Moon @softmoon.world · 25/09/2026Hey creative technologists. I'm doing some early research, but I want to know if there are artists who use (or used) Processing (the Java version with a PDE) who aren't white men. Pointers would be really helpful 122
Reposted by MoonRaphaël de Courville @sableraph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Heading to Linz Tomorrow! Hope to see some of you there at the Creative Coding Open House 🏡 031
Reposted by Moonalex ⟡*·_ ☭ @cubegho.st · 08/08/2026i had been set on shaders but after @softmoon.world's brooklyn web workers talk i think i might have to go study tools..... 031
Moon @softmoon.world · 03/08/2026I'm kind of...ready to let go of "linux" as some sort of artist statement. I want to make way more room for creative expression in the sound arts. I've abandoned myself for too long. My identity is not the computer. 160
Moon @softmoon.world · 30/07/2026I love this post on building an (almost) daily practice making shaders. 191
Moon @softmoon.world · 30/07/2026every injection day i say "i'm SO cool for doing this every week. congratulations moon, you did it again. and it's really cool of you." 130
Moon @softmoon.world · 28/07/2026I had the best time speaking at @brooklynwebworkers.com. Really grateful to have been invited! 060
Moon @softmoon.world · 20/07/2026Processing 4.5.6 just got released yay github.com/processing/p...github.comRelease Processing 4.5.6 · processing/processing4Hello! Welcome to Processing 4.5.6. I hope it works! Things of note: Not only did we upgrade Gradle 8.14.4, we also upgraded to Gradle 9.1! (We are now on Gradle 9.x) Mark Sherman's Students made ... 020
Moon @softmoon.world · 19/07/2026something poetic about tool trained on OSS without consent being used to make what was made proprietary into OSS. 020
Moon @softmoon.world · 18/07/2026better to build a desktop, or buy a fancy mbp? i want a good gpu 300
Moon @softmoon.world · 10/07/2026I'm speaking at brooklyn web workers on the 27th. i'm going to talk about the work happening at Processing: pools.events/event/Gogzju...pools.eventsMon, Jul 27 - Brooklyn Web Workers - July 2026 by Brooklyn Web WorkersBrooklyn Web Workers - July 2026 by Brooklyn Web Workers on Mon, Jul 27 at 7:00pm at Easy Lover, Brooklyn, NY. Get tickets and event details on Pools. 011
Moon @softmoon.world · 07/07/2026Today I added bevy_seedling to main for libprocessing. still have to make an API and use it. but in order to get here: - I had to rebase our fork bevy fork on to v0.19 of bevy - i had to put up a couple minor PRs in nannou's bevy_rewrite (ty to @charlotte.fyi for reviews) - and some third thing 030
Moon @softmoon.world · 30/06/2026We will be at SIGGRAPH this year. Who is going? s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation... 0112
Moon @softmoon.world · 30/06/2026Bi-weekly world of Processing is happening today! discord.com/events/10766...discord.comDiscord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & GamesDiscord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out. 021
Moon @softmoon.world · 26/06/2026OH WOW OKAY github.com/floss-mentor...github.comGitHub - floss-mentoring/floss-mentoring: Resources for FLOSS-Mentoring, a cross-sector interest group supporting mentorship in open source.Resources for FLOSS-Mentoring, a cross-sector interest group supporting mentorship in open source. - floss-mentoring/floss-mentoring 031
Moon @softmoon.world · 24/06/2026Entitlements issue for MacOS should be fixed here. We added some additional signing steps recently and did not pass in the entitlements file. I'm really happy about the new build process lol -- can someone try out apple silicon build? github.com/processing/p...github.comRelease Processing 4.5.5 · processing/processing4This is a hotfix for the broken MacOS builds (See #1532). We have a secondary signing pass that fixed our signing issues, but did not pass entitlements.plist to that command. This meant that the bu... 050
Moon @softmoon.world · 24/06/2026meow. finally fixed the processing4 build. we just released 4.5.4! 080
Moon @softmoon.world · 20/06/2026Omg congrats to @bevy.org on the 0.19 release. this is the version libprocessing will use moving forward. up until now we've been on the dev branch bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...bevy.orgBevy 0.19Thanks to 261 contributors, 1185 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.19 release on crates.… 0180
Moon @softmoon.world · 11/06/2026I've put up this mewnala energy workzone (M.E.W.) so if you want to easily try out the the libprocessing work that uses pyo3 you can. github.com/catilac/mew #processing #energy #mewnala #rustgithub.comGitHub - catilac/mew: Mewnala Energy WorkzoneMewnala Energy Workzone. Contribute to catilac/mew development by creating an account on GitHub. 020
Moon @softmoon.world · 03/06/2026An RFC for a VSCode fork to support PDE github.com/processing/p...github.comRFC: future PDE implementation as a VSCode fork · Issue #1522 · processing/processing4Most relevant area for this enhancement? PDE Feature to enhance Maintainability Enhancement details I’ve been curious about using another open source code editor as the core user interface for the ... 120
Reposted by MoonRory Solomon @rorshock.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Organize or perish. More than adapting to distracted students or AI, disabusing ourselves of the notion that tenure will save us is the most important change we can help each other make. Tenure won’t get you formal recognition or a seat at the table & is the ultimate enticement of inaction 042
Moon @softmoon.world · 28/05/2026If you're in NYC tomorrow I'm talking tools at LARPA: www.eventbrite.com/e/open-sourc...eventbrite.comOpen Source Creative Software: Roundtable with Moon DavéA roundtable discussion with creative coding tool-builders 030
Reposted by MoonChris Biscardi @chrisbiscardi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026"low floors and high ceilings" - Expanding Processing's Reach with Rust + Bevy at RustWeek 1242
Moon @softmoon.world · 19/05/2026Come see me talk about Processing, and Rust and #bevy at my talk tomorrow! 2026.rustweek.org/talks/moon/2026.rustweek.orgExpanding Processing's Reach with Rust + Bevy - RustWeek 2026RustWeek 2026, The Netherlands - May 18–23 2026. The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht, welcoming over 900+ community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust. 092
Reposted by MoonMara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 13/05/2026For those of you watching RustWeek from home: our schedule now supports switching timezones between the conference timezone and your own timezone! 🕣 It'll also use 12-hour or 24-hour time depending on your locale settings. ✨ 2026.rustweek.org/schedule/tue... See you next week! 💛 0215
Moon @softmoon.world · 11/05/2026I will be at @rustnl.bsky.social next week. SAY HI TO ME PLEASE #processing #bevy #rust 0131
Moon @softmoon.world · 04/05/2026Charlotte is INCREDIBLE. She has positioned us to do super magical things inside of Processing thanks to all the @bevy.org work she's done. Come to our Weekly World of @processing.org weekly meeting to learn more about it tomorrow: discord.gg/uDyZ5V24S?ev... 0113
Moon @softmoon.world · 28/04/2026Come hang out with @sableraph.bsky.social and I at the weekly (but often cancelled but not this time) world of processing with moon discord call: discord.com/events/10766... If you're not a discord user I'm sorry, we *are* looking for an alternative that is more inclusive and NOT DISCORDdiscord.comDiscord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & GamesDiscord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out. 032
Reposted by MoonMarkus Schütz @m-schuetz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026New Paper🙂 Nanite has shown that small triangles can be rendered fast in compute, we're exploring how fast for large meshes with up to 18.9 billion triangles, without the need to precompute LOD structures. Paper: github.com/m-schuetz/Cu... Source: github.com/m-schuetz/Cu... 26820
Reposted by MoonAnil Dash @anildash.com · 16/04/2026It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen. 231979691
Reposted by MoonSIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social · 09/04/2026SIGBOVIK IS TOMORROW!!!!!! GET EXCITED!!!!!! Sincerely, Your Ever-Dedicated And Sleep Deprived Organizers 0102
Reposted by MoonJohn Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Whatever this means specifically, more generally the United States and Israel have already jointly carried out a genocide, specifically in Gaza. Once that line is crossed and those actions justified, there is no limit to what these countries can and will do 0369
Reposted by MoonIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 07/04/2026Pretty sure it's ok to not do your little work emails today given the broader circumstances 1182
Moon @softmoon.world · 03/04/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZKK... <33333youtube.comCassie Tarakajian - Processing Community Day 2017YouTube video by Processing Foundation 020
Reposted by MoonDWeb @getdweb.net · 02/04/2026🏕️ How DWeb Camp is being built in Berlin 🪩 🛸 One month ago, we boarded @c-base.org and started the incredible journey of bringing DWeb Camp to a new continent! Our Wendy Hanamura wrote the story of what happened, sharing the path leading us and @dod.ngo to Alte Hölle on 8–12 July 🏕️ 0159
Reposted by MoonDave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 01/04/2026We're running TerribleHack again April 26! More info at terriblehack.website! 063
Reposted by MoonIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 31/03/2026it's not actually baffling but it kind of is baffling that one hypothetical unhappy detransitioner is justification enough to deny life saving healthcare but multiple actual suicides aren't enough to end consumer facing LLM chatbots 14210
Reposted by MoonKy @ky.fyi · 31/03/2026Today's a great day to donate to a trans-owned and -led nonprofit that is working to break down bureaucratic barriers to legal name changes and gender marker changes 💜 namesake.fyi/donatenamesake.fyi 01611
Moon @softmoon.world · 29/03/2026on the documentation for cargo-embed it says that cargo-embed is the "big brother" of cargo flash. so like...their parents were harder and expected more out of cargo-embed? or did their parents do a better job with cargo-flash? like i genuinely am confused here. 000
Moon @softmoon.world · 27/03/2026the paternalism that pops up in open source is so funny to me. like they don't even know who they're talking to 000
Reposted by MoonMelissa Lewis @melissa.news · 26/03/2026Even as trans people are being targeted by legislation, they're being erased. @jollyette.bsky.social's story describes not just what data was removed, but why it's essential. And as ever, it's illuminating and urgent, and well worth your time. 1118
Reposted by MoonAnil Dash @anildash.com · 25/03/2026This is really common, and every indication is that people hate what “AI” represents in culture, hate the Big AI companies, and… are using it a lot. Just as happened with social media. Which is why we need to talk about accountable, public alternatives, not just regulating the bad actors. 1521938
Reposted by MoonDaniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Hi SF folks; I rarely do esolang workshops but have one coming up Sunday, March 29 at tiat place: luma.com/esolangsluma.comEsolangs Workshop (Esoteric programming languages) · LumaWhat happens when programming languages aim not at functionality and efficiency, but at irritation and reflection, or act like poetry? In this… 022