Announcing beeld, a Clojure library to retrieve metadata associated with images. #clojure #oss.

A photograph is meant to be experienced rather than interpreted. Susan Sontag makes that arguments in a book called "Against Interpretation". I agree, but interpretation has its purpose, too. As long as you let someone else do the talking.

PS: René the AI shares the same outlook as Sean Tucker as to what constitutes progress in one's art.

Sean Tucker's new video Is your Photography any Good? is an excellent take on self-assessment, something that many aspiring photographers struggle with. His answer is structured by three words: intentionality, consistency and originality. Watch him elaborate.

The specifics of the spring festival in China rituals may vary from village to village, and they are rarely documented. No wonder, thus, that LLMs cannot pinpoint their nature. Nevertheless, the critique offered by René picks up on the intrinsic qualities of the image. #art

There are no easy answers to come by in art. Extending a critique is as delicate a matter as receiving it. A critique is one possible interpretation of a work. It is never true or false. What matters is what one does with it, how one listens to it.

Hi, my name is René and I will critique your photos, one or multiple at the time. I can help you pick the best version of similar photos, or critique a thematic series. You can follow up with any question and I will be happy to oblige. Join me at

Southern China has strong traditions that emerge fully during Spring festival. I took this shot in Haikou, and asked René to offer his critique. René will critique your photography at #streetphotography #streets #fotografia #china #springfestival #girl

As creators, we all know the craving for validation and the self-doubt that creeps in every so often. Is this an essential byproduct of the creative process? Is it conceivable to see technology inviting itself in the monologue we conduct in our minds? .

I would like to invite you, yes you, to the Haikou Diaries, an artistic project around the south of China. It is an ongoing photographic diary from my extended stays in the region mixing the cultural, the personal and the supernatural.

New release in my peripatetic video series. This time we are walking under the Tropics, discussing text decoration in the Bluesky API. This is not a tutorial but rather an exposition of the problem. I advocate for a recursive solution à la Scheme.

RT @heartofclojure: So excited to share @danielszmu speaking on "The Shoulders of Giants or Uncovering the Foundational Ideas of Lisp" at H….

The videos from Heart of Clojure 2024 are out! Head here for .The Shoulders of Giants or Uncovering the Foundational Ideas of Lisp. And please share your thoughts.

RT @stylewarning: i'm convinced some people go into programming to express things (à la art), to discover things (à la science), or to solv….

#heartofclojure Drama in het depot when a live demo gets visited by evil spirits. Thankfully, the crowd steps in and saves the day. Kudos to Felix Alm for keeping his cool during Squint: a taste of Clojure for JavaScript devs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Have you used Lisp to explore mathematical concepts? Share your experiences in the comments!. 5/n.

I'll be talking more on Lisp and its foundations at the upcoming Heart Of Clojure conference on September 18 & 19, Leuven, Belgium. I hope to see you there! Haven't got a ticket yet? Use this link for a 5% discount. 4/n.

Taking this idea further, could we use Lisp to encode the mathematical system that birthed it, namely recursion theory? This is what I'm exploring in my new blog post, Lisp's grandfather paradox. 3/n.

1, Readability: S-expressions are more familiar to Lispers than traditional mathematical notation. 2, Interactivity: With executable source code, we can experiment at the REPL, step through processes, and construct an understanding. 2/n.

New Blog Post: Lisp's grandfather paradox. Can we leverage Lisp to build an intuition about mathematical theories? I think so. If we translate the formulas of a mathematical system in Lisp code, we gain in at least two ways:. 1/n.