It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

formation of the mandelbrot fractal

12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!

Adding a lil asymptote to sin

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Squarifying each quad in a loop of quads using inverse bilinear transformation

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Dogfooding a todo list in hazel

Here's an old comic I made for elliot.website/editor/

abstract explorational sketch of relational layout from a few months ago

Typing and snapping things together

BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc. live-workshop.github.io/primer/

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

What if you didn't need git to collaborate on games? We've been prototyping a new approach to collaboration in Godot: live and async collaborative editing, with branches and diffs, built right into the editor. We're looking for people to test out an early version, see link in next post:

Making progress on my relational layout lib. Did a pass on improving the API and hopefully the code is more readable now.

Newsletter is back with some textiles + computation artworks and life updates. theimpermanent.substack.com/p/three-text...

you can save and open screenpond creation on pondiverse.com

Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year. I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)

its kinda crappy and there's a lot of scaffolding in place but it works pondiverse.com

I'm working on a game with @elliot.website. #screenshotsaturday

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Finding strongly connected components using Tarjan's algorithm

finding an acyclic sub-graph inside a graph using depth first traversal.

@jessegrosjean.bsky.social's Bike is still the gold standard. Such a simple solution. I wish we had this on the OS level. (h/t @jaakster.bsky.social)

Last week I finished my research residency at @inkandswitch.com. Here's some rough documentation of what I worked on during that time vezwork.github.io/polylab/dist...

Hyperbolic Turtle Graphics by Renato Paes Leme observablehq.com/@renatoppl/h...

merged a sizeable PR to hazel dev today including stuff shown here on inline evaluation and playing cards. also: caret animation. you can play with these here: hazel.org/build/dev/; see Probes, Cards, and Projectors slides in docs. PR notes here: github.com/hazelgrove/h...

small harmonics

I am once more seeking participants for a user study. We'll be evaluating a prototype code editor that completes your text with placeholders for missing tokens expected by the language. Here's a short video of me motivating the editor and study. Details in thread. Reskeets appreciated! 🙏

What if hypertext were zoomable? Then you could zoom forever, in circles... I made this the other day and came up with a data structure that allows the coordinate origin to move through the graph, to keep memory fixed and avoid floating point precision limits. folk.systems/canvas/space...

It's a bit like a "sixth sense" for canvas diff over time. * I can feel what's past and future, and how far * I can feel where pauses will happen vs quick changes * stationary stuff feels markedly different from stuff in motion

I've been working on and using a tool for canvas program sketches. I've been trying to get the text editing experience to be nice in Polytope; this tool has made me deal with the bugs. It has an interactive program history tree.

How do I add this matrax with the numbins?

Canvas program history

new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion. (no language models were harmed in the making of this video)

The Ink team at Ink & Switch is starting something new — publishing our internal lab notes. These are (mostly) unedited, with all our puzzling and musing and prototypes unfiltered. Take a peek: inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/

Chaos game Sierpinski triangle

If we define a discrete plane curve by giving a starting position, an edge length, and a list of nth order curvatures, can we somehow smooth out that curve e.g. come up with a d.p. curve with the same curvatures that passes through the same points but with shorter edge length? A failed attempt:

sand letters

building bauble ianthehenry.com/posts/bauble...

holiday project: balatrize hazel