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vfig @vfig.bsky.social · 19h

so, the core of the dark object system is that every "game object" is made up of a bunch of properties and links. properties are just tables of data keyed by object id, more or less like all ecs systems have now.

but links are the really cool bit.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 18h

Would love to see this get some traction in gamedev circles. Pass it on!

Automerge @automerge.org · 22h

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 21d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 4d

Awesome! Very high chance I'll be there, possibly with a few others. (Just need to coordinate. Any risk of this filling up before, say, mid next week?)

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 5d

I love the Luminist remakes of [Super] Metroid using analog synths: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Super Metroid: Resynthesized - YouTube

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 5d

I'm going to be at this. If you're in the area, come say hi!

Jasmine Otto @jatazak.bsky.social · 5d

Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans!
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Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with folks in human-centered computing. This month, special guest Ivan Reese is joining us! (Location is outdoors, near transit and multiple coffee shop...

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 13d

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 12d

Anyone following me from the world of gamedev? Wanna work with me? Have friends / followers who might? Get in while the getting is good!

Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 12d

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

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 13d

Yeah, it's a bit on the short side, alas. I ended up cutting about an hour. Some of it wound up as a bonus episode on our patreon.

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social · 16d

Subtext Retrospective www.subtext-lang.org/retrospectiv...

Subtext Retrospective

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 16d

Here's a post summarizing the reasoning: feelingof.com/the-name/

We had hundreds of comments worth of discussion about this, and the main takeaway is that nobody can agree on what the name should be.

Ultimately, I just had to make a choice.

Regardless of name, it's still the same community.

The Name

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 16d

The renaming is complete.

RIP Future of Coding

Long live Feeling of Computing!

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Feeling of Computing

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 17d

Did you enjoy the Esolangs ep? (Did anyone tell Daniel? Hehe)

If you're so inclined, you can read a bit of behind-the-scenes about the ending (free), and listen to some extra fun cut content ($5) over on our Patreon.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 18d

When you make an esolang, you speak through the creation of the language itself. The language is a statement. Maybe it's a joke. Maybe it's heartache.

The "first" episode of the Feeling of Computing podcast — Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously.

feelingof.com/episodes/078

78 • Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19d

Ah, seems like I needed to search for Cameron rather than the film. Yuck.

Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19d

Wait really? I tried to google this and only found mentions of a pledge that this movie would include a "No AI" disclaimer.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d

The redesigned characters look like entirely different people. Baffling. I wish they'd just given this the Nightdive treatment.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d

I don't like the redone character designs. The feel more consistent with the modern DX games, which I didn't like. So to me, this feels like the updated original trilogy with the prequel actors.

Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 22d

This book came out today and seems interesting

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22d

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

A copy of "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code" by Daniel Temkin. The cover features an image of a blue sky with clouds with various vertical colorful stripes overlaid across it.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 24d

(Should I tell them all it was a troll??)

(Nah some of the replies are really interesting)

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 24d

I love ??= but often wish I had =?? to assign only if the thing on the right exists.

Do any programming languages let you customize the syntax? Feels like that should be a thing.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25d

Right hand on mouse, to place the caret.

Left hand on A,S,D,… mapped to "comment", "string", "code", …

You hold a key. Anything you speak is inserted with that syntax.

If you hold "code" and say "for i and p in particles" it infers `for (let [p, i] of particles) {`

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25d

Now, I actually really like the "they're gonna slow each other down" interpretation. It suggests that both sides of Pixar give creative constraints to the other. That feels very true to me.

But they also help each other improve, and coupled flywheels don't.

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25d

Your speed looks like a square root of the energy you invest, not a hockey stick.

As for coupled flywheels, that's gonna depend on how they're coupled (ugh), but casually, they're gonna slow each other down. They're not gonna help each other go faster. That's perpetual motion—just add more wheels!

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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25d

I should be more specific: this makes the metaphor even less credible to me.

It'd be a great metaphor for diminishing returns — energy grows with the square of velocity. It gets harder to speed up as you speed up.

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