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Ben Fry
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Ben Fry
@ben_fry
Founder @FathomInfo, co-founder processing.org, lecturer @MIT
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- I have made the extremely difficult decision to resign from the Processing Foundation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and have not slept well for months.
- The very first release of Processing (revision 0001) was created exactly 20 years ago today. 🎂 Today we're launching 4.0 beta 1, the 277th release: github.com/processing/pro… In the coming days, we'll also have a new site, a new PDE design, and Community Day events! #processing4
- Finishing a celebratory week, today was my final round of immunotherapy, concluding 3½ years of cancer treatment Friends helped a lot & my bride deserves far more than a just-bought pair of earrings Here's to one more thing that's hopefully less…interesting the next few years
- 🚨 🚀 A new Processing release! 🎁 🚢 Here's 4.0 alpha 4, with lots of stability fixes and improvements: github.com/processing/pro… Recommended for most users (even though it's an alpha), especially those on macOS. Have fun!
- Every cover of The New Yorker, from 1925 to 2018. The horizontal line/artifact comes from the way that they re-run their first cover (and more recently, a variant of it) each year on their anniversary. Much better up close: nfry.be/newyorker/thir…
- A business card sized CD with an alpha release of Processing from 2002… I think this might be exactly 20 years old today/this week.
- What does Wikipedia look like? We've built an interactive map for exploring its topography: laniakea.fathom.info
GIF - Just posted a second alpha release of Processing 4. 🤖 Would have been out a month ago but 1) Apple's ever-changing rules for signing and notarization are… something, and 2) we're in the midst of a pandemic. But uh, enjoy! 🥳
- Been porting parts of Processing to Swift so I can make native things for watchOS and iOS… Just got these watch faces from Paul up and running 😍 (it's two dozen faces, cycling every couple seconds for debugging purposes)
00:00 - “Inexperienced” creators bring talents from domains where they *are* experienced, which is how interesting things happen & progress is made.
- Processing 4 beta 4 has arrived 🤖 🪟 Scaling problems on Windows are resolved! 💻 Crazy fast Apple Silicon release (no OpenGL yet!) 🥧 Raspberry Pi is back (32- and 64-bit) 👾 Fixes for a few OpenGL regressions in beta 3 🎨 And even… a few new icons github.com/processing/pro…
- We just finished a tool for exploring the Facebook ads purchased by Russia to influence the 2016 election. It shows how they effectively played multiple sides of inflammatory issues, using identical terms in opposite ways to stoke anger and mistrust:
