Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #happy-accidents, aggregated by home.social.
Did you know the vast majority of artificial sweeteners were discovered accidentally?
Saccharin, Cyclamate, and Aspartame were all discovered by scientists who tasted sweet flavours on their fingers after perhaps having some poor lab hygiene.
Sucralose was purposefully developed, and is the other major artificial sweetener.
BREAKING: All the best stuff online happens when you click away from an app.
I write a daily #blog and you can read one of the posts by clicking here: https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/03/autocorrect-coworker/
#Blog #CreativeExplorations #Technology #HappyAccidents #Brainstorming
Jenny Daly’s Studio82 & Happy Accidents Developing Scripted YA Slate
#News #HappyAccidents #Studio82
https://deadline.com/2026/08/jenny-daly-studio82-happy-accidents-scripted-ya-slate-1237017369/
A sketch and a happy accident. (And again, proof I'm not always in gooner mode 😂)
🚀 AI's latest magic trick: exposing the "senior engineer pipeline" as the emperor with no clothes. Turns out, the mystical path to #engineering greatness was just a series of happy accidents 🎩✨. Who knew the secret sauce was simply surviving the tech jungle without an AI-powered compass? 🤖🔍
https://blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-senior-engineer-pipeline/ #AI #TechJungle #CareerPath #HappyAccidents #HackerNews #ngated
"Always ready with a camera" sound's less realistic when the lens used is 300mm 😅
#Photography #Mountains #FrenchAlps #Winter #MontBlanc #Planes #LandscapePhotography #HappyAccidents
Teamevent #artsandcrafts #ceramics I made a cup. Started with the scene from Gladiator then went Bob Ross happy accident style on it. #happyaccidents
Experiment 456: "Blood Fountain"
#HappyAccidents - bug when the logo isn't visible yet, there was just a bubbling blob on the side of the screen, but still reacts to depth camera motion. Wheeeeeeee!
#creativecoding #unity #unity3d #madewithunity #vfxgraph #hdrp #realtime #realtimegraphics #realtimerendering #realtimevfx #procedural #generative #interactive
Sharp-edged polygons filled in green and brown, lines remain sandy. That was my idea. Then I failed in applied mathematics (geometry) and colour theory: there are green/green and brown/brown pairs, which might work with the lines but sandy polygons would be a better idea to separate the shapes.
That brown is slightly too bright, and needs more darkening than just an oil wash, I think. Still, I'm not frustrated, it's not a mistake but a happy accident :D
Relearning Watercolour Painting
I have just started taking classes in watercolour painting through Elder College. The instructor is excellent and very encouraging of everyone’s efforts. My first attempts had been decades ago, and I had a brief later try a few years ago.
Without knowing whether or not they would work, I brought my old paints to the class and much to my surprise they were okay. Not great, but good enough for now. I am enjoying the way water interacts with the paint to create happy accidents. So here, with very tentative brushstrokes and aged equipment, are my first efforts.
#artwork #boats #ElderCollege #happyAccidents #mountains #painting #pebbles #seascape #trees #watercolour
🌳"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents."🎨 #bobross #thejoyofpainting #chalkart #happyaccidents #happylittletree #nicolesfairytree #flowermound
This fantasy landscape had some "happy accidents", like the purple when I had the wrong color on my brush and a cauliflower which I covered up with the family of mystery creatures. It bothered me a bit at first, but in the end it is quite nice to just work with what happens.
#painting #art #fantasy #fantasyart #happyaccidents #MastoArt #CreativeToots #watercolour #kuretake
Recently we did a Bob Ross session at work. The organizers slowed down one of his videos to 40% of its normal speed, and my colleagues and I created a winter landscape filled with happy little trees. I had an absolute blast! 😃
#Painting #BobRoss #BobRosPaintings #HappyLittleTrees #HappyAccidents
L.A. Studio Happy Accidents Snaps Up International Sales Exec
#News #HappyAccidents #LouiseOliver
Ausstellungseröffnung: happy accidents
Die Klasse Katrin Ströbel von der ABK Stuttgart zeigt ihre Werke – spontan, überraschend, inspirierend.
📅 20. Mai 2025 um 18 Uhr
📍 Graphothek, Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz (8. OG)
#happyaccidents #Graphothek #ABKStuttgart #StadtbibliothekStuttgart
Warner Bros Discovery Boards New Zealand-U.S. Comedy Series ‘The Sanctuary’
#News #HappyAccidents #KevinCo #NewZealand #TheSanctuary #Warnerbrosdiscovery
https://deadline.com/2024/12/warner-bros-discovery-the-sanctuary-us-nz-comedy-1236199637/
driving x-county.
tonight I'm pretty much in the middle.
prairies are flattening out into plains.
settled in to hotel for the night
and I serendipitously
stumbled on to
Oklahoma on TCM
:D
Courtney Colman Dies: CFO Of L.A.-Based Studio Happy Accidents Was 58
#News #Obituaries #CourtneyColman #HappyAccidents
https://deadline.com/2024/09/courtney-colman-dead-happy-accidents-cfo-1236098240/
Nascent LA Studio Happy Accidents Makes First Senior Hire
#News #CalamityJaneEntertainment #EricJarboe #HappyAccidents #HollyHines #MeredithWillis
https://deadline.com/2024/05/happy-accidents-meredith-willis-holly-hines-eric-jarboe-1235943278/
You just never know what will pop up on the Amor page which is why you need to hit the follow button...now
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#nsfw #spoof #cosplay #sexy #humor #bobross #painting #happyaccidents #masterpiece #girlsjustwannahavefun #joyofpainting #oilpaint #paintbrush #easel #colors #sunset #brilliant #thisisgreat #wig #nude #exposed #perky #tits #naughty #amor69
I accidentally zoomed on this PDF of a magazine published version Bush's As We May Think and until then hadn't noticed the little reticle the artist added to the glasses. Neat little detail.
Embracing the Bob Ross philosophy, a Goblinoid reminds us: 'There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.'
#DungeonArtist #CreepyCorners #Dungeon #DALLyInDungeons #HappyAccidents
Messed around and came up with another cool idea for a noisemaker in SynthEdit last night. Wasn't what I was going for, but cool sounds are cool sounds. Working on some other stuff too, so this may not get finished very soon.
I think I've found a new Way to create Images, using Audio Material, a Bitcrusher and a Spectrum Analyzer #HappyAccidents
Ooh exciting! I'm hitting that critical mass where two lovely people are talking about the same thing from wildly different viewpoints! A happy accident! Serendipity!
Here's an article on making these happen by design, which also covers making unhappy accidents happen by design, zemblanity!
This makes me happy because I've learnt new things about words and was one of the cool things about Twitter. 😀
NB follow those two!
#Serendipity #Zemblanity #Etymolgy #HappyAccidents #Twitter #Mastodon
If you drink coffee in Tea Terrace, whilst male toes are dipped in the Ladies Pond… then the Ghost #Parakeet of #BatterseaPark l will fly free, and terror will be unleashed 'pon the all the #Thames
HTs #TellingStories #psychogeography #hookland #NaturePhotography #birdwatching #HappyAccidents #serendipity #London #photography #GhostStories
It is 61 degrees and I am on the porch in a t shirt mentally planning gardens for the spring. I am admittedly very bad at planning gardens because I am too indiscriminate in my love of plants. Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf had the best advice for home gardeners: “Buy the plants you like, don’t try to be a designer”
This is my approach… also, knowing my conditions and selecting plants that will do well in these conditions. #gardensofmastodon
#happyaccidents
File this set under "resin effects we'll never be able to reproduce"!
#dice #dicemakers #resindice #dnddice #rpgdice #happyaccidents
I found this morning by accident that if you put your search in quotes (eg. "search terms") it searches in your own posts rather than out there. This worked on the mstdn.social website, in Tusky for Android, and Sengi on Linux. Possibly not a global feature and maybe my results are an anomaly.
