iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Being an open source maintainer in 2026

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore

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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 31/07/2026

It just suggested a sophisticated algorithm called "rot13". To make it more secure I'm running it twice.

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Leafy Games @leafygames.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Descend thousands of meters into a dark and ancient place. You are being hunted. leafygames.itch.io/idols-of-ash #indiedev #gamedev #indiehorror #horrorgame #itchio

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Idols of Ash by Leafy Games

Horror climbing

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Did some polish on the UI. Windows now support smooth scrolling and clipping, buttons look more like buttons now and just look at that silly little price tag animation #indiedev #gamedev #incrementalgame #indiegame

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Compression is not doing it justice but my subpixel anti-aliased GPU text renderer is now working pretty well. Supports colored text and backgrounds and I was able to get rid of all visible artifacts. Was quite annoying to figure out sub-pixel bugs...

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

My new blog post is about my experience developing 'from scratch' software for real users and how easy it is to forget basic functionality when it is not handled for you by a framework anymore. Functionality that users take for granted and expect to work. alek-tron.com/AppChecklist...

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Developing desktop apps from scratch: A feature checklist

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Working a bit on the visuals of my game. Tried Magicavoxel for modeling the drones and satellites. Not my strong suit but it certainly looks better than the placeholders from before. The lasers also have some actual sprites now. #gamdev #indiedev #odinlang #voxels

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Implemented a prototype voxel renderer and I'm already quite happy with the result. Unfortunately I can't use MSAA for anti-aliasing anymore so edges are a bit ugly at the moment... #gamedev #indiedev

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Currently redesigning my old game into an Incremental Game. Video compression is not happy about it. #gamedev #indiedev #odinlang #incrementalgame

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Imgui Odin backends now also include an OpenGL renderer in addition to DirectX and the software rasterizer: github.com/alektron/img... #imgui #dearimgui #odin

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Now also features an experimental software rasterizer. #imgui #dearimgui #odinlang

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.

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Omar @ocornut.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

dear imgui 1.92 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... New protocol for backends to create/update textures, with support for 13 renderers. Dynamic font scaling. Dozens of font/atlas related changes. Dozens of other changes. Expect some turbulence. (misc video from January...)

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Super minimal profiler + flame graph for DearImGui (~100 LOC): alek-tron.com/FlameGraph/f... Can be trivially adjusted for other UI systems and languages due to its simplicity. #imgui

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Currently working on a native version of DXF Explorer (dxf-explorer.com) It opens DXF files with millions of entries in milliseconds, filters them in realtime and comes as a single executable file.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"Why am I fighting this thing daily for what essentially becomes a glorified asset loader" Works well with what always like to say about big engines: Their biggest 'benefit' is platform independence, especially in regards to rendering APIs. Everything else is just in the way.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Creating a Windows window with custom title bar is for some reason much harder than it should be. Here is my method to achieve it which is simpler than other solutions I've found online, yet covers most edge cases AFAIK: alek-tron.com/borderless/b...

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Custom Titlebar

The absolute minimal code required for a win32 window with custom title bar

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The predicted trajectory of a spaceship in an N-Body system visualized in realtime. Multiple trajectories with different timesteps are calculated in parallel which results in this chaotic shape until it converges to the calculations with the lowest timestep. #gamdev #graphics #space

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Got my old space sim project running again and might implement some new ideas I've been having...

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Made this little cheat sheet for #odinlang pointer/slice/container types

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My game 'Chunk Miner' is now on GitHub: github.com/alektron/Chu... A simple but complete game, written almost from scratch in just ~3200 lines of Odin code. Care was taken to make the code simple, readable, extensively commented. No cruft, no engine, just a game. #gamedev #indiedev #odinlang

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GitHub - alektron/ChunkMinerGame: Chunk Miner is a small but complete game, in less than 3200 lines of Odin code.

Chunk Miner is a small but complete game, in less than 3200 lines of Odin code. - alektron/ChunkMinerGame

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

some admittedly ambitious research for new project

reminder reading "research difference between various dimensions"

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Not sure what's going on with my VR game all of a sudden. This is more traffic than it got ever since I released it. Well... I happily take it alektron.itch.io/fear-of-fall... #gamedev #indiedev #vrdev #vr

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My little game is almost finished and according to cloc it's just 3150 lines of code. Not bad, considering that its only dependency is the #Odin standard library (stb_image and miniaudio). #gamedev #indiedev

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Karl Zylinski @zylinski.se · 03/03/2025

Join my game jam if you: - Want to learn game development - Want to learn Odin or low-level programming No prior knowledge required! You have 7 days to figure things out. You'll be able to make something! No worries, no pressure. Just have fun! Starts on March 8. itch.io/jam/odin-7-d...

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Odin 7 Day Jam

A game jam from 2025-03-08 to 2025-03-23 hosted by Karl Zylinski. Make a game in 7 days using the Odin Programming Language ! Ever wanted to make video games using a low-level programming language? Od...

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Added saving/loading to my game today. Thanks to the whole game state being a relatively sane struct I simply write the memory buffer to disk and done. Effectively a one liner. Even stuff like the particle system Just Works™ #gamedev #indiedev #odin

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My little game project that I've been working on for a bit over a month is nearing its end. A lot could still be improved but all the mechanics are there. I'll probably give two more weeks for balancing and some polishing and then call it a day. #Odin #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The drills movement which is fully descrete under the hood is now nicely interpolated for butter smooth motion. #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev #handmade

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Added a little particle system that collides with the terrain for some neat effects. Written with Odin + D3D11 #Odin #Odinlang #gamedev #indiedev #graphics

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

people will speak about a game they played as a kid with the same reverence that they might a great song or novel, about how it engrossed them totally and completely. They may even tear up talking about it. and then you ask what game it was and it was Spongebob battle for bikini bottom

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Minerals can now be sold and the money be used to buy several upgrades. For example drill strength to speed up drilling and allow mining of harder materials like rock. Written from scratch with Odin + D3D11 #gamedev #indiedev #Odinlang

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

You don't have to flip your textures for OpenGL alek-tron.com/TextureOrigi...

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another #Odinlang cheat sheet. This one is for understanding the memory layout of Odin strings and how it relates to the concept of runes when iterating. #Odin #dev

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Made this little cheat sheet for #odinlang pointer/slice/container types

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The single biggest advantage of Unity, Unreal and the likes is portability. Everything else just gets in your way.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Maybe it's just me but that little counter rotation of the wheels, which is absolutely not a bug, kind of adds some character to the little guy. I might just keep it. #gamedev #indiedev #odin #odinlang

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Added sound, a more dynamic drilling mechanic, world re-generation and a sky gradient. You can also store a block and poop it back out. From scratch in Odin + Direct3D11 #gamedev #indiedev

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

when the windows file explorer URL reads "Documents" instead of "C:\Users\<user>\Documents" even after clicking it to focus the file path, I feel a sudden urge to sternly talk to someone at microsoft

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Some more progress on my little drilling game. I can now load .obj file so my driller now has an actual 3D model. Written from scratch with Odin + Direct3D #gamedev #indiedev

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Finally got subpixel anti-aliasing working for my GPU font renderer! Not much to see in a compressed video so here it is 600% zoomed in to see at least a little bit what is going on. Here I am cycling through "no AA", normal AA, subpixel AA

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Not quite the same but the times I've been using DearImGui and been saying to myself "there's gotta be some flag to do this"... and there always is!

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