Fourth Virtual Meeting

February 11th, 2023 by graham
  • Details

Saturday, 11 Feb 2023, 20h CET

  • Plans
    • Alex: Maintenance project for Linux desktop.
      Wants to install Ubuntu on a singular hard drive.
    • Mark:
      Sent a first version of a Paper Heart video!
      He’s going to import it into Final Cut Pro.
    • Graham:
      Will work on some part of paper.

Joe stopped by, which was nice!

  • Reality
    • Alex:
      Finished the Ubuntu installation.
    • Mark:
      Final Cut didn’t quite import the project.
      Struggling to add more layers in Final Cut.
    • Graham:
      Worked on paper outline. Added caption to graphical model figure.
  • Links

Minimal Surfaces – Minimal Surface Repository
https://minimalsurfaces.blog/

Permian–Triassic extinction event – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

Minimal surface – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_surface

Osculating circle – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculating_circle

Osculating Sphere — from Wolfram MathWorld
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/OsculatingSphere.html

Synapsid – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

Dimetrodon – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon

Third Virtual Meeting

March 26th, 2022 by graham
  • Details

26 March 2022, 20h CET, on Discord

Alex, Mark, Rob, Graham, and Joe were present!


Mostly we talked about many different topics:
Trips. Work. Notetaking with Notion. Alex repairing Joysticks.
Video and pinball arcades. The Rockband Network. Cavaquinhos.
Poker software that supports crazy variants. Music production.

Second Virtual Hack

March 12th, 2022 by graham

Saturday, 12 March 2022, 20h CET Over Discord

Plans:

Mark – Wants to stitch together images using Processing/JS:
http://notlime.com/2022/paper-heart-parts/
http://notlime.com/2022/scallop/

Rob – Processing/JS, creating an object and clicking and dragging.

Graham – Hack Backward Simulation methods into mosaic frontend.

Alex – Wants to do basic “Hello World” program in Godot.

Reality:

Mark – Posted show and hide JS- loaded SVGs into p5.js.
Hit a dead end and start over by processing SVG individual frames.
Write XSLT to splatter frames.

Rob – Wrote a Circle that responds to mouse input. Ready for dragging, etc.

Graham – Integrated multiple outputs into frontend, but separate outputs
are not integrated well into DAW files, so more work to do.

Alex – Figured out how to load sprites and put them on screen,
and to export projects for Linux and Windows, but not HTML5 yet.


First Virtual Hack

February 19th, 2022 by graham

Over Discord, 19 Feb 2022, 20h CET

Plans

  • Mark: sketching Bessel functions with Looom.
  • Lauryn: learning vim and tutorialing.
  • Martin: finishing a lentil soup, maybe working on webkit.
  • Rob: investigating Discord integration for his Destiny group.
  • Graham: small improvements to RSS reader.

Demos

  • Graham gave a small demo of his fraidycat inspired RSS reader.
  • Martin gave a small demo of his timezone inspired coworking tool.
  • Graham gave a small demo of QuoteRadish, a tool for navigating highlights and notes from a tolino eReader.

Reality – we mostly had a wide-ranging discussion.

Films and media discussed:

  • Baby Driver
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • The Last Blockbuster
  • Joe Pera Talks With You
  • Los Angeles Plays Itself
  • Vancouver Never Plays Itself
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

End of 2016 Hack

December 28th, 2016 by Mark Luffel

Mark:
– Back in Atlanta for the holidays.
– Hacking on procedural content generation.

Close to beginning of Summer Hack

June 16th, 2015 by Ram Vedam
  • Nathan
    • continues to dissect Deep Q Learning application
  • Ram
    •  continue to read up on android development
    • finished reading up presentation on Deep Q Learning
  • Vinny
    • trying to interpret bitstream from unknown audio

Finals Week Hack

April 29th, 2015 by Ram Vedam

Vinny
– looking for nextstep videos
– playing with amethyst.app (xmonad-like app for mac os x )

Nathan
– prototyped Codeless debugging user interface
– searched how to create Google Cloud Platform projects from the command-line

Ram
– worked on looking through Amazon Web Services API documentation
– started work on sample clinch app

Looks like Finals week Hack

April 22nd, 2015 by Ram Vedam

Everyone discussed Lisp and the inherent complexity of modern software development.
Also discussed the possibility of creating a Esoteric programming languages meetup.

Maybe Dead Week Hack

April 19th, 2015 by Ram Vedam

Since Last Time –
Vinny:
– got his test suite again
Ram:
– registered for microcorruption
Nathan:
– planned for GDG talk coming up 04/15

Plan This time –
Vinny:
– make a test transmitting your state from a listener to the server
Ram:
– go through tutorial on microcorruption embedded CTF debugging environment.
Nathan:
– did circuit design
Jordan:
– played nethack
Rob:
– finishing taxes

Post Easter Hack

April 8th, 2015 by Ram Vedam
  • Ram
    • writing simple Golang GXUI program that will create gxui window
  • Vinny
    • making tests pass for schema changes
    • showed microcorruption.com : an Embedded security CTF that can be played online
  • Nathan:
    •  was looking into getting Clojure up and running on his desktop
  • Alex
    • got xmonad running on Ubuntu