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 · 11/08/2025

Gut dass wir noch jung sind, aber das sieht mir nach ner echt schwierigen Badewanne fürs hohe Alter aus 😅

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

Just yesterday I was thinking about the fact that I've never seen you give any talks. Funny coincidence.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Why use ImGui::Button() when ImGui::GetWindowDrawList() is right there, amirite?

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I keep reading that but so far every medium article I've ever read was just... not behind a paywall? Am I using medium wrong? Is the paywall optional and up to the author? Because then it would be fine I guess.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The font changes caused a surge of new issues I assume?

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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 · 03/05/2025

Are the gizmos and indicators drawn in screen space? Looks very nice

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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 · 29/03/2025

You know, using software tricks to make up for lack of hardware speed, I can get behind that. Using more software to make up for lack of software speed, however... that's just ridiculous

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It has had that for as long as I can remember. But it's really just a shortcut for three separate actions. It doesn't even work if the debugger got attached to a process after the fact, only if it got launched WITH the debugger.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

His newest post does not have macros anymore. I guess one can still define them as compiler flags but idk...

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Nah, Stefan knows the in and outs of C++. This seems to cheap of a trick. I thought about defining macros via compiler flags but that too seems a bit cheap.

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ok, I'm stumped. I guess the int in front of main getting replaced with nothing is fine on some compilers. But for the body... no idea. Is the body even getting compiled/type checked?

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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sir, I need you to extend that code panel. Also you are under arrest

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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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Alex @alektron.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I have a finished game sitting on my computer. It's just that all the values (upgrade values/prices, world generator etc.) are completely arbitrary and unbalanced. And I just can't get myself to actually work on that part because turns out that's hard...

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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

I'm rocking a Rift S myself. It doesn't get any love anymore in terms of software updates but it still works great.

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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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