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Jonathan Romano
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Software development and creative endeavors. Currently working at the crossroads of biotech, games, and crowdsourcing @frameshifter.org @eternagame.org https://luxaritas.com
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Nov 22
Oh hi bunch of new followers who found me somehow 😄 Quiet for the moment due to life, but hopefully soon you can expect some thoughts here on software, art, music, design, community, collaborative and hybrid intelligence, games and game development, open source, citizen science, etc!
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 2d
There’s some musing in here somewhere about microblogging and cosmic background radiation that I can’t quite formulate 😅
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 15d
Finally got to watch this last night, and I was so impressed. Big congrats to @djaxx.bsky.social and the others who contributed. This was a joy and a privilege to view.
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Denver Jackson @djaxx.bsky.social · 25d
Now playing!!

Watch here:
watch.eventive.org/wd/play/68b1...

#indieanimation #movies #indie_anime
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 26d
Sorta-kinda-related, I would really love to be able to follow threads manually
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 10
I think it’s better. I maintain the height and contrast comments, but it doesn’t feel like the letters are blurring into each other for me as much?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 7
All this of course biased by “looking at an image of text within bsky on my phone”, actual page could leave a different impression with the subtleties
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 7
I think also pure white on pure black is also causing some perceptual issues/strain, possibly related to aliasing
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 7
My gut reaction was it takes some extra effort for me to read, maybe due to the tails on letters and super tight kerning making the letters bleed into each other? Also the line height on multiline messages being a little large make it harder to parse
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 6
I was initially going to say popularity doesn’t seem like a useful signal, but it makes more sense with the TF-IDF comparison! I guess I need to be thinking more in terms of probabilities
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 6
Could there be some sort of “anti-curator” concept? Ie, actively demoting based on people who liked things you show less from, even if they don’t share likes with you. Seems useful for high-visibility posts. Though I could see this being against the ethos of this feed
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 6
Instead of globally demoting single-curator posts, what about something like “don’t downweight if this curator has strong positive signals and few negative signals”?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 6
This solution presumably has a bias against content with less existing visibility (granted, even without it that’s an imitation of this feed, but it exaggerates the problem).
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 6
Something that’s been itching me about the handling of “show less” is “topical discrimination”. What if someone is really good at surfacing niche content I want to see, but also things I really don’t want to see?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 5
Interesting hearing Eric Whitacre talking about a similar experience with Stopping by Woods and Sleep, the same music set against two different poems. The change in words affect the feeling and, I’d venture, the interpretation/ performance: youtu.be/NxhqoBnMQ0U?...
The Story of Sleep/Stopping By Woods
YouTube video by Eric Whitacre
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 5
You know I’ve also found this myself when playing on different digital or physical pianos - different tones and even physical feedback direct me towards different playing (and make some things “work” or not) or interpretation, and make the same playing come across differently
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Sep 1
Another example of tool impacting language impacting creation: youtu.be/WknTbYOet4c?...
How Jacob Collier Reinvented The Guitar
YouTube video by Paul Davids
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 30
Is this classified as a meta-subtweet or a subsubtweet. Or both?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
Hbdaaaay
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
Also roughly related, I’m reminded of how whenever I play with a new programming language, it tends to have its own patterns and conventions that make me consider different ways of doing things that can be used to be more effective in other langs/environments. Cross-inspiration is awesome.
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
There’s certainly some question of “does this actually have a use case” that’s worth considering, but I feel like there is on a whole a lot that could be learned from exploring different modalities and other contexts to see where it might be useful or cause a “wait this means I could make THAT”
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
A sorta-related thought that had come to my mind for editing code, particularly HTML - what if you could edit through CSS selectors? Or on Eterna, what if you had an AutoCAD-like terminal interface? How could that support accessibility or advanced editing?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
What could you learn from Cursorless or Vim interaction patterns that could change the type or way you make music that you hadn’t even considered? What workflows or constructs become possible?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
The talk about Cursorless from Strange Loop (RIP) was definitely inspiring to me. The affordances of different paradigms make certain things easier you hadn’t even considered, or work better for different people, or even cause you to reason differently and spur creativity uniquely
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 29
Seeing Sonic Pi pop up in a come of posts has me thinking about multi-modal interfaces again. What if a DAW let you seamlessly switch to a text-based editing paradigm (akin to changing between staff and piano roll)? Are there edits that would be easier to make/represent?
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 28
My interest has been piqued, are there any videos on this topic (bread) I should watch?

(…I did not expect to write that sentence today)
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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · Aug 28
I take this and raise you: Sid Meier’s Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
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Waltteri @waltteri.net · Aug 28
Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy's Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
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Make Kasprzak 🦖🍁 @distraction.engineer · Aug 28
Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title

Tom Clancy's Necronomicon
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