John Christensen

Tech tinkering enthusiast & software dev.
Interested in creating tools to aid learning.

Mastadon:@[email protected]

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

I made a tool to compare Webb's new images to Hubble! https://t.co/1JqTxabgGC
#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

I've really enjoyed using @kitao's #pyxel engine for this project

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

Porygon is the best test model. Getting my software render from rendering cubes to rendering this has been incredibly rewarding 🥰

obj file from here: https://t.co/MTCV2yvwSC

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

I've been working on a way to easily write/run/share python visuals in the browser, and it's working well enough to try out today's #genuary prompt!

>Impossible objects (undecided geometry).

Live Demo: https://t.co/nvxw1Q1wEy
#python #genuary24 #creativecoding

[andrew blinn in sf ⏱️ @disconcision]

DOM needs physics, i should be able to do collision detection in css

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

I made a very unimportant blog post https://t.co/xlUmophaBc

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

@SyoPic I love the repair worms! So satisfying

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

Examples like this are great. I shared this with a local group, and it generated a lively discussion of the roads in our city we would like to see turned into places for people

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

The bank of the Seine in Paris. This used to be space for cars, now for several years it’s been a special place for people. All it took was leadership. Oh, and fighting and winning a court battle when that leadership was challenged. HT @EmmanuelSPV for pic.

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

Really interesting project here. Definitely deserves more attention!

[Ettore Randazzo @RandazzoEttore]

New video is out! How does Biomaker CA work??
As usual, any feedback is appreciated. And what would you like to see next? Experiments? Hands-on tutorials? Both?

https://t.co/xieGVTLka6

[Antoine Beyeler @abey79]

#whiskers 0.1.0 released! 🎉

This is the final name of my new #rustlang interactive sketch environment for #plottertwitter #generativeart.

➡️ Live demo (download your own plottable SVGs): https://t.co/VSXeq2LkyU

➡️ Examples, GitHub ⭐️ and contributions: https://t.co/IxStS0e6I8

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

@jenniferdaniel The amount of blogspam using the buzzword "Emoji Kitchen" totally obscured this from my initial search 😂

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

1/ I recently discovered #Google's #EmojiKitchen. I'm kind of blown away by the number of combinations there are. I can't quite figure out how they pulled this off though

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

5/ Just found an article by @jenniferdaniel who worked on this!

https://t.co/MsXZLaWXyw

[Ray @raysan5]

Hey! Just updated my "tools to create tool" for raygui 4.0! Define your custom style with rGuiIcons 5.0, create beautiful icons with rGuiIcons 3.0 and define your tool layouts with rGuiLayout 4.0! Those are the tools I use to create tools! ALL them free and open-source! 😄

[Aakansha Doshi @aakansha1216]

We will be adding Mermaid support to Excalidraw soon!

In the meantime, you can help us make it more powerful by adding more diagram types ✨

Let's collaborate 🤝

https://t.co/akOQAHDv0Y

[algoritmic @algoritmic]

Agentscript: agent based modeling in the browser https://t.co/3Krr0iISxe

[John Christensen @JohnnyC1423]

Spent the night trying to find the highest resolution map of middle earth. I eventually stumbled on the one to rule them all.
This reddit user created an amazing rendition:
https://t.co/wfyI37ahTQ
I uploaded an easily zoom-able version:
https://t.co/w41Rs6KKlC
#lotr #maps

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Some Money Talk...

Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can generate a little extra income. It's 5% for six months so a meaningful amount...maybe $25,000.

The thing is, you can look at that and say, "Oh, why not just do that? Why not take all of the money the P4A has ever raised and, instead of donating it, you could earn 5% on it and then donate the 5% forever?"

This is what endowments are and that's how they work. If we did this (WHICH WE WOULD NOT (which i'll get into)) then there would be like $15M in that account and we'd be donating $750,000 per year...theoretically forever. That sounds amazing!

There are a lot of people who are very compelled by endowments like this, because the main nugget of money never goes away and is always throwing off more good into the world.

This misses something very important. It imagines that donations are one-time goods while capital throwing off money in an endowment is a forever good.

But that's not the reality. The reality is, when you donate money, the good that money does does not vanish the moment the money is spent, it continues to do good forever, you just can't see it anymore.

If you help a mother not die in childbirth, then that doesn't just do good that one time, it does good for her and her community and her children for the rest of her life...longer than the rest of her life! Her children will have the support of that person who otherwise would have died. They will continue to live healthier and better lives because they did not lose their mother as children. They will be better prepared to serve their own community and their own children. Those returns continue /forever/.

There is economic return on donations, they are just returns that you can't see as a number in your bank account. And those returns are MUCH BIGGER than 5% per year.

If you are a person with money and you have a charitable giving account and you can see that there is currently more money in that account than you have ever donated...I'm sorry but you are doing it wrong. The money needs to get out and do good now. There isn't some future time when it will be more capable of doing more good because it has grown.

It needs to get into the world. It can be doing so much good. And if you don't know what to do with it, just send us an email at [email protected]. We've got you.