ArtBot keeps chugging along! 5,000,000 images have been created.

Just finished up our solar installation. Here’s to reducing the amount of money we give to the fiasco known as PG&E.

I cannot stop staring at this screen. Give me all the photons!

It’s that time of year again! Thanks to Last.fm, we can compile all the songs and artists that I’ve listened to over the last year. The results? (Same as it ever was, really.)

1. Hot Water Music
2. Dispatch
3. Dramarama
4. AFI
5. Led Zeppelin
6. The Rolling Stones
7. The Who
8. Bob Dylan
9. Dire Straits
10. They Might Be Giants

Hah! This is pretty awesome. My nifty side project, ArtBot, has been written up in PC World as part of a larger article about Stable Horde (the open source backend that powers my web app):

Stable Horde has a few front-end interfaces to use to create AI art, but my preferred choice is ArtBot, which taps into the Horde. (There’s also a separate client interface, with either a Web version or downloadable software.)

Interestingly enough, ArtBot just passed 2,000,000 images generated!

Err, this is cool!

Somehow, ArtBot (my tool to generate art using a cluster of distributed GPUs) has just generated: 1,000,000 images!

I’ve seen people share links to it on Reddit, Twitter, and even a YouTube video demonstrating how to use it.

It’s by far, the most used thing that I’ve ever created for fun. Pretty cool!

To the tune of R.E.M’s “End of the World”:

“It’s the end of the (Twitter) as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiiinnnnneeee!” via… me.

I don’t have high hopes for the future of Twitter, pending Elon’s acquisition. It’s a service I’ve long loved, been frustrated with, but also found immense value in.

I’ve gotten jobs because of it, made new friends because of it, learned a lot because of it. Granted, it’s gotten much more toxic and I long for the days when it was fun.

But I don’t think having this service in control of a self-proclaimed internet troll who has lurched evermore rightward is going to improve things. Alas.

Hot diggity! Just got my first earthquake warning!

And it was also my first time having an earthquake while on a Zoom meeting. That was rather amusing.

I added support for img2img requests on ArtBot. Essentially, you feed it a base image and write a description of what you want the image to be turned into.

Using my highly specialized and custom Canine Calibration Device (ah hem, Benson), I turned him into a robot.