley. The water from that lake then slowly carved its way through the rocks, draining the lake and forming this amazing waterfall. The boundary of that ancient lake is still visible on the satellite view...
7000…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116440570565467277
"These long-running, parallelized workflows can yield great value, but they have also challenged our infrastructure and pricing structure: it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur cos…

Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

from my link log —
Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/encoding-of-immediate-values-on-aarch64/
saved 2021-08-20

Ready To Burst (2025)
#EveningWalk #Photography #CloudAppreciation

Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.

Another #ThingUmbrella release cycle this AM:

• fixed yesterday's https://thi.ng/geom-io-obj stream parser update to also support

Wavefront OBJ parser (& exporter soon)

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116767202460597483
I started a new Makertube channel to document more of my darkroom/Kallitype photographic print making:

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin (2024)
Another day, another view:
#LandscapePhotography

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116594414069573576
PSA for other people interested in my prints/photography/art:

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

New #ThingUmbrella release(s): Updated the https://thi.ng/geom-io-obj OBJ mesh parser to support stream parsing using async iterables. This allows direct piping fetch() responses to the parser.

#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expressio…

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/116939646868483647
Recommended read of the day... 👏
"This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent …

Making Of A Kallitype (Part 1)
I recorded and edited a short 8-10x timelapse recording of the first stages of my Kallitype development process. Starting with mixing the photo emulsion, brush coating the paper, contact printing (UV exposure), heating developer and then showing the first two stages of actual development & clearing. Final result shown at the end, a 15x11" framed print (also posted here recently)...

My nervousness is rising & palpable... The new transparencies arrived and I'm currently printing the digital negative for my first 11x15 inch (28x38 cm) kallitype. The amount of detail should be incredible at this size. Already mixed & topped up all chems/solutions, exercised my brushing skills (for applying emulsion)... The first large(r)-format printing session happening later tonight (after some Kelly Kettle evening coffee to celebrate the return of spring)...

Icy Path (2026)
(Fresh layer of snow in the mountains this week. Though this image is from a month ago...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Ice

Coming & Returning From/To The Void (2026)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

#ReleaseMonday Yesterday, I took the plunge and updated all 215 https://thi.ng/umbrella packages (plus examples) for TypeScript 6.0, then released new versions just now this morning. After previous preparations and …

thi.ng/umbrella

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

Metamorph
(Metamorphic rock in the former bed of the Gepatschferner glacier in the Weißkamm of the Alps. Maybe some form of paragneiss with hematite or oxidized iron compounds?)
#NaturePhotography #Geology

#InternationalRockDay — Pyrite, Manganese (among other things)
Compared to the more northern areas, the central ridges of the eastern Alps consist of a much larger variety of rocks/minerals with often intense colors. Depending on sun direction, the pyrite (aka fools gold) makes the rocks in the scree fields glisten brightly in the sun...

Released as a single humongous monolithic pull request within a week since opening, the kind of ad-hoc, uncoordinated, trigger-happy, just-because-we-can attitude of the #Bun "LLM Rust rewrite" is so symbolic of the cultural shift many people & orgs are undergoing, where their focus has moved almost exclusively to quantity & speed-to-market (aka "higher productivity"), completely shoving asi…

Came home late last night to find a hail storm had passed through our area seemingly just minutes before. The hailstones were the largest I've ever seen so far (~3 cm), but not as large as northern parts of Germany had last night (some tennis ball sized). Shredded tree branches, garden plants/veg destroyed, heaps of ice around the houses, roads steaming...
#Hail

Understated, powerful, moving, frozen timeless calm. On perma repeat.
Lauge - Chernobyl (2022)
#Music4Coding …

Sunrise In A Scale-free Landscape (2026)
(For reference, the visible valley section is ~6km long... Alt text for more info)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/110293441969762183
I wrote this in May 2023 and I'm still fully standing behind this, maybe even more so by now, with a position strengthened by "recent developments" and the ongoing normalization of mythologizing software/te…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jakobbak/116925384667685998
I've noticed, not just with myself, that posting about project updates/releases, new prototypes/demos, photography, art, music here feels like sending things off into a dark void of late. Over time …

Some of you might know that image of Crodon di San Candido already (posted it a few times in the past), but last night I finally made a 15x11 inch Kallitype print of it (on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, 100% cotton, 300gsm paper). Available as limited edition soon.
Since these prints are handmade (each taking over an hour to develop & process), the tone of each individual print always slightly varies. Therefore, I will be offering an option to indicate your preference for warmer or cool…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@absulit/116732739799912678
Believe it or not, but creating infinite variations of that single effect (i.e. particles of any form attached to a humanoid walk cycle) has basically been the main business model of some designers/ag…

Trametes gibbosa (2026)
(English: Lumpy bracket, German: Buckel-Tramete)
#FungiFriday #NaturePhotography #Fungi

Phew... Just been informed that, https://thi.ng/, my labor of (open source) love of many, many years is on the front page of HN:
https://news.ycombinator.co…

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 and Art in its many forms.

I did it! New 15x11 inch Kallitype print (on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, 100% cotton, 300gsm paper). Available as limited edition soon.
#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography …

The End Of A Long Summer (2023)
(A last blip of intense summer heat before the first wave of winter descended into the valley just a couple of days later. The colors that day were just magical and created an unforgettable mood, maybe also because it was one of the last long hikes we did with our darling dog...)
#FootpathFriday

Related to my earlier open source fundraising post[1], please also do let me know what you think of the amount/cadence/detail of communication about thi.ng projects (multiple choice, other options/insights via reply or DM please 🙏):
[1] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116726397007776730

The Mountains Flowed Before Him (2026)
(Given a large enough time scale, these mountains would be almost like waves...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

En route to Cirque de Troumouse & Cirque d'Estaubé (Pyrenees, 2018)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

Trans Sky 🏳️‍⚧️ (2026)
(Picture not taken in the US, but on the 4th of July to boot...)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps

Emotional Monday mood, so some musical & sonic balsam needed...
Brian Eno - The Demon Of The Mines (2005)
#Music4Coding

Today's instant goosebumps energy (and so, so glad they did eventually release this remix of Antonio's earlier track) — play it loud!
Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi - Alodrone (2025)
https://artsrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/alodrone

Ed Zitron interview @ The Tech Report... “I think we’re on the path to the first real tech Great Depression.”
#AI

It's packaging time... archival parchment pouches, book binder's cardboard, linen tape, acid-free stickers.
(This is a print made for @…. For my own images, you'd also get a certificate of authenticity included...)
#AltProcess

RE: #FootpathFriday. Not because there actually is a path, but because I just love h…

Fire In The Sky (2023)
#LandscapePhotography #Photography #CloudAppreciation #Light

Schlangenhaus (16th century, Werdenberg, St. Gallen)
#FensterFreitag #History #Switzerland

#ReleaseFriday Triggered by a recent feature proposal[1], I went ahead and polished & published a closely related, already work-in-progress (but still private) feature in https://thi.ng/rdom to support something I c…

Postglacial farming (2025)
(The last farm lands before the valley turns into a canyon and glacial landscape further up...)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

These boys are up to something very cool...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@KROMAPUNK/116744860152357968
https://

KROMAPUNK (@KROMAPUNK@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image More progress on my necropolis environment, it's really starting to take shape now. All that's left is some texturing and final details. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

The Lookout At Cape Lookout (2017)
(Oregon coast. The sun slowly trying to break through the thick fog, causing a silvery light spectacle on the ocean below...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An example of Trump's war and its volatile impact on photography/darkroom processing: Silver nitrate unavailable (for 2 months already) at my usual suppliers and only available with 30% price hikes (compared to mid January) at other places, even though the price of silver itself has halved since beginning of the year... Thanks very much!
#Kallitype

Simulated opinion polls to drive public policy — what could possibly go wrong!
In the name of saving costs and producing more polls (i.e. the double benefit of increased efficiency AND productivity), statistical truth (traditional polls) is being replaced with its derivative, producing statistical insights via a second layer of statistics and agents simulating known, pretrained demographic behaviors & preferences, instead of interviewing actual people. Yay!
It seems they're …

#PermaComputing #Software

Postglacial Abstract (2026)
(Forgot to add, find/notice the lone hiker in one of the snow fields, for scale...)
#TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Exhibit A (2013):
https://benedikt-gross.de/projects/avena-test-bed-agricultural-printing-and-altered-landscapes/
Exhibit B (2026):

Avena+ Test Bed: Agricultural Printing and Altered Landscapes

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116556777340743157
Just maybe there have always been some issues with the unquestioning adoption of the latest breakthroughs/technologies... No risk, no gain, so they say...

What Lies Beneath (2025)
As much as it hurts to witness glaciers disappearing more every year, the colors, textures and exposed geological features are some of the things I absolutely cherish each time I find myself in their vicinity...
These are truly unique landscapes to meditate on the age, scale & forces which have been shaping this planet, the environments they've created, directly and indirectly, the fragility of life trying to thrive in them, even if only temporarily, …

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE

A/B testing latest refinements (more depth, better details in clouds/highlights and contrast in mid tones). First image is the new version. Next stop double size, 14x10"...
#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography

Alpstein
(To me, one of the most stunning and interesting mountain ranges, the tectonic folds here having created the most incredible forms, formations and stunning valleys in between...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography

Three years ago, I was busy finishing Marblemania, an endless algorithmic/generative realtime animation piece inspired by marbling, using softbody physics (but no actual fluid sim) and with thousands of variations and stylistic options...
This video shows stills of a small sampling of these variations.
More variations here (and in the #Marblemania hashtag):

How is it possible in 2026 for Canon to not provide (anywhere) an ICC profile for their scanners?! The colors are completely off and everything has a purple tint... 😩
Does anyone know where to find ICC profiles for the Canon LIDE series (400)? Otherwise I will have to purchase an IT8.7 calibration target and crack out the LittleCMS tooling to create my own ICC profile. Great customer service!
#Canon

Churfirsten
(View from the Alpstein. Celebrating my bday in one of my favorite places... 🤩)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Had to prepare new silver nitrate solution last night and made a new test print of a moody moment from one my fave hikes in the Dolomites...
(The highlights needs a little more refinement)
#AltProcess #Kallitype

Over the past few days a lot of people have shared this new open source symbol-based color identification system as design augmentation/accessibility toolkit for addressing color vision deficiencies:
https://colorsym.com/
ColorADD is another (older) system which relies on a very similar kind of symbolic alge…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanshuebner/116555376448801323
I think the difference is that this "coming full circle" is very much constructed/orchestrated/volunteered this time, rather than being merely the result of an "organically" occurring lack/una…

RE: https://swiss.social/@lugidani/116555176274067802
The Swiss are still doing better in that respect than many other developed countries, incl. Germany yesterday:

Some #MapSurfing for #TextureTuesday... This time assorted satellite images from Katmai National Park in Alaska, specifically the delta at Iliuk Arm Naknek Lake (continuation of the Valley of 10000 Smokes)

On the way to Roßgundscharte (2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite