Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: April 2025

  • Come To My Computer Vision Conference on May 12

    Please excuse my marketing, but I’ve got a huge event coming up and I need to make as much noise about it as possible.

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    The OpenCV-SID Conference on Computer Vision and AI is a 1-day event this May 12th in San Jose, CA. We’re hosting it as part of Display Week, the premier international event focusing on the latest advancements in display technologies. I’ve booked the guests, designed the signs, and I’ll be at the OpenCV Pavilion in the Expo Hall (Booth #1108).

    The OSCCA lineup includes notable figures from the tech industry, here are a few of the speakers:

    • Gary Bradski – Founder of OpenCV and renowned for his work on the DARPA Grand Challenge-winning car, Stanley. He literally wrote the book on OpenCV. Bradski has been instrumental in advancing computer vision research.
    • Satya Mallick – CEO of OpenCV, with a passion for AI, computer vision, and deep learning. Mallick’s leadership has driven OpenCV to new heights, and his website LearnOpenCV remains an essential resource.
    • Ethan Rublee – CEO and Co-Founder of Space-ng, Rublee is a veteran of the AI and robotics world, who’s team at Space-ng recently helped land the Blue Ghost rover on the moon!
    • Kartik Venkatraman – Head of Perception at Intrinsic (part of Alphabet), where the team develops state-of-the-art vision technology for robotic assembly automation.
    • Monica Song – Product Manager at Google AI, working on open source frameworks like Keras and JAX. Song is a graduate of Harvard with a background in computer science.
    • Jose Benitez Genes – Founder and Director of AI at Intuitivo, whose work in Autonomous Point of Purchase (A-POP) has garnered recognition, including being named an MIT Innovator Under 35 in 2022.

    Please come! Or at least, share the link for me. I appreciate it.

  • An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online

    From the perils of surveillance capitalism department:

    On Thursday, researchers at Cybernews reported that over 21 million screenshots from WorkComposer, which works with over 200,000 companies worldwide, were discovered in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket.

  • LOADSTAR COMPLEAT

    John, my co-founder at Set Side B, has released a dump of NEARLY the complete Commodore 64 magazine-on-disk items from the legendary LOADSTAR zine:

    LOADSTAR was a long-lived, possibly the longest-lived, of the microcomputer disk magazines. It lasted for 250 issues, of which the first 199 are included in this collection, in addition to a ton of extras, including puzzles, music, art, and a bunch of games.