Author: oko

I have heard Yud and geohotz and others dancing around an idea recently but not with the emphasis I would expect. So: The crux, as I would phrase it: Intelligence does not control it’s substrate. This statement is both true and false, so: A clarification:It controls the parts of the substrate most related to itself, […]

Mapping the territory with language. A crowd-sourced glossary.

Experimenting with drawing tools

Coding an app for a small team to solicit approaches towards dealing with AI alignment.

Widget to check storage capacity inside rockets, aka cylinders

A growing suite of personal utilities. “Emu boards” are web-socket powered to-do lists, real time, private or public, with a URL, and the ability to install a Chrome extension which transforms your “new tabs” into your personal todo list.

A game discovery database and interface

embeddable clientside widget to book appointments with a firebase API

A plugin merging threejs and WordPress, a work in progress.

A spaceship tavern gambling game, made with the DOM and http requests before I learned proper game stacks. Registrations are not verified; any email will do.

https://www.npr.org/stations/ – live NPR https://www.npr.org/about-npr/472557877/npr-program-stream – daily catalog NPR https://wfmu.org – indie NYC https://whcr.org – Harlem https://wfuv.org – Bronx

Lighting a large scene: DirectionalLight is the best simulation of daylight. But in a big world, you probably don’t want to light it all at once. You’ll need to update the light position and also it’s target position, what it uses to calculate it’s angle. The gotcha is: you have to run scene.add( light.target ) […]

set_cache, a workaround to bundlers. Use CLEAR_FILE to prevent accidental sed overwrites. Replace all query string numbers with $1 arg to set_cache. If you use the same file structure or framework frequently and often code with multiple windows – start all the directories or files at once with Sublime Text (subl). A rough file / […]

CSS: javascript:

The authoritative source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-debian-10 TLDR: A records in place for [url] and www.[url]basic server block in /etc/nginx/sites-available/[domain]sudo apt updatesudo apt install python3-acme python3-certbot python3-mock python3-openssl python3-pkg-resources python3-pyparsing python3-zope.interfacesudo apt install python3-certbot-nginx(https) : sudo ufw status if needed: sudo ufw allow ‘Nginx Full’sudo ufw delete allow ‘Nginx HTTP’ Lastly: sudo certbot –nginx -d your_domain -d www.your_domain […]

process monitor 2 list apps pm2 dashboard: start with custom name: reset app list: empty log files

Buckminster Fuller fable https://oko.nyc/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bucky-giants.pdf

a simple mp3 player

a few hurdles I had getting started with spatial audio: How do I scale “my game space” to “howler space” Remember that howler’s pos() is arbitrarily different than your position units – I found that anything beyond approx 5 “howler units” was silent. In my game, 5 units is a tiny distance, so I was […]

practice new functions in the console; copy and paste all your Scene init boilerplate

a pocket reference Getting to know your system daemon Create your user-created service files in: The machine-created service files will go in: more in-depth: where do i put my systemd service file what is the difference between systemd system and user services Example a sample .service file, at /etc/systemd/system/hello.service: *common mistake – make sure to […]

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

A curriculum matchmaking app for teachers and professors around the world interested in collaborating.

David Graber https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

John Maynard Keynes 1930 http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

all the news that’s fit to feed

As an array: [ [‘Zimbabwe’, 716, ‘ZWE’], [‘Zambia’, 894, ‘ZMB’], [‘South Africa’, 710, ‘ZAF’], [‘Mayotte’, 175, ‘MYT’], [‘Yemen’, 887, ‘YEM’], [‘Samoa’, 882, ‘WSM’], [‘Wallis and Futuna’, 876, ‘WLF’], [‘Vanuatu’, 548, ‘VUT’], [‘Viet Nam’, 704, ‘VNM’], [‘Virgin Islands (U.S.)’, 850, ‘VIR’], [‘Virgin Islands (British)’, 092, ‘VGB’], [‘Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)’, 862, ‘VEN’], [‘Saint Vincent and the […]

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A bird’s eye view – does not cover creating disk partitions. Recommended tools to view your current partitions: gparted – launches a GUI parted – begin this command line program, and type ‘print’ The partition addresses you’re looking for will most likely be in the format: /dev/sda[X] basically: First allocate the space for the partitions, […]

Some resources: https://www.titansoftext.com MUD Discord https://discord.gg/ETrUvvV Some favorite MUD’s: Free world / Cowboy Bebop CB-SC.com 5678 Isengard isengard.nazgul.com 4040 godwars2.org 93.93.128.88 3000 alice-MUD 35.229.90.14 5555 TCZ thechattingzone.uk 8342 LOM telnet playlom.com 4000

Reddit exposes all their subreddits (and just about everything else too), to public RSS feeds. This means you can do all sorts of fun automation with it. Here’s a quick recipe to get it up and running on standard shared LAMP hosting, such as you might have for a WordPress. [ DISCLAIMER ] – it […]

A browser MMO aimed at MUD fans.

Coded a multiplayer board game using HTTP polling, enabling it to be dropped on any server running php and work out of the box. No rules are coded; it is up to the participants to play their own game.

An art gallery for anyone to hang art.  (This project since merged into Threepress plugin)

By default, javascript’s requestAnimationFrame will run as fast as it possibly can, and if you have much logic in your animation loop, you’ll quickly hear your computer fans start to whir. To free up CPU power for other tasks and keep  your webpage snappy, request your animation frames by timestamp instead of “asap”, like this: […]

Trying to build a browser MMO on a $5 server.

I like to think (andthe sooner the better!)of a cybernetic meadowwhere mammals and computerslive together in mutuallyprogramming harmonylike pure watertouching clear sky. I like to think(right now, please!)of a cybernetic forestfilled with pines and electronicswhere deer stroll peacefullypast computersas if they were flowerswith spinning blossoms. I like to think(it has to be!)of a cybernetic ecologywhere […]

A work desk built for two; a couple hundred joined lathes of pine.

A moody fellow

Artist portfolio of Gail Vachon, NYC

Promotional page for genetics conference at Harvard U.

Extensive customization of an NYC gallery’s Shopify

Film portfolio of artist and filmographer Jon Rubin, NYC

Artist portfolio of Ford Crull, NYC

overhaul of existing WordPress blog and implementation of entirely new client design. Tech-driven interior design startup, SF

Artist portfolio of Dana Shea Jackson, NYC

An experimental build for an optometry practice and 3d printed eyeglass retail.

draw things, share things. a websocketed fabricjs canvas

Elevated bed for a river view and extra storage

Kitchen overhaul in an ancient NYC walkup building.

First we tried renovating the old spiral staircase (it was rusty and falling apart): Too cramped! Onwards, to more space:

This was a plugin script circa 2014 (inserted via yet another plugin, Gryphonheart Items ), that allowed players in World of Warcraft to trade drawings with each other as in-game items. The stored drawing was an array of coordinate and texture data, a hybrid raster and vector approach, because there were no methods available via […]

Just so shoes.

Hand welded, restored yellow pine cabinet.

A client with a sketch, and then some stools.

A custom storage solution for a lifetime fan of Charlotte Perriand

The first table, alternating oak and pine