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Forrest O.
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https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
I still think that replies should need to be approved to show up.
I've never really had "numbers" >10 though, so I'm speaking as someone who accidentally looks at replies on occasion.
love the website where posting a picture of a biscuit inspires deranged comments and some of the most tedious discourse imaginable
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Review of Lily Allen's new album: it's like a tv series of a messy failing open marriage. It's cool to turn an album into a coherent story. People that do creative stuff should keep coming back to it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Forrest O.
Hello again

Blue skies
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
it's a spectrum
okay. so there are often a few dessert recipes that share things (type of dish; fruit) in common but this is really kicked up for fall. just about everything that isn’t pumpkin is apple or pear & one of the variety of “baked fruit w/ starch on top”, to the point where they offer a guide to the types
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Considering making a boot-to #Picotron system, it is so cozy.
This one-button gravity flow game introduced me to Tiki Pona, a cozy constructed language.
www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=154...
Wavespark III: tawa suno wasoweli
www.lexaloffle.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Reposted by Forrest O.
#30daymapchallenge 17: A new tool
Helsinki enjoyed a grand total of 12 minutes of sunshine in November (1.–13.11). No better time to remember that yes, the sun does still exists.

This map shows Helsinki's shadiest / sunniest places. New tool? #GRASSGIS solar modelling.

By @tadusko.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
oh no they found my stealth glossolalia swarm mvp
www.forresto.com/spatial-glos... (spatial webaudio tts headphones experiment)
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Are there any body tracking computer vision thing for sports movements? One person? Groups?
Open and local preferred.
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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After experimenting with Urban Müller’s minimal programming language, “Brainfuck”, we created our own version, “bff” – a soup of thousands of randomly interacting 64-byte tapes initially filled with random noise.
July 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Forrest O.
Blaise talks about getting in "swing" with a rowing crew, the boat finding a soul.
This is what it feels like to swing with a gym full of contra dancers. youtu.be/KevQxr-saFw...
Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Forrest O.
This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now
overcast.fm
October 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Or just be on us-east-2 j/k
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.
October 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
2025-10-10
Yhteiskerhotila Talas
Talas Community Center
#Helsinki #Kalasatama
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#Moonhance app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including moon.val.run to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
State of the collaborative Truchet tiling. #mmott (automerge and val town)
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I got my first PHP job by showing code that I'd written to make a Livejournal tag cloud. The template language wasn't PHP but I could explain it. So thanks Brad.
Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"

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October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"The iroh-lan UI is designed for zero-friction, ephemeral networking: no accounts, no central servers, no device lists. Name a network, choose a password, and you’re on a private L3 LAN with anyone who does the same, created out of thin air and gone when you leave."

yup.

github.com/rustonbsd/ir...
github.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Forrest O.
17.07.1913 Perä-Pohjolainen no 79, s.1
http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1277108?page=1
Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut aineistot
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
you might not like it, but this is peak spatial communication.
September 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Idea to sync a Discord channel and @tldraw.com board. Mozilla Hubs had something like that for VR spaces circa 2020. I could see using Discord and TLDraw together like a... bulletin board.
Talking to @stevekrouse.com about val.town ideas yesterday.
September 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Check out this cool video from Frederico from cuttle.xyz on creating cool geometric patterns with their tool. It allows super easy creation of designs to be laser cut. I loved what they are doing so much I invested a while ago.

(cc @forresto.bsky.social)

youtu.be/aGZKTK6hVkc?...
Making Optical and Geometrical Art with Cuttle
YouTube video by Cuttle
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Working on 3D Export (~2.5D for this first version) for cuttle.xyz.
We've been focused on X and Y for five years now, so it's fun to start playing with Z.
(#CuttleXYZ #cad #3dPrinting)
September 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM