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TODEPOND PONDCAST: Torn Pasta
The latest from planet Todepond.
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Jamming together
Updates from errorcamp, ICLC, and a new paper.
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Twirl
Peak district, Twirl, and ICLC!
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Dente
Wow I'm early this week! It's another update.Keynote planning — I am not dead yetNew tool — DentePondiverse updates
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Pondiverse
The pondiverse is here.
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Where the hell is the TODEPOND PONDCAST?
Here it is.Days since tode fell asleep: Too many.Days since bot went missing: Loads.Days since berd flew away: Sorry, I can't.
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Century
Welcome back to another—These updates have stopped being weekly, which is bad. I hereby declare bankruptcy on keeping up to date with my deadlines. To get back on track, I'm going to reduce the quality of these posts. I'm pretty sure this will let me get back to a weekly cadence.Welcome back to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new?Dialogues on natural codeI properly "launched" the paper I wrote with Dave Ackley. You can read the launch and the paper at todepond.com/code.It contains some reflections and warnings abou...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Living patterns
Well then! It's time for another weekly— No, they're really not weekly, are they. They haven't been weekly for a while. It really is because of how busy I've been. First I was in Belgium, then I was in Berlin, then I was in Los Angeles, and last week... Last week I was at a wedding. So here we are with another non-weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I'm tradition, it'll be double length, to make sure we keep the streak going.What's new?Living patternsGreat news! My submission to ICLCgot accepted!I to...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Past
Welcome back to another non-weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I'm late again! I'm very late, so it's a three-in-one.WARNING. This is a triple length pondcast.This time it's because I was away in Los Angeles! Keep reading for more details...LIVEI was in Los Angeles for SPLASH, a big week-long academic conference about coding. It's a collection of many different workshops and other things that happen in the same place.First up, it was LIVE, which is all about livecoding. (The clue's in the name).At LIVE, I...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: The sky
Welcome back to another weekly-ish episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸It's another two parter because I missed last week because I was in Berlin for— I'll get to that.What's new these past two weeks?Deaths of the tadi webTalk seasoncontinues. In preparation for my keynote at Berlin Causal Islands, I gave a shorter, twenty minute version at London Futures of Codingtwo days before the real deal.It was quite campy! Watch it here. Luckily, multiple people filmed it again, so I was able to stitch together a complete recording....
TODEPOND PONDCAST: What it means to be messy and open
Welcome back to another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?BlurI've been working more on the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand, and I've been using heavy use of blur for a money shot in the intro."Money shot" can mean different things (apparently) but I'm using the meaning that means a shot of a film that's expensive to make, but considered important, or impactful to the film on the whole. For me, it usually means a long "one shot"."One shot" means a shot of a f...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Good is not enough
Welcome, again, to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?LoginIn my continued explorations of radical simplicity, as part of the tadi web, I continue to make tiny little experiments, and I share them in my tadi lab.This week, I made a little experiment that got a little more attention than usual. It's called Login, and you can log in to it by typing in a username and a password, as long as the username isn't already taken.When logged in, you can update your status, which might sound like a familiar feature if you'...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Boosh
Well well welcome back to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?BooshI did a second livestream! Another one! Except this time, it was over double the length, hitting eight and a half hours.What I did was, was that I, I watched one episode of the Sandpond Saga, just one, and I did this repeatedly, to different episodes, until I had done it 38 times, until I had watched 38 different episodes, in order, so that I had watched through every single episode, the entire Sandpond Saga.I did it! I watched from the very first episode t...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Tease open
Welcome back. It's time for another weekly edition of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?OpenTalk preparations are underway. I've been developing the keynote I'm giving at Heart of Clojure. I've been working through what content would go into the talk, and I now have a loose string of stories and learning to connect up. Essentially, I don't want to share the things that I have done. Instead, I want to share the moments where other people in the wider community have surprised me by getting involved or c...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Three and a half weeks
Welcome back... to another weekly episode... of the🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?We got accepted!We got accepted. Dave Ackleyand I got accepted for Onward! Essays!, which will take place at SPLASHlater this year. We're both really pleased!The next step is to come up with, and plan, our accompanying talk for the event itself. And that's what we've started doing this week.I think we can have some fun with the talk, to make it engaging and compelling and uhh— whatever it is. The essay itself is a "dialogue&#...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: With friends
It's here again. It's time for another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I've been way too busy.Ok so I wrote this pondcast ages ago, and then I got very ill, so this is very very late. Sorry about that.What's new this week?I finally wrote my (first) write up of Arroost. I've done variousartisticpresentationsof Arroost before, but this is the first time I've presented it in a more serious, academishway.Let's do a little inventory of what we've got so far.Arty talk(done)Arty video(done)Personal es...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Reaction reaction
Oh my god. It's time for—It's been a weird week. Thank god it's the—🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?Reaction reactionI did a livestream a week ago. Its premise was simple. I would react to—Ok, a long time ago, I released a video called Spellular Automata. And recently, a tech influencer called Theomade a reaction videoabout it. So I decided to make a reaction video of his reaction video, and I decided to record it live, on a livestream.But there was a twist. After doing my reaction video, which took about a...
TODEPOND LIVESTREAM: REACTION REACTION
No update this week, because I did thisinstead, whatever thisis.And hello to all the new supporters. LOADS of you joined this week. Welcome.
TODEPOND PONDCAST: This is not a fish
Hullo. Welcome back to another weekly edition of the ...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?This is not a fishIn the future of codingworld, I released a new video! It's called This Is Not A Fishand it's a video adaptation of a recent episode. Check it out here.And a new future of coding episodegot released too. It's about the infamous pygmillionpaper. And you can listen to it here. Like the previous episode, it also includes a segment where I give a history lesson over some classical music (but it's right near th...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: This is a shepherd
Welcome back welcome back! To another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?ShepherdingMe and Dave Ackleyhad a call with each other, discussing how to proceed with our submission to Onward. We were conditionally accepted, and we need to make changes to get fully accepted. And of course, we both want to do that. It's actually nice to get a chance to make some changes, and make it better. We only have to address certainreviewer comments, but we'd be foolish if we didn't take the chance to address ...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Stitch
Hello, it's me. And this is yet another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?StitchThis week, I’ve been working on the first exhibition for Torn Leaf, my silly online gallery. The submissions have been truly wonderful. There’s a nice mix now, but there’s still room for some last minute entries. Submit now, or later, if you want to get involved.My job has been deciding how to order the different pieces of the exhibition. I’m picking what goes first, and what goes last, and which ones to group to...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Todepond
Hi hi hi. Welcome back... to yet another weekly episode... of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?TodepondI've been working on my write-up for Seet, a short-lived project that I worked on as part of my Ink & Switchresidency. The funny thing with the write-up is that I'm trying to make it good— I mean, I want it to be well thought-out. I want it to have a certain level of 'legitimacy' as a piece of research.So much of what I do is jokey or silly or whatever. But sometimes, I want people to take me seriousl...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Confession
Welcome back again. Again it’s time… for another weekly episode… of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?ConfessionI recorded some more voice over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. Who knows if it’ll be used as “concept art” or end up in the real thing. I recorded a few takes and then placed them on top of each other, so that I can listen to all threeat the same time (same time).I always do that approach, and then I end up liking it, and keeping in some of the overlap. Not all of the overlap, but some ...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Out of time
Well hello again. It’s time for another weekly episode / edition of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Out of timeThis week, I recorded some voice-over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I’ve been exploring how to timeit.As you might imagine, there’s a lot of repetition in the video. I repeatedly announce the names of various different types of sands. 99 Sands. So there’s a lot of repetition in the video. I have to say “sandpond sand” and “cellpond sand” and “dreamberd sand” and so on, for...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Elephant in the room + Step by step
Welcome back nerds. It’s time for another weekly edition of the…… oh no … something isn’t right. This pondcast is a week late. I missed one!No, that’s ok. I’ll just do… two pondcasts in one week. That’s fine. So here they are. I present to you… two pondcasts, one after the other. This first one is one I wrote down a week ago. It’s another weekly edition of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this, I mean… What’s new last week?OnwardThis week (and weekend)… Last week (and weeekend), I spent all of my time (r...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Torn leaf zero
We return… to another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Torn leaf zeroThis week, I made a videoto announce my- wait I should fill you in first-I’ve been creating an ‘experimental online gallery’ called torn leaf. It’s currently (and always) accepting submissions for its next exhibition.To promote the gallery, I made a videoannouncing its first exhibition, which will be called TORN LEAF ZERO.The video also gives a sneak-peak to a collaborative artwork made by over one hundred contributors. It’s...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Natural code
Hello hello welcome back everyone. It’s time for the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Natural codeWork continues on the essay that I’m writing with Dave Ackley! We’ve been having many more chats and recorded ‘dialogues’. It’s about the idea of natural code.Basically… um… and this might sound a bit odd… but it’s this idea that we can see all communication as a form of code, similar to computer code in some ways. And in fact… it’s useful for us to do that… therefore, we should!It might sound cold, or r...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Why we are coders
And so we return. For another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Why we are codersI’ve been working with Dave Ackley. We’ve been trying to put together an essay to submit to splash, where I talked last year.Specifically, we’re hoping to submit to onward essays, with an unusual essay about language and code. It’s in the form of a dialog between me and Dave, where I ask him some questions, and I try to prod out some answers.To make it, we had a dialog for real on a video call. Then we transcribed the...
TODEPOND PONDCAST: Don't do maths
Ello. Welcome back to another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Bot went missingThis week, Flora Caulton made some concept art for an animation she’s making for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I love it.If you didn’t notice, I like to ‘connect’ consecutive videos together in some sort of way, so that there’s at least a semblence of continuity. Screens begins with the ending music of New Cellular Automata. Spellular begins with the ending infinite zoom of Screens. Define begins with...
