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One of the most interesting aspects of SwiftUI, at least from an architectural perspective, is how it essentially treats views as data. After all, a SwiftUI view isn’t a direct representation of the pixels that are being rendered on the screen, but rather a description of how a given piece of UI should work, look, and behave.That very data-driven approach gives us a ton of flexibility when it comes to …

I was a sceptic about the impact of the new tranche of generative AI tools until this week when two of my friends demonstrated how they could be used in genuinely transformative ways that go far beyond faking essays or acting as a search interface with poor boundaries and a tendency to invent things that look plausible. Last week in his regular Exponential View newsletter Azeem Azhar described in detail …

Preached at St Nicholas’, Leicester on Sunday 19th of February 2023READINGSExodus 24.12-end & Matthew 17.1-9SERMONAt face value, the Gospels are quite gritty affairs. Jesus in the dirt and the mud. Jesus in the dust. Jesus walking for miles. Jesus with no home to lay his head. Jesus in massed crowds, with the poor, the sick, the outcast.God has come to Earth to dwell with us - and the Gospels understandably …

⚠️ Disclaimer: This article is written with the help of a Large Language Model (LLM). This is a take. I’m selling you a take. Would you buy my take? Ideology as a service probably always existed, but it’s only now that it’s becoming more and more consolidated into a single, global superstructure with the surface area of the Internet. Can it be called an Industry vertical (with some unknown market …

Dear Reader, I hope you have enjoyed the writings and recipes featured here, whether you’ve just stumbled across them or followed for years! It means so much to me to know that my posts have left some kind of positive impact on the world, since that’s why I write in the first place. I have been feeling for a while now that it’s time to begin a NEW chapter in …

There’s a trailer for an American version of Re-Animator The Musical that features a large cast, impressive songs and a heavy dose of blood and gore that makes it look like it’s a delight, at least if you’re fond of musical parodies of daft comedy horror films. As it goes they’re one of my favourite genres, so it was incredibly frustrating to find out that this was a different adaptation, …

Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.A pleb filter is a piece of art which, by virtue of its impenetrability, "filters out" people with bad taste. What makes the pleb filter such an entertaining addition to online Discourse is that it's a ready-made kafkatrap, a perfect concept for trolls and shitposters to weaponize: once an artwork has been declared a "pleb …

ALTView on TwitterTwitter is removing the free API access, which will have the inevitable consequence of driving most twitter bots into extinction. I’ve written a fair bit about art bots over the years, since they’re one of the more accessible generative art forms (and therefore one of the most creative and prolific).Here’s a talk by Kate Compton on the poetics of bots, which will have to stand in as an …

This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about the current state of tech, startups and software has gone quite wrong. In part 1, I wrote about how the macro-economic environment is driving the timing of this conversation, and in particular the impact that …

Happy end of wretched 2022, everyone! I’ve become too superstitious at this point to claim that 2023 will be better. But I so sincerely hope that it is for you! For me, personally, it’s actually been awful – starting on … Continue reading → The post January 2023 Update appeared first on Kafkaesque.

Announcing Circular Design Praxis, a new movement in and around Japan concerning Asia-Pacific circular design principles and practicesContinue reading on A chair in a room »

Colin Alexander, cello Heather Roche, clarinet Eva Zöllner, accordion LSO St Luke’s, London | 14 January 2023 For her LSO Jerwood Composer+ showcase event, Hollie Harding curated an elaborate event on the theme of memory, culminating in her thirty-minute piece for clarinet, accordion and cello, Theories of Forgetting. Six pieces were given from the stage … Continue reading Train home review: Hollie Harding, Theories of Forgetting →

I was listening to a favorite symphony this morning, Mendelssohn’s Fourth, the Italian Symphony. The first movement is as sunny as I’ve ever known it to be in Italy, even in Tuscany. I started wondering about all the little details that make it sound that way, and I decided to have a look.Recently I have rediscovered a free music notation software called MuseScore. Version 4 was released late last year, …

Alternative panel for the Bastl Kastle (MODE and BIT IN references could be on the side panels)The Kastle is a complex oscillator that fits in the palm of your hand and can connect to a bunch of different things, including modular synths. It has an open-ended I/O jack (headphone type) that just directly connects to breadboard sockets in the device itself, which means you can both send signals into the …