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Forrest O.

@forresto.bsky.social
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forresto.com (projects) cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TIL html forms have an <output> element... developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... (since 2018)
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<output> HTML output element - HTML | MDN
The <output> HTML element is a container element into which a site or app can inject the results of a calculation or the outcome of a user action.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Oops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Propellors
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
10 years ago I had ramen with @yosh@toot.yosh.is and experimented with for Voronoi diagrams to find the closest hit point on a Choo graph (frontend pattern). #timeloop
Rainbow polygons fill the graph background like irregular tiles, showing which point is closest to the pointer at any given time.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I thought someone had made the duo hand as a bit, but it is a real marketing image. Erased the device, no notes.
iphone duo marketing photo with confusingly long handGoogle photos "magic eraser" used on the the phone to see just the hand
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I asked my homelab (tinkering environment) to write scripts against its own session logs, and ended up with a report of costs and value: $6 for 40 hours of entertainment over 10 projects in a month.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Prediction: your next best group chat will be in an exe.dev container. (Or tailscale into a friend's homelab.)
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Growing a labyrinthine path around an icosahedron. Uses @amandaghassaei.bsky.social 's gpu-io for the heavy stuff.
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Daniel Pipkin 🦥 @danielpipk.in · 14/08/2026
This helped me so much with my stamps! And @forresto.bsky.social's Apriltag component was an important part as well.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I found a "mix zip" of mp3s that has been floating around hard drives for 16 years. The same mix was on my Spotify from that era, 2/20 of the tracks are not there now. The zip file works perfectly, but 10% of the Spotify version has rotted away. "Your will own nothing and be happy" indeed.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I case you have not visited the baby button quail corner of the internet. youtube.com/shorts/RQuV6...
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My mini stampede this morning across my bed 😂💙 #funny #buttonquail #cuteanimals #babyanimals #cute
YouTube video by Fat Hen Farms
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I can't look away from these lost interfaces. I want to document them carefully and return them to the commons before they disappear: to empower artists, preserve public knowledge, and keep capable hardware out of landfills.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's a 40 second explainer about perfect shuffles. www.forresto.com/perfect-shuf...
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I was writing a Polish friend (in Poland) and Gmail offered to "polish" my writing, which made my brain record scratch for a moment.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Does @standard.site require more from a server than a static site? I like that an RSS feed can be built as a static file.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Found a nice Sudoku algorithm, and made it Cuttle-ified, which means arbitrary glyphs and seeded random. I solved this one and it took a while for the emoji to click, but it was fun doodling. cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Su... #CuttleXYZ #puzzle
Easy sudoku puzzle with emoji instead of digits, designed with Cuttle.xyz.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Search results: your search - "dario amoodeng" - did not match any documents.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
any polyrhythmic nerd rock duos need a parametric animated music video? #CuttleXYZ
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪
3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Biggie Smalls vs Thomas the tank engine
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I have a "Shadow" modifier in Cuttle that can do pseudo-3D. Here's a growing fractal vase, Sierpinski curve. #CuttleXYZ
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Click around there. 😎 I made one of the "T" sketches, a port of my animated Sierpiński curve. Impressed with the other sketches, music, and background effects. Good company.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Cooking vid algo showed me someone making garlic powder... by toasting and grinding the skins. I know better than to reply. But it's such a weirdly specific confident wrongness, and doesn't seem to be intentional ragebait.
Homemade garlic powder!!

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Oh! I didn't know garlic powder was the skins! That's kinda cool actually

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I don't think it is. You could take the cloves of garlic and slice them. Let those dry and then do the same thing but I don't think garlic powder is actually the skin part.

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I know it seems weird, but if you look it up, it is the skins.

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I agree with you. It can't be real!!! I'm actually appalled by THIS!!!!!

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It is the skins.

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Pekka Pulli @pekkapulli.com · 10/04/2026
Hey, do you know string instrument teachers or have a beginner student at home? What if the material given to beginner music students for home practice were something that facilitates intuition and gives immediate feedback instead of being just ink on paper? #violin #viola #musiced #musicteaching
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
$8/ gal = €1.84/ l 😅
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Found a nice way to modify a QR Code that makes it friendlier for inlay, pen plot, laser score, 3D print...
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Fixed! The idea: concat the lakes path to the land path, and use fill-rule: evenodd. Found lakes geojson via @nvkelso/natural-earth-vector. observablehq.com/@forresto/or...
Icosahedron globe strip showing North and South America, now with lakes visible. ObservableHQ/d3 code showing how to make lake "holes" in the land shapes.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I want to port my Observable notebooks to my own site. There are some fun experiments in there, and it would be nice to have that notebook authoring flow in my own space. observablehq.com/@forresto/mu...
12x12 multiplication table as packed circles, decomposed to primes
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I really like Wes Hargis' series of illustrated stories of feral childhood in the 1970s. youtube.com/shorts/8D4Fx...
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A huge wasp touches down in our backyard.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I made it wavy by rotating the small squares. Catnip for parametric design... you can animate the parameters here: cuttle.xyz/@forresto/Ti... #CuttleXYZ
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Tile Wall (optical illusion)
After Skye Blue Café Wall Illusion credited to Victoria Skye.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/02/2026
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
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Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Helsinki transport had a phase last year where they demanded ID to make sure you weren't using someone else's ticket / phone. Felt wrong, but I didn't look up if it was legal.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thursday sky was doing some kind of optical effect with the sunrise, and @jhilden.bsky.social got this picture, which I had to enhance with fuego Elmo.
Muppet Elmo with arms raised to orange column of light from Hakaniemi sunrise.
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Eric Lengyel @ericlengyel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is a reminder that every diagram from my book Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is available on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-4.0 license. They can be freely used in slides, papers, books, Wikipedia articles, etc., with proper attribution. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Er...
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I found Projective Geometries by wondering how the card game Spot It! works. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It!, the Beloved Family Card Game
The simple matching game has some deceptively complex mathematics behind the scenes
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🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 19/01/2026
Still thinking about worker vs boss mentality about AI.
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Little Bosses Everywhere
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
One way this could work: Amy replies to Bob's post, and it shows as a quote post on Amy's profile. If Bob approves it, then it also shows as a reply under Bob's post. This kinda unifies replies vs quotes, which people use inconsistently, and makes it easier to ignore bad replies,
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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Highly recommended to watch this 20min experimental docu
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#lemonPiglet 2026
Clementine orange with US penny in mouth, coiled foil tail, match legs, and fenugreek eyes. For New Year luck?
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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 29/12/2025
what if: arena survival game where you're a flock of boids 🪰? #gamedev #pixijs
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Sorry @zed.dev and @zen-browser.app... one of you is going to need to add some color to your logo or something.
App logos for Zed editor and Zen browser, which are very similar visually. Basic white repeating shapes on black background.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Boomer family member AI-edited a summer family photo to add xmas sweaters. I can see that being innocent fun for them, but everyone under 50 was uncomfortable with it. We said please don't, but I wonder if there's some good articulation about why we shouldn't fake memories.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
#moonhance but for stars (Stellarium screenshot overlay). #helsinki #mustikkamaa #kruunusillat #orion
Night mode photo of constellation Orion over Kruunusillat bridge, from the south eastern coast of Mustikkamaa.
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strayster2 @strayster2.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Isn't it the friends we made along the way?
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If there is room, is it more efficient to keep 12 liter boxes of oat milk in the fridge, or in the cabinet and chill them as they are used?
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hypercard / Flash / Dreams... all thriving creative scenes within a closed ecosystem. All kneecapped by business decisions. Could an open source tool build such a scene?
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
fed my digipet today 🌞
Solar Casio watch getting some sun finally after weeks of grey skies.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Love it when a plot comes together. Score wheel, pens, blade. ObservableHQ/D3 for map projections and Cuttle for Boolean ops on the vectors.
Map projected to icosahedron, with graticules in the oceans, flat after fabrication. Partially folded. We didn't have basic glue at the studio. What kind of paper craft factory are we.
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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
scalloped edges on scalloped edges, or Venn fungus #CuttleXYZ
abstract graphic design, a branching tree represented by overlapping circles, getting smaller at each level
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