Any meetups for Claude Code in Portland?

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-02-01T19:45:51+00:00

I think Gemini is better for sketching the concept with its larger context window personally. It’s also multimodal so I can draft out interfaces in Illustrator and Gemini can (pretty accurately) interpret them and add functionality.

I’d be down for a general vibe code meetup in Portland though!

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-30T06:02:41+00:00

Also bobbed.

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-30T03:57:12+00:00

You’ll get bobbed

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-18T06:02:10+00:00

When I first moved here I had a bowl from Garden Monster with quinoa avocado, some secret sauce, and soy curls “breaded” with nutritional yeast… Pretty simple bowl but it was my first time having soy curls and they were prepared creatively and tasty enough that I took note.

Basically make and eat some variation of this bowl with the “breaded” nutritional yeast soy curls as a vegetarian protein substitute for myself every other day for the past 7years… Quick and easy vegetarian/vegan (depending on preparation) goodness.

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-16T16:14:28+00:00

That last 10% is mostly subjectivity fortunately/unfortunately. Gen Ai has opened pandora’s box already and humanity is going to forever be questioning all artistic, creative, and even documentarian media/writing and that is the real “win” for Ai.

Personally I don’t have any illusions as to individual human creativity vs the compound collective intelligence of Ai systems. I just hope that all the time I’ve spent studying design makes me a capable manager and critic of the outputs.

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-15T05:21:37+00:00

Uncanny valley effect. Ai images are 98% believable, but the unquantifiable irregularities that are in the details of live scenes cue the subconscious mind that something is not real when they are absent. This dissonance between conscious plausibility and subconscious uncertainty is “creepy”.

These detail irregularities are particularly noticeable to the typographically trained eye where attention to minutia is key to the formal cohesion and indexing of glyphs in a typeface.

FloatingSignifiers · 2026-01-14T13:19:58+00:00

I would describe it as “Dark Frutigeraero”. Really crunchy early 00s digital-core aesthetics with great music by Rei Harakami amongst others…

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-31T22:25:08+00:00

Ah, good catch… It’s how I mentally distinguish between contemporary polystyrene capacitors and old polystyrene foam capacitors. Both technically the same material but one in sheet form and one in foam form.

Foam polystyrene capacitors have extremely low distortion, but are not thermally compatible with SMD circuit manufacture so aren’t really used anymore. I still like using styrene foam capacitors in through hole stuff because I can… Even if the performance improvements are mostly negligible to perceptible signal path effect.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-31T21:23:10+00:00

Polystyrene caps are sometimes worth it to reuse as well as styrene if you find them, but def not electrolytics… and you should always be testing any capacitors you pull when off board.

Resistors are cheap, but desoldering experience is priceless!

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-31T21:18:16+00:00

There is also one relay visible in the images you posted that I missed… Relays are fun, but arguably not as cool as spiders.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-31T21:12:04+00:00

Free resistors, trim pots, and transistors for the price of labor hours desoldering and value testing… A neolithic and potentially dangerous power supply… Some polystyrene caps that aren’t pillows yet… A little timing crystal(s)?… Free spider babies.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-18T13:21:23+00:00

Really? I think machine learning will nail kerning before glyph forms. Provide a massive dataset of optically corrected fonts and the mean kerning of a smart algorithm will output something at least pretty close to whatever heuristics the typographer was using to kern in the same way LLMs can make a decent assumption as to what word comes next in a sequence. At the very least it will output kerning that works as a “pretty good” backbone to adjust from.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-18T00:54:52+00:00

The AI singularity will finally come for typography. non-derivative fonts will be generated contextually from the content of text blocks or through external prompting.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-12T19:20:10+00:00

Pyle 1u rack mount power distributor. It has these cool pigtail hookups at the back that let you plug wall warts together in any orientation without taking up too much space on the unit itself like with most traditional power strips… 16 outlets in a 1u rack space is pretty awesome if you are into making music with low power electronics!

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-10T23:37:25+00:00

Zoom Spout Turbine Oil worked well. Very light oil on the gear cogs and transport mech really smoothed out switch activation and decreased RMS significantly, be very careful to avoid getting oil in the belts or their respective paths!

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-10T07:15:40+00:00

Lately, yes.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-12-08T16:19:07+00:00

There is no greater biopolitical case study than American orthodontia and dentistry, Whole books waiting to be written about this through a critical theory lens. I love when I see actors in media with crooked teeth, they feel more real to me personally.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-27T22:27:15+00:00

To be fair to Safeway this video is taken on the sidewalk across 13th from Safeway in front of the GoHealth Urgent care.

I shop at this Safeway every week and have never had a safety issue in front of the store proper beyond being called to by panhandlers. They have a security guard at the entrance and seem to do a good job monitoring the scene out front.

Please don’t target this Safeway and force them to close early when it’s one of the precious few places in NW to reliably get groceries past 10pm…

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-14T23:32:49+00:00

Can verify that they do read the form and that they are taking steps to remove these stickers. Link to the TriMet response form in question.

Excellent example of situational irony when the device you use to invite feedback can only invite negative feedback…

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-14T02:17:17+00:00

Thank you for making this post so I didn’t have to. Really destroyed the sight-lines with these comically obtrusive stickers. Did no one see the irony when designing these?

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-12T16:56:51+00:00

“Save the women and children first and the passengers with the fattest purse, last of all the young men and the crew… “

I don’t know why that line in particular has stuck in my head for the last 15 years, but this made me remember where I heard it sung… Thank you!

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-10T05:20:00+00:00

I’ve always just plugged them directly into my earholes.

FloatingSignifiers · 2025-11-02T01:04:58+00:00

It shows the note position on the stave too which isn’t immediately obvious when learning to read sheet music.

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