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My top music of 2022
Itās that time of year again! Thanks to Last.fm, we can compile all the songs and artists that Iāve listened to over the last year. The results? (Same as it ever was, really.)
- Hot Water Music
- Dispatch
- Dramarama
- AFI
- Led Zeppelin
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- Bob Dylan
- Dire Straits
- They Might Be Giants
ArtBot written up in PC World!
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. (Thereās also a separate client interface, with either a Web version or downloadable software.)
Interestingly enough, ArtBot just passed 2,000,000 images generated!
1,000,000 images generated with ArtBot!
Err, this is cool!
Somehow,Ā ArtBot (my tool to generate art using a cluster of distributed GPUs) has just generated:Ā 1,000,000 images!
Iāve seen people share links to it on Reddit, Twitter, and even a YouTube video demonstrating how to use it.
Itās by far, the most used thing that Iāve ever created for fun. Pretty cool!
Woe is Twitter…
To the tune of R.E.Mās āEnd of the Worldā:
āItās the end of the (Twitter) as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiiinnnnneeee!ā via⦠me.
I donāt have high hopes for the future of Twitter, pending Elonās acquisition. Itās a service Iāve long loved, been frustrated with, but also found immense value in.
Iāve gotten jobs because of it, made new friends because of it, learned a lot because of it. Granted, itās gotten much more toxic and I long for the days when it was fun.
But I donāt think having this service in control of a self-proclaimed internet troll who has lurched evermore rightward is going to improve things. Alas.
First earthquake warning
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.
Turning my dog into a robot, using Stable Diffusion
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.
New side project: ArtBot, a way to create images using Stable Diffusion
Thanks to Reddit, I recently stumbled upon a cool project called Stable Horde. It essentially lets you generate images using a distributed cluster of GPUs donated by community members.
I had been creating my own web interface to remotely interact with a Stable Diffusion instance running on my own machine. I decided to quickly repurpose the web app and connect to the Stable Horde API. The result?
ArtBot, a Stable Diffusion demonstration that allows you to generate images using the power of the Stable Horde. It is awesome!
On the bay!
Iām on a boat and all that..
ā¦because the Blue Angels are here!
This dev tools update is going to take awhile
Oops. I guess I accidentally typed in āgit statusā (no, I didnāt ā I do this all the time!)
Now, MacOS needs to redownload all the dev tools again. It looks like itās going to be awhile.
Fun fact: The time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex existed and now is less than the time between now and when Git will finally be installed on this machine.