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Someone Made a Hackers DVD Robot

It’s common knowledge that I love the movie “Hackers” and if you haven’t seen it you should…and in the meantime, you might not find the post all that interesting. For the rest of us: Someone made a tape robot that works the same way as it does in the movie scene where Zero Cool is fighting with Acid Burn over the local TV station!

AI Headshots Sorta Work

I gave AI headshots a try and it’s not bad. Some are quite good, but I’d call it a 7/10 over all. I made and attached a grid of the results, but I mixed in one real picture. Any guesses? The hardest part was that it required 10-20 selfies with different backgrounds and outfits, but since I don’t take a lot of selfies I had to run around my house finding backgrounds and changing clothes for 30 minutes to generate enough training data!

A Decade of Clojure at Studio71

What is Clojure and why did it fit for Studio71? Clojure is a programming language (a dialect of Lisp) that excels at concurrency and data processing. Clojure runs on top of Java so it’s runs in all of the places Java runs and can use all of the Java libraries already out there (hello, Google and AWS libraries!

Everything is a Remix: The Final Version

I’ve been a big fan of Kirby Ferguson’s work, and my fandom really started when Everything is Remix hit the web. A few days ago, Kirby uploaded this final updated version and announced that he will be stepping away from online filmmaking. If you haven’t seen Everything is a Remix, find an hour to give it a go.

Automation

The macOS Privacy Settings Deleted My Backups

The other day I logged in to my NAS to find that all of my backed up media files were gone. No errors, the drives were fine, the directory was there, but the files were gone. Thankfully it wasn’t a freak out moment as I had my originals and my other backups, but it was a mystery.

The Cube Keyboard

Does your custom soldered, greased o-ring, mechanical keyboard not feel as hipster as it once did? I’ve got great news for you: The Cube Keyboard exists. The bad news is that you can never set it down or it will roll over and type out > rm -rf /.