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Forrest O.
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https://forresto.com/ (projects)
https://cuttle.xyz/@forresto (parametric CAD for makers)
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forresto.bsky.social
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.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
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
forresto.bsky.social
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
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miaforrest.bsky.social
Hello again

Blue skies
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
forresto.bsky.social
it's a spectrum
catacalypto.bsky.social Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · Oct 20
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
guide to fruit dessert types part 1, featuring Brown Betty, buckle, and cobbler guide to fruit dessert types part 2, featuring crumble, crisp, slump / grunt, pandowdy, and sonker. apparently all of these are real words
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
forresto.bsky.social
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.
digigeolab.bsky.social
#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
A map of Helsinki's urban core. It shows which areas are in the shade on a clear day in mid-June. Hietaranta beach and Töölönlahti bay are highlighted with photos, since they are have some of the sunniest spots on the map.
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
forresto.bsky.social
oh no they found my stealth glossolalia swarm mvp
www.forresto.com/spatial-glos... (spatial webaudio tts headphones experiment)
agents with nonsense text to speech spatial audio panning in 3d, text and waveforms in swooping lines around a central listener
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
forresto.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Forrest O.
blaiseaguera.bsky.social
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.
forresto.bsky.social
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.
gordon.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Forrest O.
chrisshank.com
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...
"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us. But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars. This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information. Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources. The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources. Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
forresto.bsky.social
Or just be on us-east-2 j/k
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
forresto.bsky.social
Wanna feel weird about the world? Look at YouTube shorts in a private window.
October 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
forresto.bsky.social
2025-10-10
Yhteiskerhotila Talas
Talas Community Center
#Helsinki #Kalasatama
Wooden construction for a large community center. Modern methods with old-school log cabin elements.
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
forresto.bsky.social
#Moonhance app prototype as a Meemoo graph. (Including moon.val.run to proxy the current NASA moon render.)
Meemoo.org data flow graph to screen a high res render of the moon onto a camera phone photo with a small blurry moon.
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Forrest O.
sarahedo.bsky.social
💥 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.
Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
forresto.bsky.social
State of the collaborative Truchet tiling. #mmott (automerge and val town)
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
forresto.bsky.social
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.
bradfitz.com Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Oct 4
Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"

🏆
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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b5.bsky.social
"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.
lehtibot.bsky.social
17.07.1913 Perä-Pohjolainen no 79, s.1
http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1277108?page=1
Kansalliskirjaston digitoidut aineistot
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
forresto.bsky.social
you might not like it, but this is peak spatial communication.
September 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
forresto.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Forrest O.
h.olysh.it
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
forresto.bsky.social
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)
Cuttle CAD interface showing 3d export options and preview. Rounded layered sierpinski curve with monochrome layers and isometric camera.
September 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM