11
Nov

100 Days, Day 60: Month 2 Reflections

I have settled into something of a rhythm at this point. A whole lot of it is still just daily sketches, but at least I'm sharing them somewhere.

I think, as far as the goal of moving my archives over to this "new digital home", I am accepting defeat. I'd still like to, but it's just not my highest priority right now.

On the plus side, I am staying consistent, and I've been feeling more creatively inspired. It's been a really hectic month that lends itself to sketching rather than working on longterm projects, but a lot of ideas for

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17
Oct

erasure poetry with Amiri Baraka and Ron DeSantis

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The work in question.

Code lives here.

Reading about detournement this week has me thinking of this meme by Trevor Allen.

o, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!

If, for Debord, detournement is about creating new webs of meaning, and robbing existing signs of their own meaning, then erasure seems like a powerful method of reframing recognizable corpuses (corpi?). I'm especially interested in his point that a detournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply. Rather than trying to "embrace debate" or critique our political enemies directly, the goal

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13
Oct

Combining Keycloak, LDAP, and Nextcloud (With Discord SSO!)

For most of the past couple months my energies at Eyebeam have been focused on helping move Undersco.re to a more scalable user management and authentication model. Previously, we'd just been using Keycloak with a Discord identity provider. This provided a relatively seamless single sign-on experience, but had a number of drawbacks, most importantly:

  • Running through the Discord IDP, without being able to synchronize with guilds, meant all users had to be a member of Underscore's Discord to use SSO.
  • This process didn't allow for real one-to-one account syncing across different apps, particularly NextCloud, which serves as the core
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11
Oct

100 Days, Day 30: Month 1 Reflections

This is the part where it gets hard. One aspect of daily practice that I'm discovering, especially when I set a broader goal for myself than "make a sketch every day", is that I'm constantly running up against my own boundaries and limits. I guess the key is, once I hit them, to run through instead of away. I'm not sure if I'm succeeding at that right now.

I haven't done a reflection for the last two weeks, partly because I was out of town for one of them and very busy the other. To be completely honest, though, I've

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10
Oct

An URGENTCRAFT discussion question generator + some of my own thoughts

Some sample output.

Since I'm helping lead discussion in Scrapism this week, I made a little cut-up question generator for URGENTCRAFT, figuring I'd kill two birds with one stone. This is somewhat inspired by Kate Compton's Tracery. Any suggestions for tweaks to the sentence generation are welcome, I got pretty caught up trying to make the bash script perfect and didn't spend as much time on parts of speech as I'd like. Its output may not be the best way to start a discussion, so I've added some of my own thoughts and questions below.

Code:


#remove all html tags,
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