Karl Sims' original 1990s work evolving virtual creatures in a little physics sandbox

I think this Bluesky post is the coinage of the phrase "text elemental", or at least the most popular early instance of it. See also a post a few days later by the same person, https://bsky.app/profile/hikikomorphism.bsky.social/post/3muxqua4snk2f

A metaphor for current LLMs, magical entities from the text plane of existence

Grindr's CEO George Arison did an ill-advised Ask Me Anythign on the Wall Street Bets subreddit.

A browser re-implementation of Karl Sims' 1994 Evolving Virtual Creatures: block creatures whose bodies and brains evolve to swim, walk, jump and follow a light.

Apple's blacklist of phrases the iPhone doesn't want you to type

A marvelously bonkers story of using AI to build an otherwise entirely unreasonable app

A recent Python package for working with data from the Paprika recipe database. Seems to be working for me today.

Classic game series Ultima and Wing Commander have gotten re-engineering and official new Steam releases, currently on sale for $5 each or less.

A desktop OS developed by Huawei in China, separate from Linux, Windows, MacOS, or Android.

A system for deploying Python code. It takes in uv's lock file and emits the stuff a Nix flake needs to build and deploy the code

Major Linux component now accepts Rust code as components. Big step forward both for code safety and for AI programming.

Visualizations of river systems and their waterflow. Click through for animations.

A simple small server monitoring system for making graphs of CPU usage, network, etc.

A gorgeous building created in the game Enshrouded, a voxel game with a great building system

My own homepage, newly built. Contains links to my various projects

A port of the original Ocarina of Time to a new PC program

Movie podcast hosts NYT columnist to talk about one of the great films

A linkblog that's got 20+ years of posts in it

A static site generator that takes your Linkding bookmark database and makes a nice website

A monitor for websites like Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub

LLVM backend targeting Factorio circuit logic so you can compile C programs to run inside the game (slowly)

New electronica album by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan