Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

kept by eddie jun 25

Thi.ng is a 350-module open-source toolkit for computational design and generative art, built bottom-up with small, composable pieces.

An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Figma CEO Dylan Field argues that AI is a tailwind for the company, countering market narratives, and discusses Figma's collaborative design platform and future with AI.
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Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
MOSS is a pixel drawing tool where every brush is a tiny script that can manipulate canvas pixels using noise, randomness, patterns, and stroke data.
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A developer built an ASCII renderer that uses shape vectors and contrast enhancement to achieve sharp edges, overcoming blurriness from treating characters as pixels.
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TypeScript Performance in TanStack Table V9
TanStack Table V9 cut TypeScript type instantiations by 62-86% between alpha.54 and beta.12 using feature maps, interfaces, variance annotations, and explicit type arguments.
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