photography
August 29 2023
You go Ro coco
Stuck in a standoff - Redis on one side, Supabase on the other. Honestly? Not thrilled to tango with either. Conjuring up user-friendly solutions that can expand at will – it's a mountain I'd rather not climb. I'll stay in my tent at base camp, thank you very much. And then there's authentication - oof.
New Discord workflow coming along!
SAMUEL F.B. MORSE was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1791, the year of Chappe’s first demonstration of an optical telegraph. He was a johnny-come-lately to the field of electric telegraphy. Had he started building an electric telegraph a little earlier, he might have got home in time for his wife’s funeral. Morse’s wife, Lucretia, died suddenly at their home in New Haven, Connecticut, on the afternoon of February 7, 1825, while her husband was away. He was starting to make progress in his chosen career as a painter and had gone to Washington to try to break into the lucrative society portrait business. He had just been commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of the marquis de Lafayette, a military hero, and his career finally seemed to be taking off. ‘‘I long to hear from you,’’ he wrote in a letter to his wife on February 10, unaware that she was already dead. Washington was four days’ travel from New Haven, so Morse received the letter from his father telling him of Lucretia’s death on February 11, the day before her funeral. Traveling as fast as he could, he arrived home the following week. His wife was already buried. In the United States in 1825, messages could still only be conveyed as fast as a messenger could carry them.
-- The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
August 28 2023
Where do you see yourself in four months?
Bangers only from the Readwise review today!
Factual consistency is measured using natural language inference models based on the output score of the entailment class that compare the ground truth and the context from which the ground truth is done.
"James has 3 apples" and "James has fruit" would be considered an entailment.
"James only owns a car." and "James owns a bike." would be considered a contradiction.
Entailment seems like an abbreviation or rework of p > q from discrete mathematics.
Since ChatGPT's launch just nine months ago, we’ve seen teams adopt it in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies.
Wild. Seems like the null hypothesis won't really be happening lmao...
ChatGPT Enterprise removes all usage caps, and performs up to two times faster. We include 32k context in Enterprise, allowing users to process four times longer inputs or files.
if (interaction.isButton()) {
if (interaction.customId === "button_id") {
await interaction.deferReply();
console.log(`Button was clicked by: ${interaction.user.username}`);
// Here you can call your function
const { prompt, imageUrl } = await main(interaction.message.content);
if (interaction.replied || interaction.deferred) {
await interaction.followUp(`Art Prompt (save the image it disappears in 24 hours!): ${prompt} \n Image: [(url)](${imageUrl})`);
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}
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}
return;
}
August 27 2023
Sunday is the reprieve!
August 23 2023
Out-of-towners often mistake Manhattan as the whole of NYC, I feel.
Out-of-towners often mistake Manhattan as the whole of NYC, I feel. Take the time to explore spots like Bay Ridge, or Cortelyou Road.
You'll find calm there, perhaps even a surprising dose of the suburban. The real perk of living in an area like Bay Ridge vs a suburb outside of Corpus Christi? A train line linking you straight to the heart of Union Square or Grand Central in under an hour.
When you see those tier 7 minions in your game, do me a favor, grab Tess. Just trust me on this.
I am the one who decides.
The gallery feature on Ubud is acting up. Beats me why.
Trying out Spear in Discord. Maybe it's something that could tickle the fancy of vault members, make them feel special. Definitely can picture it being a neat bonus!
Another day done, neatly cut into boxes of time. This time block journal, it's kind of become a friend. Excited to think where I might be in a few months - maybe a master at wrestling time.
GPT helps me to write, and I like that. It’s like the words I jot down aren't my own, they’re not precious. So, when it comes to chopping them up and pruning them, I don't flinch. And, there's something cool about typing in shorthand, or even in low key, lowercase letters. GPT just takes it, and churns out sentences that sound as real as rain splattering on a windowpane.
August 22 2023
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours.
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours. I'll be captive to this relentless obsession. Alongside Baldur's Gate 3, of course.
This patch, it sucks from the get-go. Bannana Slammas for life, I suppose.
The billboards up in Soho stir something within me. Something McLuhan might've coined, about the package being more valuable more than the item inside. The ads on NYC's billboards, uncountable as they are, most fade from memory like a worn-out jazz record. But their very existence on the giant sized wall, catching the eye of the odd twenty-somethings, mid-pilgrimage to their temple of Equinox, that broadcasts its own message. Sure, I could plaster an ad on some wall in a silent town but that lacks the jazz, the hum and pulse of the viewer's gaze, which makes all the difference in selling the song. Plenty artists wallow unseen, only a handful get to wallow under the spotlight.
Leaders need this one thing more than anything else: good sense. It's the same when it comes to your body, your thoughts, your work life. Be your own arbiter of good judgement.
Photos...they've been the game for me on Instagram lately, kind of like a guilty pleasure I suppose. Don't know why.
It's ludicrous when you think about how I'm using Instagram, disregarding entirely how they mapped out the service. Truly not giving a flying fuckkk. It's like a Finstagram, but taken to the logical conclusion of really only using Instagram for a glorified photo storage service. Picture it: me following no one, completely ignoring ads on the feed the company worked so hard on to build! A strange way to play, right?
But in its way, it's transformative. Instagram morphs into something else, a simple yet miraculous platform for my photos, a sanctuary. It's effortless to stick in my favorite tunes too, lending a voice to every image. And the filters? Oh, the filters. An array of options with a single, easy tap. Quite something, isn't it?
Oddly enough, I found myself the central character in some LLM tutorial – an instructional piece about using these LLMs for cold outreach on LinkedIn, of all things. Seeing this offered some clarity, unsheathing the mystery of the spam deluge that keeps finding me. Particularly from the VCs, the constant hum in the background. Leave me alone dammit!
Random post logic – all credit goes to the original creator: milkythemes!
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function luckyPost() {
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let apiKey =
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const pageUrl = `${window.location.protocol}//${window.location.hostname}`;
const api = new GhostContentAPI({
url: pageUrl,
key: apiKey,
version: ghostVersion
});
const postUrl = [];
const randomBtn = document.getElementsByClassName("btn-random");
const stringHostUrl = `[href="${pageUrl}/#rdm-post/"]`
const randomPost = document.querySelector(stringHostUrl);
const randomPostSelector = document.querySelectorAll('[href="https://www.bramadams.dev/rdm-post/"]');
for (let i = 0; i < randomPostSelector.length; i++) {
randomPostSelector[i].text = `Loading...`
}
api.posts
.browse({ limit: 250 })
.then((posts) => {
posts.forEach((post) => {
postUrl.push(post.slug)
});
})
.then(() => {
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for (let i = 0; i < randomPostSelector.length; i++) {
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Blue Lock got dark!
Hey, the kid's scored a page on Wikipedia!
Sticky Header for Ubud! (Put this in the code injection header)
<style>
.c-header{
position: sticky;
z-index: 1;
top: 0;
background: var(--background-primary);
}
</style>
June 13 2023
glitch art, chat loops, farms, code poetry
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
Art
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!!
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:
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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Yellow hat on yellow ceiling.
Computation
If there’s enough light and you’re not doing portraits, modern phone cameras are work well (View Highlight)
Currently (Dec, 2022) using iPhone 13 to take photos…
If you don’t have a camera, I recommend looking at Fujifilm (View Highlight)
I use VSCO to edit on my phone (View Highlight)
My favorite VSCO free preset only edits so far (I'm not paying for this shit lol):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHwybEPwVV/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl962nsrmW7/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCfD2uOAJB/
most good photos (and movies, and games) maintain a very reduced color palette (View Highlight)
I often prefer like a somewhat desaturated look, and even in my more colorful photos I’m usually trying to edit down the number and magnitude of colors. For me this does not mean turning saturation down very much, but instead de-saturating specific colors, like the reds in the first picture here, or the blue in the last picture (View Highlight)
It is very common for me to desaturate one or more colors, or lighten skies considerably (so instead of “VERY BLUE” or “gray” (desaturated) they sky becomes “mostly white” (a little desaturated, luminosity turned up). (View Highlight)
subreddit AccidentalWesAnderson, which I (accidentally) created years ago even though I don’t use reddit (View Highlight)
focus on finding interesting subject matter, developing your eye for composition (View Highlight)
I've noticed I'm more attentive on walks lately, I'm always on the lookout for a cool shot
My Photography Inspirations
This video is amazing - the photography, the sound design, the cyberpunk vibe; Inspired! ↩︎