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<p>Hi, I&#39;m Dave! I like art, books, writing, and programming computers.</p><p>Amazing pixel art avatar by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@misnina" class="u-url mention">@<span>misnina</span></a></span> from my old watercolor original.</p><p>Banner illustration is a watercolor drawing of a shelf of colorful books.</p>

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    Doing the official Inktober list this year. Going to try to make them all fish! #inktober #inktober2026 #apple #traditionalArt #anglerFish

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    Came across this little drawing from last year. Never posted until now because it was one of my daily pair of &quot;lunch notes&quot; that I send off with the kids&#39; lunches to school. We were really into the local isopods last fall. #armadillidiidae #comic

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    https://ratfactor.com/cards/personal-website &quot;[This is] as good a time as any to write down these thoughts I’ve been germinating for the last decade.&quot; (Also, I just realized my website is going to be 30 years old next year. Wow.) #website #indieweb

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    @emilylorange@mastodon.art WOW! Spectacular result! I love the colors. :artaww:

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    Madam Frog is ready to scry your fortune now. 🐸🔮 (This 96g sketch-weight paper was NOT meant for this!) #watercolor #drawtober #frog

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    A reminder from my pocket notebook: Use your head.

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    I&amp;#39;m behind! Previous letter was &amp;#39;H&amp;#39;. So H is for...Heck of a Hog! #ArtABCs

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    &amp;quot;You Wouldn&amp;#39;t Steal a Car&amp;quot; formatted text: You Wouldn&amp;#39;t Finish a Project. http://ratfactor.com/finishing-things

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    NASA&amp;#39;s poster for the #artemis2 mission. I was reading about the mission this evening and learned that the SLS uses RS-25 engines like the Space Shuttle. Also, the Orion capsule is roomier than I expected. #nasa #artemis

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    Pagan holidays are fun. #easter #easterBunny

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    &amp;quot;The Litterati&amp;quot; Sorry for the bad pun. As soon as I thought of it, I had to draw it... and subject everyone else to it. 😂 #sketchbook #puns #reading #cats

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    @gwenverbsnouns Yes!!! I have a currently on-hold JavaScript (canvas) raytracer project I&#39;m very excited about - it&#39;s an interactive lesson that builds up the theory over a series of little demos starting with 2D raytracing. So many projects to do! That one is near the bottom of the stack. 😵‍💫

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    @gwenverbsnouns Oh wow, I remember those hall of fame images! I loved playing with POV-Ray, mostly just hand-writing scenes. My finest achievement at the time was writing a program (in Java) that would convert BMP images to pov-ray file with a field of colored spheres, one for each pixel. I was so proud of that. 😃

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    @gwenverbsnouns Ugh, I&#39;m sorry to hear that. That&#39;s exactly what I expected. 🙁

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    @gwenverbsnouns Oh wow, yeah. I&#39;ve often wondered how people who were studying AI/ML before &quot;all of this happened&quot; feel about where we&#39;re at. I&#39;m sure opinions vary. Super important to have those other interests and facets to lean on. I always marvel that those stories about career guys who retire and then just...die because they don&#39;t know what to do with themselves. I can&#39;t even imagine not having 1,297 hobbies waiting in the wings. 🤣

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    @vascorsd It&#39;s certainly a hell of a time to be alive. :bear_hugs:

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    G is for...grasshopper ghost! Spooky and sproingy. Join us for #ArtABCs, the most laid-back art challenge ever. Share your art of anything starting with G! (No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed.)

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    F is for...Finch Farmer! Join us for the #ArtABCs... where a lucky letter is chosen from the alphabet every two weeks or so until they&amp;#39;re all gone. I have a strong suspicion &amp;#39;G&amp;#39; might be next. EDIT: I should probably attach the art. 🤣 #mastoArt #houseFinch

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    Another thing off my plate! Now you can see what those Puffy drawings I posted earlier were for. If you like OpenBSD and/or packet filtering, you may enjoy this: https://ratfactor.com/openbsd/pf-gateway-bedtime #openBSD #pf #homeLab

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    I&amp;#39;ve fully moved my website to @OpenBSDAms at last! Very excited to make this transition to #OpenBSD and httpd(8) for web hosting. https://ratfactor.com/openbsd/blog-13-moving-to-openbsd-dot-amsterdam

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    E is for...Escape! For the #ArtABCs started by @KarinWanderer . #keyboard #mastoArt #sketchbook #rat #escape

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    Oh, cool! This is the sketchbook with the original ratfactor rat avatar. The previous page has some sketches that lead up to the final. #sketchbook #rats