Parker Higgins @xor@mastodon.xyz

new thinkpad arriving momentarily. what operating system should i run?!?!

The plan is to get another 15% better at Python and then finally learn JS (lol)

Got a recommendation for Effective Python. Anybody have strong feelings on that one, for or against?

I've been realizing lately that my fascination with generativity is kind of about brute-forcing aesthetics, and how that's sort of a technoutopian stance

feel like i'm missing a step here... got a bunch of houseplants over the last year and they just keep getting bigger? and i keep putting them in larger pots and they thrive there? i don't see how humans retain control of my apartment much longer

they didn't take it! still feels good

I think I'm actually going to submit a crossword I've constructed to an indie publisher, and it feels great

i should be blogging

Where do I find discussions of Star Trek: Lower Decks? I personally am enjoying Star Trek: Lower Decks

I feel much more comfortable with a list of todos, but the thing is then they're not done

In the meantime, I *have* brought over my bot posting images of roadside America from a very cool collection of 11,000 photographs by John Margolies in the Library of Congress! That's at @oldroadside

I'm not going to port it over to the Fediverse because I feel like the video files are larger than good citizenship allows, but I'm very stoked on the recent label-finding and animation on my birdsite 78 bot https://twitter.com/xor/status/1286349185105747973