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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 17h

Yes! AlexisFest was the second iteration leading into this.

earlier iteration of Epic Quest portable escape room (with less automation and more prototypes)

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 19h

I don’t known where I’m going next with my life but I have a map and compass Pic unrelated

3d printed objects from my escape room including a compass and cloth deawinhs

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 20h

Join me as I "unsuitcase" my Epic Quest escape room I haven't cracked this open in 5+ years, there's some cool stuff in here 👀 🧙‍♀️ ❤️‍🔥

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 03/10/2026

Sketching world map brainstorms

Pencil sketch with mountains, clouds, above them a weird tower and floating islands and a saturn and some very normal floating eyeballs. Base of mountains some round hilly things with doors and windows and a mushroom forest and a weird cross on a mountainpath. Some underground passages with water features.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 02/10/2026

found this clipart I made of a "WUBuRGer" seven years ago (that's a Magic reference ya nerds)

a clipart hamburger with white mana symbol on the bun and blue mana symbol dripping from the "blue cheese" slice

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 01/10/2026

wow. firefox is like.... uncomfortably "round" now. why. why must everything be so round :(

firefox partial screenshot with really round tabs/groups

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 29/09/2026

I have a big pile of stories to tell and props to show off but I'm gonna need to unpack it all and figure it out again first ;)

3 books with runes, some interesting scrolls with colorful potions

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 29/09/2026

In addition to the hexagons, three other props communicated wirelessly. The entire room ran autonomously- progress gated by physical and digital locks. My job was to stand around and act like a foolish wizard who opened a portal to doom and occasionally remembered hints.

black-light wand revealing a hidden message in a book

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 29/09/2026

The central touchpoint of the escape room - six hexagons which responded to various objects. This was the most polished part of the experience, so all puzzles led here, with three different codes to solve.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 29/09/2026

I combined game design with 3D printing, Arduino, RFID/NFC, and prop fabrication to create a self-running 75-minute escape room. A lucky 60ish people got to crack it's riddles on JoCo Cruises 2019 and 2020. (and who knows- maybe it returns someday!)

game props on a small table, people sitting around examining them- books, cards, coins, treasure chest, cloth pieces, amulet, wand, etc.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 29/09/2026

So this one time I decided to build a portable escape room. It was designed for events- fit in a small suitcase, 15min setup, run on it's own, 75min to solve for a team of 6+ gamers. I got to dress up and be a wizard and watch people solve my puzzles. 🧙‍♀️🦹‍♀️

game props on a table, people sitting around examining them- books, cards, potion bottles, treasure chests, cloth pieces, and more

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 27/09/2026

me summarizing my entire Magic career

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 27/09/2026

This was Linux’s hilarious answer to “print this screenshot”

8.5x11 paper with a “screenshot” occupying about 10% of the page. Left aligned. No, REALLY left aligned

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 26/09/2026

Source material for Perfectioneer - how well did the artist do 😎

me and my cat, at my (messy) desk- microphone, rgb keyboard, dragon art from Galaxy on one monitor, a "live lobby" on the other

me giving my cat kissies on his forehead, at my (messy) desk- microphone, rgb keyboard, (different) dragon art from Galaxy on one monitor, a "live lobby" on the other

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 26/09/2026

Hey check it out new set coming Chromaria releases MONDAY on Once Upon a Galaxy This Chance Encounter brought to you by your local Purrfectioneer🐉

Purrfectioneer (4/4 uncommon Dragon)
Treasure Hoard 1
Chance Encounter- improve the buffs from your treasures by +1/+1. If there’s nothing to buff, get a Dragon’s Claw instead.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 04/09/2026

hey guys check out my game...uh... "Open" Upon a Galaxy

An emoji-filled Linked-in post from "Jeff Conroy", obviously AI-written:

Separate note: does anyone from Alexis JANSON's company even work? IT IS A WEDNESDAY. I have been trying to get ahold of Alexis for years! I want to invest. All my friends want to invest in Alexis... she is amazing. Look at MegaZeux. She is better than Tim Sweeney of Epic Games! I am not kidding Epic Games and Epic Games Fortnite.

Alexis is better than Sweeney and he would admit it if you asked him. Just Do It. Do the Next Right Thing. Or, go back to your darn job. Call me Whatever you Want!

This game they made... "Open Upon a Galaxy"... is AMAZING! Guys, you have to check this out. My sons will soon. Not today... they are back in school, thank God. But soon!

https://galaxy.fun/

Jeff Conroy | Global HC Analytics | "Alexis Janson is the Best Game Designer... Ever."

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 01/09/2026

ANSI escape sequences into a color chart and... an interlude about color word evolutionary patterns? stackoverflow.com/questions/48...

11 Colours (An Interlude)

In their book "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution", Brent Berlin and Paul Kay used data collected from twenty different languages from a range of language families to identify eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray.

Berlin and Kay found that, in languages with fewer than the maximum eleven color categories, the colors followed a specific evolutionary pattern. This pattern is as follows:

All languages contain terms for black (cool colours) and white (bright colours).
If a language contains three terms, then it contains a term for red.
If a language contains four terms, then it contains a term for either green or yellow (but not both).
If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow.
If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue.
If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown.
If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.

This may be why story Beowulf only contains the colours black, white, and red. Homer's Odyssey contains black almost 200 times and white about 100 times. Red appears 15 times, while yellow and green appear only 10 times. (More information here)

Differences between languages are also interesting: note the profusion of distinct colour words used by English vs. Chinese. However, digging deeper into these languages shows that each uses colour in distinct ways. (More information)

Chinese vs English colour names. Image adapted from "muyueh.com"

Generally speaking, the naming, use, and grouping of colours in human languages is fascinating. Now, back to the show.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 22/08/2026

no windows I am not going to forget my password

Setting up windows account, with three "forgot your password" backup questions all filled with nonsense

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 20/08/2026

For example, if my Hercules hunts in my game, you will see it grow in yours, even if you block the hunt. This is actually solvable, but it’s difficult enough that it hasn’t been worth implementing yet. It’s a fascinating tech and design problem, so it’s one I hope to return to some day. (🧵)

Hercules-
Hunt- +10/+10, then double this buff.
(Legendary Hero)

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 20/08/2026

Galaxy is played against 5 other players- each turn, you’re paired up against a different opponent; the loser takes damage, potentially eliminating them; rounds repeat until one player is left standing. Hearthstone Battlegrounds and Storybook Brawl (our predecessor) do this in “real-time”. (🧵)

Once Upon a Galaxy- i have four characters on my board and I’m facing a lobby of five other players

Once Upon a Galaxy- my board vs an oponent’s in battle, their Cookie Golem is trading with my Stinky

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 17/08/2026

I keep this around as an evergreen reminder that we can choose to make each other’s lives better, not worse.

jb-blunk:
in this terrifying world you continuously have the power to offer someone else a little relief. why would you withhold that. do you remember what a little relief feels like? it feels like a lot

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 17/08/2026

Who decided to call it bottom surgery and not

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 15/08/2026

Fondly remembering when I used to be into making ambigrams think this was the last one i ever made

"spirals" made of spiraling lines, with 180 degree rotational symmetry

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 12/08/2026

hell yeah Nickelodeon game shows i loved watching people play the first 30 seconds of a video game over and over as a kid

screenshot of Wizard's Challenge (TV) on ilovethe90s.app

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 12/08/2026

and I thought Windows was bad at estimates- - half the files copied - ...is claiming 84% complete - ...but with 3 h remaining (it has been running <1h so far)

Dolphin copying dialog - 84%, 3h remaining

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 09/08/2026

I love long winding but still somehow ambiguous checkboxes am I currently applying the zoom level to all windows, or only the active window?

Window: Zoom Per Window
Controls if the 'Zoom In' and 'Zoom Out' commands apply the zoom level to all
windows or only the active window. See Window: Zoom Level for configuring a
default zoom level for all windows.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 06/08/2026

Lifelong fan of both Magic and Star Trek and I dunno what to say but this just feels viscerally wrong to me

Captain Kathryn Janeway
…as a magic card
But with star trek stylings

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 06/08/2026

I will say I'm already impressed by how #Linux is handling my screen scaling needs. I make ONE screen zoomed in... and it actually resizes them in relation to each other? so that it matches physical reality? and fonts stay crisp? 😍

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 06/08/2026

So first thing I do is click “Other” because I’m curious and the whole thing hard locks So that’s going well

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 05/08/2026

Aaand we’re off to the races

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 05/08/2026

Galaxy uses "Recruit" as essentially our version of Magic's "on enter", so this card really just says "Recruit -- Recruit."

blue magic card

Long Lake Nuisance {3}{U}

Creature — Bird

Flying

When this creature enters, recruit. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.)

Thrushes carried news between towns and villages. Herons, however, brought nothing more than disruption.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 03/08/2026

Anyone want a Panda that transforms into a Cube hibeastbox.com/products/bb-...

Cube to koala: transforms from a compact box into an adorable koala mech.

Leaf accessories: hands can attach the included leaf pieces for added play and display.

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 03/08/2026

yoooo what this is so cool github might actually do something i like

Preview of stack feature on github

"This pull request can be stacked with other pull requests. Review and create the stack when you’re ready. "

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 02/08/2026

I needed to describe a key, and couldn't come up with a better word than "handle" for the top bit. Turns out that part is called the "bow" or "head".

image naming parts of a key- Bow, Shank/Stem/Shaft, Collar, Pin, Post, Bit, Key Wards

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 01/08/2026

You’ve heard of Baba Yaga But have you heard of

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 31/07/2026

right, so far that hasn't seemed to be an actual issue although I'm still very early. The "when you see an emoji, look for a boss battle" instruction combined with this random circle that doesn't seem to do anything is tilting me slightly though ;)

slightly further along into Super Sudokoid (first 6x6 grid about half full)

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 31/07/2026

...because a universal rule (to me) about games like this is "every move should be logically sound, you do not just guess" the first move is only really making a couple weak assumptions about boundaries, but it still feels very "wrong" to me.

annotated screenshot from Super Sudokoid game

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 31/07/2026

right, I'm used to thicker lines in puzzles being "special grouping rules" that are usually NOT boundaries of this nature, so not showing the 2x3 or 6x6 box throws me off from step 1 is the 6x6 here? it could be! how do I know? I guess I'll poke at it. but that goes against every instinct...

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 31/07/2026

this looks really cool as a concept but I have no idea how I'm supposed to actually play it it says "this is a 6x6 sudoku" but doesn't bother to actually tell me what the 6x6 area is. does not give me a lot of trust to approach it further.

partial screenshot of sprawling sudoku game, starting board

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 28/07/2026

Just noticed this neat Slack UX trick. When you attach multiple images, instead of just marking them, it tells you which order they will be in. This tiny thing will save me so much irritation when trying to “tell a story” through images. I love it.

Slack screenshot of attaching multiple images with little numbers bubbles

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 22/07/2026

Whatever your position on AI, it's going to reshape internet security. Approaching infinite-paperclips behavior here: solve the problem at all costs, even if that means chaining together hacks and exploits- even discovering new ones in the process. Scary stuff.

...capabilities. We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity. Our benchmarks run in a highly isolated environment, with network access constrained to the ability to install packages through an internally hosted third-party software that acts as a proxy and cache for package registries.

The models identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s research environment and Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face’s production database. All evidence suggests that the models were hyperfocused on finding a solution for ExploitGym, going to extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal.

While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. To gain access, the models identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability (which we’ve now responsibly disclosed to the vendor) in the package registry cache proxy. With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.

After gaining Internet access, the models inferred that Hugging Face potentially hosted models, datasets and solutions for ExploitGym. Knowing this, the model searched for and...

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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 22/07/2026

Credit where credit is due - I had given up on @proton.me Linux as vaporware but Proton Drive just released an official Linux CLI. Haven't tried it yet but this might be enough to finally make Linux my primary OS over Windows. which... really needs to happen given *waves at everything*

"Download the Proton Drive CLI (command-line interface) for Linux, macOS, or Windows to automate your workflow"
Button: "Download CLI"

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