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For #WorldCaribouDay:

Pudlo Pudlat (Inuit, 1916-1992)

1 Caribou in Winter Light, 1986

stonecut

25x30.75in (63.5x78.1cm)

2 Pangniq Sniffs the Wind, 1984

stonecut & stencil

24x34in (60.1x86.4cm)

3 Caribou with Arctic Murre, n.d.

coloured pencil & felt-tip drawing

20x25.5in (50.8x64.8cm)

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Pudlo-Pudlat/0BC7D0E9B5A8E7D3

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Skinned my first bird!

This is the roadkill ring-necked pheasant I picked up in spring of last year. They are not a native bird species here in the U.S, therefore they are not protected under MBTA, he was all mine to take home. They are pretty uncommon here so getting my hands on one, let alone a male in full breeding plumage, is a real treat.

I had no idea what I was doing skinning him but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. I say I did pretty good for my first bird. To my knowledge I only put two holes, one above one of his wattles, and another on his breast where the skin and crop sack were really hard to differentiate between. And obviously the hole where I removed the tail. Miraculously he had no broken bones considering he was taken out by a car. This is a huge win because you keep the wing and leg bones in the mount with bird taxidermy. He did have a ton of internal bleeding which was not fun to work around.

He will be fleshed, washed, and boraxed next, then be mounted up

Carcass pictures under cut

So beautiful

(don’t be like me, touching dead shit with your bare hands, wear gloves)

Pheasants easily have some of the best colored eyes of all birds in my opinion, it fits perfectly with their feathers

Pheasant meat should be similar to the color of chicken meat, his internal bleeding was pretty bad. Poor fella. At least he was living good before the end, he was fatty with a full crop.

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A bunch of modelling stuff I made for my partner @kittehburger 's oc Widget!! Isn't he goregous

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Welcome to your new job in the IT department. Just don't enter the server room without permission.

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these are SOO CUTEEEEEE ❤️❤️❤️ EEEE

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IT'S SNOWINF!!!!!

If you're hyped about the weather, they're hyped about the weather. Let your pooltoys play in the snow :3

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Hello Friends

important life update

I bought a CRT TV finally. His name is Ace and he's the cutest thing ever and you all need to see him.

We've been bonding by watching through my Disney VHS collection together :) He produces a satisfying crackling sound as well as this beautiful hum. It's pure ASMR.

Also he has a radio built in? Really nice to listen to in the background with that analog bitcrush and tinge of static. I don't know what he connects to but he connects to something that plays beautiful indie music I've never heard before.

Almost like he's singing to me haha.

I am excited to also bring out some vintage consoles to play on him as well as seeing if I can connect my laptop/dvd player to him...maybe even make my own VHS tapes of my own work.

I love you Ace.

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꧁★꧂

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me in the group chat: hey. bad news guys

gc: oh no. you did it again didn't you

me: yeah. i got lost in the beauty of a gif of a dragon from the early 2000s again. sorry

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<𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠! 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕞𝕒𝕪 𝕀 𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕠𝕕𝕒𝕪?>

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҂ ST4MP DUMP ៸៸ 📁

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hmm.

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10 of wands

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custom for a friend

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Ok. I am going to let you in on a secret about how to make programming projects.

You know how people write really good code? Easy to read, easy to work with, easy to understand and very efficient?

By refactoring.

The idea that you write glorious nice code straight is an insane myth that comes from thinking tutorials is how people actually code.

That is because programming is just writing. Nothing more. Same as all other writing.

The hobbit is ~95000 words.

Do you think Tolkien created the Hobbit by writing 95 thousand words?

Of course not! He wrote many many times that. Storylines that ended up scrapped or integrated in other ways, sections that got rewritten, dialog written again and again as the rest of the story happened. Background details filled in after the story had settled down

Writing. Is. Rewriting.

Coding. Is. Refactoring.

Step 1 in programming is proof of concept. Start with the most dangerous part of your project ( danger = how little experience you have with it * how critical it is for your project to work )

Get it to do... anything.

Make proof of concept code for all the most dangerous parts of the project. Ideally there is only 1 of these. If there is more than 3 then your project is too big. ( yes, this means your projects needs to be TINY )

Then write and refactor code to get a minimum viable pruduct. It should do JUUUUUST the most important critical things.

Now you have a proper codebase. Now everytime you need to expand or fix things, also refactor the code you touch in order to do this. Make it a little bit nicer and better. Write unit tests for it. The works.

After a while, the code that works perfectly and never needs to be touched is hard to read. Which does not matter because you will never read it

And the code that you need to change often is the nicest code in the codebase.

TRYING TO GUESS AHEAD OF TIME WHAT PARTS OF THE CODE WILL BE CHANGED OFTEN IS A FOOLS ERRAND.

( also, use git. Dear god use git and commit no more than 10 lines at once and write telling descriptions for each. GIT shows WHAT you did. YOU write WHY you did it )

Is this how to make your hobby project?

Yes. And also how all good software everywhere is made.