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Orta Therox

@orta.io

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Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net

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Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social · 57m

Finally! Thank goodness. The various simulation ideas were never persuasive nor my cup of tea.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically pr...

phys.org

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 1d

haha, yep! First downtime we've had in a year or so - puzzmo-com.github.io/status/

Orta Therox @orta.io · 1d

Ball X Pit turning into the idle genre for the end-game was not where I expected this to go!

Orta Therox @orta.io · 1d

@jaredpalmer.com the new github homepage for logged in is a solid improvement, nice work

Orta Therox @orta.io · 1d

Yeah, agree, 2025 is such an interesting year for programming!

Orta Therox @orta.io · 2d

Same as Tenacious D's

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 4d

Sometimes doing good OSS is saying it's over

Orta Therox @orta.io · 4d

Re: sdl-codegen, a library almost nobody uses, which matches GraphQL SDL to a runtime type-system used in RedwoodJS.

I have converted the repo to be archived so I can migrate it into our monorepo and do some drastic changes

github.com/puzzmo-com/s...

A screenshot of the README

This project was built to enhance the types for a version of RedwoodJS which was deprecated - they have split out into RedwoodSDK which doesn't need this sort of abstraction.

Over time, I treated this library as an Open Source project but it's never really had any activity from people other than small test projects. I think I can make it faster, and work much better for Puzzmo.com if I migrate it into our monorepo and tie it deeply into our replacement for the Redwood API layers.

So, I'm moving this project to be archived - it was an interesting problem to look at, tchaus!

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 4d

Best of luck

Orta Therox @orta.io · 4d

I use it a bunch with linux sysadmin, works really well

Orta Therox @orta.io · 6d

I made a draft PR switching us to tsgo last week, all of @puzzmo.com type-checked without a change and it was ~8 times faster

bsky.app/profile/danr...

Daniel Rosenwasser @danr.bsky.social · 6d

We are still looking for feedback on tsgo, but it is worth calling out we expect some type-checking changes that you may need to adapt to.

The native previews are easy to grab from npm, and are published nightly to try out!

www.npmjs.com/package/@typ...

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Andy Allen @andy.works · 8d

I have no idea what's happening in pop culture, but I can watch hours of woodworking & 3D modeling videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=90v...

Return of the Obra Dinn - Narrated Modeling Mega Timelapse

Creating characters, objects, and scenes for "Return of the Obra Dinn" from 2015-2018*CONTAINS HOURS OF SPOILERS AND DRONING NARRATION*This timelapse shows a...

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 25d

I am in NYC for a week

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Orta Therox @orta.io · 28d

Welcome!

Orta Therox @orta.io · 29d

@puzzmo.com has just shipped a Crossword Mini!

The goal is over the next 30 days, we want to be teaching you the culture of bigger Crosswords. Available for free, daily.

bsky.app/profile/puzz...

Puzzmo @puzzmo.com · 29d

For the next 30 days, we're running a series of free mini crosswords created by our puzzle editor @xws.bsky.social to help you become a better crossword solver. Solve the first puzzle here, and check the replies every day for the next one!

👯 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1 is by brooke. It's a 5x5 grid, and the number 6 in the grid is a different color than the other numbers.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 30

thanks for highlighting the meetup! will try make the next ones

Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 30

We do use vercel for the main website static hosting (+ middleware) but I've been edging us off for a while and I guess I have more reasons - its expensive but solid

Shame, I moved off Cloudflare for similar reasons back in the day

Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 30

Apropos of nothing, we've been really happy with @render.com for almost all of the puzzmo.com infrastructure.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 29

It's not (anymore) blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/0...

Shipping the iOS App

Well, “finally” we got a Puzzmo iOS App. From day 1, I had been anticipating needing to build a native app for Puzzmo eventually, in part because of Zach’s rich history of shipping iOS games but also ...

blog.puzzmo.com

Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 29

Both a new Claude Code and a new Wallaby.js - quite the day to read up on tooling

Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 29

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QK-...

Sherma's Song(Quintet Version Cateek Cover) | Hollow Knight Silksong

YouTube video by Cateek 捡猫怪

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Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 28

Sending positive chants for your upcoming battles

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System76 @system76.bsky.social · Sep 26

The COSMIC Beta has arrived. Fully update the Alpha to use the Beta, or download on your favorite distro: s76.co/FnfKcbYD

COSMIC is a desktop environment that centers around user preference so you can work faster, be more focused, and have more fun.

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Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 26

Since I started working on the @puzzmo.com iOS app, my Linux box has atrophied as I've needed to use a Mac.

I'm looking forwards to getting back to my simpler dev environment this weekend

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Orta Therox @orta.io · Sep 26

Looks like my timing for getting back from vacation is perfect, the new Pop_OS! beta with COSMIC (a new desktop environment) has just come out

system76.com/pop/pop-beta/

Screenshots of tweets from the hellsite, https://x.com/system76

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