Hello world! 👋 I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)

I look like I'm about to give you the worst escort quest you've ever had in your life 🤣

Excited to get SCII on Switch 2 just so I can do my fave move

Art on an eggshell with a small cutting tool

Yeah I see these ads all over SF The backlash was so great they redesigned the new ones though

The world is a cat playing with Australia

Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything

I recently came across a team using an LLM to implement a state machine. They called it "agentic". They also told me it worked correctly most of the time. I asked them to write down the list of rules for moving from one state to another. They listed them out. It didn't take

Every time I try to write about something that I think I understand, I am forced to confront this idea from Paul Graham again.

I 3D Printed a working 3D Printer, let me show you how it works.

I just test drove the Arc Sport, an EV surf boat from Arc, the Tesla of electric boats. This thing is insane. It accelerates and turns like my supercharged Sea-Doo. The boats are already in market and the business is well funded.

Well it's nice to see that even in a world with generative AI, I'm still getting graphic design/illustration gigs.

Kinetic sculptures that mimic human-like gestures by artist Jakob Grosse-Ophoff.

I invented the Lay-Z-Cons so I can play my Switch while laying down the couch.

Keith Sakata, MD AI is an amplifier, often with distortion, not the original sound. Social media is another distortion amplifier. I think about this often: how can we nurture, protect, and truly know our own hearts with fewer amplifiers and less distortion? Prayer, meditation, workouts, voluntary

And people wonder why I'm not a huge fan of just talking to AI chat agents like a friend or using them as a replacement for a real therapist

Bro threw him like sack of potatoes

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 explains why hyperlinks are blue. And how early web design was shaped by personal taste and an early attempt at dark mode.