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99% immutable data, 1% clever pointers / building WASABI-16 (a Wasm-based fantasy console) and Familiar (a magical notebook) / he / him
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#atproto #dialog
Instructions to draw an owl in two steps; the first step shows two circles with owl-like proportions; the second step shows the fully-illustrated owl sitting on a branch. The caption above step 1 reads, "Give users a PDS." The caption above step 2 reads, "Make it possible to build any kind of application."
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Modeled a logo for something. #Blender + geometry/shader nodes is a rewarding workflow compared to 2D vector alternatives.

I wrote some more about it here: cdata.earth/works/yarn/
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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What, you mean guys like this?
A screenshot of a synopsis of the character Colin Robinson from the TV show What We Do in the Shadows. It reads: "Colin Robinson is a character from the TV series What We Do in the Shadows. He is an energy vampire who drains people's energy by being boring or frustrating. He lives with a group of traditional vampires and is often the source of annoyance and frustration for them."
August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Since this demo was recorded, the most flashy thing we've created is a TUI inspector for Dialog databases.
July 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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It's wild what you can achieve with CSS alone on a multi-page website in 2025.

No JS at all. Just one CSS keyframe animation and a declarative opt-in to the view transitions API.
July 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A screenshot from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion depicting a neon "tree of life" motif floating in the sky.
July 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This week we assembled a #TUI inspector for #dialogdb data. You can explore the layout of #database indexes, and list the raw facts.

#datalog #p2p
June 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Got the productivity jitters? Want to feel the euphoric sensation of flow again? Upgrade today!
A screenshot of the CLI prompt of "Claude Code," an AI coding assistant. Above the prompt is a changelog followed by a call to action that reads: "With the $100/mo Max plan, use Sonnet 4 as your daily driver with predictable pricing. /upgrade to sign up"
June 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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someone probably: metered intelligence puts me on equal footing with those in power

those in power:
A photo of a summary of an article by Alice Thomson in The Times. It reads: Viewpoint: Tech billionaire parenting "Melinda Gates's children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office reading books while everyone else is refreshing their homepage. The most sought-after private school in Silicon Valley, the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, bans electronic devices for the under-11s and teaches the children of eBay, Apple, Uber and Google staff to make go-karts, knit and cook. Mark Zuckerberg wants his daughters to read Dr Seuss and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids. Steve Jobs strictly limited his children's use of technology at home. It's astonishing if you think about it: the more money you make out of the tech industry, the more you appear to shield your family from its effects."
June 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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QRP with your ideal personal AI device.
A picture of a classic Tamagotchi
May 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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If using a VSCode-like w/ rust-analyzer, try ctrl+p -> rust-analyzer: Expand macro recursively at caret.

It may be less spooky than you think!
Expansion of the a Rust macro (`#[derive(Clone)]`) for a type called `CompressedStorage`
May 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A sketchy illustraiont of Ferris the crab (the unofficial mascot of the Rust programming language) looking through a window from outside and saying "Yes... Hahaha... YES!"
May 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Fielding a lot of questions about this recently
A modified "holy trinity" diagram where "The Father," "The Son," and "The Holy Spirit," are replaced with "The User," "The OS," and "The Agent," respectfully, and "God" is replaced with "The Web Browser."
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Cropped image from the children's book, "Dragons Love Tacos," showing an illustration of a jar of salsa labeled "Totally Mild Salsa" with an asterisk footnote in small print that reads "now with spicy jalapeño peppers"
February 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The "is this a butteryfly?" meme, where: the human character is labeled "my fraying attention"; the butterfly is covered by a headshot of Rich Hickey and labeled, "The universal relation of datoms is well suited for datalog+recusion, which has expressive power equivalent to the relational algebra behind SQL"; and, the subtitle reads, "I'm in danger."
February 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Milestone: I can paste the entire multi-line example text directly into the editor and it highlights everything just so.

#rust #wasm #web #webdev #tft #familiar
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Working out bugs in multi-line values, and deploying some CSS tricks to decorate block quotes.

#rust #wasm #web #webdev #familiar
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Making some progress on close-to-the-metal syntax-highlighting text input. `contenteditable` has a reputation for being a wild API and I get it now.

#rust #wasm #web #webdev #familiar
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Moved the baseline 1px up and adjusted some characters. Alignment is already looking much better. Thanks again!
December 30, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Prototyping the default font for WASABI-16. A 96x96 pixel texture, hosting up to 192 6x8 pixel characters.

#gamedev #pixelart
A square grid of 192 6x8 pixel cells, about half of which contain text characters. Many of the characters are in the ASCII character set, but some are custom icons not represented in ASCII.
December 29, 2024 at 6:37 AM
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Made a little "load cartridge" icon for WASABI-16 (with a wink and a nod to the Web Assembly logo).

#gamedev #pixelart
A low-resolution pixel art image of a memory card or video game cartridge, styled after the Web Assembly logo.
December 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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TIL about how Go date/time format strings work and it broke me
A screenshot of a blog post excerpt that demonstrates how Go date/time format strings work.
December 13, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Same photo, different era

via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(...
Photo of a vineyard on a hill in the Fall, it is the same hill as seen in the iconic "Bliss" wallpaper that shipped with the Windows XP operating system.
December 6, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Some character sheets I assembled in Figma for a one-shot event at our inaugural Subconscious corporate on-site.

Kitbashed Cortex Prime x Pathfinder 2E x Dungeon World system
Midjourney drew the character portraits
GPT-4 helped translate Pathfinder 2E content to Cortex Prime mechanics
A Cortex Prime character sheet for a Bard A Cortex Prime character sheet for a Warlock A Cortex Prime character sheet for a Druid A Cortex Prime character sheet for a Wizard
September 7, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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A meme image portraying users who are desperate for alternative social media getting excited by ActivityPub (a federated protocol) only to be pulled back to Facebook after they implement ActivityPub federation.
June 21, 2023 at 4:09 PM