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+ Zola
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/atom.xml
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+ Fixing Equinox
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/fixing-equinox/
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+ <p>Blog Text</p>
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+ How I would run a Nail Salon
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/how-i-would-run-a-nail-salon/
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+ <p>Blog Text</p>
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+ Nutrition Pinterest Aesthetics
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/nutrition-pinterest-aesthetics/
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+ <p>Blog Text</p>
+<p>testing deplpyment</p>
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+ January Gains
+ 2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/january-gains/
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+ <p>While it may be a little on-the-nose to start a personal accountability blog series in a January, it just so happened that I got extraordinarily motivated this recent December 2023 by my little brother. </p>
+<ul>
+<li>3.3 lbs muscle </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>7.5 lbs fat </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>left smith machine in the past </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>went from DB bench press to short bar </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>ate 60-90g protein / day </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>settled on a gym uniform that feels cute</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h4 id="february-goals">February Goals</h4>
+<ul>
+<li>continue recomp progress</li>
+<li>bench the 35 long bar</li>
+<li>improve VO2 max via kettlebell swings after each training session</li>
+<li>eat 80-135g protein / day</li>
+<li>spend less money on vegan protein shakes from the grocery store and try some protein powders for homemade protein shakes</li>
+</ul>
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+ Feeling Like a Space
+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/feeling-like-a-space/
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+ <h3 id="hf-and-what-feeling-like-a-space-is-like">hf and what feeling like a space is like</h3>
+<p>The 2015 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/20/3/241/4067543">Homuncular Flexibility</a> paper recently resurfaced from a <a href="https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1590386231707406345">trending post</a> on Twitter. I'd like to think that tweeting out the words HOLY SHIT and a link to a paper about something like, I don't know, <a href="https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/17066439/7ae33aaff0f3aef21bdcd9ff7b424d8a.pdf?1656706134">deep image reconsctruction from fMRI imaging of brain activity</a> would have a similarly mass-exciting result, but I digress. The discussion around the human ability to learn how to control and sense bodies very different from their own prompted me to think about the way in which we have learned to embody digital spaces, which are of course very different from physical spaces.</p>
+<p>Websites and screen-based interfaces produce the sensation</p>
+<p>the 3D metaverse is still in its relatively early stages, </p>
+<h3 id="else">else</h3>
+<p>tools are interpreted by the brain as an extension of the human body.
+haptic feedback, color schemes, </p>
+<h3 id="work-arounds-affordances">work-arounds, affordances</h3>
+<p>Self regulation via peripheral attention management. </p>
+<p>I'm sure you've seen this recent video trend you're shown footage of eye catching gaming footage with an unrelated story is</p>
+<p>Once I heard a "focus hack" where you put a makeup pallette on your workdesk and allow yourself to rest your gaze on it instead of reaching for your phone and getting sucked into an endless-scrolling distraction trap.</p>
+<h3 id="feeling-like-a-language-feeling-like-an-era">feeling like a language, feeling like an era</h3>
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/everything-is-boring/
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+ <div class="video-container">
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n94J-9YxZPc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
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+ Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
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+
+ <p>My friend Priya made a blog post called "Should I go to a coding bootcamp or self-study", which inspired me to share my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.</p>
+<h2 id="my-experience-to-expose-what-i-am-biased-towards">My experience – to expose what I am biased towards</h2>
+<p>I originally decided that I'd like to learn programming around 2012, when I wanted to make a Russian-language online platform similar to <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/rookiemag.com">Rookie Mag</a>. I didn't understand that one could get away with finding a sort of suitable wordpress theme, and once I did, I felt so passionately about my ideal project that I figured I'd need to pay a programmer to make the exact theme that I'd envisioned for the platform. I was also inspired by this weird Russian listicle website called <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/w-o-s.ru">W-O-S</a>, I loved how each article had some different animations and floating elements, and I especially loved the interactive quizzes.</p>
+<p>I mention my inspiration for learning how to code as I think inspiration is imperative to take account of when deciding on the direction you will take it into the material world. My interest was in a counterculture of both Russian and American origins, and online media. So in 2015, I attended a mini course at the Moscow Coding School.</p>
+<p>Well, first I took some introductory programming classes at Santa Monica College. At the time, the main prerequisite to any programming class was an introduction to computing as a whole. My homework assignment was to draw something in MS Paint. I hope this story can illuminate the reasons I recieved F (for failed) grades in my first year at SMC.</p>
+<p>At Moscow Coding School, I learned introductory HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL. </p>
+<h2 id="bootcamp">Bootcamp</h2>
+<h2 id="self-study">Self Study</h2>
+<h2 id="recurse-center-application">Recurse Center Application</h2>
+<p>I have pubilished <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/rc/blob/master/application/application-2022.md">my own application to rc on my github</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="recurse-center">Recurse Center</h2>
+<h2 id="self-doubt-and-imposter-syndrome">Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome</h2>
+<h2 id="employment">Employment</h2>
+<h2 id="goals-and-outcomes">Goals and Outcomes</h2>
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+ The Sunshine Act
+ 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="why-2022">Why 2022?</h2>
+<p>This is something I made so I could graduate from UCLA lol.</p>
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+ Store Bought Glow
+ 2022-08-14T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-14T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p>In progress...</p>
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+ Visiting Apex Electronics Surplus
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="so-much-stuff">So much stuff!</h2>
+<p>It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/savefrys.com/">savefrys.com</a>, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.</p>
+<h2 id="the-thoughts">The Thoughts</h2>
+<p>Reminded me of Claire L. Evans' blog post <a href="https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/12291851">Does Future Fact Depend on Present Fiction</a></p>
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+ How to Make Telegram Stickers
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="week-1">Week 1</h2>
+<p>The first </p>
+<h4 id="blockquote-with-attribution">Blockquote with attribution</h4>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.</p> —
+<cite>Rob Pike<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></cite></p>
+</blockquote>
+<h2 id="images">Images</h2>
+<p><img src="../assets/test.png" alt="Image Backgorund" />
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/telegram-sticker-tutorial/" alt="Another Media" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://plchldr.co/i/1280x720?bg=2ecc40" alt="Media CDN" /></p>
+<p>{% hint style="warning" %} 123 {% endhint %}</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>The above quote is excerpted from Rob Pike's
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c">talk</a> during Gopherfest,
+November 18, 2015.</p>
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+ Recurse Center Report: Half Batch
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p>This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.</p>
+<p>Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="weekly-reports">Weekly Reports</h2>
+<p>At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.</p>
+<h3 id="week-1">Week 1</h3>
+<p>I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>work on <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/">sunshine act</a> pen and paper RPG game</li>
+<li>write short bios of everyone so i could remember peoples names and personalities</li>
+<li>experimented with check-in formatting</li>
+<li>make a <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/recurse-center-2022">master channel on are.na</a> for all my RC batch related research</li>
+<li>attend a pairing workshop</li>
+<li>made ~1 new friend.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-2">Week 2</h3>
+<p>I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much</li>
+<li>started learning <code>Go</code> for my TUI game, ascii tarot</li>
+<li>got sidetracked from learning <code>Go</code> with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing</li>
+<li>attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in <code>p5.js</code></li>
+<li>had a coffee chat with a career center staff member</li>
+<li>presented</li>
+<li>made ~6 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-3">Week 3</h3>
+<p>Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>learned about <code>SQL</code></li>
+<li>started working with <code>Zola</code> and the karzok theme, <code>npm</code> became the bane of my existence</li>
+<li>met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work</li>
+<li>attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it</li>
+<li>attended the "feelings check-in"</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-4">Week 4</h3>
+<p>Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.</p>
+<p>Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>started attending weekly intentions and reflections</li>
+<li>presented during career panel</li>
+<li>replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot</li>
+<li>shipped my personal website</li>
+<li>paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.</li>
+<li>got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team</li>
+<li>had a meeting with the career center</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-5">Week 5</h3>
+<p>This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.</p>
+<p>I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>paired a bit</li>
+<li>made progress on my website</li>
+<li>went to the gym a lot</li>
+<li>did some leetcode problems</li>
+<li>strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-6">Week 6</h3>
+<p>There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>completed niceties</li>
+<li>made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian</li>
+<li>began tinkering in hardware discussion groups</li>
+<li>quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo</li>
+<li>finally a successful creative coding project</li>
+<li>wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h2>
+<p>In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.</p>
+<p>Concrete accomplishments, however:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Gave two talks</li>
+<li>Got a lot better at git</li>
+<li>Mastered templating in Obsidian</li>
+<li>Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows</li>
+<li>Shipped a static website</li>
+<li>Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">website</a>.</p>
+</div>
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+ Creative Coding at RC
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+ <h2 id="introduction-credits">Introduction & Credits</h2>
+<p>Welcome to the guide for the Creative Coding Meetup at the Virtual Recurse Center.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<p>The meetup was started by <a href="http://rfong.github.io/">Ray Fong</a>, then led by <a href="https://github.com/aturley">Andrew Joseph Turley</a>, who passed the torch to <a href="https://github.com/Plasma-Vortex">Howard Halim</a>, who finally passed it to me.</p>
+<p>However, the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224779-creative-coding">creative-coding</a> Zulip stream has messages going all the way back to February 20, with the first one from <a href="https://solsarratea.world/">Sol Sarratea</a>. We now coordinate in another stream, <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Meetup</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-happens-at-creative-coding">What happens at Creative Coding?</h2>
+<p>Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun.
+Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html">Oblique Strategies</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/jacob4/full/EVqeWM">Random Shakespeare Quote Generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://perchance.org/emoji">perchance Random Emoji Generator</a> (set amount to 3, check "unique?" box)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.</p>
+<p>Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!</p>
+<p>Here are some common choices:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://editor.p5js.org/">editor.p5js.org</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/">codepen.io</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/">shadertoy.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://glitch.com/">glitch.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://arcade.makecode.com/">arcade.makecode.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Coordinate in the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Zulip topic</a>.
+Showing off your work is encouraged!</p>
+<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
+<p>I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/creative-coding-for-all">Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all.</a> Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="misc-inspiration">Misc Inspiration</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://paytonturnage.com/writing/generating-art-with-haskell/">Generative Art with Haskell</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome">Chrome Experiments</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="css-resources">CSS Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://colorffy.com/text-gradient-generator">CSS text gradient generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://shadows.brumm.af/">CSS box shadow generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://9elements.github.io/fancy-border-radius/">9elements – Fancy border radius generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Haikei – SVG generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Mesh Gradients by CSS Hero</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://min-max-calculator.9elements.com/">9elements – Fluid Typography without media queries via min-max value</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://ui.glass/generator/">Glassmorphism generator</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="ml-art-resources">ML Art Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Kadenze <a href="https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-deep-learning-with-tensorflow/info">Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow</a> class</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="some-ucla-design-media-class-websites-with-their-own-resource-reference-collections">Some UCLA Design | Media Class Websites with their own resource / reference collections</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://pkmital.com/home/2021/09/01/ucla-course-on-cultural-appropriation-with-machine-learning/">Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/172/?page_id=101">Interactive Animation in Unity3D</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lmccart.github.io/DMA171-disability-design-web/#resources">Disability, Design, and the Web</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/289-2/">50 Years of Software Artists: Plotter Drawings to Non-fungible Tokens</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/152/resources">Tangible Media</a> – intro to working creatively with electronics.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter21/28/">Interactivity</a> – intro Processing class taught by Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall19/161/#resources">Network Media</a> – html+css+js+p5.js taught by Lauren McCarthy, creator of p5.js.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I recommend checking out the <a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/?cTerm=Winter&cYear=2021">past versions of core DMA classes</a>, as each one has its own website with varying resource lists.
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="history-context-of-media-art-generative-art-creative-coding">History, Context of Media Art, Generative Art, Creative Coding</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/ucla-dma101-design-media-arts">My Are.na class materials archive from the Media Art 101 class</a></li>
+<li>"When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art", by Grant D. Taylor</li>
+<li>"Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation" by John Maeda</li>
+<li>"Generative Design" by Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="misc-creative-coders-and-their-work">misc creative coders and their work</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r">Vera Molnár</a></li>
+<li>Harold Cohen's AARON</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161103091706/http://silverbuffalo.org/NAA-NativeIT.html">Silver Buffalo on Native American IT</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://blacktransarchive.com/">The Black Trans Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020323214647/http://neutralground.sk.ca/artistprojects/spiderlanguage/index.html">Spider Language</a> – a First Nations contemporary art web</li>
+<li><a href="https://super-sad-googles.glitch.me/">super sad googles</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://facework.app/">facework.app</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/">Never Alone on Steam</a> inspired by Donna Haraway's <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble">Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.damonzucconi.com/">Damon Zucconi</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lynnandtonic.com/">Lynn Fisher</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://a-website-is-a-room.net/">a website is a room</a> archive of websites exploring the browser as a space</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/#vitrine:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/vitrine/archive/">Werkplaatz Typographie Vitrine Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://x20xx.com/">x20xx.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="want-to-contribute-to-this-guide">Want to contribute to this guide?</h2>
+<p>Submit <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in/blob/main/content/know/2022-08-04-rc-creative-coding.md">a pull request in the github repo</a> for this blog.</p>
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+ Education Index
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/edu/cation-index/
+
+ <p>I believe one's education is worth much more when it is shared with the world. My academic experience has been somewhat idiosynchratic, so I thought to put together a dedicated blog section detailing some of the more remarkable elements of this personal history.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="table-of-contents">Table of Contents</h2>
+<p>The first </p>
+<h2 id="childhood-education">Childhood Education</h2>
+<p>Section <strong>in progress</strong>.</p>
+<p>I remember attending:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>a preschool</li>
+<li>a kindergarten somewhere on the east coast</li>
+<li>first grade somewhere in San Francisco</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="theodore-judah-elementary-school">Theodore Judah Elementary School</h3>
+<p>I attended this school from (year) to (year). I was placed in a <a href="https://www.theodorejudahelementary.org/post/gate">GATE cluster</a> in second grade, meaning that I was in a group with some third graders, as well as other GATE identified second graders.</p>
+<h3 id="classical-gymnasium-at-the-greek-latin-office-of-yu-a-sichalina">Classical Gymnasium at the Greek-Latin Office of Yu.A. Sichalina</h3>
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+ just some things i love
+ 2022-07-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/love/
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+ <h2 id="playlists-i-ve-made">Playlists I've Made</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xS8F4L36SrQ5wRcI5t9hy?si=fa24cb282f9c42b6">Good Morning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ag9zNJVBjeE5QlmGrzzkt?si=7087b970ecb842ac">5K Training</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RhwrKubXoddHzYoeMEq8N">songs i love so much i’d like them to play at my wake</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="misc">Misc</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B_9VvWcOdduy1uCITMy5h2AOW5gH-_oM?usp=sharing">Recipes I've reformatted and saved to my Google Drive</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="games-i-think-are-cool">Games I think are cool</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://bezier.method.ac/">The Bézier Game</a> by Mark MacKay</li>
+<li><a href="https://cantunsee.space/">Can't Unsee</a> by Alex Kotliarskyi and Keyan Zhang</li>
+<li><a href="https://motovskikh.ru/en/world/">World Map Memory Test</a> by Leon Motovskikh</li>
+</ul>
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+ Hello World: Welcome to Asya's blog
+ 2022-07-11T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/hello-world/
+
+ <p>Hello, and welcome to my website, specifically my blog.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="what-s-going-on-with-the-whole-do-you-know-love-thing">What's going on with the whole "do you know love" thing?</h2>
+<p>So, when I was first learning programming, I made a <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/process">game</a> in Processing. I wanted to make a peculiar online psychology quiz, so one of the questions was "Do you know love?" with the only answer being an hard-to-click "YES". I was inspired by Lacan's contention that jouissance is a phenomenon unknowable to humans, but as I needed some sort of "click" interaction to trigger the next question screen, I asked the question not about jouissance, but rather something more people are familiar with: love.</p>
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/process-love-level.png" alt="Level Image" width="300">
+<p>Shortly thereafter, I put the graphic from that quiz on the splash page of my old website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://xnast.asia/">xnast.asia</a>. You could only enter the website if you successfully clicked "YES". This was back in 2016. In 2022, I decided to make the website that you are currently on. I knew I wanted to have four different sections:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ol>
+<li>info / about me</li>
+<li>portfolio / work case studies</li>
+<li>blog</li>
+<li>page of things that i love</li>
+</ol>
+</blockquote>
+<p>I had an epiphany while gathering the inspiration and ideas for the design and development of <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/">asyaplugged.in</a> that I could articulate the menu of my new website with the splash page title of my previous website, just like so:</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th>nav</th><th>question</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td>portfolio</td><td>do</td></tr>
+<tr><td>about</td><td>you</td></tr>
+<tr><td>blog</td><td>know</td></tr>
+<tr><td>things i love</td><td>love</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
+<p>I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about this articulation, whether it was confusing for you, etc.</p>
+<h2 id="what-does-asyapluggedin-mean-what-happened-to-xnastasia">What does asyapluggedin mean? What happened to xnastasia?</h2>
+<p>Someday I will write a separate post about the permutations of my identity / avatar / sense of self, but until then, this brief explanation will have to suffice.</p>
+<p>I felt that the <em>xnast.asia</em> url and <em>xnastasia</em> username was too hard to pronounce, and had a little bit of a pornographic vibe. Every time people typed "x...n...a...s...t..." into a search bar, I would never be the first thing to auto-populate the field. I've still held onto the url and most of the usernames, but once I came up with <em>asyapluggedin</em> I was so happy to swap all my online pointers to that.</p>
+<p>My father has had the username mattpluggedin for the longest time, and so the "plugged in" username always made me feel nostalgic for the whole early internet / dotcom boom era, which plays a significant role in a lot my work. But I never thought to inherit the username before I came across the sci-fi book "The Girl That Was Plugged In"<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>, which also is the title of an episode of sci-fi TV series "Welcome to Paradox".</p>
+<h2 id="do-you-have-an-rss-feed-can-i-tell-you-if-something-is-broken-or-typoed">Do you have an RSS feed? Can I tell you if something is broken or typoed?</h2>
+<p>Yes and yes. You can access the RSS feed for my blog via <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml">asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml</a>.</p>
+<p>I would also be very happy to hear any feedback on my blog or really, any aspect of the entire website. You can make a pull request on <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in">github</a>, where my website is hosted, or just send me a message on whichever platform you prefer.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>I learned about this book from Dr. Teddy Pozo's UCLA Game Lab Teledildonics lecture from Spring 2021.</p>
+</div>
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+ gestalt.sh/ift
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+ 2022-06-03T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p><img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/gestalt.png" alt="Screenshot of gestalt.sh webpage" /></p>
+<p>The 2021 UCLA Design | Media Arts Senior Exhibition took place online, at a website collaboratively designed & developed by the graduating class.</p>
+<h2 id="design-leadership-roles">Design & Leadership Roles</h2>
+<p>My role in this project adapted over the course of the academic quarter. I originally self-selected into a development role, but ended up contributing mostly in design and project management.</p>
+<p>For context: traditionally, the graduating class is divided into three sections, each one led by a separate professor who assists the students in developing their senior thesis as well and helps produce the exhibition. In 2021, we did not have access to the physical EDA gallery space at UCLA nor classrooms to meet in. The meetings took place on Discord, a platform to which many were still only getting used to.</p>
+<p>I took initiative to ensure that all the exhibition subcommittee members regularly met for discussions, and to facilitate reasonable production deadlines.</p>
+<h2 id="design-process">Design Process</h2>
+<p>For a class full of graduating students fatigued from remote instruction, designing the exhibition website around a visual riff on the Zoom screen was a decision made from a place of catharsis.</p>
+<h2 id="production-process">Production Process</h2>
+<p>See the collaborative <a href="https://www.figma.com/file/gxxEelPY5ETKjiybAK4okM/gestalt.sh-web-design?node-id=290%3A70">Figma file here</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="development">Development</h2>
+<p>The website (possibly still available at <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/gestalt-shift/gestalt.sh/ift">gestalt.sh</a> ) was developed using Wordpress and a custom Twig theme by <a href="https://chandlermcwilliams.com/">Chandler McWilliams</a> and Wiley Wiggins. I was not directly involved in the development process due to time constraints, but I was able to deploy some last-minute front-end changes via a pull request.</p>
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+ Type Tap Go
+ 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="quack">Quack!</h2>
+<p>Type Tap Go is a mobile game made to teach people how to type efficiently on the phone, and compete with friends.</p>
+<p>I came up with the idea in the summer of 2020 during the first Covid-19 lockdowns with Benjamin Bascom.</p>
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+ ASCII Tarot
+ 2019-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p><img src="/do/deck.png" alt="Deck of cards with blue ascii art design shrink-wrapped in plastic" /></p>
+<p>Three years after I was first introduced to the Tarot, I designed a <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/42369763/ASCII-TAROT?locale=en_US">Tarot deck</a> myself (and was able to finish it within a month thanks to the motivation to submit it as part of my 2016 UCLA Media Arts application). While I initially learned the Tarot using physical cards and used them to structure conversations with my friends about challenging decisions we had to make, I spent a majority of my time consulting the cards in a digital format. My first deck was the <a href="https://www.theenchantedworld.net/enchanted-tarot">Enchanted Tarot</a> by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, which not only had beautiful custom art riffing on the Rider-Waithe deck, a book of explications, but also an <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/enchanted-tarot/id674639952">iOS app</a>, which I used very frequently. It is said that if one carries their Tarot deck with them, the cards will hold the energy of their owner's experiences and provide more relevant insights. I became intrigued by how this principle could be manifesting technologically, so I decided to pare down the digital Tarot to it's most simple, bare, form.</p>
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/deepdenial/
+
+ <p>DeepDenial was a one-day speculative political activism deepfake workshop I was invited to teach at the Hackers and Designers Summer Academy <em>(a program run out of the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam)</em>.</p>
+<p>The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.</p>
+<p>In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the <em>DeepDenial</em> workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda. </p>
+<p>By taking a hands-on approach to learn how to process video data for machine learning programs, attendees armed themselves with improved digital literacy and developed a keen sense for discerning tell-tale signs of AI-processed content.</p>
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+ a living breathing
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/a-living-breathing/
+
+ <p>o</p>
+
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+ Affection Realities
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/affection-realities/
+
+ <p>image go here</p>
+
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+ Meditation Game
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/meditation-game/
+
+ <p>image go here</p>
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+ Zola
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/category/blog/atom.xml
+
+ Fixing Equinox
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/fixing-equinox/
+
+ <p>Blog Text</p>
+
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+ How I would run a Nail Salon
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/how-i-would-run-a-nail-salon/
+
+ <p>Blog Text</p>
+
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+ Nutrition Pinterest Aesthetics
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/nutrition-pinterest-aesthetics/
+
+ <p>Blog Text</p>
+<p>testing deplpyment</p>
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+ January Gains
+ 2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/january-gains/
+
+ <p>While it may be a little on-the-nose to start a personal accountability blog series in a January, it just so happened that I got extraordinarily motivated this recent December 2023 by my little brother. </p>
+<ul>
+<li>3.3 lbs muscle </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>7.5 lbs fat </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>left smith machine in the past </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>went from DB bench press to short bar </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>ate 60-90g protein / day </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>settled on a gym uniform that feels cute</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h4 id="february-goals">February Goals</h4>
+<ul>
+<li>continue recomp progress</li>
+<li>bench the 35 long bar</li>
+<li>improve VO2 max via kettlebell swings after each training session</li>
+<li>eat 80-135g protein / day</li>
+<li>spend less money on vegan protein shakes from the grocery store and try some protein powders for homemade protein shakes</li>
+</ul>
+
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+
+
+ Feeling Like a Space
+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/feeling-like-a-space/
+
+ <h3 id="hf-and-what-feeling-like-a-space-is-like">hf and what feeling like a space is like</h3>
+<p>The 2015 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/20/3/241/4067543">Homuncular Flexibility</a> paper recently resurfaced from a <a href="https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1590386231707406345">trending post</a> on Twitter. I'd like to think that tweeting out the words HOLY SHIT and a link to a paper about something like, I don't know, <a href="https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/17066439/7ae33aaff0f3aef21bdcd9ff7b424d8a.pdf?1656706134">deep image reconsctruction from fMRI imaging of brain activity</a> would have a similarly mass-exciting result, but I digress. The discussion around the human ability to learn how to control and sense bodies very different from their own prompted me to think about the way in which we have learned to embody digital spaces, which are of course very different from physical spaces.</p>
+<p>Websites and screen-based interfaces produce the sensation</p>
+<p>the 3D metaverse is still in its relatively early stages, </p>
+<h3 id="else">else</h3>
+<p>tools are interpreted by the brain as an extension of the human body.
+haptic feedback, color schemes, </p>
+<h3 id="work-arounds-affordances">work-arounds, affordances</h3>
+<p>Self regulation via peripheral attention management. </p>
+<p>I'm sure you've seen this recent video trend you're shown footage of eye catching gaming footage with an unrelated story is</p>
+<p>Once I heard a "focus hack" where you put a makeup pallette on your workdesk and allow yourself to rest your gaze on it instead of reaching for your phone and getting sucked into an endless-scrolling distraction trap.</p>
+<h3 id="feeling-like-a-language-feeling-like-an-era">feeling like a language, feeling like an era</h3>
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/everything-is-boring/
+
+ <div class="video-container">
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n94J-9YxZPc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
+
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+
+ Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/
+
+ <p>My friend Priya made a blog post called "Should I go to a coding bootcamp or self-study", which inspired me to share my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.</p>
+<h2 id="my-experience-to-expose-what-i-am-biased-towards">My experience – to expose what I am biased towards</h2>
+<p>I originally decided that I'd like to learn programming around 2012, when I wanted to make a Russian-language online platform similar to <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/rookiemag.com">Rookie Mag</a>. I didn't understand that one could get away with finding a sort of suitable wordpress theme, and once I did, I felt so passionately about my ideal project that I figured I'd need to pay a programmer to make the exact theme that I'd envisioned for the platform. I was also inspired by this weird Russian listicle website called <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/w-o-s.ru">W-O-S</a>, I loved how each article had some different animations and floating elements, and I especially loved the interactive quizzes.</p>
+<p>I mention my inspiration for learning how to code as I think inspiration is imperative to take account of when deciding on the direction you will take it into the material world. My interest was in a counterculture of both Russian and American origins, and online media. So in 2015, I attended a mini course at the Moscow Coding School.</p>
+<p>Well, first I took some introductory programming classes at Santa Monica College. At the time, the main prerequisite to any programming class was an introduction to computing as a whole. My homework assignment was to draw something in MS Paint. I hope this story can illuminate the reasons I recieved F (for failed) grades in my first year at SMC.</p>
+<p>At Moscow Coding School, I learned introductory HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL. </p>
+<h2 id="bootcamp">Bootcamp</h2>
+<h2 id="self-study">Self Study</h2>
+<h2 id="recurse-center-application">Recurse Center Application</h2>
+<p>I have pubilished <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/rc/blob/master/application/application-2022.md">my own application to rc on my github</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="recurse-center">Recurse Center</h2>
+<h2 id="self-doubt-and-imposter-syndrome">Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome</h2>
+<h2 id="employment">Employment</h2>
+<h2 id="goals-and-outcomes">Goals and Outcomes</h2>
+
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+ Visiting Apex Electronics Surplus
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/
+
+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="so-much-stuff">So much stuff!</h2>
+<p>It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/savefrys.com/">savefrys.com</a>, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.</p>
+<h2 id="the-thoughts">The Thoughts</h2>
+<p>Reminded me of Claire L. Evans' blog post <a href="https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/12291851">Does Future Fact Depend on Present Fiction</a></p>
+
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+ How to Make Telegram Stickers
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/telegram-sticker-tutorial/
+
+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="week-1">Week 1</h2>
+<p>The first </p>
+<h4 id="blockquote-with-attribution">Blockquote with attribution</h4>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.</p> —
+<cite>Rob Pike<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup></cite></p>
+</blockquote>
+<h2 id="images">Images</h2>
+<p><img src="../assets/test.png" alt="Image Backgorund" />
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/telegram-sticker-tutorial/" alt="Another Media" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://plchldr.co/i/1280x720?bg=2ecc40" alt="Media CDN" /></p>
+<p>{% hint style="warning" %} 123 {% endhint %}</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>The above quote is excerpted from Rob Pike's
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c">talk</a> during Gopherfest,
+November 18, 2015.</p>
+</div>
+
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+ Recurse Center Report: Half Batch
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/recurse-center-report-1/
+
+ <p>This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.</p>
+<p>Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="weekly-reports">Weekly Reports</h2>
+<p>At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.</p>
+<h3 id="week-1">Week 1</h3>
+<p>I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>work on <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/">sunshine act</a> pen and paper RPG game</li>
+<li>write short bios of everyone so i could remember peoples names and personalities</li>
+<li>experimented with check-in formatting</li>
+<li>make a <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/recurse-center-2022">master channel on are.na</a> for all my RC batch related research</li>
+<li>attend a pairing workshop</li>
+<li>made ~1 new friend.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-2">Week 2</h3>
+<p>I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much</li>
+<li>started learning <code>Go</code> for my TUI game, ascii tarot</li>
+<li>got sidetracked from learning <code>Go</code> with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing</li>
+<li>attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in <code>p5.js</code></li>
+<li>had a coffee chat with a career center staff member</li>
+<li>presented</li>
+<li>made ~6 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-3">Week 3</h3>
+<p>Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>learned about <code>SQL</code></li>
+<li>started working with <code>Zola</code> and the karzok theme, <code>npm</code> became the bane of my existence</li>
+<li>met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work</li>
+<li>attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it</li>
+<li>attended the "feelings check-in"</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-4">Week 4</h3>
+<p>Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.</p>
+<p>Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>started attending weekly intentions and reflections</li>
+<li>presented during career panel</li>
+<li>replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot</li>
+<li>shipped my personal website</li>
+<li>paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.</li>
+<li>got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team</li>
+<li>had a meeting with the career center</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-5">Week 5</h3>
+<p>This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.</p>
+<p>I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>paired a bit</li>
+<li>made progress on my website</li>
+<li>went to the gym a lot</li>
+<li>did some leetcode problems</li>
+<li>strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-6">Week 6</h3>
+<p>There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>completed niceties</li>
+<li>made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian</li>
+<li>began tinkering in hardware discussion groups</li>
+<li>quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo</li>
+<li>finally a successful creative coding project</li>
+<li>wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h2>
+<p>In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.</p>
+<p>Concrete accomplishments, however:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Gave two talks</li>
+<li>Got a lot better at git</li>
+<li>Mastered templating in Obsidian</li>
+<li>Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows</li>
+<li>Shipped a static website</li>
+<li>Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">website</a>.</p>
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+ <h2 id="introduction-credits">Introduction & Credits</h2>
+<p>Welcome to the guide for the Creative Coding Meetup at the Virtual Recurse Center.</p>
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+<p>The meetup was started by <a href="http://rfong.github.io/">Ray Fong</a>, then led by <a href="https://github.com/aturley">Andrew Joseph Turley</a>, who passed the torch to <a href="https://github.com/Plasma-Vortex">Howard Halim</a>, who finally passed it to me.</p>
+<p>However, the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224779-creative-coding">creative-coding</a> Zulip stream has messages going all the way back to February 20, with the first one from <a href="https://solsarratea.world/">Sol Sarratea</a>. We now coordinate in another stream, <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Meetup</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-happens-at-creative-coding">What happens at Creative Coding?</h2>
+<p>Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun.
+Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html">Oblique Strategies</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/jacob4/full/EVqeWM">Random Shakespeare Quote Generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://perchance.org/emoji">perchance Random Emoji Generator</a> (set amount to 3, check "unique?" box)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.</p>
+<p>Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!</p>
+<p>Here are some common choices:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://editor.p5js.org/">editor.p5js.org</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/">codepen.io</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/">shadertoy.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://glitch.com/">glitch.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://arcade.makecode.com/">arcade.makecode.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Coordinate in the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Zulip topic</a>.
+Showing off your work is encouraged!</p>
+<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
+<p>I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/creative-coding-for-all">Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all.</a> Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="misc-inspiration">Misc Inspiration</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://paytonturnage.com/writing/generating-art-with-haskell/">Generative Art with Haskell</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome">Chrome Experiments</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="css-resources">CSS Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://colorffy.com/text-gradient-generator">CSS text gradient generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://shadows.brumm.af/">CSS box shadow generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://9elements.github.io/fancy-border-radius/">9elements – Fancy border radius generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Haikei – SVG generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Mesh Gradients by CSS Hero</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://min-max-calculator.9elements.com/">9elements – Fluid Typography without media queries via min-max value</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://ui.glass/generator/">Glassmorphism generator</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="ml-art-resources">ML Art Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Kadenze <a href="https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-deep-learning-with-tensorflow/info">Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow</a> class</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="some-ucla-design-media-class-websites-with-their-own-resource-reference-collections">Some UCLA Design | Media Class Websites with their own resource / reference collections</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://pkmital.com/home/2021/09/01/ucla-course-on-cultural-appropriation-with-machine-learning/">Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/172/?page_id=101">Interactive Animation in Unity3D</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lmccart.github.io/DMA171-disability-design-web/#resources">Disability, Design, and the Web</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/289-2/">50 Years of Software Artists: Plotter Drawings to Non-fungible Tokens</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/152/resources">Tangible Media</a> – intro to working creatively with electronics.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter21/28/">Interactivity</a> – intro Processing class taught by Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall19/161/#resources">Network Media</a> – html+css+js+p5.js taught by Lauren McCarthy, creator of p5.js.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I recommend checking out the <a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/?cTerm=Winter&cYear=2021">past versions of core DMA classes</a>, as each one has its own website with varying resource lists.
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="history-context-of-media-art-generative-art-creative-coding">History, Context of Media Art, Generative Art, Creative Coding</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/ucla-dma101-design-media-arts">My Are.na class materials archive from the Media Art 101 class</a></li>
+<li>"When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art", by Grant D. Taylor</li>
+<li>"Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation" by John Maeda</li>
+<li>"Generative Design" by Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="misc-creative-coders-and-their-work">misc creative coders and their work</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r">Vera Molnár</a></li>
+<li>Harold Cohen's AARON</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161103091706/http://silverbuffalo.org/NAA-NativeIT.html">Silver Buffalo on Native American IT</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://blacktransarchive.com/">The Black Trans Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020323214647/http://neutralground.sk.ca/artistprojects/spiderlanguage/index.html">Spider Language</a> – a First Nations contemporary art web</li>
+<li><a href="https://super-sad-googles.glitch.me/">super sad googles</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://facework.app/">facework.app</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/">Never Alone on Steam</a> inspired by Donna Haraway's <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble">Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.damonzucconi.com/">Damon Zucconi</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lynnandtonic.com/">Lynn Fisher</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://a-website-is-a-room.net/">a website is a room</a> archive of websites exploring the browser as a space</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/#vitrine:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/vitrine/archive/">Werkplaatz Typographie Vitrine Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://x20xx.com/">x20xx.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="want-to-contribute-to-this-guide">Want to contribute to this guide?</h2>
+<p>Submit <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in/blob/main/content/know/2022-08-04-rc-creative-coding.md">a pull request in the github repo</a> for this blog.</p>
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+<h2 id="what-s-going-on-with-the-whole-do-you-know-love-thing">What's going on with the whole "do you know love" thing?</h2>
+<p>So, when I was first learning programming, I made a <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/process">game</a> in Processing. I wanted to make a peculiar online psychology quiz, so one of the questions was "Do you know love?" with the only answer being an hard-to-click "YES". I was inspired by Lacan's contention that jouissance is a phenomenon unknowable to humans, but as I needed some sort of "click" interaction to trigger the next question screen, I asked the question not about jouissance, but rather something more people are familiar with: love.</p>
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/process-love-level.png" alt="Level Image" width="300">
+<p>Shortly thereafter, I put the graphic from that quiz on the splash page of my old website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://xnast.asia/">xnast.asia</a>. You could only enter the website if you successfully clicked "YES". This was back in 2016. In 2022, I decided to make the website that you are currently on. I knew I wanted to have four different sections:</p>
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+<li>info / about me</li>
+<li>portfolio / work case studies</li>
+<li>blog</li>
+<li>page of things that i love</li>
+</ol>
+</blockquote>
+<p>I had an epiphany while gathering the inspiration and ideas for the design and development of <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/">asyaplugged.in</a> that I could articulate the menu of my new website with the splash page title of my previous website, just like so:</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th>nav</th><th>question</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td>portfolio</td><td>do</td></tr>
+<tr><td>about</td><td>you</td></tr>
+<tr><td>blog</td><td>know</td></tr>
+<tr><td>things i love</td><td>love</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
+<p>I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about this articulation, whether it was confusing for you, etc.</p>
+<h2 id="what-does-asyapluggedin-mean-what-happened-to-xnastasia">What does asyapluggedin mean? What happened to xnastasia?</h2>
+<p>Someday I will write a separate post about the permutations of my identity / avatar / sense of self, but until then, this brief explanation will have to suffice.</p>
+<p>I felt that the <em>xnast.asia</em> url and <em>xnastasia</em> username was too hard to pronounce, and had a little bit of a pornographic vibe. Every time people typed "x...n...a...s...t..." into a search bar, I would never be the first thing to auto-populate the field. I've still held onto the url and most of the usernames, but once I came up with <em>asyapluggedin</em> I was so happy to swap all my online pointers to that.</p>
+<p>My father has had the username mattpluggedin for the longest time, and so the "plugged in" username always made me feel nostalgic for the whole early internet / dotcom boom era, which plays a significant role in a lot my work. But I never thought to inherit the username before I came across the sci-fi book "The Girl That Was Plugged In"<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>, which also is the title of an episode of sci-fi TV series "Welcome to Paradox".</p>
+<h2 id="do-you-have-an-rss-feed-can-i-tell-you-if-something-is-broken-or-typoed">Do you have an RSS feed? Can I tell you if something is broken or typoed?</h2>
+<p>Yes and yes. You can access the RSS feed for my blog via <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml">asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml</a>.</p>
+<p>I would also be very happy to hear any feedback on my blog or really, any aspect of the entire website. You can make a pull request on <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in">github</a>, where my website is hosted, or just send me a message on whichever platform you prefer.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>I learned about this book from Dr. Teddy Pozo's UCLA Game Lab Teledildonics lecture from Spring 2021.</p>
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+<p>The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.</p>
+<p>In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the <em>DeepDenial</em> workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda. </p>
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a living breathing
a living breathing
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This 28 minute film was made in 2015 with no budget. The currently available cut may have audio mixing issues, so for legibility you may follow the transcript here alongside the film.
Co-directed with Michael Sanchez.
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Affection Realities
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Curating
In November 2015, I curated a group exhibition featuring ten international artists. I scouted the artists from social media, spanning all different platforms, from Yelp to Last.fm, from OkCupid to Tumblr. Instead of making my curatorial selection based on reputation or portfolio, I tried to choose people without (much) prior experience exhibiting their work, relying on my online aesthetic intution.
In order to accuratelv execute my curatorial vision, I had to take complete control of the exhibition design and even temporarily re-brand the gallery. This included painting the whole space by hand and designing the press relcase to communicate an carnest, vet malformed attempt at a luxury art show. Through this experience the work of the artists who did not have prior experience exhibiting their work was snapped and thrown back onto on social media: but now, with a filter of legitimacy.
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ASCII Tarot
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Three years after I was first introduced to the Tarot, I designed a Tarot deck myself (and was able to finish it within a month thanks to the motivation to submit it as part of my 2016 UCLA Media Arts application). While I initially learned the Tarot using physical cards and used them to structure conversations with my friends about challenging decisions we had to make, I spent a majority of my time consulting the cards in a digital format. My first deck was the Enchanted Tarot by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, which not only had beautiful custom art riffing on the Rider-Waithe deck, a book of explications, but also an iOS app, which I used very frequently. It is said that if one carries their Tarot deck with them, the cards will hold the energy of their owner's experiences and provide more relevant insights. I became intrigued by how this principle could be manifesting technologically, so I decided to pare down the digital Tarot to it's most simple, bare, form.
ASCII as an aesthetic, symbolic, and functional choice
The ASCII Tarot deck was originally designed to be the foundation for a CLI tool. By simplifying the programming of a Tarot app, I hoped to have more control over the obfuscated inner workings of digitally powered divination. Among the CLI tools that I was inspired by, were projects like wttr.in, a curl wrapper for wego, a weather app for the terminal, as well as "hidden" emacs adaptations of popular games like pong and tetris. I was perplexed by the absence of a tarot app in system defaults, since I had been helped in so many rough moments by my trusty Enchanted iOS app.
While incredibly beautiful and thoughtfully designed, I had my supsicions about the skeuomorphism of the Enchanted app's experience. When "cutting" the image of my deck into three, was the program actually dividing the dataset of 64 cards into three groups of 26? Would a human being shuffling be dividing the deck into three groups of exactly 26 cards? Or was the dual purpose of physical shuffling being somehow split in the digital form, really only acting as a brief moment of pause for the reader to meditate on their question? Wouldn't the shuffling then be somehow corrupted, if divorced from this meditation?
These questions also began to arise when thinking about the images on the cards. When using a computing device, I noticed I wasn't so concerned with the colors or details of each card, but rather with the meaning that my experience reading Tarot had attached to each one. I felt like I would be more effective shuffling my Tarot meaning flashcards than the actual cards, given how often I consulted various online cheat sheets. The skeuomorphism of the card design bothered me as well, so it only made sense to fully embrace technological folklore by choosing ASCII art for my card design.
Digital
The Tarot has always been practiced IRL - only through the tactile motions of shuffling, through the candlelight flickers that ignite our anticipation, through our belief that the material will translate something from the corporeal - are we able to find out fate, and believe the narrative that is drawn.
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With the excitement of the world wide web, the late 1990's and early 2000's filled the internet with starry backgrounds and animations of divinatory motifs. 8-ball websites were generated, and early web surfers asked the god in the machine what their fate would become. Of course, the programmatic algorithm never could connect to the corporeal quite the same way, acting in a way more reminiscent of a predictably written fortune cookie (stupid american invention, by the way).
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I created a full deck of tarot cards using ASCII art in an attempt to connect the innocence we had way back when on the web, with the physical ability to tell our fortunes. Perhaps it's a relic, perhaps it's a glimpse into the future...
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+ Asya Davydova Lewis - do
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+ Zola
+ 2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/atom.xml
+
+ The Sunshine Act
+ 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/
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+ <span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="why-2022">Why 2022?</h2>
+<p>This is something I made so I could graduate from UCLA lol.</p>
+
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+ gestalt.sh/ift
+ 2021-06-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-06-03T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/gestalt-shift/
+
+ <p><img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/gestalt.png" alt="Screenshot of gestalt.sh webpage" /></p>
+<p>The 2021 UCLA Design | Media Arts Senior Exhibition took place online, at a website collaboratively designed & developed by the graduating class.</p>
+<h2 id="design-leadership-roles">Design & Leadership Roles</h2>
+<p>My role in this project adapted over the course of the academic quarter. I originally self-selected into a development role, but ended up contributing mostly in design and project management.</p>
+<p>For context: traditionally, the graduating class is divided into three sections, each one led by a separate professor who assists the students in developing their senior thesis as well and helps produce the exhibition. In 2021, we did not have access to the physical EDA gallery space at UCLA nor classrooms to meet in. The meetings took place on Discord, a platform to which many were still only getting used to.</p>
+<p>I took initiative to ensure that all the exhibition subcommittee members regularly met for discussions, and to facilitate reasonable production deadlines.</p>
+<h2 id="design-process">Design Process</h2>
+<p>For a class full of graduating students fatigued from remote instruction, designing the exhibition website around a visual riff on the Zoom screen was a decision made from a place of catharsis.</p>
+<h2 id="production-process">Production Process</h2>
+<p>See the collaborative <a href="https://www.figma.com/file/gxxEelPY5ETKjiybAK4okM/gestalt.sh-web-design?node-id=290%3A70">Figma file here</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="development">Development</h2>
+<p>The website (possibly still available at <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/gestalt-shift/gestalt.sh/ift">gestalt.sh</a> ) was developed using Wordpress and a custom Twig theme by <a href="https://chandlermcwilliams.com/">Chandler McWilliams</a> and Wiley Wiggins. I was not directly involved in the development process due to time constraints, but I was able to deploy some last-minute front-end changes via a pull request.</p>
+
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+
+ Type Tap Go
+ 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+
+
+
+ Unknown
+
+
+
+
+
+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/typetapgo/
+
+ <span id="continue-reading"></span><h2 id="quack">Quack!</h2>
+<p>Type Tap Go is a mobile game made to teach people how to type efficiently on the phone, and compete with friends.</p>
+<p>I came up with the idea in the summer of 2020 during the first Covid-19 lockdowns with Benjamin Bascom.</p>
+
+
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+
+ ASCII Tarot
+ 2019-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/ascii-tarot/
+
+ <p><img src="/do/deck.png" alt="Deck of cards with blue ascii art design shrink-wrapped in plastic" /></p>
+<p>Three years after I was first introduced to the Tarot, I designed a <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/42369763/ASCII-TAROT?locale=en_US">Tarot deck</a> myself (and was able to finish it within a month thanks to the motivation to submit it as part of my 2016 UCLA Media Arts application). While I initially learned the Tarot using physical cards and used them to structure conversations with my friends about challenging decisions we had to make, I spent a majority of my time consulting the cards in a digital format. My first deck was the <a href="https://www.theenchantedworld.net/enchanted-tarot">Enchanted Tarot</a> by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber, which not only had beautiful custom art riffing on the Rider-Waithe deck, a book of explications, but also an <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/enchanted-tarot/id674639952">iOS app</a>, which I used very frequently. It is said that if one carries their Tarot deck with them, the cards will hold the energy of their owner's experiences and provide more relevant insights. I became intrigued by how this principle could be manifesting technologically, so I decided to pare down the digital Tarot to it's most simple, bare, form.</p>
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+ DeepDenial
+ 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
+
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+
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+ Unknown
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+
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+
+
+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/deepdenial/
+
+ <p>DeepDenial was a one-day speculative political activism deepfake workshop I was invited to teach at the Hackers and Designers Summer Academy <em>(a program run out of the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam)</em>.</p>
+<p>The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.</p>
+<p>In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the <em>DeepDenial</em> workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda. </p>
+<p>By taking a hands-on approach to learn how to process video data for machine learning programs, attendees armed themselves with improved digital literacy and developed a keen sense for discerning tell-tale signs of AI-processed content.</p>
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+ a living breathing
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/a-living-breathing/
+
+ <p>o</p>
+
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+
+
+ Affection Realities
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/affection-realities/
+
+ <p>image go here</p>
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+ Meditation Game
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
+
+
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/meditation-game/
+
+ <p>image go here</p>
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DeepDenial was a one-day speculative political activism deepfake workshop I was invited to teach at the Hackers and Designers Summer Academy (a program run out of the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam).
The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.
In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the DeepDenial workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda.
By taking a hands-on approach to learn how to process video data for machine learning programs, attendees armed themselves with improved digital literacy and developed a keen sense for discerning tell-tale signs of AI-processed content.
Reference materials for the workshop are collected on this Are.na Channel.
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The 2021 UCLA Design | Media Arts Senior Exhibition took place online, at a website collaboratively designed & developed by the graduating class.
Design & Leadership Roles
My role in this project adapted over the course of the academic quarter. I originally self-selected into a development role, but ended up contributing mostly in design and project management.
For context: traditionally, the graduating class is divided into three sections, each one led by a separate professor who assists the students in developing their senior thesis as well and helps produce the exhibition. In 2021, we did not have access to the physical EDA gallery space at UCLA nor classrooms to meet in. The meetings took place on Discord, a platform to which many were still only getting used to.
I took initiative to ensure that all the exhibition subcommittee members regularly met for discussions, and to facilitate reasonable production deadlines.
Design Process
For a class full of graduating students fatigued from remote instruction, designing the exhibition website around a visual riff on the Zoom screen was a decision made from a place of catharsis.
The website (possibly still available at gestalt.sh ) was developed using Wordpress and a custom Twig theme by Chandler McWilliams and Wiley Wiggins. I was not directly involved in the development process due to time constraints, but I was able to deploy some last-minute front-end changes via a pull request.
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Meditation Game
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image go here
UX Consulting
First I helped Mindpet with some UX consulting.
UX Writing
Then I helped with UX writing.
Design systems
Then I helped with building a design system to articulate with the Unity build.
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The Sunshine Act
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Why 2022?
This is something I made so I could graduate from UCLA lol.
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Type Tap Go
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Quack!
Type Tap Go is a mobile game made to teach people how to type efficiently on the phone, and compete with friends.
I came up with the idea in the summer of 2020 during the first Covid-19 lockdowns with Benjamin Bascom.
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Do You Know Love
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+ Zola
+ 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml
+
+ January Gains
+ 2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
+
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/january-gains/
+
+ <p>While it may be a little on-the-nose to start a personal accountability blog series in a January, it just so happened that I got extraordinarily motivated this recent December 2023 by my little brother. </p>
+<ul>
+<li>3.3 lbs muscle </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>7.5 lbs fat </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>left smith machine in the past </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>went from DB bench press to short bar </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>ate 60-90g protein / day </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>settled on a gym uniform that feels cute</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h4 id="february-goals">February Goals</h4>
+<ul>
+<li>continue recomp progress</li>
+<li>bench the 35 long bar</li>
+<li>improve VO2 max via kettlebell swings after each training session</li>
+<li>eat 80-135g protein / day</li>
+<li>spend less money on vegan protein shakes from the grocery store and try some protein powders for homemade protein shakes</li>
+</ul>
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Unknown
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/everything-is-boring/
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+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
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+ <p>This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.</p>
+<p>Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.</p>
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+<h2 id="weekly-reports">Weekly Reports</h2>
+<p>At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.</p>
+<h3 id="week-1">Week 1</h3>
+<p>I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>work on <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/">sunshine act</a> pen and paper RPG game</li>
+<li>write short bios of everyone so i could remember peoples names and personalities</li>
+<li>experimented with check-in formatting</li>
+<li>make a <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/recurse-center-2022">master channel on are.na</a> for all my RC batch related research</li>
+<li>attend a pairing workshop</li>
+<li>made ~1 new friend.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-2">Week 2</h3>
+<p>I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much</li>
+<li>started learning <code>Go</code> for my TUI game, ascii tarot</li>
+<li>got sidetracked from learning <code>Go</code> with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing</li>
+<li>attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in <code>p5.js</code></li>
+<li>had a coffee chat with a career center staff member</li>
+<li>presented</li>
+<li>made ~6 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-3">Week 3</h3>
+<p>Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>learned about <code>SQL</code></li>
+<li>started working with <code>Zola</code> and the karzok theme, <code>npm</code> became the bane of my existence</li>
+<li>met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work</li>
+<li>attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it</li>
+<li>attended the "feelings check-in"</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-4">Week 4</h3>
+<p>Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.</p>
+<p>Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>started attending weekly intentions and reflections</li>
+<li>presented during career panel</li>
+<li>replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot</li>
+<li>shipped my personal website</li>
+<li>paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.</li>
+<li>got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team</li>
+<li>had a meeting with the career center</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-5">Week 5</h3>
+<p>This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.</p>
+<p>I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>paired a bit</li>
+<li>made progress on my website</li>
+<li>went to the gym a lot</li>
+<li>did some leetcode problems</li>
+<li>strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-6">Week 6</h3>
+<p>There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>completed niceties</li>
+<li>made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian</li>
+<li>began tinkering in hardware discussion groups</li>
+<li>quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo</li>
+<li>finally a successful creative coding project</li>
+<li>wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h2>
+<p>In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.</p>
+<p>Concrete accomplishments, however:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Gave two talks</li>
+<li>Got a lot better at git</li>
+<li>Mastered templating in Obsidian</li>
+<li>Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows</li>
+<li>Shipped a static website</li>
+<li>Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">website</a>.</p>
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+ <h2 id="introduction-credits">Introduction & Credits</h2>
+<p>Welcome to the guide for the Creative Coding Meetup at the Virtual Recurse Center.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<p>The meetup was started by <a href="http://rfong.github.io/">Ray Fong</a>, then led by <a href="https://github.com/aturley">Andrew Joseph Turley</a>, who passed the torch to <a href="https://github.com/Plasma-Vortex">Howard Halim</a>, who finally passed it to me.</p>
+<p>However, the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224779-creative-coding">creative-coding</a> Zulip stream has messages going all the way back to February 20, with the first one from <a href="https://solsarratea.world/">Sol Sarratea</a>. We now coordinate in another stream, <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Meetup</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-happens-at-creative-coding">What happens at Creative Coding?</h2>
+<p>Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun.
+Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html">Oblique Strategies</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/jacob4/full/EVqeWM">Random Shakespeare Quote Generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://perchance.org/emoji">perchance Random Emoji Generator</a> (set amount to 3, check "unique?" box)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.</p>
+<p>Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!</p>
+<p>Here are some common choices:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://editor.p5js.org/">editor.p5js.org</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/">codepen.io</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/">shadertoy.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://glitch.com/">glitch.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://arcade.makecode.com/">arcade.makecode.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Coordinate in the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Zulip topic</a>.
+Showing off your work is encouraged!</p>
+<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
+<p>I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/creative-coding-for-all">Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all.</a> Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="misc-inspiration">Misc Inspiration</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://paytonturnage.com/writing/generating-art-with-haskell/">Generative Art with Haskell</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome">Chrome Experiments</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="css-resources">CSS Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://colorffy.com/text-gradient-generator">CSS text gradient generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://shadows.brumm.af/">CSS box shadow generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://9elements.github.io/fancy-border-radius/">9elements – Fancy border radius generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Haikei – SVG generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Mesh Gradients by CSS Hero</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://min-max-calculator.9elements.com/">9elements – Fluid Typography without media queries via min-max value</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://ui.glass/generator/">Glassmorphism generator</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="ml-art-resources">ML Art Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Kadenze <a href="https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-deep-learning-with-tensorflow/info">Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow</a> class</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="some-ucla-design-media-class-websites-with-their-own-resource-reference-collections">Some UCLA Design | Media Class Websites with their own resource / reference collections</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://pkmital.com/home/2021/09/01/ucla-course-on-cultural-appropriation-with-machine-learning/">Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/172/?page_id=101">Interactive Animation in Unity3D</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lmccart.github.io/DMA171-disability-design-web/#resources">Disability, Design, and the Web</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/289-2/">50 Years of Software Artists: Plotter Drawings to Non-fungible Tokens</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/152/resources">Tangible Media</a> – intro to working creatively with electronics.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter21/28/">Interactivity</a> – intro Processing class taught by Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall19/161/#resources">Network Media</a> – html+css+js+p5.js taught by Lauren McCarthy, creator of p5.js.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I recommend checking out the <a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/?cTerm=Winter&cYear=2021">past versions of core DMA classes</a>, as each one has its own website with varying resource lists.
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="history-context-of-media-art-generative-art-creative-coding">History, Context of Media Art, Generative Art, Creative Coding</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/ucla-dma101-design-media-arts">My Are.na class materials archive from the Media Art 101 class</a></li>
+<li>"When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art", by Grant D. Taylor</li>
+<li>"Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation" by John Maeda</li>
+<li>"Generative Design" by Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="misc-creative-coders-and-their-work">misc creative coders and their work</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r">Vera Molnár</a></li>
+<li>Harold Cohen's AARON</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161103091706/http://silverbuffalo.org/NAA-NativeIT.html">Silver Buffalo on Native American IT</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://blacktransarchive.com/">The Black Trans Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020323214647/http://neutralground.sk.ca/artistprojects/spiderlanguage/index.html">Spider Language</a> – a First Nations contemporary art web</li>
+<li><a href="https://super-sad-googles.glitch.me/">super sad googles</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://facework.app/">facework.app</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/">Never Alone on Steam</a> inspired by Donna Haraway's <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble">Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.damonzucconi.com/">Damon Zucconi</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lynnandtonic.com/">Lynn Fisher</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://a-website-is-a-room.net/">a website is a room</a> archive of websites exploring the browser as a space</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/#vitrine:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/vitrine/archive/">Werkplaatz Typographie Vitrine Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://x20xx.com/">x20xx.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="want-to-contribute-to-this-guide">Want to contribute to this guide?</h2>
+<p>Submit <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in/blob/main/content/know/2022-08-04-rc-creative-coding.md">a pull request in the github repo</a> for this blog.</p>
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+<h2 id="what-s-going-on-with-the-whole-do-you-know-love-thing">What's going on with the whole "do you know love" thing?</h2>
+<p>So, when I was first learning programming, I made a <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/process">game</a> in Processing. I wanted to make a peculiar online psychology quiz, so one of the questions was "Do you know love?" with the only answer being an hard-to-click "YES". I was inspired by Lacan's contention that jouissance is a phenomenon unknowable to humans, but as I needed some sort of "click" interaction to trigger the next question screen, I asked the question not about jouissance, but rather something more people are familiar with: love.</p>
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/process-love-level.png" alt="Level Image" width="300">
+<p>Shortly thereafter, I put the graphic from that quiz on the splash page of my old website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://xnast.asia/">xnast.asia</a>. You could only enter the website if you successfully clicked "YES". This was back in 2016. In 2022, I decided to make the website that you are currently on. I knew I wanted to have four different sections:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<ol>
+<li>info / about me</li>
+<li>portfolio / work case studies</li>
+<li>blog</li>
+<li>page of things that i love</li>
+</ol>
+</blockquote>
+<p>I had an epiphany while gathering the inspiration and ideas for the design and development of <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/">asyaplugged.in</a> that I could articulate the menu of my new website with the splash page title of my previous website, just like so:</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th>nav</th><th>question</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td>portfolio</td><td>do</td></tr>
+<tr><td>about</td><td>you</td></tr>
+<tr><td>blog</td><td>know</td></tr>
+<tr><td>things i love</td><td>love</td></tr>
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+<p>I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about this articulation, whether it was confusing for you, etc.</p>
+<h2 id="what-does-asyapluggedin-mean-what-happened-to-xnastasia">What does asyapluggedin mean? What happened to xnastasia?</h2>
+<p>Someday I will write a separate post about the permutations of my identity / avatar / sense of self, but until then, this brief explanation will have to suffice.</p>
+<p>I felt that the <em>xnast.asia</em> url and <em>xnastasia</em> username was too hard to pronounce, and had a little bit of a pornographic vibe. Every time people typed "x...n...a...s...t..." into a search bar, I would never be the first thing to auto-populate the field. I've still held onto the url and most of the usernames, but once I came up with <em>asyapluggedin</em> I was so happy to swap all my online pointers to that.</p>
+<p>My father has had the username mattpluggedin for the longest time, and so the "plugged in" username always made me feel nostalgic for the whole early internet / dotcom boom era, which plays a significant role in a lot my work. But I never thought to inherit the username before I came across the sci-fi book "The Girl That Was Plugged In"<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>, which also is the title of an episode of sci-fi TV series "Welcome to Paradox".</p>
+<h2 id="do-you-have-an-rss-feed-can-i-tell-you-if-something-is-broken-or-typoed">Do you have an RSS feed? Can I tell you if something is broken or typoed?</h2>
+<p>Yes and yes. You can access the RSS feed for my blog via <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml">asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml</a>.</p>
+<p>I would also be very happy to hear any feedback on my blog or really, any aspect of the entire website. You can make a pull request on <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in">github</a>, where my website is hosted, or just send me a message on whichever platform you prefer.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>I learned about this book from Dr. Teddy Pozo's UCLA Game Lab Teledildonics lecture from Spring 2021.</p>
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This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.
So much stuff!
It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for savefrys.com, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.
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The 2015 Homuncular Flexibility paper recently resurfaced from a trending post on Twitter. I'd like to think that tweeting out the words HOLY SHIT and a link to a paper about something like, I don't know, deep image reconsctruction from fMRI imaging of brain activity would have a similarly mass-exciting result, but I digress. The discussion around the human ability to learn how to control and sense bodies very different from their own prompted me to think about the way in which we have learned to embody digital spaces, which are of course very different from physical spaces.
Websites and screen-based interfaces produce the sensation
the 3D metaverse is still in its relatively early stages,
else
tools are interpreted by the brain as an extension of the human body. haptic feedback, color schemes,
work-arounds, affordances
Self regulation via peripheral attention management.
I'm sure you've seen this recent video trend you're shown footage of eye catching gaming footage with an unrelated story is
Once I heard a "focus hack" where you put a makeup pallette on your workdesk and allow yourself to rest your gaze on it instead of reaching for your phone and getting sucked into an endless-scrolling distraction trap.
feeling like a language, feeling like an era
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+ Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
My friend Priya made a blog post called "Should I go to a coding bootcamp or self-study", which inspired me to share my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.
My experience – to expose what I am biased towards
I originally decided that I'd like to learn programming around 2012, when I wanted to make a Russian-language online platform similar to Rookie Mag. I didn't understand that one could get away with finding a sort of suitable wordpress theme, and once I did, I felt so passionately about my ideal project that I figured I'd need to pay a programmer to make the exact theme that I'd envisioned for the platform. I was also inspired by this weird Russian listicle website called W-O-S, I loved how each article had some different animations and floating elements, and I especially loved the interactive quizzes.
I mention my inspiration for learning how to code as I think inspiration is imperative to take account of when deciding on the direction you will take it into the material world. My interest was in a counterculture of both Russian and American origins, and online media. So in 2015, I attended a mini course at the Moscow Coding School.
Well, first I took some introductory programming classes at Santa Monica College. At the time, the main prerequisite to any programming class was an introduction to computing as a whole. My homework assignment was to draw something in MS Paint. I hope this story can illuminate the reasons I recieved F (for failed) grades in my first year at SMC.
At Moscow Coding School, I learned introductory HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL.
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The above quote is excerpted from Rob Pike's talk during Gopherfest, November 18, 2015.
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Education Index
127 words
1 minute to read
I believe one's education is worth much more when it is shared with the world. My academic experience has been somewhat idiosynchratic, so I thought to put together a dedicated blog section detailing some of the more remarkable elements of this personal history.
Table of Contents
The first
Childhood Education
Section in progress.
I remember attending:
a preschool
a kindergarten somewhere on the east coast
first grade somewhere in San Francisco
Theodore Judah Elementary School
I attended this school from (year) to (year). I was placed in a GATE cluster in second grade, meaning that I was in a group with some third graders, as well as other GATE identified second graders.
Classical Gymnasium at the Greek-Latin Office of Yu.A. Sichalina
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like this.
The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.
Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.
Introduction
Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.
He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.
Integral Psychology
Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.
Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.
Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:
orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based
green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian
teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment
Have you ever lied?
Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.
Medical Economy
The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.
Medical Gaze
This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in "Birth of the Clinic", which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.
The green paradigm in the wellness economy
The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU. You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.
Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics. But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.
Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?
UX as Infantilization
Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay "The Babysitters Club".
The teal paradigm in the next economy of health
The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation. Body - Mind is an expression of Truth. Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models. They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.
medicine
wellness
the new economy ??
identity
individual
pluralistic global data point in a large database
spirit
achievement
systematization
access
integrated wisdom
relationship to the body
mechanical
purging trauma
maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve
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+ Hello World: Welcome to Asya's blog
Hello, and welcome to my website, specifically my blog.
What's going on with the whole "do you know love" thing?
So, when I was first learning programming, I made a game in Processing. I wanted to make a peculiar online psychology quiz, so one of the questions was "Do you know love?" with the only answer being an hard-to-click "YES". I was inspired by Lacan's contention that jouissance is a phenomenon unknowable to humans, but as I needed some sort of "click" interaction to trigger the next question screen, I asked the question not about jouissance, but rather something more people are familiar with: love.
Shortly thereafter, I put the graphic from that quiz on the splash page of my old website, xnast.asia. You could only enter the website if you successfully clicked "YES". This was back in 2016. In 2022, I decided to make the website that you are currently on. I knew I wanted to have four different sections:
info / about me
portfolio / work case studies
blog
page of things that i love
I had an epiphany while gathering the inspiration and ideas for the design and development of asyaplugged.in that I could articulate the menu of my new website with the splash page title of my previous website, just like so:
nav
question
portfolio
do
about
you
blog
know
things i love
love
I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about this articulation, whether it was confusing for you, etc.
What does asyapluggedin mean? What happened to xnastasia?
Someday I will write a separate post about the permutations of my identity / avatar / sense of self, but until then, this brief explanation will have to suffice.
I felt that the xnast.asia url and xnastasia username was too hard to pronounce, and had a little bit of a pornographic vibe. Every time people typed "x...n...a...s...t..." into a search bar, I would never be the first thing to auto-populate the field. I've still held onto the url and most of the usernames, but once I came up with asyapluggedin I was so happy to swap all my online pointers to that.
My father has had the username mattpluggedin for the longest time, and so the "plugged in" username always made me feel nostalgic for the whole early internet / dotcom boom era, which plays a significant role in a lot my work. But I never thought to inherit the username before I came across the sci-fi book "The Girl That Was Plugged In"1, which also is the title of an episode of sci-fi TV series "Welcome to Paradox".
Do you have an RSS feed? Can I tell you if something is broken or typoed?
I would also be very happy to hear any feedback on my blog or really, any aspect of the entire website. You can make a pull request on github, where my website is hosted, or just send me a message on whichever platform you prefer.
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I learned about this book from Dr. Teddy Pozo's UCLA Game Lab Teledildonics lecture from Spring 2021.
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While it may be a little on-the-nose to start a personal accountability blog series in a January, it just so happened that I got extraordinarily motivated this recent December 2023 by my little brother.
3.3 lbs muscle
7.5 lbs fat
left smith machine in the past
went from DB bench press to short bar
ate 60-90g protein / day
settled on a gym uniform that feels cute
February Goals
continue recomp progress
bench the 35 long bar
improve VO2 max via kettlebell swings after each training session
eat 80-135g protein / day
spend less money on vegan protein shakes from the grocery store and try some protein powders for homemade protein shakes
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+ Creative Coding at RC
Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun. Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:
You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.
Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!
I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all. Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
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+ Recurse Center Report: Half Batch
This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center1. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.
Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.
Weekly Reports
At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.
Week 1
I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:
I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.
attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much
started learning Go for my TUI game, ascii tarot
got sidetracked from learning Go with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing
attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in p5.js
had a coffee chat with a career center staff member
presented
made ~6 new friends!
Week 3
Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.
learned about SQL
started working with Zola and the karzok theme, npm became the bane of my existence
met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work
attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it
attended the "feelings check-in"
made ~4 new friends.
Week 4
Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.
Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.
started attending weekly intentions and reflections
presented during career panel
replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot
shipped my personal website
paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.
got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team
had a meeting with the career center
made ~4 new friends.
Week 5
This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.
I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.
paired a bit
made progress on my website
went to the gym a lot
did some leetcode problems
strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.
Week 6
There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.
completed niceties
made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian
began tinkering in hardware discussion groups
quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo
finally a successful creative coding project
wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward
made ~4 new friends!
Takeaways
In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.
Concrete accomplishments, however:
Gave two talks
Got a lot better at git
Mastered templating in Obsidian
Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows
Shipped a static website
Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.
I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.
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What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own website.
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+function set_theme(mode) {
+ "light" != mode &&
+ "black" != mode &&
+ "auto" != mode &&
+ ((mode = "auto"), console.log("invalid theme mode: ".concat(mode))),
+ (document.body.dataset.theme = mode),
+ localStorage.setItem("theme", mode);
+}
+function get_theme() {
+ var current_theme = localStorage.getItem("theme") || "auto";
+ window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches
+ ? "auto" == current_theme
+ ? set_theme("light")
+ : "light" == current_theme
+ ? set_theme("black")
+ : set_theme("auto")
+ : "auto" == current_theme
+ ? set_theme("black")
+ : "black" == current_theme
+ ? set_theme("light")
+ : set_theme("auto");
+}
+var btn = document.getElementsByClassName("toggle");
+Array.from(btn).forEach(function (button) {
+ button.addEventListener("click", get_theme);
+});
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+/*! modern-normalize v1.1.0 | MIT License | https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize */
+
+/*
+Document
+========
+*/
+
+/**
+Use a better box model (opinionated).
+*/
+
+*,
+::before,
+::after {
+ box-sizing: border-box;
+}
+
+/**
+Use a more readable tab size (opinionated).
+*/
+
+html {
+ -moz-tab-size: 4;
+ tab-size: 4;
+}
+
+/**
+1. Correct the line height in all browsers.
+2. Prevent adjustments of font size after orientation changes in iOS.
+*/
+
+html {
+ line-height: 1.15; /* 1 */
+ -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/*
+Sections
+========
+*/
+
+/**
+Remove the margin in all browsers.
+*/
+
+body {
+ margin: 0;
+}
+
+/**
+Improve consistency of default fonts in all browsers. (https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize/issues/3)
+*/
+
+body {
+ font-family:
+ system-ui,
+ -apple-system, /* Firefox supports this but not yet `system-ui` */
+ 'Segoe UI',
+ Roboto,
+ Helvetica,
+ Arial,
+ sans-serif,
+ 'Apple Color Emoji',
+ 'Segoe UI Emoji';
+}
+
+/*
+Grouping content
+================
+*/
+
+/**
+1. Add the correct height in Firefox.
+2. Correct the inheritance of border color in Firefox. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190655)
+*/
+
+hr {
+ height: 0; /* 1 */
+ color: inherit; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/*
+Text-level semantics
+====================
+*/
+
+/**
+Add the correct text decoration in Chrome, Edge, and Safari.
+*/
+
+abbr[title] {
+ text-decoration: underline dotted;
+}
+
+/**
+Add the correct font weight in Edge and Safari.
+*/
+
+b,
+strong {
+ font-weight: bolder;
+}
+
+/**
+1. Improve consistency of default fonts in all browsers. (https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize/issues/3)
+2. Correct the odd 'em' font sizing in all browsers.
+*/
+
+code,
+kbd,
+samp,
+pre {
+ font-family:
+ ui-monospace,
+ SFMono-Regular,
+ Consolas,
+ 'Liberation Mono',
+ Menlo,
+ monospace; /* 1 */
+ font-size: 1em; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/**
+Add the correct font size in all browsers.
+*/
+
+small {
+ font-size: 80%;
+}
+
+/**
+Prevent 'sub' and 'sup' elements from affecting the line height in all browsers.
+*/
+
+sub,
+sup {
+ font-size: 75%;
+ line-height: 0;
+ position: relative;
+ vertical-align: baseline;
+}
+
+sub {
+ bottom: -0.25em;
+}
+
+sup {
+ top: -0.5em;
+}
+
+/*
+Tabular data
+============
+*/
+
+/**
+1. Remove text indentation from table contents in Chrome and Safari. (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=999088, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201297)
+2. Correct table border color inheritance in all Chrome and Safari. (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=935729, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195016)
+*/
+
+table {
+ text-indent: 0; /* 1 */
+ border-color: inherit; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/*
+Forms
+=====
+*/
+
+/**
+1. Change the font styles in all browsers.
+2. Remove the margin in Firefox and Safari.
+*/
+
+button,
+input,
+optgroup,
+select,
+textarea {
+ font-family: inherit; /* 1 */
+ font-size: 100%; /* 1 */
+ line-height: 1.15; /* 1 */
+ margin: 0; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/**
+Remove the inheritance of text transform in Edge and Firefox.
+1. Remove the inheritance of text transform in Firefox.
+*/
+
+button,
+select { /* 1 */
+ text-transform: none;
+}
+
+/**
+Correct the inability to style clickable types in iOS and Safari.
+*/
+
+button,
+[type='button'],
+[type='reset'],
+[type='submit'] {
+ -webkit-appearance: button;
+}
+
+/**
+Remove the inner border and padding in Firefox.
+*/
+
+::-moz-focus-inner {
+ border-style: none;
+ padding: 0;
+}
+
+/**
+Restore the focus styles unset by the previous rule.
+*/
+
+:-moz-focusring {
+ outline: 1px dotted ButtonText;
+}
+
+/**
+Remove the additional ':invalid' styles in Firefox.
+See: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/2f9eacd9d3d995c937b4251a5557d95d494c9be1/layout/style/res/forms.css#L728-L737
+*/
+
+:-moz-ui-invalid {
+ box-shadow: none;
+}
+
+/**
+Remove the padding so developers are not caught out when they zero out 'fieldset' elements in all browsers.
+*/
+
+legend {
+ padding: 0;
+}
+
+/**
+Add the correct vertical alignment in Chrome and Firefox.
+*/
+
+progress {
+ vertical-align: baseline;
+}
+
+/**
+Correct the cursor style of increment and decrement buttons in Safari.
+*/
+
+::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
+::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
+ height: auto;
+}
+
+/**
+1. Correct the odd appearance in Chrome and Safari.
+2. Correct the outline style in Safari.
+*/
+
+[type='search'] {
+ -webkit-appearance: textfield; /* 1 */
+ outline-offset: -2px; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/**
+Remove the inner padding in Chrome and Safari on macOS.
+*/
+
+::-webkit-search-decoration {
+ -webkit-appearance: none;
+}
+
+/**
+1. Correct the inability to style clickable types in iOS and Safari.
+2. Change font properties to 'inherit' in Safari.
+*/
+
+::-webkit-file-upload-button {
+ -webkit-appearance: button; /* 1 */
+ font: inherit; /* 2 */
+}
+
+/*
+Interactive
+===========
+*/
+
+/*
+Add the correct display in Chrome and Safari.
+*/
+
+summary {
+ display: list-item;
+}
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+
+
+ Asya Davydova Lewis - creative-coding
+
+
+
+ Zola
+ 2022-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/creative-coding/atom.xml
+
+ Creative Coding at RC
+ 2022-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
+
+
+
+
+ Unknown
+
+
+
+
+
+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/rc-creative-coding/
+
+ <h2 id="introduction-credits">Introduction & Credits</h2>
+<p>Welcome to the guide for the Creative Coding Meetup at the Virtual Recurse Center.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<p>The meetup was started by <a href="http://rfong.github.io/">Ray Fong</a>, then led by <a href="https://github.com/aturley">Andrew Joseph Turley</a>, who passed the torch to <a href="https://github.com/Plasma-Vortex">Howard Halim</a>, who finally passed it to me.</p>
+<p>However, the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224779-creative-coding">creative-coding</a> Zulip stream has messages going all the way back to February 20, with the first one from <a href="https://solsarratea.world/">Sol Sarratea</a>. We now coordinate in another stream, <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Meetup</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-happens-at-creative-coding">What happens at Creative Coding?</h2>
+<p>Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun.
+Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html">Oblique Strategies</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/jacob4/full/EVqeWM">Random Shakespeare Quote Generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://perchance.org/emoji">perchance Random Emoji Generator</a> (set amount to 3, check "unique?" box)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.</p>
+<p>Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!</p>
+<p>Here are some common choices:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://editor.p5js.org/">editor.p5js.org</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/">codepen.io</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/">shadertoy.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://glitch.com/">glitch.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://arcade.makecode.com/">arcade.makecode.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Coordinate in the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Zulip topic</a>.
+Showing off your work is encouraged!</p>
+<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
+<p>I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/creative-coding-for-all">Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all.</a> Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="misc-inspiration">Misc Inspiration</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://paytonturnage.com/writing/generating-art-with-haskell/">Generative Art with Haskell</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome">Chrome Experiments</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="css-resources">CSS Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://colorffy.com/text-gradient-generator">CSS text gradient generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://shadows.brumm.af/">CSS box shadow generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://9elements.github.io/fancy-border-radius/">9elements – Fancy border radius generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Haikei – SVG generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Mesh Gradients by CSS Hero</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://min-max-calculator.9elements.com/">9elements – Fluid Typography without media queries via min-max value</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://ui.glass/generator/">Glassmorphism generator</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="ml-art-resources">ML Art Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Kadenze <a href="https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-deep-learning-with-tensorflow/info">Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow</a> class</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="some-ucla-design-media-class-websites-with-their-own-resource-reference-collections">Some UCLA Design | Media Class Websites with their own resource / reference collections</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://pkmital.com/home/2021/09/01/ucla-course-on-cultural-appropriation-with-machine-learning/">Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/172/?page_id=101">Interactive Animation in Unity3D</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lmccart.github.io/DMA171-disability-design-web/#resources">Disability, Design, and the Web</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/289-2/">50 Years of Software Artists: Plotter Drawings to Non-fungible Tokens</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/152/resources">Tangible Media</a> – intro to working creatively with electronics.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter21/28/">Interactivity</a> – intro Processing class taught by Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall19/161/#resources">Network Media</a> – html+css+js+p5.js taught by Lauren McCarthy, creator of p5.js.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I recommend checking out the <a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/?cTerm=Winter&cYear=2021">past versions of core DMA classes</a>, as each one has its own website with varying resource lists.
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="history-context-of-media-art-generative-art-creative-coding">History, Context of Media Art, Generative Art, Creative Coding</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/ucla-dma101-design-media-arts">My Are.na class materials archive from the Media Art 101 class</a></li>
+<li>"When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art", by Grant D. Taylor</li>
+<li>"Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation" by John Maeda</li>
+<li>"Generative Design" by Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="misc-creative-coders-and-their-work">misc creative coders and their work</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r">Vera Molnár</a></li>
+<li>Harold Cohen's AARON</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161103091706/http://silverbuffalo.org/NAA-NativeIT.html">Silver Buffalo on Native American IT</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://blacktransarchive.com/">The Black Trans Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020323214647/http://neutralground.sk.ca/artistprojects/spiderlanguage/index.html">Spider Language</a> – a First Nations contemporary art web</li>
+<li><a href="https://super-sad-googles.glitch.me/">super sad googles</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://facework.app/">facework.app</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/">Never Alone on Steam</a> inspired by Donna Haraway's <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble">Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.damonzucconi.com/">Damon Zucconi</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lynnandtonic.com/">Lynn Fisher</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://a-website-is-a-room.net/">a website is a room</a> archive of websites exploring the browser as a space</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/#vitrine:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/vitrine/archive/">Werkplaatz Typographie Vitrine Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://x20xx.com/">x20xx.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="want-to-contribute-to-this-guide">Want to contribute to this guide?</h2>
+<p>Submit <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in/blob/main/content/know/2022-08-04-rc-creative-coding.md">a pull request in the github repo</a> for this blog.</p>
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+
+ Recurse Center Report: Half Batch
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/recurse-center-report-1/
+
+ <p>This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.</p>
+<p>Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="weekly-reports">Weekly Reports</h2>
+<p>At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.</p>
+<h3 id="week-1">Week 1</h3>
+<p>I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>work on <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/">sunshine act</a> pen and paper RPG game</li>
+<li>write short bios of everyone so i could remember peoples names and personalities</li>
+<li>experimented with check-in formatting</li>
+<li>make a <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/recurse-center-2022">master channel on are.na</a> for all my RC batch related research</li>
+<li>attend a pairing workshop</li>
+<li>made ~1 new friend.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-2">Week 2</h3>
+<p>I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much</li>
+<li>started learning <code>Go</code> for my TUI game, ascii tarot</li>
+<li>got sidetracked from learning <code>Go</code> with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing</li>
+<li>attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in <code>p5.js</code></li>
+<li>had a coffee chat with a career center staff member</li>
+<li>presented</li>
+<li>made ~6 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-3">Week 3</h3>
+<p>Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>learned about <code>SQL</code></li>
+<li>started working with <code>Zola</code> and the karzok theme, <code>npm</code> became the bane of my existence</li>
+<li>met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work</li>
+<li>attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it</li>
+<li>attended the "feelings check-in"</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-4">Week 4</h3>
+<p>Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.</p>
+<p>Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>started attending weekly intentions and reflections</li>
+<li>presented during career panel</li>
+<li>replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot</li>
+<li>shipped my personal website</li>
+<li>paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.</li>
+<li>got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team</li>
+<li>had a meeting with the career center</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-5">Week 5</h3>
+<p>This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.</p>
+<p>I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>paired a bit</li>
+<li>made progress on my website</li>
+<li>went to the gym a lot</li>
+<li>did some leetcode problems</li>
+<li>strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-6">Week 6</h3>
+<p>There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>completed niceties</li>
+<li>made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian</li>
+<li>began tinkering in hardware discussion groups</li>
+<li>quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo</li>
+<li>finally a successful creative coding project</li>
+<li>wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h2>
+<p>In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.</p>
+<p>Concrete accomplishments, however:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Gave two talks</li>
+<li>Got a lot better at git</li>
+<li>Mastered templating in Obsidian</li>
+<li>Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows</li>
+<li>Shipped a static website</li>
+<li>Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">website</a>.</p>
+</div>
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/everything-is-boring/
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+ <div class="video-container">
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n94J-9YxZPc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
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+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Visiting Apex Electronics Surplus
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="so-much-stuff">So much stuff!</h2>
+<p>It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/savefrys.com/">savefrys.com</a>, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.</p>
+<h2 id="the-thoughts">The Thoughts</h2>
+<p>Reminded me of Claire L. Evans' blog post <a href="https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/12291851">Does Future Fact Depend on Present Fiction</a></p>
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+ 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
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+ January Gains
+ 2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/january-gains/
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+ <p>While it may be a little on-the-nose to start a personal accountability blog series in a January, it just so happened that I got extraordinarily motivated this recent December 2023 by my little brother. </p>
+<ul>
+<li>3.3 lbs muscle </li>
+</ul>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>7.5 lbs fat </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>left smith machine in the past </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>went from DB bench press to short bar </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>ate 60-90g protein / day </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>settled on a gym uniform that feels cute</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<h4 id="february-goals">February Goals</h4>
+<ul>
+<li>continue recomp progress</li>
+<li>bench the 35 long bar</li>
+<li>improve VO2 max via kettlebell swings after each training session</li>
+<li>eat 80-135g protein / day</li>
+<li>spend less money on vegan protein shakes from the grocery store and try some protein powders for homemade protein shakes</li>
+</ul>
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+ Asya Davydova Lewis - ken wilber
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+ Zola
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/ken-wilber/atom.xml
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/everything-is-boring/
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+ <div class="video-container">
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n94J-9YxZPc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
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+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/learning/atom.xml
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+ Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/
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+ <p>My friend Priya made a blog post called "Should I go to a coding bootcamp or self-study", which inspired me to share my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.</p>
+<h2 id="my-experience-to-expose-what-i-am-biased-towards">My experience – to expose what I am biased towards</h2>
+<p>I originally decided that I'd like to learn programming around 2012, when I wanted to make a Russian-language online platform similar to <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/rookiemag.com">Rookie Mag</a>. I didn't understand that one could get away with finding a sort of suitable wordpress theme, and once I did, I felt so passionately about my ideal project that I figured I'd need to pay a programmer to make the exact theme that I'd envisioned for the platform. I was also inspired by this weird Russian listicle website called <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/w-o-s.ru">W-O-S</a>, I loved how each article had some different animations and floating elements, and I especially loved the interactive quizzes.</p>
+<p>I mention my inspiration for learning how to code as I think inspiration is imperative to take account of when deciding on the direction you will take it into the material world. My interest was in a counterculture of both Russian and American origins, and online media. So in 2015, I attended a mini course at the Moscow Coding School.</p>
+<p>Well, first I took some introductory programming classes at Santa Monica College. At the time, the main prerequisite to any programming class was an introduction to computing as a whole. My homework assignment was to draw something in MS Paint. I hope this story can illuminate the reasons I recieved F (for failed) grades in my first year at SMC.</p>
+<p>At Moscow Coding School, I learned introductory HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL. </p>
+<h2 id="bootcamp">Bootcamp</h2>
+<h2 id="self-study">Self Study</h2>
+<h2 id="recurse-center-application">Recurse Center Application</h2>
+<p>I have pubilished <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/rc/blob/master/application/application-2022.md">my own application to rc on my github</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="recurse-center">Recurse Center</h2>
+<h2 id="self-doubt-and-imposter-syndrome">Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome</h2>
+<h2 id="employment">Employment</h2>
+<h2 id="goals-and-outcomes">Goals and Outcomes</h2>
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+ Asya Davydova Lewis - machine-learning
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+ Zola
+ 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/machine-learning/atom.xml
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+ DeepDenial
+ 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/do/deepdenial/
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+ <p>DeepDenial was a one-day speculative political activism deepfake workshop I was invited to teach at the Hackers and Designers Summer Academy <em>(a program run out of the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam)</em>.</p>
+<p>The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.</p>
+<p>In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the <em>DeepDenial</em> workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda. </p>
+<p>By taking a hands-on approach to learn how to process video data for machine learning programs, attendees armed themselves with improved digital literacy and developed a keen sense for discerning tell-tale signs of AI-processed content.</p>
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+ Zola
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/recurse-center/atom.xml
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+ Why and how you should apply to the Recurse Center
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/
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+ <p>My friend Priya made a blog post called "Should I go to a coding bootcamp or self-study", which inspired me to share my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.</p>
+<h2 id="my-experience-to-expose-what-i-am-biased-towards">My experience – to expose what I am biased towards</h2>
+<p>I originally decided that I'd like to learn programming around 2012, when I wanted to make a Russian-language online platform similar to <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/rookiemag.com">Rookie Mag</a>. I didn't understand that one could get away with finding a sort of suitable wordpress theme, and once I did, I felt so passionately about my ideal project that I figured I'd need to pay a programmer to make the exact theme that I'd envisioned for the platform. I was also inspired by this weird Russian listicle website called <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/rc-or-bootcamp/w-o-s.ru">W-O-S</a>, I loved how each article had some different animations and floating elements, and I especially loved the interactive quizzes.</p>
+<p>I mention my inspiration for learning how to code as I think inspiration is imperative to take account of when deciding on the direction you will take it into the material world. My interest was in a counterculture of both Russian and American origins, and online media. So in 2015, I attended a mini course at the Moscow Coding School.</p>
+<p>Well, first I took some introductory programming classes at Santa Monica College. At the time, the main prerequisite to any programming class was an introduction to computing as a whole. My homework assignment was to draw something in MS Paint. I hope this story can illuminate the reasons I recieved F (for failed) grades in my first year at SMC.</p>
+<p>At Moscow Coding School, I learned introductory HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL. </p>
+<h2 id="bootcamp">Bootcamp</h2>
+<h2 id="self-study">Self Study</h2>
+<h2 id="recurse-center-application">Recurse Center Application</h2>
+<p>I have pubilished <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/rc/blob/master/application/application-2022.md">my own application to rc on my github</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="recurse-center">Recurse Center</h2>
+<h2 id="self-doubt-and-imposter-syndrome">Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome</h2>
+<h2 id="employment">Employment</h2>
+<h2 id="goals-and-outcomes">Goals and Outcomes</h2>
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+ Recurse Center Report: Half Batch
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/recurse-center-report-1/
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+ <p>This Friday marks the mid-point of my batch at the Recurse Center<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>. I am in a 12 week batch, meaning I have completed 30 out of 60 days of the programming retreat. I already feel like a different person and a better programmer than when I started, and figured that it could be helpful for others to hear about my experience.</p>
+<p>Because I intended to do a 12 week retreat from the very start, I will say that I was a little lax with planning my time to be at maximum efficiency. My main goal for the retreat was proving to myself that I enjoy regular programming and learning new things, even if they look very much strange, and feel very much challenging.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="weekly-reports">Weekly Reports</h2>
+<p>At Recurse, batch members are encouraged to post text check-ins in their respective Zulip streams. Thanks to this practice, I have been able to track and share my progress, as well as stay accountable to myself and learn from the obstacles blocking my workflows.</p>
+<h3 id="week-1">Week 1</h3>
+<p>I decided to excuse myself from the requirement of writing any code in the first week, as it is quite an overwhelming and social week, but in retrospect I wish I had challenged myself a bit more, and at least refactored some code in the project that I applied to RC with, so that I could present it during Friday presentations. However, I did:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>work on <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/do/sunshine-act/">sunshine act</a> pen and paper RPG game</li>
+<li>write short bios of everyone so i could remember peoples names and personalities</li>
+<li>experimented with check-in formatting</li>
+<li>make a <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/recurse-center-2022">master channel on are.na</a> for all my RC batch related research</li>
+<li>attend a pairing workshop</li>
+<li>made ~1 new friend.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-2">Week 2</h3>
+<p>I became a lot more comfortable with all the RC software, so I set out to program every day. Despite such a clear intention, I only commited code on 3 of the 5 days, as I ended up feeling quite drained by the frequent "coffee chats", planning to work on other people's projects, and attending the social events.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>attended the "Building your volutional muscles" workshop, enjoyed it very much</li>
+<li>started learning <code>Go</code> for my TUI game, ascii tarot</li>
+<li>got sidetracked from learning <code>Go</code> with elektronika project bc of embedded meeing</li>
+<li>attended the creative coding, but failed at my task because of updated browser permissions issues in <code>p5.js</code></li>
+<li>had a coffee chat with a career center staff member</li>
+<li>presented</li>
+<li>made ~6 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-3">Week 3</h3>
+<p>Learning Go felt a little out of left field, so I decided to spin up a "quick and dirty" static website. The theme I chose to base it off of was anything but quick to work with, however it did prove to make for some quite dirty coding work. Ultimately, I was pleased with my 4/5 daily commits, as well as the fact that I didn't have to poke around the Go reference documents for a short while.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>learned about <code>SQL</code></li>
+<li>started working with <code>Zola</code> and the karzok theme, <code>npm</code> became the bane of my existence</li>
+<li>met with a staff member to discuss time management and my struggle with "doing other peoples homework" instead of focusing on my own work</li>
+<li>attended the "Balancing learning generously with your own work" workshop - really loved it</li>
+<li>attended the "feelings check-in"</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-4">Week 4</h3>
+<p>Attending the weekly intentions and reflections meetings was quite phenomenal. In general, I find intentionality incredibly meaningful and valuable in my own routine, so sharing such a practice with fellow Recursers changed my entire experience. I felt a lot closer to the community, and struggled less with accountability.</p>
+<p>Another big change was replacing my coffee chat bot with the pairing bot. I noticed that the daily chit-chat meetings spawned by the coffee chat bot took a lot of energy out of me, but didn't translate into a sense of satisfaction with how much I was learning programming or making progress on a project, be it mine or someone elses. Switching up the bots helped a lot, as I could at the very least look at somebody else's code and ask about their goals at RC, rather than talk about our outside hobbies for an hour.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>started attending weekly intentions and reflections</li>
+<li>presented during career panel</li>
+<li>replaced coffee chat bot with pairing bot</li>
+<li>shipped my personal website</li>
+<li>paired with people on their projects, which was very rewarding.</li>
+<li>got some excellent pointers on Go from someone who has worked at the Go team</li>
+<li>had a meeting with the career center</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-5">Week 5</h3>
+<p>This was the week I realized I needed to quickly make friends with everyone from the previous batch, which was ending the following week. I wish I had been more organized about my interactions with other people, as that's really one of the most valuable aspects of RC. Even if you do not work on something together, it's nice to at least get to know each other a little.</p>
+<p>I also set out to have a "solo" day where I wouldn't attend any meetings or events, and just focus on some deep work. This was a good idea, and helped me feel more in control of my productivity.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>paired a bit</li>
+<li>made progress on my website</li>
+<li>went to the gym a lot</li>
+<li>did some leetcode problems</li>
+<li>strengthened ~2 of my existing RC friendships.</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="week-6">Week 6</h3>
+<p>There is a long-standing tradition at RC to write "niceties" to members of the ending batch. I had 42 Recursers to write them for, as well as some extra for staff, which took a lot of time and effort. In the process I realized there were different types of Recursers – the very socially active, the more heads-down ultra-productive ones, the ones that host specialized events, and the ones that don't participate in the community very much. I realized that despite my own feelings about my subpar progress, I myself was a relatively successful Recurser, as I made the retreat's experience inspiring and fun for other members. Writing the niceties helped me reconsider my own goals and expectations of myself. I stopped worrying about completing a specific amount of leetcode problems or github commits, and decided to focus more on positively contributing to the experience of those currently at RC.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>completed niceties</li>
+<li>made checkin and reflection templates for obsidian</li>
+<li>began tinkering in hardware discussion groups</li>
+<li>quit the google ux certificate coursera course bc didn't have the patience to learn things i already know for $30/mo</li>
+<li>finally a successful creative coding project</li>
+<li>wrote blog post for incoming batch as i decided to host creative coding going forward</li>
+<li>made ~4 new friends!</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="takeaways">Takeaways</h2>
+<p>In these six weeks, the accomplishment I am most proud of is a sense of confidence in my ability to program, and my identity as a programmer. So many of my friends will sometimes say that they are not qualified for a project because they have limited experience programming – I cannot imagine doing this myself anymore. I would rather let the hardware say "no!" to me by breaking, than to say no to it first myself. I've learned that the only way to tackle the unknown is with curiosity – it is best friends with bravery anyway, so bravery will swiftly follow wherever curiousity goes.</p>
+<p>Concrete accomplishments, however:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Gave two talks</li>
+<li>Got a lot better at git</li>
+<li>Mastered templating in Obsidian</li>
+<li>Configured my VSCode dev environment to work well with remote collaborative versioning workflows</li>
+<li>Shipped a static website</li>
+<li>Learned a lot of new things about JavaScript, Sass, Go, Rust, Tera, SQL, and shaders.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I'm very grateful for the chance to make so many new friends, too. Next week, the incoming batch will arrive. I am excited to show them around and host some events. I do not at all feel ready to take a senior post, but nonetheless I am curious how it will go in any event.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>What is the Recurse Center? You'd probably learn best from their own <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">website</a>.</p>
+</div>
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+ Creative Coding at RC
+ 2022-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/rc-creative-coding/
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+ <h2 id="introduction-credits">Introduction & Credits</h2>
+<p>Welcome to the guide for the Creative Coding Meetup at the Virtual Recurse Center.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<p>The meetup was started by <a href="http://rfong.github.io/">Ray Fong</a>, then led by <a href="https://github.com/aturley">Andrew Joseph Turley</a>, who passed the torch to <a href="https://github.com/Plasma-Vortex">Howard Halim</a>, who finally passed it to me.</p>
+<p>However, the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224779-creative-coding">creative-coding</a> Zulip stream has messages going all the way back to February 20, with the first one from <a href="https://solsarratea.world/">Sol Sarratea</a>. We now coordinate in another stream, <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Meetup</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-happens-at-creative-coding">What happens at Creative Coding?</h2>
+<p>Each week a random prompt is picked, then we spend 90 minutes making something and meet back up to share what we made. Don't worry about perfectionism, just come have fun.
+Here are some of the generators we have used to produce creative prompts:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html">Oblique Strategies</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/jacob4/full/EVqeWM">Random Shakespeare Quote Generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://perchance.org/emoji">perchance Random Emoji Generator</a> (set amount to 3, check "unique?" box)</li>
+</ul>
+<p>You can use whatever language or tools you are comfortable or uncomfortable with.</p>
+<p>Creativity manifests in different ways, so don't feel restricted to making something visual, "artistic", or even related to the chosen prompt. This is the place to make whatever your heart and mind desires!</p>
+<p>Here are some common choices:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://editor.p5js.org/">editor.p5js.org</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://codepen.io/">codepen.io</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/">shadertoy.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://glitch.com/">glitch.com</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://arcade.makecode.com/">arcade.makecode.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Coordinate in the <a href="https://recurse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/19042-397-Bridge/topic/Creative.20Coding.20Meetup">Creative Coding Zulip topic</a>.
+Showing off your work is encouraged!</p>
+<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
+<p>I am leisurely amalgamating a lot of materials on an <a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/creative-coding-for-all">Are.na page, creative-coding-for-all.</a> Feel free to add to it! I also have some more structured resources to peruse here:
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="misc-inspiration">Misc Inspiration</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://paytonturnage.com/writing/generating-art-with-haskell/">Generative Art with Haskell</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome">Chrome Experiments</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="css-resources">CSS Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://colorffy.com/text-gradient-generator">CSS text gradient generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://shadows.brumm.af/">CSS box shadow generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://9elements.github.io/fancy-border-radius/">9elements – Fancy border radius generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Haikei – SVG generator</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://haikei.app/">Mesh Gradients by CSS Hero</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://min-max-calculator.9elements.com/">9elements – Fluid Typography without media queries via min-max value</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://ui.glass/generator/">Glassmorphism generator</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="ml-art-resources">ML Art Resources</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Kadenze <a href="https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-deep-learning-with-tensorflow/info">Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow</a> class</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="some-ucla-design-media-class-websites-with-their-own-resource-reference-collections">Some UCLA Design | Media Class Websites with their own resource / reference collections</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://pkmital.com/home/2021/09/01/ucla-course-on-cultural-appropriation-with-machine-learning/">Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/172/?page_id=101">Interactive Animation in Unity3D</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lmccart.github.io/DMA171-disability-design-web/#resources">Disability, Design, and the Web</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/289-2/">50 Years of Software Artists: Plotter Drawings to Non-fungible Tokens</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall21/152/resources">Tangible Media</a> – intro to working creatively with electronics.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter21/28/">Interactivity</a> – intro Processing class taught by Casey Reas, co-creator of Processing.</li>
+<li><a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall19/161/#resources">Network Media</a> – html+css+js+p5.js taught by Lauren McCarthy, creator of p5.js.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>I recommend checking out the <a href="https://classes.dma.ucla.edu/?cTerm=Winter&cYear=2021">past versions of core DMA classes</a>, as each one has its own website with varying resource lists.
+<br><br></p>
+<h3 id="history-context-of-media-art-generative-art-creative-coding">History, Context of Media Art, Generative Art, Creative Coding</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://www.are.na/anastasia-davydova-lewis/ucla-dma101-design-media-arts">My Are.na class materials archive from the Media Art 101 class</a></li>
+<li>"When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art", by Grant D. Taylor</li>
+<li>"Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation" by John Maeda</li>
+<li>"Generative Design" by Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub</li>
+</ul>
+<h3 id="misc-creative-coders-and-their-work">misc creative coders and their work</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r">Vera Molnár</a></li>
+<li>Harold Cohen's AARON</li>
+<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161103091706/http://silverbuffalo.org/NAA-NativeIT.html">Silver Buffalo on Native American IT</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://blacktransarchive.com/">The Black Trans Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020323214647/http://neutralground.sk.ca/artistprojects/spiderlanguage/index.html">Spider Language</a> – a First Nations contemporary art web</li>
+<li><a href="https://super-sad-googles.glitch.me/">super sad googles</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://facework.app/">facework.app</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/295790/Never_Alone_Kisima_Ingitchuna/">Never Alone on Steam</a> inspired by Donna Haraway's <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble">Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.damonzucconi.com/">Damon Zucconi</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://lynnandtonic.com/">Lynn Fisher</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://a-website-is-a-room.net/">a website is a room</a> archive of websites exploring the browser as a space</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/#vitrine:https://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/vitrine/archive/">Werkplaatz Typographie Vitrine Archive</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://x20xx.com/">x20xx.com</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="want-to-contribute-to-this-guide">Want to contribute to this guide?</h2>
+<p>Submit <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in/blob/main/content/know/2022-08-04-rc-creative-coding.md">a pull request in the github repo</a> for this blog.</p>
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+ Visiting Apex Electronics Surplus
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+ https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/
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+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="so-much-stuff">So much stuff!</h2>
+<p>It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/savefrys.com/">savefrys.com</a>, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.</p>
+<h2 id="the-thoughts">The Thoughts</h2>
+<p>Reminded me of Claire L. Evans' blog post <a href="https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/12291851">Does Future Fact Depend on Present Fiction</a></p>
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+ 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
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+ DeepDenial
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+ <p>DeepDenial was a one-day speculative political activism deepfake workshop I was invited to teach at the Hackers and Designers Summer Academy <em>(a program run out of the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam)</em>.</p>
+<p>The workshop was designed for students of varied technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. Participants practiced extracting and organizing data in order to apply a neural network for the purpose of making "deepfakes", or videos with swapped faces.</p>
+<p>In the news, deepfake technology initially came to light as it was being used to create abusive explicit content with unwilling face-swapped participants. Concerns are commonly voiced on the potential use of deepfaking for political propaganda. A central aspect of the <em>DeepDenial</em> workshop is the discussion of media ethics, surveillance vs sousveillance, and explorations of defensive propaganda. </p>
+<p>By taking a hands-on approach to learn how to process video data for machine learning programs, attendees armed themselves with improved digital literacy and developed a keen sense for discerning tell-tale signs of AI-processed content.</p>
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+ Zola
+ 2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
+ https://asyaplugged.in/tags/think-thonk/atom.xml
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+ <p>This Friday I visited Apex Electronics Surplus in Sun Valley, CA.</p>
+<h2 id="so-much-stuff">So much stuff!</h2>
+<p>It was cool. I was very excited by the sheer size of the store and amount of available items, so I recorded a birthday wish for my little brother in one of the aisles. My little brother was the driving force behing my inspiration for <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/drafts/apex-visit/savefrys.com/">savefrys.com</a>, so it only felt appropriate to record a message at an electronics surplus store.</p>
+<h2 id="the-thoughts">The Thoughts</h2>
+<p>Reminded me of Claire L. Evans' blog post <a href="https://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/12291851">Does Future Fact Depend on Present Fiction</a></p>
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+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ Feeling Like a Space
+ 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+ <h3 id="hf-and-what-feeling-like-a-space-is-like">hf and what feeling like a space is like</h3>
+<p>The 2015 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/20/3/241/4067543">Homuncular Flexibility</a> paper recently resurfaced from a <a href="https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1590386231707406345">trending post</a> on Twitter. I'd like to think that tweeting out the words HOLY SHIT and a link to a paper about something like, I don't know, <a href="https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/17066439/7ae33aaff0f3aef21bdcd9ff7b424d8a.pdf?1656706134">deep image reconsctruction from fMRI imaging of brain activity</a> would have a similarly mass-exciting result, but I digress. The discussion around the human ability to learn how to control and sense bodies very different from their own prompted me to think about the way in which we have learned to embody digital spaces, which are of course very different from physical spaces.</p>
+<p>Websites and screen-based interfaces produce the sensation</p>
+<p>the 3D metaverse is still in its relatively early stages, </p>
+<h3 id="else">else</h3>
+<p>tools are interpreted by the brain as an extension of the human body.
+haptic feedback, color schemes, </p>
+<h3 id="work-arounds-affordances">work-arounds, affordances</h3>
+<p>Self regulation via peripheral attention management. </p>
+<p>I'm sure you've seen this recent video trend you're shown footage of eye catching gaming footage with an unrelated story is</p>
+<p>Once I heard a "focus hack" where you put a makeup pallette on your workdesk and allow yourself to rest your gaze on it instead of reaching for your phone and getting sucked into an endless-scrolling distraction trap.</p>
+<h3 id="feeling-like-a-language-feeling-like-an-era">feeling like a language, feeling like an era</h3>
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+ Lecture Notes: Robin Arnott on Meditation & Gaming
+ 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00
+ 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
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+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n94J-9YxZPc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+<p>I experienced a rather significant personal paradigm shift after Robin Arnott's presentation "Everything is Boring" at the BDYHAX conference on February 24th, 2019. I have several versions of hand-written notes on it, and have spent countless late nights gesticulating on and on about the premise, so I figured to publish my notes (something between an inaccurate summary and personal comments) and suavely drop a hyperlink any time the itch to transmute this paradigm strikes, instead of acting like <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia">this</a>. </p>
+<p>The talk focuses on the issue at the center of the wellness-meditation economy: everything is boring. Using a psychological framework from Ken Wilber, it analyzes the wellness economy's own relative "health", and demonstrates that both wellness and successful consumer interfaces have a much stronger connection to passion-based areas like entertainment, music and gaming, rather than mass infrastructure like medicine or workforce training.</p>
+<p>Robin: if you're reading this, please respond to my emails – I would love to have access to the slides from this talk. It's great that there's now a video recording available, but I am struggling to find the proper chart images the talk is based on.</p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
+<p>Arnott is the CEO and cofounder of Andromeda Entertainment, a gaming publishing company focused on titles that draw inspiration from wellness, i.e. games that enrich players lives in meaningful ways, rather than just baiting and distracting them.</p>
+<p>He has spoken quite a bit about game design as a mechanism for transcendence, but this talk focuses on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory – a psychological theory that can be used not only for understanding oneself and the people around us, but also understanding trends in culture learning how to aid the psychological developments of culture at large.</p>
+<h2 id="integral-psychology">Integral Psychology</h2>
+<p>Arnott believes one of the main issues with health technologies and the way we treat our bodies is it that it can be pretty joyless, boring and uninspiring. Analyzing current paradigms of health technologies, health economies, and our relationship with our body as a whole through the frame of Integral psychology offers some not-so-boring steps forward.</p>
+<figure>
+<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png" alt="integral theory map">
+<figcaption>Figure 1. Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology theory map.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+<p>Figure 2. "Stages of Consciousness" map.</p>
+<p>Arnott highlights three color-coded stages as separate paradigms from each of them:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>orange paradigm: bureaucratic, scientific, evidence based</li>
+<li>green paradigm: decentralized, pluralistic, postmodern, egalitarian</li>
+<li>teal paradigm: integrated, evolving the present moment</li>
+</ul>
+<h2 id="have-you-ever-lied">Have you ever lied?</h2>
+<p>Let's say, you tell some huge lie, for example you have been cheating on your partner and you don't tell them the truth. What are the consequences of this lie? How does it make you feel? How much does it affect other decisions you make? Your entire life becomes predicated on this one lie. You lose confidence in your decision-making and your actions. You cannot build a life on top of a foundation comprised of a lie.</p>
+<h2 id="medical-economy">Medical Economy</h2>
+<p>The medical economy operates on the social lie that the medical system has the answer to overcoming death. The orange medical system maintains the lie that YOU SHOULD NOT DIE.</p>
+<h3 id="medical-gaze">Medical Gaze</h3>
+<p>This argument reminds me of the "medical gaze", the practice of objectifying the body of the patient as separate from their personal identity, coined by Michel Foucault's in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Clinic">"Birth of the Clinic"</a>, which interrogates the dehumanization foundational to modern medicine, as well as the reasons why the scientific advances in medicine and healthcare have not succeeded in abolishing sickness and resolving the problems of humanity.</p>
+<h2 id="the-green-paradigm-in-the-wellness-economy">The green paradigm in the wellness economy</h2>
+<p>The wellness paradigm of meditation apps with their condescending "nudge" notifications, "should"-ing you, is also predicated on a lie. It condescends and infantilizes users under the false pretense that
+SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.
+You need to "get better". If you miss a day, you are a failure. Your habits are pathologized when they do not serve the app's interests of high user engagement and retention.</p>
+<p>Now, how often do you pick up your phone to use a self-improvement app? How much time per day do you spend on this app category? There's mounds of UX research showing that this app category does not perform well in the screen time olympics.
+But what apps do you gravitate towards when you want to feel better? Spotify. Candy Crush. Snapchat. Tiktok.</p>
+<p>Have you ever gone to a concert & felt spiritually transformed?</p>
+<h3 id="ux-as-infantilization">UX as Infantilization</h3>
+<p>Arnott's focus on "condescending infantilism" reminds me of Jesse Baron's essay <a href="https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/">"The Babysitters Club"</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="the-teal-paradigm-in-the-next-economy-of-health">The teal paradigm in the next economy of health</h2>
+<p>The next economy of health is based in joy and transformation.
+Body - Mind is an expression of Truth.
+Music, entertainment, and socializing are healing economy models.
+They do not have a "should quality and your soul is open to them.</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align: left"></th><th style="text-align: left">medicine</th><th style="text-align: left">wellness</th><th style="text-align: left">the new economy ??</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>identity</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">individual</td><td style="text-align: left">pluralistic global data point in a large database</td><td style="text-align: left">spirit</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>achievement</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">systematization</td><td style="text-align: left">access</td><td style="text-align: left">integrated wisdom</td></tr>
+<tr><td style="text-align: left"><strong>relationship to the body</strong></td><td style="text-align: left">mechanical</td><td style="text-align: left">purging trauma</td><td style="text-align: left">maladaptive body patterns begin to dissolve</td></tr>
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+ Hello World: Welcome to Asya's blog
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+ <p>Hello, and welcome to my website, specifically my blog.</p>
+<!--more-->
+<h2 id="what-s-going-on-with-the-whole-do-you-know-love-thing">What's going on with the whole "do you know love" thing?</h2>
+<p>So, when I was first learning programming, I made a <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/process">game</a> in Processing. I wanted to make a peculiar online psychology quiz, so one of the questions was "Do you know love?" with the only answer being an hard-to-click "YES". I was inspired by Lacan's contention that jouissance is a phenomenon unknowable to humans, but as I needed some sort of "click" interaction to trigger the next question screen, I asked the question not about jouissance, but rather something more people are familiar with: love.</p>
+<img src="https://asyaplugged.in/assets/process-love-level.png" alt="Level Image" width="300">
+<p>Shortly thereafter, I put the graphic from that quiz on the splash page of my old website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://xnast.asia/">xnast.asia</a>. You could only enter the website if you successfully clicked "YES". This was back in 2016. In 2022, I decided to make the website that you are currently on. I knew I wanted to have four different sections:</p>
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+<ol>
+<li>info / about me</li>
+<li>portfolio / work case studies</li>
+<li>blog</li>
+<li>page of things that i love</li>
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+<p>I had an epiphany while gathering the inspiration and ideas for the design and development of <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/">asyaplugged.in</a> that I could articulate the menu of my new website with the splash page title of my previous website, just like so:</p>
+<table><thead><tr><th>nav</th><th>question</th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<tr><td>portfolio</td><td>do</td></tr>
+<tr><td>about</td><td>you</td></tr>
+<tr><td>blog</td><td>know</td></tr>
+<tr><td>things i love</td><td>love</td></tr>
+</tbody></table>
+<p>I'd be interested in hearing from you what you think about this articulation, whether it was confusing for you, etc.</p>
+<h2 id="what-does-asyapluggedin-mean-what-happened-to-xnastasia">What does asyapluggedin mean? What happened to xnastasia?</h2>
+<p>Someday I will write a separate post about the permutations of my identity / avatar / sense of self, but until then, this brief explanation will have to suffice.</p>
+<p>I felt that the <em>xnast.asia</em> url and <em>xnastasia</em> username was too hard to pronounce, and had a little bit of a pornographic vibe. Every time people typed "x...n...a...s...t..." into a search bar, I would never be the first thing to auto-populate the field. I've still held onto the url and most of the usernames, but once I came up with <em>asyapluggedin</em> I was so happy to swap all my online pointers to that.</p>
+<p>My father has had the username mattpluggedin for the longest time, and so the "plugged in" username always made me feel nostalgic for the whole early internet / dotcom boom era, which plays a significant role in a lot my work. But I never thought to inherit the username before I came across the sci-fi book "The Girl That Was Plugged In"<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>, which also is the title of an episode of sci-fi TV series "Welcome to Paradox".</p>
+<h2 id="do-you-have-an-rss-feed-can-i-tell-you-if-something-is-broken-or-typoed">Do you have an RSS feed? Can I tell you if something is broken or typoed?</h2>
+<p>Yes and yes. You can access the RSS feed for my blog via <a href="https://asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml">asyaplugged.in/know/atom.xml</a>.</p>
+<p>I would also be very happy to hear any feedback on my blog or really, any aspect of the entire website. You can make a pull request on <a href="https://github.com/asyapluggedin/asyaplugged.in">github</a>, where my website is hosted, or just send me a message on whichever platform you prefer.</p>
+<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
+<p>I learned about this book from Dr. Teddy Pozo's UCLA Game Lab Teledildonics lecture from Spring 2021.</p>
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