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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 07/07/2025

I know right? This one was straight up posing for the camera while it sat on my finger.

Tiny jumping spider macro shot on a finger looking off into the distance.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 24/06/2025

That seems excessive for that far north right? Here is northwest Arkansas today

Screenshot of weather showing 87° that feels like 94°

Forecast shows highs of 87°, 88°, 87°, 89°, and 89°

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 15/06/2025

Not exactly walkable like most of our country.

Photo of a mountain highway with metal guardrail, trees, and a sharp dropoff off the side of the mountain.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 24/05/2025

I've built a few, but at this point, I just want a house to live in and don't really care who builds it. I am especially proud of this deck I built for my parents.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 10/01/2025

I don't think my solar is performing well today.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 10/01/2025

I don't know why, but this function implementation really makes me happy. It took me way too long to get it right, but it's just perfect now :D

export function eytzinger<T>(arr: T[]): T[] {
const n = arr.length
const tree = new Array(n)
let i = 0
function build(k: number): void {
if (k > n) return
build(2 * k)
tree[k - 1] = arr[i++]
build(2 * k + 1)
}
build(1)
return tree
}

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 06/12/2024

Things I find while living with seven children, edition 2376: There is a small white pony bead with some tiny green plant potted in it. (Pencil for scale)

Photo of a small white pony bead with some tiny green plant potted in it. There is a slightly used orange pencil eraser next to it for scale.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 07/11/2024

Yep, we live in northwest Arkansas now.

Photo of fall colored trees and a distant mountain with a radio tower on top.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 26/10/2024

Blue metal roof finally installed! Next step is white vinyl siding...

Shed in the woods with a bright blue metal roof. The walls are still bare OSB with seal tape showing.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 20/10/2024

I'm allergic to cats, and yet we rescued this stray a while ago. He is the most snuggly and grateful kitty I've ever seen. I was working outside building a shed, and he walked up to me asking for snuggles. You can hear the purring across the room when I hold him like this.

Portrait of Tim holding a small orange cat to his face

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 08/10/2024

I'm designing a 3d printed enclosure for a small P2P home server appliance thingy. I'm hoping to be able to put some neopixels inside so they can shine through the etching. What do you think?

hexagonal box with tapered lid and complex triangular etching on sides and top.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 04/10/2024

This interactive append is amazing! It's not the part I'm trying to understand, I understood the sideways tree years ago. But this is a fabulous way to explain it!

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 03/10/2024

Does anyone here understand what the indices in the 3rd column here mean? This is from the old DAT design for path based trees. blog.dat-ecosystem.org/dat-cryptogr... cc @pfrazee.com

$let log = [ [0, ['src', 'answer.js'], [[0], [0]], 'export let answer = 42\n'], [1, ['src', 'index.js'], [[1], [0, 1]], 'import { answer } from ...'], [2, ['README.md'], [[2]], 'This *is* the README\n'], [3, ['src', 'more.js'], [[2, 3], [0, 1, 3]], 'export let more = ...'], ]$

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 28/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #33,674!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #33,674, Tim Caswell ‪@creationix.blue‬, joined on Apr 23, 2023"

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 07/09/2024

The walls of the storage shed are framed out. I ate dinner on site using a spool as a table.

2x6 frame of rectangular shed with angled roof and doorway

A large wire spool turned on its side in the dirt in the woods with some guage large wire still on it. On top is a flowery dinner plate with pizza, a large water bottle, an impact driver and a portable radio.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 28/08/2024

Still digging, but getting close to done. Are the new wires big enough?

2 awg quadruplex next to 4/0 awg quadruplex, wires.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 25/07/2024

One of the plastic bits in my car's charger port fell off while on a road trip to Austin (500 miles away). Luckily the piece was jammed inside and I was able to pull it out and reattach it! I was so close to buying a 3d printer, reverse engineering the other piece and cloning it.

CCS charge port with the right plastic guide post missing showing the bare metal terminal.

CCS charge port with the right plastic guide post replaced, but a little rough of the edges from being jammed and pulled out with sharp tools.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/06/2024

I replaced my scary transfer box bypass in the 5th wheel with a proper breaker box so I could tap into the main power to power 3 mini splits and a clothes dryer.

Blue marine switch with bare messy 6 awg wires

Tidy breaker box with the same 6 awg wires as input and a single 240v 50a output. Also has 3x 240v 20a breakers, a single 240v 30a breaker and two small 120v 20a breakers.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 11/05/2024

The blue sky turned red. This is amazing for Arkansas!

Aurora borealis that's mostly blue over silhouettes of trees

Pink northern lights reflecting off a lake with trees in the foreground

Mostly red northern lights and a white moon over silhouettes of trees

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 20/04/2024

I recently broke down and paid for a Garmin watch. It's one of the only ones that actually report Sp02 numbers. And so far it's accuracy is actually pretty close to a finger tip pulse ox when I've spot checked it.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 17/03/2024

I cooked black beans and rice.for supper today. I set up a table outside to cook since it was nice weather. Did you know that in sunlight, they are actually quite purple? 🟣

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 01/03/2024

Wait, what does it mean if I did buy the land?

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 29/02/2024

My family finally convinced me to try a beard this winter. I normally abhor them. What do you think? Also why are trailer doors so short!

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 29/02/2024

The big camper has some stability issues so I built a support out of some tree logs I had lying around from the driveway construction.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 29/02/2024

Sunrise over the mountains. This is taken with a cheap drone over my front yard. We moved off grid last month (bought some raw land and just parked on it) and have been very busy trying to get it more livable. I'm sure loving the views.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 29/08/2023

It's the year 2048 and Coco bombs have become weapons of mass destruction. Would you choose to live in this world?

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 29/08/2023

After work today I thought my workstation looked pretty neat. I was testing the Asus ROG Ally on the thunderbolt dock. It works great.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 08/07/2023

The sky looked pretty the other day.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 25/05/2023

Would you like some cozy animal variants of it? This looks perfect for a SDXL starting image. Though it was interesting how many outputs dreamstudio flagged as explicit.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 21/05/2023

I think this was the bread we used to get when we lived in Austin.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 21/05/2023

I'm afraid i don't remember any brand names. We used to get GF all the time for my oldest daughter who has since moved out. I want to say one was a sliced bread format and a few others were the crusts from frozen pizzas. We had this one recently and it was pretty good.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 20/05/2023

Old inverter vs new inverter for big camper. The 6k wasn't quite powerful enough. This new 12k one is a beast!

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 10/05/2023

SDXL is perfect for generating card art for MTG. I may try my hand at making board/card games again. The lack of art really restricted me before to very abstract games.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 07/05/2023

This can't be good. I have 4 different ISPs and this is the best I've got right now.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 03/05/2023

What's up with this @berduck.deepfates.com everyone keeps talking about? I painted a rock to have a maze on it. I wonder if the duck thinks it's an egg.

Rock painted white with a black maze painted on top.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 01/05/2023

Remember when you have both small children and older children at the same time, sleep is a thing you do in the next generation maybe. (ages 10mo, 6yo, 8yo, 11yo, 13yo, 17yo, 23yo)

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/04/2023

The kids (baby goats) however were extraordinarily soft and snuggly. I sat down and they swarmed me with their little warm fuzzy bodies. I couldn't get a picture of them on me because they thought my phone was yummy.

Several baby goats climbing on a girl sitting on the ground petting then.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/04/2023

They even had a couple capybaras. I was amazed how rough the fur is, it feels like burlap.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/04/2023

This one is named Crispy Bacon, but he likes to go by Chris for short.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/04/2023

We took the kids to a local petting zoo yesterday for the 11-year-old's birthday. Best choice ever.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 30/04/2023

This little fella wanted to hang out with me the other day when it was kinda chilly outside.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 26/04/2023

Yep. This is what happens when I try to tidy the house on Saturdays. (We have 6 kids still at home)

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 26/04/2023

An alternative is instead of a portrait, I told it to draw an isometric mountain range with two different source image strengths. The left is 25% and the "isometric" overpowers the source image. The right is 50% and the original shape is preserved.

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Tim Caswell @creationix.blue · 26/04/2023

This is the same 3 cube input, but with a different text prompt and two different art styles (isometric and pixel art)

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