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[New @newsystems_]

A new week begins, and with it a new cohort program.

Catalyst runs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the next two weeks.

Live-coding with PRISM Collective and a hands-on GPU kernels workshop. Tomato presents Will It Grow? on Saturday.

Open house Thursday and Friday.

Links below.

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/Zf1ncDUs0I

[New @newsystems_]

A new week begins, and with it a new cohort program.

Catalyst runs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the next two weeks.

Live-coding with PRISM Collective and a hands-on GPU kernels workshop. Tomato presents Will It Grow? on Saturday.

Open house Thursday and Friday.

Links below.

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/rM71fSjjJY

[New @newsystems_]

A clip from New Stadium in Toronto.

Jamie March (@jamesdavidmarch) shares the story of how, as an undergrad in the early 2000s when laptops were still uncommon in class, he started buying old Apple products on eBay during what he calls the sweet spot when Apple was a revered underdog.

He recounts using an Apple Newton MessagePad 120 to take handwritten notes and export them as .txt files, drawing puzzled looks from classmates, and reflects on what made the device feel special: the colour, the size, the portability in the pre-smartphone era when it lived permanently in his book bag.

"I've always loved the Newtons, I've always had a soft spot for them, and I've always appreciated the constraints of technology within their different timelines."

[New @newsystems_]

A behind-the-scenes working session with Tarun Sachdeva (@tarunsachdeva) for an upcoming film collaboration.

Tarun is the founder of Traces (@tracesdotcom), a platform for sharing the work you do with coding agents.

In this conversation with @internetvin, he walks through what a trace actually is, opening with a single session and pulling on it until the whole product unfolds: profiles, teams, the CLI, integrations, and the discover feed.

Timestamps

00:00:00 What is a Trace?
00:06:55 Categorization, Status & How the Summary is Built
00:08:30 The Trace as Atomic Unit
00:10:30 What Happens Between Linear and a Code Base
00:12:55 The Middle Made Visible
00:14:00 Andrew Nesbitt & Everyone is a Beginner
00:18:00 Project Baton: The CLI
00:22:40 Publish, Resume & Git for Agents
00:25:00 Single-Player vs Multiplayer
00:30:00 Integrations: GitHub, Hugging Face & Linear
00:33:50 Why Tarun Stopped Using an Issue Tracker
00:35:00 The Discover Tab
00:37:00 JC, Jake & Reading Other People's Traces

[New @newsystems_]

A behind-the-scenes working session with Peter Li (@pdr420).

Peter Li is a designer, artist, and founding partner of @56_digital.

In this conversation with @internetvin, he articulates his thoughts on magic, design, and the unseen thinking behind everything we make, opening with a mentalism trick.

The two work through this argument that Peter is making about how design, like mentalism, has always depended on a shared worldview to work, and what becomes of it now that pluralism has fragmented that worldview and AI has dissolved the constraints that used to force us to think.

00:00:00 Magic Trick and Mentalism
00:05:25 Why Mentalism Worked
00:12:02 Design as Pre-Cognition
00:18:12 Renaissance and Melancholia
00:23:35 Myth of the Objective
00:31:27 Objects and Narratives
00:39:46 The Iceberg of Design
00:55:51 Access Changes the Outcome
01:07:10 What Is Slop
01:16:03 What Will You Think About

[New @newsystems_]

Unboxing the Arena Frame in Toronto

[Are.na @AREdotNA]

Introducing Arena Frame, an open-source e-ink display for channels

Available fully assembled, for a limited time
Or as instructions for you to assemble yourself, forever

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/WQu1FQrtmH

[New @newsystems_]

New Stadium will be open on the following days during Toronto Tech Week.

Thank you for everything.

Links below.

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/XqiG2PB5XU

[New @newsystems_]

A clip from New Stadium in Toronto

@jamesdavidmarch recently hosted a workshop at New Stadium exploring the history of smell as a commodity to see how fragrance became a product.

The event format used a Proustian Questionnaire to map one's internal landscape and then expressed those insights into your own fragrance.

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/yofF7X2eu8

[New @newsystems_]

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." – Buckminster Fuller

A physical computing showcase, CD burning and custom-fragrance workshops, Toronto's Grad Showcase, the TEENBUILDERS meet-up, and fibre-arts.

Open house on Wednesday.

Links below.

Thank you for everything.

[New @newsystems_]

https://t.co/hgcnkhrXiL