Arnell Group's Pepsi BREATHTAKING Design Strategy document is probably worth $27 to me. if the only way I'd get to see it again was to pay $27 i would do so in a heartbeat

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

solving laplace's equation ∇⋅(∇f)=Δf=0 for a height field f given three known points

A dev friend introduced me to this talk yesterday and I absolutely loved it. "Even when you think you're really hot at making decisions on the fly, you're almost always regurgitating something that your background mind has already figured out" youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

Witness the mesmerizing sea angel (*Clione* sp.), a real-life creature gliding beneath the ice of the White Sea. Captured by Alexander Semenov, this beauty is no illusion.

The nascent HTML-in-Canvas API is exciting to me not because of flashy effects, but because it extends the semantics that the DOM can (tractably) represent — as a tiny example, it's possible to show an element in multiple places, cheaply, under arbitrary transforms. folkjs.org/demos/html-i...

Messed up my hand tendons gaming too hard so I’ve been on a gaming/coding t-break over the past week. It feels good to go for a walk!

Made a proper export now, with the leadup before the stutters.

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

New video on Interface Studies: The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity youtu.be/VzjvBYaGHgA

Doorman bebop hook interaction fixed!!! A whole new world of possibilities has opened up for me!!

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

I got laid off last Monday! Not sure yet what the next move is, in the mean time I’m just gonna chill out for a while.

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

leave regurgitated hp content behind in 2026 and play this atmospheric game about witches that is heart-warming, funny, and queer instead

for whatever this might mean to you: two of the most transcendent blood on the clocktower players i’ve ever witnessed just released a video game

Vancouver Game Garden is just around the corner with a fresh new spring date!! 🎮🍃 This year's showcase of local indie games & video game art returns to the Roundhouse Community Centre on June 13 + 14, 2026! ✨ Interested in showcasing your game demo or art? Apply here: vangamegarden.com/exhibitors

I made a youtube video showing off the game! youtu.be/Qh--JHqgnQs

I made a geoguesser style game for Deadlock! Look at screenshots from the game and try to pinpoint their location on the map. map-trainer.lloc.ca

a lot of folks around GDC at the "all chat" event at tiat last week saw me do a bite sized version of this talk about childhood memories of new age, pure moods, and how it ties into conspiracy theories & much more. anyway, reminder: you can watch the full version here www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wg...

GDC was great!! I was so busy every day, I went to like 3 talks total but I was totally wiped by the end. Big highlights: Palace of Fine Arts escape room Tiat show Wanted (2008) watch party EGS (shoutout Cabbibo) Day of the devs Post GDC deadlock LAN party SLOG meetup Dim sum 3 tiki bars

I have at times live-posted GDC sessions and now I’ve picked “Teaching Games with Games” where @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social have designated this year’s 4-person panel topic as “teaching students about generative AI” without doing what S.B. describes as “cop shit” (policing AI usage)

My GDC side quest: find a way to work Deadlock into every conversation

Wrote & published a short shader for achieving better pixel-perfect line rasterization for MeshTopology.Lines meshes in Unity. gist.github.com/ompuco/82fd6...

I'll be at GDC next week!

i was daydreaming about a way to do rhythmic fingerprinting, but found it was fun on spoken word and made a little visualizer that accidentally looks like graf writing... @colormotor.bsky.social might like it :) (sample is edward murrow speaking against mccarthy-ism in 1954, fwiw)

Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard? We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype. Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!

collaborative HTML spreadsheets

so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

Today I made a proof of concept for a Deadlock mechanic that I've been dreaming about. youtu.be/K-rBDqrTnSY You can play with it here: itch.io/embed-upload...

I'm gonna make a parody movie of Iron Lung called Gold Member

Made a library for driving Runescape from Claude Code, it automatically writes and tests scripts to accomplish any goal you set github.com/MaxBittker/r...

giving a talk inside a talk inside a talk, come learn what inside the games inside the games.

IMO this is the foundational truth of the act of coding all together! Coding is the act of turning implicit context into explicit context. Documentation, like this, is performing the same action but the output is an intermediate product that will eventually create code.

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

made this weird building/farming game in 15 minutes where you interact with the world by typing elij.dev/experiments/...

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Release Date Trailer A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxG... #indiegame #indiedev #indiegames #videogame

quake brutalism jam update. starting playtests now (grab it in the discord if you want to help) and then gonna squeeze in a final polish / set dressing pass before the deadline

the algorithm has me pegged

Here's a crossword

The tournament deserves a full analysis but the semifinals between @boshis.place's Little Baby Apples and @wonderville.nyc was ELECTRIC! Luckily @ma.lloc.ca clipped the final moment feat iconic commentary by @lainenooney.bsky.social: "WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITY BABY!" www.twitch.tv/nyugamecente...

In October I got obsessed with importing Deadlock's map into Unity to use as a playground for coding experiments. Here's some pics from that journey!

I recently built a tool in the Unity Editor for managing my Magic the Gathering commander deck which has a special constraint: No two creatures in my 99 cards can share a creature type, but it's themed around Anthem effects. youtu.be/Vu42EDeBjpU

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025! To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6 @boshis.place 11/7 @wonderville.nyc 11/8