I caught a cold yesterday and now I'm couched. Bessel van der Kolk was right: MY BODY KNEW MY BODY IS READY

Late Night Beard Elemental #doodle (via potato.horse) www.potato.horse/p/3Qu0ibZGAN... I tried to grow a beard once, then cut it after six months; no one noticed. To beard is not my gift. I have an uncle—the beard of the family. Come to think of it, he *is* mostly beard. Nihil in natura perit.

Such a fun and concise intro to the IndieWeb, featuring some of my friends and role models. Give it a read!

opening up hours! to chat!! thank you @potato.horse for inspo and excited to hear from you ALL (aka everyone) byyyyyyyyyyyyye xxxxxxxx blog.greg.technology/2025/08/30/c...

I made a little animation which seems to fit @chezpanique.bsky.social's article well blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-... #animation

On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm. blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-... #indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting

Chrome vibes, metal beats, and 3dfx Glide like it's 1999 all over again.

unicode of course! untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-ho...

#untested 127: How to Make a Font that Says Nothing untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-ho... #typography #a11y #ux #thelema #writing

Starting the day with some pytest/Selenium refactoring appropriate music no need to be a 10x dev when you can be a code gopnik youtu.be/yQR_NLeXKtw?...

Working on the next #untested note. Guess what it's about!

Left: Vibe coded a tiny web app to extract colour palettes from movies. It works pretty well! If I re-write it from scratch, I'll post it here. Right: Wada Sanzo's Dictionary of Colour Combinations (In other words: I'm fighting the urge to add more themes to Ensō – this is my way of channeling it)

🚀 New devlog update! Spent the week working on volumetric smokes #gamedev #indiedev #topdown #godot #indie

#untested 126: How People Use Ensō untested.sonnet.io/notes/how-pe... #indiedev #writingcommunity

OK, so... I accidentally bumped the short app version to a really high number and pushed it to AppStore Connect. Is it bad? I feel like (knowing Apple) this is bad, and I'll learn about it really late. #macos #indiedev #apple

First 1½ bug fixes just arrived: 1) dead-key input works fine now (I was too clever with preventing the user from selecting/editing text) This has been the most common error report I've seen on TestFlight so far.

OK, I didn't expect HN front page for this post! I'll read the comments... after lunch. (I've been very lucky with the Orange Site as people have generally been very kind, but Ensō is my favourite baby, so I'm feeling a bit anxious, ok, protective about it) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442...

#untested 125: New Ensō - First Public Beta untested.sonnet.io/notes/new-en... #indiedev #writing #journaling

trapped www.potato.horse/p/47RiQn4XJV... #doodle #art

I was going to draw a tree, but I didn't know how to draw the roots (more on www.potato.horse/p/6v2T8eNr5v...) #boxing #doodle #illustration #art #latenightdoodles

Late night doodles, architecture www.potato.horse/p/4cGsBksYUX... #doodle #illustration

Temporary Ensō (𝜍) app icon -- honestly, if it looked better in small sizes, I'd keep it!

I didn't have much time to work on Ensō today, so I vibe coded a quick "write me a poem" mode: youtu.be/CqLRoyELRNM #indiedev

I'm starting to feel quite happy withe new version of Ensõ. It's even simpler than the previous one, supports OLED friendly themes, native menus, and... the coffeeshop mode! Calling the version sigma because it feels more Keanu than Hasselhoff. DM if you want to try it out!

Fizzy is the new and improved "write as you speak". It's the tone of voice of my favourite essay writers and one I feel is so specifically #Substack —excitable, expansive, unpunctuated but never incoherent, always in the know #writing #writersky

I couldn't stop thinking about how Fervour handles mental illness: as a story characters tell about each other, never disclosing about themselves. This mirrors the dynamics of dysfunctional families (and of the family at its core) where unreliable narrators abound #booksky #bookreview #mentalhealth

#untested 124: Bedtime Doodles, an Anatomy untested.sonnet.io/notes/bedtim... #art #doodle #ovid

Hej hej mordko moja! Mieszkasz poza Polską? Termin rejestracji na wybory prezydenckie w Polsce mija dzisiaj! Rejestracja jest super prosta - zajęła mi mniej niż 3 minuty! ewybory.msz.gov.pl/nowa-rejestr... #polityka

Wait, why am I writing this in English

It’s the last day to register for the presidential elections in Poland. Registration is super easy and took me less than 3 minutes. ewybory.msz.gov.pl/nowa-rejestr...

Thinking about adding a gentle blur effect to the fading text in Ensō. Does this look good?

ESPRIT DE CORPS - His partner Émile Mollins can't be there -- he's in another apartment with another man who's showing him a dead dog under the radiator. “It's dead,” Mollins says. “No,” the man replies. “I touched him. He's warm.”

Just hanging out with Janusz and waiting for customers #art

I'm working on a story explaining why this should matter to regular people. Can someone point me to an expert who's willing to comment on this on the record? #journo #journalist #journorequest

(Thanks to some beautiful miscommunication on my part,) Janusz is becoming a part of the Fashion Industry™. Selling prints, hand-drawn tees, and presenting my interactive projects this Saturday in Porto. www.instagram.com/p/DHTpG5yox52

time to call the Vatican Miracle Commission

A while back I wrote about browsers as shopfronts and social media widgets as two way mirrors. After reading that comic I've reached the conclusion that they're essentially the same thing. untested.sonnet.io/notes/the-mo... untested.sonnet.io/notes/xitter... #privacy

How do you manage large (+1000 images) collections in Procreate? Do you use companion apps? iCloud + Finder (that seems to have stopped working...)? #art #procreate

Hm, another spike and 70 people tried to tip me after finishing Let's Hold Hands, but... the payment site was broken. So, I have a ko-fi now. If you like my work, consider donating! ko-fi.com/rafalpast

Red Cossack, Green Cossack, Green Cossacks (and a half-baked linguistic joke) #doodle #fungi #cossacks #art

The magic hand I drew instead of hanging the laundry, trying to convince myself to hang laundry, an ancient art known as procrastinomancy. (via potato.horse) #doodle #art

Just a regular day at the untested office, here with my co-programmer Mango Poochkin

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#untested 123: Let's Hold Hands A quick writeup on building toys that facilitate serendipitous, non-verbal communication + a project demo. untested.sonnet.io/notes/lets-h...

"Pachnie Jak Nastoletni Duch" by a small Polish band, likely known to some of you as "Nirwana". www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6F...

Cute winter boots companion piece on how algospeak has leaked out of TikTok and into every social platform, site and comment section over the past year or so. Bonus, a very nerdy research paper compiling the most popular terms and emojis #algospeak #cutewinterboots #tiktok tinyurl.com/yc4w4k6n

#untested 122: Link In A Box - On Trust and 2-Hour Projects untested.sonnet.io/notes/link-i...

the underpants gnomes got it all backwards (more on potato.horse) #doodle #art #ladder ™

I made a site/plaything where you can hold hands with strangers: 1. go to hands.sonnet.io 2. wait for a buddy 3. hold hands (recommended with sound on) #indieweb #art