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Nick Fisher

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Mostly 3D+AI+voice. Building https://mixreel.ai Flutter/Dart/C++/PyTorch/Blender https://github.com/nmfisher/thermion https://nick-fisher.com https://playmixworld.com https://bit.ly/3RkzFfH

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · Jul 30

Creating & animating sample scenes really helps uncover which parts of the interface are frustrasting/unusable, which parts are buggy/broken, and which parts are working well.

Definitely the most complex UI I've ever attempted (and I also admit that UI is not my strong suit).

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 16m

I’m not American and don’t have any plans to live there either, so it’s not really relevant.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like “respect dot me” is an XXX domain registry site, I probably typed it briefly when editing the post on my phone and it pulled in the link 😁

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8h

…of migrant workers with no hukou working for absolute peanuts.

Worth mentioning that I have no plans to go back to Adelaide either, so I know exactly what you mean in that respect.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8h

I have..absolutely no idea!

That’s bizarre.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 9h

I’m guessing Chongqing? Development in China is impressive but having lived there for 5 years, I’d move back to Adelaide before I’d go back to China. The density and sheer volume of people are really hard to bear. It’s also difficult to ignore that first tier cities are built off the backs..

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 9h

I’m torn. On the one hand, self-driving cars are an incredible technological achievement that I can truly appreciate.

On the other hand, I’m deeply disheartened that most countries still cannot envision a society that’s not designed wholly around cars.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 18h

Resisting the urge vibe code my own accounting platform.

I actually have no objection to the one I use (Xero) except the fact that they are jacking up the price every 6 months. I don’t like feeling like I’m being held hostage due to my tech choices.

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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 1d

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 412 - October 12th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 1d

Stick it out! I know what you mean but I think there’s increasingly good content here.

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it's definitely just continuing a trend that started long ago.

Originally the hope was that the internet would displace "radio as gatekeeper" or "record label as rent seeker". That doesn't seem to have happened.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 1d

Count yourself lucky!

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not in the music industry, but a lot of the musicians, producers and DJs I respect have been saying the same thing for years now.

I don’t really know how to fix it. But I can at least encourage people to actually *buy* music rather than streaming on Spotify.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

Garbage's Shirley Manson speaks out against music industry economics: "This is an alarm call"

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 2d

I decided to dig around ARC-AGI for a bit, and I see that ARC-AGI 3 is now available in preview!

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to move my main friends group from WhatsApp to Signal. They lasted a week before they reverted, purely due to the UI.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 2d

I logged into Mastodon today. I love the idea, but oof that UI is rough!

I think we have to admit that unfortunately, good UI is (a) hard, (b) really really really important.

(Signal - please take note).

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 3d

Promoting tourism is something that the Singaporean government does amazingly well.

To be honest, I don’t think it’s a very interesting place to visit, but they manage to convince thousands of people from all across the world otherwise.

Respect where it’s due!

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 3d

Still looking for the “less US politics” button on my Bluesky feed.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t this an artifact of positional sinusoidal embeddings though? I feel like like you’d find similar “addition” relations for non-numeric tokens where the result is semantically nonsense (something like king - man + woman = tractor). I skimmed the paper quickly and couldn’t see any mention.

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jamie kerber 🍂☕️🧡 @kerberjg.bsky.social · 4d

Dart `coroutines` v0.2.0 released! ✨
Now includes support for asynchronous coroutines & execution
Tell a friend~ 💙🤗

#FlutterDev #gamedev #oss
pub.dev/packages/cor...

coroutines | Dart package

Unity-style coroutines for Dart, allowing resumable function execution.

pub.dev

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 6d

Never heard of Neuropedia before, looks very nifty.

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Renan 💙 @renotanumber.bsky.social · 7d

It is out!
The recording of my talk "Flutter, Flame and Fragment shaders" is available to watch on youtu.be/A4l1v0Kc-uk

The slides are available at slides.renan.gg/

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 7d

I only just discovered that “Party All The Time” is actually by Eddie Murphy! I’d only ever heard it in DJ sets and would never have picked it as his voice.

youtu.be/iWa-6g-TbgI?...

Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by EddieMurphyVevo

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Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8d

AGI was actually achieved by South Korea, but then they lost it in a datacenter fire with no backups.

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8d

I'd call it Ouroboros (ourobros)?

Nick Fisher @nickfisherau.bsky.social · 8d

Not sure if "entreprise" is a typo on the pleias landing page or it's intentionally using French spelling (?)