Alright nerds, I’m adding a few new birds to Pocket Bird along with some other features. Besides the chickadee which I’m already adding, anyone have any ideas?

With the Animal Crossing New Horizons update out today, wanted to remind y'all of one of my favorite projects! Send letters to your friends or share them with the world, with pixel-perfect designs straight from the game! #animalcrossing #animalcrossingnewhorizons #acnh

Heads up, the Indie Tech Feed and Rick Roll Bluesky feeds will be down for the next few weeks as I move cross country, apologies for the downtime!

With the Animal Crossing New Horizons update out today, wanted to remind y'all of one of my favorite projects! Send letters to your friends or share them with the world, with pixel-perfect designs straight from the game! #animalcrossing #animalcrossingnewhorizons #acnh

People have shared some truly wonderful anonymous letters through the animal crossing letter editor at acmail.idreesinc.com Here are just a few examples that I loved

I had given up on marketing Mutable and decided to just continue using it for myself, but after looking at it again it turns out that it has over 1000 active users! Please give it a look if you haven't already, we could all do with seeing a little less terrible stuff online: mutable.idreesinc.com

People have shared some truly wonderful anonymous letters through the animal crossing letter editor at acmail.idreesinc.com Here are just a few examples that I loved

This is not a drill, they might be adding baby chicks to Minecraft:

I saw Monocraft in this video by @docjade.com, so you know it's gonna be good www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPB...

I've added the limited edition winter holiday cards to acmail.idreesinc.com, get em while they're hot! Or cold I suppose...

Pocket Bird has been updated on Chrome and Firefox to include new colorful sticky notes! Get the update here: idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird

Happy New Year nerds! Hope you all have a wonderful 2026, and I can’t wait to show you all of the fun projects I’ve got planned for this year!

Pocket Bird is now available for Chrome and Firefox! Adopt a tiny bird for your browser that hops around your webpages and flies atop images. Collect falling feathers to unlock more birds and rub your cursor over its head to give it a pet! Get it here: idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird #opensource #pet

Use any cartridge as a desktop wallpaper directly from splore, coming soon in #picotron 0.2.2

This is so frickin cute. A browser extension that adds a little pettable bird to your web browsing. I love the whimsy. idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird

While the Lou team and I are busy bringing Lou's Lagoon over the finishing line, the Verdant Team at @tinyroargames.bsky.social has been working in secret on something pretty amazing 🌱 Please wishlist Verdant on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4162340/... #gamedev #indiegame #reveal

It's a shame that the trend of adding easter eggs to software seems to have fizzled out a lot in the last decade. I understand that it makes testing a bit harder, but damn if I don't miss them.

Monocraft has been updated with font hints! That means that rendering should be a lot clearer on Windows/Linux, especially at lower resolutions. I've also fixed the NerdFonts build and included more icons, as well as added TODO and NOTE ligatures! Get it here: github.com/IdreesInc/Mo... #opensource

Just a reminder that typing “unown” into my PicoChat iMessage app might reveal an easter egg…

Just a reminder that typing “unown” into my PicoChat iMessage app might reveal an easter egg…

God bless unit tests, I truly don't think I'd be able to work on any of my personal projects without them. Being able to come back to a project after 6 months and know that your changes aren't breaking anything is such a relief lol

Waypoint for @obsidian.md has been updated! Mostly bug fixes and PR merges, though I've also added a couple features like base detection and dynamic comment opacity: github.com/IdreesInc/Wa...

Kids, never procrastinate reviewing PRs, cause those merge conflicts add up... #opensource

Reminder, this Friday all my open source code is available at a 50% discount!

Unfortunately, it looks like VS Code locks down the UI pretty tight and it isn't possible for me to port Pocket Bird to it without directly patching the Electron app. On the other hand, you can now add Pocket Bird to your own websites with an embed script! github.com/IdreesInc/Po... #opensource

I've decided that Pocket Bird's sticky notes weren't colourful enough so time to fix that!

Currently testing adding Pocket Bird to @obsidian.md and a glitch made WAY TOO MANY BIRDS

11/10 recommend, my bird is an adorable writing buddy

Pocket Bird is now available for Chrome and Firefox! Adopt a tiny bird for your browser that hops around your webpages and flies atop images. Collect falling feathers to unlock more birds and rub your cursor over its head to give it a pet! Get it here: idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird #opensource #pet

Apologies for the extended downtime on my bluesky feeds! I was on a trip and the server went down, but they should be back now. Thank you for your patience! #indietechfeed

Still love this app

As I submit my Pocket Bird extension for review, I've decided to market it like all of those "world changing" AI apps

Watch this tiny diver exploring the ocean in the corner of your screen. It's a game I'm working on, hope you like it! #screenshotsaturday #cozygame #gamedev #GodotEngine

ever wanted to experience the thrill of tandem boat-racing, and tearing down a corpo-conglomerate, in the palm of your hand? rowbot rally is on sale!! get it on #playdate for only $11, until nov. 13! animated cutscenes, and a cute story; human-made with love. play.date/g/rbr #indiedev #gamedev

Oh wow, somehow missed that my font "Miracode" has reached over 1000 stars on GitHub! Thanks so much to all of my users and I hope you continue to enjoy! Fun fact, if you type the name of the font, it will put a little heart on the "i" as an easter egg github.com/IdreesInc/Mi... #opensource

New update released for Shuriken Showdown! I've added a way to mess around with the shurikens the instant you join the world so you can get a feel for the game as well as persistent stats in preparation for a future points/shop system! vrchat.com/home/world/w... #vrchat #opensource #gamedev

Just in time for Halloween, I've added the current seasonal stationery to my Animal Crossing Letter Generator! Be sure to check it out while you can! acmail.idreesinc.com

Just in time for Halloween, I've added the current seasonal stationery to my Animal Crossing Letter Generator! Be sure to check it out while you can! acmail.idreesinc.com

Alright, Pocket Bird is about to head out of beta! Grab the current beta using TamperMonkey here and if I don't find any new bugs in the next day or two, I'm going to submit it as a Chrome and Firefox extension! github.com/IdreesInc/Po...

🎣 #pixelart #gamedev

Sometimes you can tell you did a good job on a visual effect from the fact that you can hear it before adding sound. 👀🎧 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

This little bird program that hops around your web browser has been one of the most difficult things I have ever had to code solely due to inconsistencies in Safari iOS 26 versus other browsers. Like what do you mean you can't render fixed content on the bottom quarter of the screen anymore?!

Quite pleased with the levels I made for Shuriken Showdown, especially since I was able to get them all in under the 100 MB game limit for VRChat on the Quest! #indiedev #gamedev #vrchat

My open-source @vrchat.com game Shuriken Showdown has now been played over 1000 times! Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and please let me know if you have suggestions for future improvements! vrchat.com/home/world/w... #indiedev #gamedev #vrchat

My open-source @vrchat.com game Shuriken Showdown has now been played over 1000 times! Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and please let me know if you have suggestions for future improvements! vrchat.com/home/world/w... #indiedev #gamedev #vrchat

excited to share my shiny new website! -> mirandadiaz.com <-

One of my friends suggested tumblr so going to add that too. Also considering adding a way for users to insert custom javascript for generating the usernames so that you can do things like hit custom APIs. Imagine a username that changes with the weather, your Spotify activity, etc.

For those of you who play VRChat, I made a little game based on Boomerang Fu to play with my younger siblings and decided to make it open-source! Here's the world, feel free to give it a shot and let me know how you like it: vrchat.com/home/world/w... #gamedev #vrchat #opensource

Okay, got my automatic moon phase username changer to work with Discord too! Any other platforms I should include?

Just discovered that the Bluesky API allows you to change your display name, so I made a quick script to add the current moon phase to my name because why not 🌘