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TODEPOND PONDCAST: Torn Pasta

The latest from planet Todepond.

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Jamming together

Updates from errorcamp, ICLC, and a new paper.

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Twirl

Peak district, Twirl, and ICLC!

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Dente

Wow I'm early this week! It's another update.Keynote planning — I am not dead yetNew tool — DentePondiverse updates

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Intensity

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Pondiverse

The pondiverse is here.

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Where the hell is the TODEPOND PONDCAST?

Here it is.Days since tode fell asleep: Too many.Days since bot went missing: Loads.Days since berd flew away: Sorry, I can't.

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Century

Welcome back to another—These updates have stopped being weekly, which is bad. I hereby declare bankruptcy on keeping up to date with my deadlines. To get back on track, I'm going to reduce the quality of these posts. I'm pretty sure this will let me get back to a weekly cadence.Welcome back to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new?Dialogues on natural codeI properly "launc...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Living patterns

Well then! It's time for another weekly— No, they're really not weekly, are they. They haven't been weekly for a while. It really is because of how busy I've been. First I was in Belgium, then I was in Berlin, then I was in Los Angeles, and last week... Last week I was at a wedding. So here we are with another non-weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I'm traditi...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Past

Welcome back to another non-weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I'm late again! I'm very late, so it's a three-in-one.WARNING. This is a triple length pondcast.This time it's because I was away in Los Angeles! Keep reading for more details...LIVEI was in Los Angeles for SPLASH, a big week-long academic conference about coding. It's a collection of many different ...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: The sky

Welcome back to another weekly-ish episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸It's another two parter because I missed last week because I was in Berlin for— I'll get to that.What's new these past two weeks?Deaths of the tadi webTalk seasoncontinues. In preparation for my keynote at Berlin Causal Islands, I gave a shorter, twenty minute version at London Futures of Codingtwo days be...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: What it means to be messy and open

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?BlurI've been working more on the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand, and I've been using heavy use of blur for a money shot in the intro."Money shot" can mean different things (apparently) but I'm using the meaning that means a shot of a film that's expensive to make, but ...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Good is not enough

Welcome, again, to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?LoginIn my continued explorations of radical simplicity, as part of the tadi web, I continue to make tiny little experiments, and I share them in my tadi lab.This week, I made a little experiment that got a little more attention than usual. It's called Login, and you can log in to it by typing in a username and a pass...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Boosh

Well well welcome back to the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?BooshI did a second livestream! Another one! Except this time, it was over double the length, hitting eight and a half hours.What I did was, was that I, I watched one episode of the Sandpond Saga, just one, and I did this repeatedly, to different episodes, until I had done it 38 times, until I had watched 38 differ...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Tease open

Welcome back. It's time for another weekly edition of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?OpenTalk preparations are underway. I've been developing the keynote I'm giving at Heart of Clojure. I've been working through what content would go into the talk, and I now have a loose string of stories and learning to connect up. Essentially, I don't want to share ...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Three and a half weeks

Welcome back... to another weekly episode... of the🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?We got accepted!We got accepted. Dave Ackleyand I got accepted for Onward! Essays!, which will take place at SPLASHlater this year. We're both really pleased!The next step is to come up with, and plan, our accompanying talk for the event itself. And that's what we've started doing thi...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: With friends

It's here again. It's time for another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸I've been way too busy.Ok so I wrote this pondcast ages ago, and then I got very ill, so this is very very late. Sorry about that.What's new this week?I finally wrote my (first) write up of Arroost. I've done variousartisticpresentationsof Arroost before, but this is the first time I'v...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Reaction reaction

Oh my god. It's time for—It's been a weird week. Thank god it's the—🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?Reaction reactionI did a livestream a week ago. Its premise was simple. I would react to—Ok, a long time ago, I released a video called Spellular Automata. And recently, a tech influencer called Theomade a reaction videoabout it. So I decided to make a reaction ...

TODEPOND LIVESTREAM: REACTION REACTION

No update this week, because I did thisinstead, whatever thisis.And hello to all the new supporters. LOADS of you joined this week. Welcome.

TODEPOND PONDCAST: This is not a fish

Hullo. Welcome back to another weekly edition of the ...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?This is not a fishIn the future of codingworld, I released a new video! It's called This Is Not A Fishand it's a video adaptation of a recent episode. Check it out here.And a new future of coding episodegot released too. It's about the infamous pygmillionpaper. And you can listen...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: This is a shepherd

Welcome back welcome back! To another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?ShepherdingMe and Dave Ackleyhad a call with each other, discussing how to proceed with our submission to Onward. We were conditionally accepted, and we need to make changes to get fully accepted. And of course, we both want to do that. It's actually nice to get a chance to make so...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Stitch

Hello, it's me. And this is yet another weekly episode of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?StitchThis week, I’ve been working on the first exhibition for Torn Leaf, my silly online gallery. The submissions have been truly wonderful. There’s a nice mix now, but there’s still room for some last minute entries. Submit now, or later, if you want to get involved.My jo...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Todepond

Hi hi hi. Welcome back... to yet another weekly episode... of the...🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What's new this week?TodepondI've been working on my write-up for Seet, a short-lived project that I worked on as part of my Ink & Switchresidency. The funny thing with the write-up is that I'm trying to make it good— I mean, I want it to be well thought-out. I want it to have a certain lev...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Confession

Welcome back again. Again it’s time… for another weekly episode… of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?ConfessionI recorded some more voice over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. Who knows if it’ll be used as “concept art” or end up in the real thing. I recorded a few takes and then placed them on top of each other, so that I can listen to all threeat t...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Out of time

Well hello again. It’s time for another weekly episode / edition of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Out of timeThis week, I recorded some voice-over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I’ve been exploring how to timeit.As you might imagine, there’s a lot of repetition in the video. I repeatedly announce the names of various different types of sands. 99 S...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Elephant in the room + Step by step

Welcome back nerds. It’s time for another weekly edition of the…… oh no … something isn’t right. This pondcast is a week late. I missed one!No, that’s ok. I’ll just do… two pondcasts in one week. That’s fine. So here they are. I present to you… two pondcasts, one after the other. This first one is one I wrote down a week ago. It’s another weekly edition of the…🐸 TODEPOND...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Torn leaf zero

We return… to another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Torn leaf zeroThis week, I made a videoto announce my- wait I should fill you in first-I’ve been creating an ‘experimental online gallery’ called torn leaf. It’s currently (and always) accepting submissions for its next exhibition.To promote the gallery, I made a videoannouncing its first exhi...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Natural code

Hello hello welcome back everyone. It’s time for the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Natural codeWork continues on the essay that I’m writing with Dave Ackley! We’ve been having many more chats and recorded ‘dialogues’. It’s about the idea of natural code.Basically… um… and this might sound a bit odd… but it’s this idea that we can see all communication as a...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Why we are coders

And so we return. For another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Why we are codersI’ve been working with Dave Ackley. We’ve been trying to put together an essay to submit to splash, where I talked last year.Specifically, we’re hoping to submit to onward essays, with an unusual essay about language and code. It’s in the form of a dialog between me and ...

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Don't do maths

Ello. Welcome back to another weekly episode of the…🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸What’s new this week?Bot went missingThis week, Flora Caulton made some concept art for an animation she’s making for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I love it.If you didn’t notice, I like to ‘connect’ consecutive videos together in some sort of way, so that there’s at least a semblence of co...