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--- newsletters:2026-06 [2026/07/17 20:36] – [June 2026 newsletter] osnr
+++ newsletters:2026-06 [2026/07/18 13:30] (current) – [SVA system fixes] osnr
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 Our next Folk open house will be in the evening on **[[https://luma.com/vk6nnzl5|Wednesday, July 29]]**, at our studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
+Also: [[https://danielpipk.in/|Daniel Pipkin]] and [[https://github.com/smj-edison|Mason Jones]] will be exhibiting Folk at [[
+https://craftlakecity.com/diy-festival/|Craft Lake City's DIY Festival]] August 7-9 in Salt Lake City.
 ===== What we've been up to =====
 ==== General system improvements ====
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 === New drawing API ===
-Andrés: TODO
+Andrés: I finally merged the [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/pull/261 |Revive drawing capabilities (new and improved!)]] PR! So now you can do:
-Units on everything.
-Error reporting requires you to look at the shapes.folk log right now:
+  * Wish $this draws a circle
+  * Wish $this draws a circle with color gold radius 20mm
+  * Wish $this draws a circle with color magenta radius 20cm position [list x 20% 50%]
+    * and you get this:
+      * {{.:pasted:20260718-114822.mp4}}
-{{newsletters:screenshot-2026-06-17-at-10.51.21-am.png?400px}}
+We enforce units (mm, cm, m, %) on everything in the new drawing system which is nice as it makes it easy to tell, using your real-world brain, where the shapes you’re drawing are going to land.
+  * Error reporting requires you to look at the shapes.folk log on the web dashboard right now:
+    * {{newsletters:screenshot-2026-06-17-at-10.51.21-am.png?400px}}
-Causality TODO
+  * By the end of July we should have [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/pull/272 |a fix that bubbles up errors to the top level reporting mechanism]] on the table, which should make this annoying reliance on the web dashboard for shapes.folk errors disappear.
 === ShaderToy compatibility ===
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 === SVA system fixes ===
-TODO Omar, Andrés, and Brian
+Omar, Andrés, and Brian went in and fixed up the system at SVA in Manhattan.
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   * Omar: SAM2 object-tracking system: distortion correction, make some interactions around it
   * Omar: Pick RFID project back up
+  * Andrés: Fixing [[https://github.com/FolkComputer/folk/pull/272|silent shapes.folk errors]]
 ===== Links we've enjoyed =====
 ==== Andrés ====
-  * TODO
+  * [[https://danielsmith.com/color-map/| Interactive Color
+Map (CIE-Lab)]]
+  * [[https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/93/HPL-93-61.pdf|Mark Weiser - Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing (1993)]]
+  * [[https://www.filfre.net/|The Digital Antiquarian - Deep Histories of Analytical & Text-Based Games]]
+  * [[https://cie.co.at/|CIE Color Spaces & Uniformity Guidelines for Vision/UI Ergonomics]]
+  * [[https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/introduction-to-hall-effect-sensors/|Understanding Hall Effect Switches & Magnetic Prototyping Mechanics]]
 ==== Omar ====
   * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_fusion