June 13 2023

glitch art, chat loops, farms, code poetry

June 13 2023

Videos

I built a plugin that works like a DIY code interpreter where an end user decides what rules GPT should check against. GPT is smart enough to facilitate it's own retry logic, which is neat as hell!

Photos

the town of yakima has a really active git profile

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Art

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Code

One thing I do a lot is append text to specific headings in a MD file, so this Python script helps with just that!!

append_smart_file
append text to a specified md heading

Playing around with the e2e experience of a Readwise quote > app (or pseudocode). I also just got an iPad so I'm playing with the Freeform app :)

Poetry

Experimenting with Code Poetry more as an art form. Here's a few GPT results from my favorite song rn, Ascencionism:

Python:

ChatGPT
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

Visual Basic:

Class Desire ' Well, I know what you want from me
    Property Reflection As Boolean ' You want someone to be your reflection
    Property Deception As Boolean ' Your bitter deception
    Function SetFree() ' Setting you free
        ' So you take what you want and leave
        Return True
    End Function
End Class

Class Mystery ' Who made you like this?
    Property BodyLanguage As String ' Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?
    Property BlissfulAnguish As Boolean ' Synapses snap back in blissful anguish
End Class

Class PastLife ' Tell me you met me in past lives, past life
    Property InsideEating As Boolean ' Past what might be eating me from the inside, darling
    Property RhythmHalfDeity As Boolean ' Half of a rhythm, half deity
    Property GlitchesOrGaps As String ' Glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream
End Class

Class Fantasy ' Tell me you guessed my future and it mapped onto your fantasy
    Property Mannequin As Boolean ' Turn me into your mannequin
    Property PuppetQueen As Boolean ' and I'll turn you into my puppet queen
End Class

Class DanceInTheDark ' Won't you come and dance in the dark with me?
    ' Show me what you are, I am desperate to know
    Property PerfectEnemy As Boolean ' Nobody better than the perfect enemy
    Property DigitalDemons As Boolean ' Digital demons make the night feel heavenly
End Class

Class Reality ' Make it real
    ' 'Cause anything's better than the way I feel right now
    Property BlacklitParadise As Boolean ' I can offer you a blacklit paradise
    Property DiamondsInTrees As Boolean ' Diamonds in the trees, pentagrams in the night sky
    Property LipstickChemtrailsRedflagsPinkNails As Boolean ' Lipstick, chemtrails, red flags, pink nails
End Class

Class Eye
    Property Door As Boolean ' With one eye on the door
    Property Rail As Boolean ' other eye on a rail
    Property ScarletTrail As Boolean ' Other, other eye following a scarlet trail
    Property HolyGrail As Boolean ' And the last few drops from the Holy Grail, now
End Class

Class DarkFashion
    ' Rose gold chains, ripped lace, cut glass
    ' Blood stains on the collar, please, just don't ask
    Function Feast() ' Be the first to the feast, let's choke on the past
        ' And take to the broken skies at last
        Return True
    End Function
End Class

Class Ascend ' You cannot watch me ascend
    ' And I know what you want from me
    Property Same As Boolean ' You want the same as me
    Property Redemption As Boolean ' My redemption, eternal ascension
    Function SetFree() ' Setting me free
        ' So I'll take what I want then leave
        Return True
    End Function
End Class

Class Disappear ' You make me wish I could disappear, oh
    ' You make me wish I could disappear
    Function Wish() As Boolean
        Return True
    End Function
End Class

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