In my recent tutorial, I showed you how to make a Mastodon bot that posts data from a spreadsheet.
In this follow up, let's add a chart!
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-mastodon-bot-with-google-sheets-and-apps-scripts-part-2/
#tutorial #mastodon #MastodonAPI #AppsScripts #data #dataviz #charts #GoogleSheets #CreativeBots
Five years ago I started working on a tutorial, Game Programming Basics in Lua and Love2D...
I'm relieved to announce that I have now finished Part I (the Lua-only part) :yell:
It's aimed at beginners, and assumes no previous programming experience.
I started writing it based on the experience of an artist friend who took it upon themselves to learn programming as well, in the hopes that it could serve as a guide for people doing something similar, or anyone looking for an approachable path into game development.
I was asked to promote @FediverseSymbol in my work. So I had a naked friend do a short tutorial on how to paint the symbol itself. I hope it doesn't get lost in the federated timeline.
https://symbol.fediverse.info/
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They didn't pay me, but their manifesto website works in links2, so I figured I'll do it.
#art #mastoart #fediart #comic #artist #tutorial #links2gang
🔔 New Tutorial 🔔
"How to Get Started with Legal Data Science"
✅ Basic Introduction
✅ Why Legal Data Science (esp. if you're a lawyer!)
✅ Comprehensive List of #OpenAccess resources for beginners
✅ Focus on #RStats
Tutorial: https://seanfobbe.com/how-to-get-started-with-legal-data-science/
#Tutorial #DataScience #Legal #LegalDataScience @rstats @politicalscience @law @dh #DigitalHumanities #DH
Some time ago, I was asked to share notes and details of how I archived my old CDROM media and I did reply in the thread, but never really posted the guide I wrote otherwise.
So here is the crappiest guide to dumping CD/DVD images on Linux/Unix-likes, in case it happens to be of use to anyone.
https://gist.github.com/mrdaemon/925f149da05b92cf3aea3f3a38f9db3e
I'm writing a new #Fedify #tutorial. If a tutorial on creating an #ActivityPub server needs to deal with persistent data, where should they be stored? I want the tutorial to focus as much as possible on implementing the business logic and as little as possible on other things.
| Option | Voters |
|---|---|
| Regular files | 0 (0%) |
| SQLite | 0 (0%) |
| MySQL or PostgreSQL | 0 (0%) |
| Redis | 0 (0%) |
If you read a #Fedify #tutorial, what #ActivityPub software would you like to see as an #example in the tutorial?
| Option | Voters |
|---|---|
| Microblog (like Mastodon) | 21 (32%) |
| Long-form blog (like WordPress) | 10 (15%) |
| Photo blog (like Pixelfed) | 7 (11%) |
| Forum (like NodeBB) | 6 (9%) |
| Link aggregator (like Lemmy) | 9 (14%) |
| Much simpler one! | 13 (20%) |
➡️ LabPlot - A free OriginPro alternative for Researchers (Multiple Peak Fit)
Catalyst Nanomaterials Lab has published another video tutorial that will show you how to fit multiple peaks in your data using #LabPlot. Go check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf34So7DbZI
#FreeSoftware #DataAnalysis #DataViz #Research #OriginProAlternative #Science #Tutorial #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #Business #BaselineCorrection #Peak #AlternativeTo
Now that I've created the `fedify init` command, I've been thinking about how to modify #Fedify's #tutorial. If I make Fedify's tutorial use `fedify init`, it could omit the project setup part at the beginning. However, the chance to get some understanding of how things work like in the current tutorial would be lost. 🤔
New video up on the channel:
UE5 MassAI Tutorial - NPCs, StateTrees and ZoneGraphs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN1HMtmNTv4
#UE #UE5 #UnrealEngine #MassAI #UnrealMassAI #Tutorial #YouTube #YT #ZoneGraph #AI #NPC #StateTree
#HowToThing #Epilogue #LongRead: After 66 days of addressing 30 wildly varied use cases and building ~20 new example projects of varying complexity to illustrate how #ThingUmbrella libraries can be used & combined, I'm taking a break to concentrate on other important thi.ngs...
With this overall selection I tried shining a light on common architectural patterns, but also some underexposed, yet interesting niche topics. Since there were many different techniques involved, it's natural not everything resonated with everyone. That's fine! Though, my hope always is that readers take an interest in a wide range of topics, and so many of these new examples were purposefully multi-faceted and hopefully provided insights for at least some parts, plus (in)directly communicated a core essence of the larger project:
Only individual packages (or small clusters) are designed & optimized for a set of particular use cases. At large, though, thi.ng explicitly does NOT offer any such guidance or even opinion. All I can offer are possibilities, nudges and cross-references, how these constructs & techniques can be (and have been) useful and/or the theory underpinning them. For some topics, thi.ng libs provide multiple approaches to achieve certain goals. This again is by design (not lack of it!) and stems from hard-learned experience, showing that many (esp. larger) projects highly benefit from more nuanced (sometimes conflicting approaches) compared to popular defacto "catch-all" framework solutions. To avid users (incl. myself) this approach has become a somewhat unique offering and advantage, yet in itself seems to be the hardest and most confusing aspect of the entire project to communicate to newcomers.
So seeing this list of new projects together, to me really is a celebration (and confirmation/testament) of the overall #BottomUpDesign #ThingUmbrella approach (which I've been building on since ~2006): From the wide spectrum/flexibility of use cases, the expressiveness, concision, the data-first approach, the undogmatic mix of complementary paradigms, the separation of concerns, no hidden magic state, only minimal build tooling requirements (a bundler is optional, but recommended for tree shaking, no more) — these are all aspects I think are key to building better (incl. more maintainable & reason-able) software. IMO they are worth embracing & exposing more people to and this is what I've partially attempted to do with this series of posts...
ICYMI here's a summary of the 10 most recent posts (full list in the https://thi.ng/umbrella readme). Many of those examples have more comments than code...
021: Iterative animated polygon subdivision & heat map viz
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111221943333023306
022: Quasi-random voronoi lattice generator
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111244412425832657
023: Tag-based Jaccard similarity ranking using bitfields
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111256960928934577
024: 2.5D hidden line visualization of DEM files
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111269505611983570
025: Transforming & plotting 10k data points using SIMD
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111283262419126958
026: Shader meta-programming to generate 16 animated function plots
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111295842650216136
027: Flocking sim w/ neighborhood queries to visualize proximity
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111308439597090930
028: Randomized, space-filling, nested 2D grid layout generator
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111324566926701431
029: Forth-like DSL & livecoding playground for 2D geometry
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111335025037332972
030: Procedural text generation via custom DSL & parse grammar
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111347074558293056
#ThingUmbrella #OpenSource #TypeScript #JavaScript #Tutorial
I just published my 1h22min video
"Tutorial: an Illustration from A to Z with Krita"
It's a real full lenght course suited to beginners, but also advanced digital painters. It starts from scratch with default brushes, pref' and breakdown all the process:
▶ Peertube: check @shichimi (soon, still transcoding)
▶ Youtube: https://youtu.be/uYdEkOyFUn8
How to exit #vim https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim #tutorial