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I am Taylor. I am a programmer who mostly uses Rust, C++, Ruby, Python, Lua, and JavaScript at work, and work intermittently in roughly a dozen other languages. I'm […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.axfive.net/@taylor, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Added some random heights and rotation, as well as additional spheres.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@btp I don't get the point of either. Isn't this what multiple windows are for? Seems like a stopgap for "my window manager doesn't handle tiling" rather than a solution for something actually missing in a browser. Maybe I'm just missing something.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Just some geometry nodes playing from yesterday. The small spheres are points from a icosphere with their position multiplied with a sine wave over time (phase offset randomly). The big sphere uses a geometry proximity node and a float curve to calculate displacement and pass data to the shader […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Who at StackOverflow thought this was a good idea?

A screenshot from StackOverflow showing a comment. The relative date on the comment shows "Over a year ago", but when I hover over it, it says "2014-04-16T14:27:33.843Z", which is over twelve years ago.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@btp "lines of code" is a harder metric to estimate than machine instructions. Given that there are 5 billlion smart phones in use, and those are usually clocked at at least 1Ghz across multiple cores for a possible combined execution of 5 pentillion instructions per second when at full tilt […]

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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Early morning musings. #writing #poetry

A quote from Amber Herbert: "There’s a strangeness that lingers in the quiet of an empty house. The cracks and groans of the foundation’s bones. The hiss of a radiator. The sigh of an electric kettle as it simmers. When everyone else has left, it’s easy to remove ourselves from the bodies we inhabit and take up space in the bowels of our homestead—reveling in the aging structure of another container, once removed from the aches and dysfunctions of our own."

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

@btp Oh yeah, there are some neat non-electronic computers. The Phillips Machine is a really cool one. This YouTube video has a simple 4-bit water adder.

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Phillips Machine - Wikipedia

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I think I need to start taking it easier. I don't know why I turn all my free time into more work. This is my personal forge, so all of this is stuff done on my off hours.

A commit heatmap from my Forgejo instance, showing multiple contributions for most days over the past year, totaling to 1837 contributions in the last 12 months.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

PSA: Modular power supply SATA cables are not interchangeable. I needed an extra set of SATA power cables and grabbed one from my PSU box, and didn't notice that it was actually a leftover from a different power supply, and simultaneously fried two 4TB hard drives, both members of a RAID1 array […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Here's a follow-up render with an environment and a surface underneath to better showcase the effect.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A "bigger on the inside" proof of concept in Blender. This was pretty challenging. The basic effect is pretty easy, with compositing multiple view layers and using a holdout to layer them, but I need to have an object that can extend from the […] [Video] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A still render of the same box, but showing an artifact seam in the lighting

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Been learning Japanese and kanji for the past month or so via Mango and WaniKani. Started off the right way, learning all of hiragana and katakana via Anki before I did anything else. Japanese is kind of hard, but kanji are **hard**. It's incredible to me that there's an entire country and […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

That node group is included in my AssetLibrary repository if you want easier access to it in its asset-marked form.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I liked this piece by @sako , so I recreated it in Blender with Geometry nodes. I spent a while mostly doing the Instance Grid node group. I got a simple version working pretty easily at first, but wanted something more robust, with functionality […] [Video] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A screenshot of an Instance Grid geometry nodes node. Gives options for working with the Size and resolution of the grid, as well as options for Margin between instances. Shown options for margins are Margin Type, Margins (relative) as a vector, an Edge Margins checkbox, and a Collapse margins checkbox.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Can somebody who sees this like and/or reply to this post? I broke my gotosocial instance by restarting it while running migrations, and I ended up having to restore it from a backup that I'm not certain was finished (and therefore might be corrupted). I'd appreciate some reassurance that […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Ended up doing the dithered approach in Blender after all; came out better than I expected, and I was able to render it to lossless VP9. #Blender #EeveeRender #EeveeRenderer #GeometryNodes #SimulationNodes #3DArt #Art #Cube #Cubes #AbstractArt #AbstractArtwork #MotionGraphics #MoGraph

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

I spent a couple days reimplementing much of this piece by @Goldstarknight . The principles were relatively easy, but the details took a ton of fiddling, especially getting it to loop properly. At first, I tried a BSDF for the material, but that proved too challenging to get the two-tone look I […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

And this is the compositor node graph for the dithering. Yes, it's that simple. It was literally the first stupid hack I thought of, and it actually worked really well. I attached the viewer to the noise texture so you can see why it ends up doing what it […] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A Blender compositor node graph, showing the input image going to a RGB to BW node, and for each pixel, comparing if that is greater than a Noise Texture output (with a scale of 10k). The output of the comparison is piped into a Mix Color node factor, switching between blue and white, and then that output feeds into the image output. The Noise Texture Factor is attached to a Viewer node to show a shockingly regular texture in the backdrop.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Ended up doing the dithered approach in Blender after all; came out better than I expected, and I was able to render it to lossless VP9. #Blender #EeveeRender #EeveeRenderer #GeometryNodes #SimulationNodes #3DArt #Art #Cube #Cubes #AbstractArt #AbstractArtwork #MotionGraphics #MoGraph

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

I spent a couple days reimplementing much of this piece by @Goldstarknight . The principles were relatively easy, but the details took a ton of fiddling, especially getting it to loop properly. At first, I tried a BSDF for the material, but that proved too challenging to get the two-tone look I […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

First render in a while. It's a simulation nodes gravity simulation. I went through many phases of overcomplicating it to varying degrees of success before going the absolutely simplest approach of Newtonian gravity with a force filter that drops very close particles to 0 influence (otherwise […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

First render in a while. It's a simulation nodes gravity simulation. I went through many phases of overcomplicating it to varying degrees of success before going the absolutely simplest approach of Newtonian gravity with a force filter that drops very close particles to 0 influence (otherwise […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Getting a bit sick of fielding LLM PRs. I understand why many projects have a no-LLM policy. I'm generally fine getting good PRs, LLM-aided or not, but the poor ones are just complete wastes of time. They all read the same, good or not, so I have to spend quite a bit of time sussing through it […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

[screams internally]

A screenshot of a Reddit comment chain. The first comment is a deleted comment, simply saying "[removed]", by the user "[deleted]" 1 year ago. The reply is from the OP, Villagerjj, saying "thank you so much! this fixed it :)"

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

@skinnylatte > We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT. Proton only provides the limited information that we have when issued with a legally binding order from Swiss authorities […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

@btp Some people are weird. There's this house covered in Trump flags and confederate flags that I sometimes pass by when I take the dogs on a walk. One time, they were outside, and out of politeness, I smiled and said "morning" as I was passing, and they just stared at me. They didn't say a […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

@btp But how am I going to figure out what is supposed to go where without AR instructions?

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

@btp Spin up a minikube on your local machine and start screwing around with it. It makes the learning curve a lot nicer than jumping right into k3s or something like that.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

And I'm just noticing that my noise calculation for the wood and metal are wrong. I used absolute position, but I'm rotating the mimic and floor, not the camera, so the noise is shifting over the surface. Oh well.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Felt like texturing something I didn't make for practice. Basically digital miniature painting. The model is this mimic by Yasashii Kyojin Studio on Thingiverse. The brick floor is this one from polyhaven. This took me probably about 4 or 5 hours of work. A surprising amount of work went into […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Felt like texturing something I didn't make for practice. Basically digital miniature painting. The model is this mimic by Yasashii Kyojin Studio on Thingiverse. The brick floor is this one from polyhaven. This took me probably about 4 or 5 hours of work. A surprising amount of work went into […]

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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A concise but compelling look at art and how the use of AI for profit misses the point of creation.

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

@Justin > My daughter, who is a comedian and comedy writer, disagrees. She thinks using any AI at all contaminates the creative process, and that I’m inviting the fox into the henhouse. But the fox is already in the henhouse. We are headed into a world where the overwhelming majority of content […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

@btp youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

@btp Finally started playing Axiom Verge during my lunch break today. Pretty good for the first couple dozen minutes. I'm looking forward to the rest; thanks for the recommendation. I've got a list of like 10 games in the same vein that I plan on playing through this year; Axiom Verge is just […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

@btp At this point I'm on a "only look at news on Fridays (except when something major happens and I need to catch up)" rule, and at the current rate of bullshit, "something major" has to be really bad. I can't handle staring into the abyss every day anymore. Reading all the bad news all the […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

@taffywabbit.bsky.social I can't watch, but happy birthday nonetheless!

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

@nonfedimemes Fun story, but I can't find any references of this interaction other than a couple comments on Reddit, also referencing it as a story they heard about. I appreciate and agree with the point (diversity in experience and viewpoints is valuable, reach outside the discipline for better […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Refrenched my quest tonight at Pathfinder.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Art Advent 10: Baubles I put a lot of work into the shaders for this one, and I'm pretty proud of them. The glitter shader uses the voronoi color output, projects it onto the normal, and perturbs the normal by that amount in an adjustable way. That took a bit of work, because I initially tried […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Art advent day 9: eggnog Spent a couple days working on this one. Couldn't get the cinnamon (both the powder and the stick) looking just the way I wanted, but it's not terrible. I spent forever trying to deform the cinnamon stick with a curve deform […] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A 3D rendering of a glass of eggnog on a table. The eggnog is in a round glass with a lipped rim. The liquid of the eggnog is separate from a top layer of foam. On top of the foam is a sprinkling of cinnamon, and a cinnamon stick is resting in the eggnog. The glass is resting on a wooden table.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Art advent day 8: Stocking This was a pretty easy one. Just a couple tubes, some cloth deformation in sculpt mode, a quick fur object, and borrowing the candy cane from a previous day. I was going to put it over a fireplace or something, but "Fireplace" is […] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A 3D rendering of a stocking floating in front of a green backdrop. Three red and white candy-canes hang on the furry white rim of the stocking. The body of the stocking is a red velvety fur.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Art advent day 7: Underground I don't even know what I'm doing, man. #Blender #Blender3D #3DArt #Santa #ArtAdvent #Advent #Christmas #Dirt #Underground #3DRendering #CyclesRender #Cycles #Art #ArtAdvent #ARtAdventCalendar

A 3D rendering of a hole in the ground, out of which a man with a white beard, glasses, rosy cheeks, and a santa hat is looking.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

@lizthegrey.com I've pretty regularly had it take `edition = '2024'` Rust code and change it to 2021, saying that 2024 is in unreleased beta state, even though Claude can check the system date and probably should be able to surmise that edition 2024 probably would have released before the end of […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

[Advent of Code 2025 day 12 solution] Note, this was after several hours of trying to solve it in a more clever way that still didn't work, so finding out the actual answer was to not even really try was quite frustrating.

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

[Advent of Code 2025 day 12 solution] Day 12 done. I really didn't like this one. Basically have to do some bounds checking "it obviously always works" or "it obviously will never work" on it to get it to work on the actual input, but it still NEVER FINISHES on the example. I'm slightly […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Art advent day 6: Snowman Still 5 days behind. Planning to catch up over the weekend. This one was an excuse to sculpt a decent-enough male basemesh, then destroy it with my horrible rigging and posing skills and wobbly displacement in the snow shader. I'm […] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A 3D rendering of a humanoid snow man. He is wearing no clothes and is made entirely out of snow. He stands in front of a snowy hill, holding a snowball.

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Art advent day 6: Snowman Still 5 days behind. Planning to catch up over the weekend. This one was an excuse to sculpt a decent-enough male basemesh, then destroy it with my horrible rigging and posing skills and wobbly displacement in the snow shader. I'm […] [Original post on social.axfive.net]

A 3D rendering of a humanoid snow man. He is wearing no clothes and is made entirely out of snow. He stands in front of a snowy hill, holding a snowball.

taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

[Advent of Code Day 11 solution] Day 11 done. Memoization actually worked for this one. My first instinct was to just crawl the graph with a memo, and it fortunately did the right thing. It was effectively an exhaustive depth-first search. Really not much to discuss. My code is not nice or […]

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taylor @taylor.social.axfive.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Day 10 part 1 done. Part 1 was a little tricky and fun. Solved it by just testing every combination, and sped that up by turning all the buttons and the goal light configuration into numbers that I could XOR together. Technically, part 2 is done too, but it will never work on the real input. I […]

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