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Every detail of the Barbican is a joy. Even the skirting board where the wall meets the flooring is gently curved, making it a easy to clean.

Another fun Barbican fact is their Garchey System for waste disposal.

The wet food waste is collected communally and taken away by custom-built tanker vehicles that connect to the holding tanks. https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/barbican-now/garchey/the-ga...

In the UK, our national mapping service has built a tool for hosting vernacular place names to help first responders.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/new-national-vernacula...

I remember a time before Ireland set up postcodes (zip codes) for the whole country. If postcode was mandatory field in an e-commerce address form, you couldn't mail stuff from the UK unless it was in Dublin. Dublin had postcodes.

I managed to find one site that would accept 'null' so the form would submit.

That is very nice! It reminds me of Usman Haque's WiFi Camera project from 2006. That wasn't anywhere near realtime but it did use wasabi-pea cans

https://haque.co.uk/work/wifi-camera/

I miss tech art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

It's pretty good on Chromecast, though some of the media player design patterns don't quite translate to non-apple.

This is ripe for a Krazam adaptation.

https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg?si=CrRUbA3Ktsm5v7Kk

There's a school of thought in change management that suggests that a time comes when current stories aren't working for the culture you're trying to move an organisation towards. A few here have said morale was low at FB right then.

At times like that, restating some important old stories and legends, salted with some useful new ones can help to galvanize people and create the culture change you want.

A good example is someone mentioned in this thread is Zuck's beat up old car. That's a great old story for the early days, but probably needed burying at the Red Book time. Clearly he's not going to drive that forever, so you need some more up to date motivational culture lore which embraces more excess while retaining how the Devs are still world-changing hackers who should work all nighters because 'we're all in this together for mankind, team'.

I guess that's enshittification for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

This exact product won't be available in the US but self adhesive trunking is a neat way to hide cables without cutting or drilling the wall.

https://centaurmfg.com/products/16-mm-x-16-mm-pvcu-self-adhe...

That's assuming you have no transferrable skills from one career to the next and that there's a well-mapped career path in existence for a given role.

What about new careers that suddenly pop into existence around nascent technologies like AI?

I've transferred into product management now that enough companies officially recognise it as a career. I had been doing it in various guises for years where it was called 'project designer', 'project manager' or 'programme manager'.

Regardless of title, the common theme has been aligning business needs and engineering needs to deliver customer value they're willing to pay for. That meant I didn't start at the bottom when 'moving career'.

You might struggle using microphones if it's very low frequency because most human audio microphones intentionally filter frequencies that are below (and above) human hearing range. Perhaps fixing to he contact mic to the right resonant object might serve to translate the low frequency to a higher frequency?

Could you use the accelerometer on a smart phone to 'hear' the vibrations?

There's also a banner offering 3 day free trial. Are you testing which is the most popular time period for the trial?

Glorious. Excellent work @walz. Reminds me of the work of the artists in the now very sadly defunct https://fffff.at/

Isn't that the idea (or perhaps the promise) of languages like R or notebook tools like Jupyter or Collab, which provide a means to ingest, clean, analyse and present your data, then share the code you've used to do that.

It's the same. I can't remember why they have two websites.

Here's some earlier HN coverage and discussion of the same topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469274

What were you modelling? Cyclopropane? I did something looking similar using a Fortran tool called Gaussian not long after.

I've always been baffled why those two got canned. They were both really useful.

Nice animation! Reminds me of https://isovists.org/

They do look impressive but the videos are all 3D graphics rather than real. The texture on the robot body and shadows are the giveaway.

I'd forgotten how many they had killed off. Adobe actually ended up abandoning their Figma acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38681861

You could add Lightroom to your list of survivors.

Autodesk employed a similar acquire, absorb some features and then retire strategy, in the CAD 2D/3D space.

That's a way better explanation.

I didn't explain it well but I think that's the point, one could do all kinds of visual or audio things, it's one of many multitools for audo-visual media creation. Often these projects need to combine multiple technologies to reach their goals. Often deadlines and expectations are ludicrous. Being able to sketch, prototype visually and build the finished project in the same tool is useful. Forget Figma it takes too long.

If you have a project that needs lights, video, lasers, sound, motion, cameras, exotic sensors etc and speed of creation is maybe more important than long-term stability, something like this might allow you to sketch your way to a solution significantly faster. The real code is always underneath, but it's kind of like having some kind of flow diagram, sketch tool, visual debugger and IDE.

The creative coding 'scene' (at least when I felt part of it) is loosely divided between patcher tools and traditional code-based tooling. vvvv is a patcher, like Max/MSP, PureData and Touchdesigner. You connect function blocks together to do stuff, you can see the data flow between and see the visuals they create. Like creating shaders at a high level of abstraction, I guess.

More code-based languages and frameworks include:

[1] openFrameworks https://openframeworks.cc/ C++

[2] Processing https://processing.org/ Java or JavaScript

[3] Nannou https://nannou.cc/ Rust

Back in the early 2000s there was such poor support from non-Windows for high powered graphics cards, it's no wonder vvvv never moved to other platforms. I worked at a Mac/Linux art studio in that time and we had to keep buying Windows boxes just to run the video artworks we produced.

The hours we wasted trying to lock them down.

It's a node-based visual framework, I guess. Around 2006 I worked on a project using VVVV to create sound reactive, generative visuals that tracked a pop singer as he moved on an LED stage. The visuals were displayed on the stage.

We had it hooked up to MIDI, time code, video, motion tracking and DMX lighting. Pretty impressive for the time, now I think about it.

I'd be interested to see an algorithm for the blinkenlights effect he demos.

Exactly that! Blink and you'll miss it though, hence my post with a link for anyone who is interested.

Any video that references Mike Harrison as inspiration is all right with me. https://electricstuff.co.uk/

Enshittification it is indeed.

Certainly not SAFe, despite what the project management department will tell you.

I really love the https://teropa.info/musicmouse/