Development Small Shifts I've been using version control systems for years. When you have to shift to a new one, it's not a big deal, right? You just learn the new commands?Well, yes and no.
Development Something to ponder Today's wanderings in the land of making myself a better developer led me back to Katrina Owen's 2016 RailsConf talk "Succession."One thing in it struck me enough to capture in my commonplace
Development Today's Tiny Learning #2 I'm doing some foundational review to make sure I'm on solid footing when I'm working on Rails – currently going through Software Carpentry's Unix shell for novices sequence – and there is this wee thing
Development Additional Resources I'm going to keep this post updated with additional resources as I find them – mostly to have a list of the things I haven't done yet.1/ theodinproject.com I figure that I
Development Day... 5, I guess I took an unintentional holiday Friday, but I'm back at it. Today's task was to start wading through The Rails 5 Way.The first chapter is about configuration, so there was a fair
Development Day 4 - A Quibble -- or CL is Irritated. Today I was working at generalizing language in the Human Essentials App, and I came across "humanize". Humanize is a method on string in rails that capitalizes the first word, turns underscores into
Development Day 3 -- Initial resources I happen to be undergoing some dental adventures whilst starting up this effort, so there is a certain amount of frustration at what I can accomplish in a day.Lining up some initial
Development Today's Tiny Learning #1 Rails db:setup does not drop the database(s) if they already exist before creating them.If you want to drop the databases first, use Rails db:reset.
Development Beginning again I am on a minor quest of sorts.I've been concentrating on my art, which I use C++ for, because it is fast, and I speak C as a native. However, I'm also
Work In Progress Vibrations This is a preliminary design to be applied to a decorative pole. For a theme of "Celebrating Community Vibrancy", I choose to honour Toronto's music community. The 14" x 42" design encodes randomly
Algorithmic Hedge (for the Lay it on the Line show, October 2020)The theme of the show is our relationship with consumerism. I can see at least 4 interpretations of this image in that context.
Algorithmic "And so on..." If you’re old enough, the phrase ‘and they told two friends… and so on and so on’ is just part of your lexicon — the irony of a TV ad using the idea
Algorithmic Finnish Line In 2019 I spent 4 months studying in southwest Finland, There, I photographed nearly everything I threw out. Then I extracted number of pixels of each colour from the photographs to build a
Algorithmic Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackery meets Crayola™This piece is made from all the unblended colours Crayola™ released as crayons. Crayola™ is the first brand that I remember being aware of. No other crayons would
Algorithmic Assorted Actresses, Part 2 Here are the rest of the images in the Assorted Actresses series. Each image is the result of combining information from two images from the generation before. There is a little bit of
Algorithmic Assorted Actresses, part 1 This series is based on the actresses in the AFI Top 25 Legends. With, of course, a twist. I created images based on each of those actresses, then had people vote on them,
Algorithmic Days that might have been (generated Dec 10, 2019, in Turku, Finland.)This set of 12 images is one full cycle of "Days that might have been, " a reflection on arbitrariness using the "lost days" at the time
Algorithmic Temps Perdu After many adventures with the last set of images (they are taking me to Rome!), I thought about what else I could do with control points.For this set, I am thinking about
Algorithmic A new wrinkle A new wrinkle in the sortation series – a series of random points determining how the thing sorts. This one is based on a portrait of Ingrid Bergman.
Algorithmic Flodden Flodden is based on Sir Walter Scott's epic poem "Marmion", which is about the Battle of Flodden Field - the largest battle between English and Scottish forces.Each set of connected line segments
Algorithmic Fib (2018) Digital image, created by algorithm7200 px x 7200 pxAn exploration of the Fibonnacci sequence. Each of the 16 regions is made of concentric ‘squares’ where each ‘square’ has the same number of pixels
Physical Pieces Dude (2018) Part of my randomization exploration of Fall 2018. Dude is an abstraction of a model, with various other objects. The random element is in the colours – I randomly determined 7 hues, then randomly
Algorithmic Mercy Flight (2018) Another of my "random sortation" pieces, this is based on a photo from a diptheria relief flight in 1929.
Physical Pieces Tobias Tobias is one in a series of "Green Man" wall sculptures I have been making since about 2010. It is hanging on my garage as a test case for how copper sheet and
Physical Pieces 1.5 1.5 is a Mobius strip (a one-sided loop) The words on it are from T.S. Eliot's "Four Quarters"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an