Dave Convery

@zomda

With every bite of bahn mi I grow stronger & feistier

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Dave Convery@zomda· 9d

I don’t know what’s happened to my Instagram algorithm, but I do not like it.

Dave Convery@zomda· 23d

Sometimes you paint a whole diorama for a painting contest, and sometimes you just knuckle down and really focus on rendering a cat’s anus as accurately as you can.

A small model of a sphinx cat on a black background, next to a man’s fingertip.

A small model of a sphinx cat on a black background, facing the camera.

A small model of a sphinx cat on a black background, side on.

A small model of a sphinx cat on a black background, just the ass this time. Tastefully done though. Like real classy as far as tiny models of a cat’s asshole go.

Dave Convery@zomda· Jul 17

“OK, I know what you’re wondering: who were all of those dudes and why were they hanging around his house”

A screenshot advertising a YouTube video offering to explain the ending of The Odyssey, a story that has existed since the Bronze Age and predates most modern languages.

Dave Convery@zomda· Jul 17

Warren Ellis: In my book I invented the Sex Doll Teacher because I was having a wank near a typewriter. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Sex Doll Teacher from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Sex Doll Teacher.

A screenshot from Kotaku, reading:

"Sex Doll Company Plans To Create AI Teachers For New York School District"

"Realbotix, the company behind RealDolls, wants to use the same tech to teach STEM to teenagers"

Dave Convery@zomda· Jul 11

Finished painting this guy for Fen Model Show in a few weeks time. Horrible skin textures are fun!

A bust of an orc, with lurid green skin, and a fleshy wattle. Front view.

A bust of an orc, with lurid green skin, and a fleshy wattle. Side view.

Dave Convery@zomda· Jul 9

“You’ve made a right diabolical fackin mess of things,”

A blue shop called “My Old Dutch Pancake House”

Dave Convery@zomda· Jun 25

I know, no free feet on the internet, but this has been going on for a while now and it really tickles. Also this is why I struggle to buy shoes.

A large, bare, man’s foot being licked by a small tuxedo cat. There’s a fireplace in the background.

Dave Convery@zomda· Jun 25

I just opened the comments page on Popular Eurocentric Videogames Site and opened the network view to see why it was so slow. Without any interaction from me, it had loaded 133mb in under 30 seconds. Even if your remit is just to sell ads, any web developer doing this should be fucking embarrassed.

Dave Convery@zomda· Jun 21

A screenshot of Bloodborne with “IF you played Bloodborne and still Live in the UK. you missed the entire point of the game” overlaid as text.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 28

Counterpoint

Chris liking the post he's now complaining about.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 26

At Miniature Painting Open a friend bought a bunch of us tiny plinths to see what we’d do with them. Made a start on my attempt.

A tiny mini of a sphynx cat on a little plinth. A man’s thumb is next to it for scale.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 26

@greigarjohnson.bsky.social Appreciate the Dante’s Cardigan shoutout in the new video, which is watching in my office painted that exact colour. Like seeing a cameo from a beloved friend.

A red wall with picture frames, a monitor and a laptop. Everything is covered in crap, I really need to clean up.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 21

I love Google's AI search, this is just absolutely fine.

A screenshot of Google Search Console showing that our page was served 3681617 times for the search "database design patterns" and clicked 21 times.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 14

My entries for MPO this weekend. Now I just need to figure out how to get these to Bristol.

A diorama of Warhammer miniatures. On a snowy rocky outcrop, a large man in grey armour is throwing a hammer through an alien, which is exploding in a shower of gore.

A bust of a wizard in blue-grey robes with a yellowish tint from ambient light. He has an owl under his big floppy hat.

A Warhammer Arch-Knight mini on a carved wooden plinth. It's painted in a steel-effect non-metallic metal style. At its feet there is a tiny fish with legs.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 6

I think the absolute best thing about this is he's writing "you are a world class expert in all domains" like that's something an LLM can meaningfully incorporate into its output, meanwhile the people building these things are just begging them to stop talking about goblins all the time.

A screenshot of a file diff, probably from a version control system, with the following text:

- Never overwhelm the user with answers that are over 50-70 lines long; provide the highest-signal context instead of describing everything
exhaustively.
- Tone of your final answer must match your personality.
- Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously
relevant to the user's query.

Dave Convery@zomda· May 6

As a tall man, I sometimes have to buy Scandi clothes to get things that fit. The downside is they sometimes try to sell me things like this. This is not something an adult should wear. This is a costume for a minor Michael Cera character in a Wes Anderson movie. Jason Schwartzman *at best*.