{"id":28904,"date":"2026-11-02T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28904"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:12:52","slug":"at-the-uist-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28904","title":{"rendered":"At the UIST conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at the UIST conference in Detroit, just before my workshop keynote, I asked a colleague whether he thought it was worth telling the audience that my talk would be using procedural graphics that I had built entirely by hand, without the use of any AI.<\/p>\n<p>He gave me a funny look, as if to say &#8220;Why would those young people in the audience care about something as odd as that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realize that it was as though I were saying &#8220;Hey folks, I walked all the way here from New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to that would probably have struck the same kind yet condescending tone: &#8220;Way to go Ken. Hey, you do you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, at the UIST conference in Detroit, just before my workshop keynote, I asked a colleague whether he thought it was worth telling the audience that my talk would be using procedural graphics that I had built entirely by hand, without the use of any AI. He gave me a funny look, as if to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the UIST conference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904\/revisions\/28906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}