A blast from the past (in 30.64 MB)

Still not sure what this is supposed to do.

This is truly flexible synchronization. #wip #ui #design #gamedev #ProceduralArt

A new "ergonomics-first" color theme for #VSCode! github.com/mafik/bluepr...

Guess what! Automat is coming to #Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4122050/... #announcement #gamedev #game #automation

Transition with a twist www.shadertoy.com/view/w3tczf #shadertoy #glsl

These toys have teeth! #gamedev #ProceduralArt #wip #ui #design

Thrilled to announce that on wed the 28th, @mrogalski.eu will deliver a workshop on Automat, his exquisite programming system that looks like something out of a dream. Event details and RSVP: luma.com/gh1yz6jk

New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign

#automat knows how to scroll now ! 📜

At the right zoom level, Window Capture becomes a window to the past.

This is fine. #generative #ProceduralArt

Automat just got customizable backgrounds!

Visual programming environments need more fun backgrounds. Picture from: poznan.eska.pl/galeria/kart...

It's a mouse infestation!

The #diy #keyer guide now includes a section on layout optimization. With ants 🐜! github.com/mafik/keyer/...

Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans! partiful.com/e/Fs3AD41RUM...

I've built a tiny hand-held #keyboard. It's like Meta EMG wristband (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteF...) but actually working. Also comes with instructions on building your own one! github.com/mafik/keyer/ #wearable #keyer #cyberdeck

What's Automat? See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cwx... Demo from LIVE 2025 (liveprog.org)

Some thoughts on context menu #ui #design #devlog youtu.be/UeCDk5-lXYU

So here is the new mouse trace chunking algorithm. Notice that mouse traces are now split into meaningful windows now and zooming no longer causes chaos. Also new bugs. Powered by segment trees. #gamedev #wip #ui #design

Mouse traces now have little thumbnails on the timeline. Zooming is still a little chaotic but not for long... #wip #gamedev #ui #design

My mouse pointer seems to be possessed. Is this the proper way to exorcise your PC?

#Automat just learned how to move mouse! It's brewing me healing potions in #KingdomComeDeliverance2 right now ^^ #kcd2

Here is a fun trick: signal handlers can perform surgery on the stack & registers for the interrupted thread. It can be used to inject fake function calls or steer the execution arbitrarily. It's almost like a built-in programmatic debugger that can be triggered with a "signal()" call.

that was *such* a good demo session. 3 mind bending futuristic tech demos techs from @mrogalski.eu , @pomdtr.me and I. Links in the vid. It went so well! I love that meetup.

4D depth of field Almost made a UI out of this 😅

Randomizing some color palettes with #HSLuv www.hsluv.org

This is amazing! 🤩

Here is a little exploit for leveling up speech in #skyrim. It's about ~1 hour of manual clicking (or 30 minutes with an auto-clicker) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlJ...

Skyrim Alchemy macro is ready! JSON can be downloaded from the #machines-exchange channel in Automat's Discord (discord.com/invite/MRfuB...).

Automat can now farm alchemy ingredients in Skyrim! It scans the shopkeeper's inventory, buying every "Giant's Toe" & "Creep Cluster". When done, performs inventory reset glitch & starts over. Another step towards fully automated alchemy grinding. #TheElderScrolls #skyrim

Programming intuitions are generally hard to build and require quite a bit of effort. Automat attempts to make it easier using a "scales" analogy. Here is how it works: youtu.be/GDXvH2CMzuk

Civitai is the new DeviantArt

Shaders don't have typos but happy accidents #art #creativecoding #shaders

If "no overflow" then...

An interesting performance tip I learned while making sense of x86 addressing system is that your arrays elements should ideally have 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes. Only for those sizes x86 instructions can access array elements directly (so no extra multiplication is needed to get an address).

Here is a tiny but useful function. Given radius of a circle and length of a leg of an embedded triangle, it finds the length of the other leg. It may seem silly but it really makes it easier to think about geometric problems. It's like LERP for geometry.

Some of notes made while making sense of x86 conditions. The worst part for me are the JB & JNB conditions which have dual use. They are used for comparing numbers and for "unsigned overflow" checking. This makes it hard to find a reasonable visual metaphor as it also has to exhibit this duality.

Do you know what's the difference between JA (jump above) and JG (jump if greater)? Conditional instructions in x86 come in 16 variants with a bunch of interesting symmetries between them. Here is a visual language that attempts to exploit those symmetries to make their meaning more intuitive.

Instruction immediates can now be edited! The widget allows decimal, hexadecimal & UTF-8 input.

Has anybody been able to build a statically linked binary that shows a Vulkan surface? I understand that the Vulkan driver has to be loaded dynamically - so it’s more of a question whether a statically built app can reliably load and talk with it? #c++ #programming #linux

Self-modifying programs can store variables directly within their instructions. I guess this has some interesting implications.

Any app can be a text input now

Here is a short video about smart pointers used internally by Automat! youtu.be/g0JADIBjPHc

Radial menus are the best

Introducing bubble menu!

Windows XP-like frame is now complete. No bitmaps were used in the process.

Personal opinion: Microsoft's design peaked sometime between Windows95 and Windows XP. "Welcoming UI" > "Professional UI"