I first heard of pocket parks when Birgitte was giving a presentation about water sensitive urban design, and citizen participation. She mentioned Pocket Parks in Portland (I cannot hear Portland without saying to myself “Keep Portland weird!“)
Continue reading “Pocket Parks”Curious Game idea
This is bringing together the metaverse data-interoperability idea, with the group level ethic of care – the AquaCurious stuff. Very early thoughts.
Continue reading “Curious Game idea”Build your own floating island
More playing with Claude. The idea is to create a “home” to play and build on, ala sim game (ideally, Godus like) that is based on topography of the physical world.
The pipeline now goes: draw a box over your chosen area – the starting point at the moment is São Miguel island, Azores → fetch real elevation → click a contour ring to set the coastline (doesn’t have to be the actual coastline… rediscover Atlantis 🙂 ) → carve.
An important point is the idea is to be inspired by physical reality, not tied to it. Part of this is the “sculpted, not surveyed” nature of the renders, so it sometimes has artefacts. That’s intentional.
It’s still very buggy, of course, but check it out!
Continue reading “Build your own floating island”Testing Claude code
The idea is to have stuff happen in the three.js scene – like rain falling when you click the cloud, and then that updating in the Sankey diagram below that (see the mm increasing). It’s not much yet and meaningless at this point, Sao Miguel is also “sculpted not surveyed” which is an interesting approach I may explore more intentionally, but it’s not bad for about 2 hours of playing over the weekend. Damn, AI is scary.
São Miguel, Azores — stylized elevation, not survey data
Click the cloud to make it rain · Drag to look around · Scroll to zoom
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Furnas
No rainfall recorded yet — click the cloud on the São Miguel island scene to make it rain.
Fever duck dream
I dreamt a lot last night, take that for eating roast duck just before bed!
Update: the song for this (not in the dream, but it captures the zeitgeist): Don’t Take the Money by the Bleachers:
MetaPlay: Biosphere reserves, glass cliffs and the project in a sentence
The sentence, drumroll, is:
Any approaches that embrace a feminist ethic of care need to balance that with scientific rigour and accountability.
(OK, it doesn’t talk about how to project addresses that, and what the aim and objectives are. So not really the project in a sentence. But it’s the crux of it.)
Continue reading “MetaPlay: Biosphere reserves, glass cliffs and the project in a sentence”Silkworms
In the continued journey of never really growing up, I got myself some silkworms.
It started with driving past the many mulberry trees on São Miguel island, Açores, and remembering childhood hobbies.
Continue reading “Silkworms”Community engagement using cats as metaphor
This came from a Friday evening casual chat in the OMI group discord, where we were wondering about how to retain members amidst different personalities, while attracting, and more importantly, retaining new members. We spoke about herding cats, and that you don’t herd cats, you throw some tuna where you want them to go – the tuna being the shared vision that people want to be part of.
But this wasn’t the full story, and fuelled by my most recent project iteration (blog forthcoming but this note pad has rough thoughts) and a bit of beer, I thought, it’s not just about tuna. So I shared my cat situation along with how I think this translates to community management. Writing it up sober, I still think it works well. Also adding cat-specific details for posterity.
Continue reading “Community engagement using cats as metaphor”For the love of a dog
I had a call with a good friend and promised to send him some pics of my dogs on the island. Looking through the pics, the journey to befriend Bonzo is worthy of a published story.
Desenrascar
If there’s one phrase for me to sum up the Portuguese, or my love for them, it’s this word, Desenrascar.
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