Red Blob Games
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Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
Agreed. I was thinking it would have to run on my own machine, somewhere between the feed reader (receiving all my feeds/emails) and the notification system, in the same way the brain receives all my signals (sight, sound, touch, smell, etc.) but my attention only notices some of them
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Agreed. I was thinking it would have to run on my own machine, somewhere between the feed reader (receiving all my feeds/emails) and the notification system, in the same way the brain receives all my signals (sight, sound, touch, smell, etc.) but my attention only notices some of them
I love Organic Maps but also keeping an eye on CoMaps openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders
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January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I love Organic Maps but also keeping an eye on CoMaps openletter.earth/open-letter-...
A while ago I wrote down some ideas along these lines - third paragraph of amitp.blogspot.com/2007/10/feed... But I'm not sure how to make it actually happen…
Feeds are not enough
There are lots of types of information I want to search and browse, but it's typically information that I want to see right now. I also wan...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
A while ago I wrote down some ideas along these lines - third paragraph of amitp.blogspot.com/2007/10/feed... But I'm not sure how to make it actually happen…
I am reminded of the news — if I read the newspaper, then on sunday I want the news from the past day. If I read only the sunday newspaper, I want the news from the past week. Same newspaper, but different me.
Filtering feeds is like giving me the one-day news on sunday when I want a week's worth.
Filtering feeds is like giving me the one-day news on sunday when I want a week's worth.
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I am reminded of the news — if I read the newspaper, then on sunday I want the news from the past day. If I read only the sunday newspaper, I want the news from the past week. Same newspaper, but different me.
Filtering feeds is like giving me the one-day news on sunday when I want a week's worth.
Filtering feeds is like giving me the one-day news on sunday when I want a week's worth.
I made a bookmarklet out of it so that I can use it on any page. I bookmarked:
javascript:(async function(){const {attachEditorToElement} = await import ("https://www.redblobgames.com/mjs/scrubbable-codemirror.js");for (let el of document.querySelectorAll("svg")) attachEditorToElement(el)})()
javascript:(async function(){const {attachEditorToElement} = await import ("https://www.redblobgames.com/mjs/scrubbable-codemirror.js");for (let el of document.querySelectorAll("svg")) attachEditorToElement(el)})()
January 9, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I made a bookmarklet out of it so that I can use it on any page. I bookmarked:
javascript:(async function(){const {attachEditorToElement} = await import ("https://www.redblobgames.com/mjs/scrubbable-codemirror.js");for (let el of document.querySelectorAll("svg")) attachEditorToElement(el)})()
javascript:(async function(){const {attachEditorToElement} = await import ("https://www.redblobgames.com/mjs/scrubbable-codemirror.js");for (let el of document.querySelectorAll("svg")) attachEditorToElement(el)})()
I've wanted to do the same, and bookmarked nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/m... which points to code from @b0rk.jvns.ca and @tinysubversions.bsky.social
My own archive of tweets
I put my own Twitter archive online, hosted here with individual tweet URLs like here. The “server” is all static HTML but the list of tweets is an infinite scroll thing. Oct 2006 to No…
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January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I've wanted to do the same, and bookmarked nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/m... which points to code from @b0rk.jvns.ca and @tinysubversions.bsky.social
Thank you Craig! The funny/surprising thing is that when I sat down to write the blog post I felt like I hadn't done much that year. But going through all my notes made me realized I had done plenty. :)
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Thank you Craig! The funny/surprising thing is that when I sat down to write the blog post I felt like I hadn't done much that year. But going through all my notes made me realized I had done plenty. :)
Thanks! It was one of those things I wish I had set up years ago :-) and I am looking forward to being able to use it on future projects.
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Thanks! It was one of those things I wish I had set up years ago :-) and I am looking forward to being able to use it on future projects.
Annual review blog post: www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12...
What I did in 2025
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January 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Annual review blog post: www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12...
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A quick #intro for the lovely people here on Bluesky... nice to meet you!
listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening)
read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)
listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening)
read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)
July 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A quick #intro for the lovely people here on Bluesky... nice to meet you!
listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening)
read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)
listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening)
read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)
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Heard from a few folks that they procrastinate publishing because they want to make sure it’s good enough and I totally get it, I worry about that too.
But I’ve gotten pretty good at deciding enough is enough and going ahead anyway so here’s a thread with things I don’t like but decided were fine.
But I’ve gotten pretty good at deciding enough is enough and going ahead anyway so here’s a thread with things I don’t like but decided were fine.
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Heard from a few folks that they procrastinate publishing because they want to make sure it’s good enough and I totally get it, I worry about that too.
But I’ve gotten pretty good at deciding enough is enough and going ahead anyway so here’s a thread with things I don’t like but decided were fine.
But I’ve gotten pretty good at deciding enough is enough and going ahead anyway so here’s a thread with things I don’t like but decided were fine.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Creative people display contradictory personality traits. This finding has stuck with me since I read it over 20 years ago in psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Creative people display contradictory personality traits. This finding has stuck with me since I read it over 20 years ago in psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.
It's a little bit of a hack but the idea is to replace just the "C" or "F" character at the end of the regexp match with the string "C (113.0°F)" or "F (26.7°C)". That string acts as a single character for text editing purposes.
gist.github.com/redblobgames...
gist.github.com/redblobgames...
December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's a little bit of a hack but the idea is to replace just the "C" or "F" character at the end of the regexp match with the string "C (113.0°F)" or "F (26.7°C)". That string acts as a single character for text editing purposes.
gist.github.com/redblobgames...
gist.github.com/redblobgames...
I hadn't realized it before but #emacs syntax highlighting (font lock) can do a lot more than assign color. Here I'm parsing the string into a number, doing a calculation, then generating text to show the result
December 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I hadn't realized it before but #emacs syntax highlighting (font lock) can do a lot more than assign color. Here I'm parsing the string into a number, doing a calculation, then generating text to show the result
Thank you for this and the other detailed reports! I have learned so much CSS from them.
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thank you for this and the other detailed reports! I have learned so much CSS from them.
Nice tool! I had previously been using token-explorer for my experimentation github.com/willkurt/tok...
(blog post: amitp.blogspot.com/2025/10/llms...)
(blog post: amitp.blogspot.com/2025/10/llms...)
GitHub - willkurt/token-explorer: A simple tool that let's you explore different possible paths that an LLM might sample.
A simple tool that let's you explore different possible paths that an LLM might sample. - willkurt/token-explorer
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Nice tool! I had previously been using token-explorer for my experimentation github.com/willkurt/tok...
(blog post: amitp.blogspot.com/2025/10/llms...)
(blog post: amitp.blogspot.com/2025/10/llms...)
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
I'm very interested in that card but I live 800 miles away so I hope there will be another opportunity sometime :)
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm very interested in that card but I live 800 miles away so I hope there will be another opportunity sometime :)