e489 — Networking Rocks!

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Published 11 November 2024

e489 with Andy, Michael & Michael — creative music, Star Wars inspired album art, stop motion LEGO video, augmented reality “tracing” and a whole lot more! Rock on!

Andy, Michael and Michael start off the show with a CURL Jam YouTube video. The creators used Suno to put the command line tool to music, with metaltastic results.

Then, the team switches to DOS games, courtesy of DOS.Zone. Here, you can launch Oregon Trail Deluxe, Sim City and dozens of other games. Games of chance have been around even longer than DOS (shocker, we know!) and Andy shares a Mastodon post about ancient polyhedral dice.

While it is easy to engage the Games at Work cohosts on LEGO, it was the stop motion animation in the LEGO Instagram post on the new Endurance set that got everyone really excited. Check out the embedded post in the show notes below to check out the creativity of this video.

Next up, architecture, avatars and album art. After reviewing some remarkable home designs, the team takes a look at Universal Relightable morphing avatars. Then the team checks out several Star Wars inspired remakes of classic album art. So creative!

The creativity continues with the Da Vinci Eye application providing an AR version of tracing. Michael R wraps up the show with an expansive addition to the Vision Pro 2.2 beta, providing new wide and ultra wide visualizations.

What theme would you want to use to reimagine album art? Should the team use GenAI to make a country & western (both kinds of music) version of the CURL instructions? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @[e-mail] (our home for now) and let us know!

These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot. All rights reserved. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

Selected Links

Networking Rocks

Suno

Hackaday article: Floss Weekly Episode 808: CURL – Gotta Download ‘Em All

Github curl

Games at Work e460: AskEmilyPost: AI etiquette

Games

Playing some cozy original Sim City for DOS tonight. It's free here:

https://dos.zone/sim-city-1989/

— Jesse Skinner (@[e-mail])
2024-11-08T03:33:07.972Z

DOS Zone

Lynx Browser

Oregon Trail Deluxe on DOS Zone

Sim City on DOS Zone

The Verge article: Civilization 7 launches in February

Video Games on SI.com article: Civilization 7 is the gaming poster child for Apple’s new iMac

Gizmodo article: Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Will Hit Gamers Hard

Dice go way back. Some of these appear to meet today’s standards for precision and fairness (all dice should have opposite sides add up to 1+sides. The d6’s sides add to 7). The Greek stone d20 may be 2200 years old.

Learn more #DnD

— Adam Katz :donor: (@[e-mail])
2024-11-05T20:53:48.937Z

Libris Arcana article: A Brief History of Polyhedral Dice

LEGO

Officially revealed #Lego Icons 10335 The Endurance (269.99€)
29 november

— BiSSi (@[e-mail])
2024-11-07T16:14:41.763Z

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by LEGO (@lego)

LEGO The Endurance

Design

The Times article: The real grand designs: the 13 best modern homes in the world

Wikipedia article: Home (2020 TV Series)

URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars

Pleated Jeans article: Artist Reimagines Iconic Album Covers With Star Wars Characters (45 Pics)

Apple

Six Colors article: M4 Mac mini Review: Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty form factor

Da Vinci Eye apps for artists

Boy Genius Report article: One new Apple Vision Pro feature can finally unlock its true potential

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine