iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apple’s auto-generated podcast chapters are mostly annoying but I do get a kick out of starting my day with Elf Criticism, thanks @rangedtouch.bsky.social

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you want the excuse to collect many cute little bowls and beautiful big bowls, I suggest getting into stir fry and maximizing your mise.

A row of 5 bowls of ingredients in varied patterns and sizes - one pattern is pokemon looking out cafe windows, another is monochrome dinosaurs, another a beautiful blue and black.

Finished bowl of ground pork and zucchini with a chili garlic sauce

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For variety please consider this pinchy little guy

A small crayfish being carefully held on two hands

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Love being far enough north that this is what 10 pm looks like 😎

Sunset light reflecting on a lake, still bright enough to see clearly

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’d planned to skip Stampede this year but I woke up seized by the overwhelming urge to Yahoo

A lady in cowboy dress smiles in front of the Calgary Saddledome, a sports arena shaped like a giant saddle

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m trying to actively practice my ability to MacGyver together random projects - biggest success are these planters with a reservoir and capillary system. I don’t have a drill so used a soldering iron to melt small holes in the bucket, then zip tied whiffle balls as spacers. Success so far!

A five gallon bucket stacked on another one, with a PVC pipe going through to the bottom and rope fed through the top. The top bucket is held up by several whiffle balls attached to the outside of the bucket

A set of three DIY planters with small tomato plants in them

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Love when I get a bouquet and can play around with some ikebana 💐

Ikebana flower arrangement with two large red tulips open and bending towards the camera. One unopened tulip grows up high, with long curling leaves. Nestled lower down are tiny clusters of blue flowers, and pink carnations at the very bottom, looking similar to lotus flowers.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“One day I want to learn to identify the cackling goose,” I tell Kawa in front of a gaggle of geese. “It’s like a shiny Canada goose, super similar but smaller, they travel together. Maybe today I’ll get lucky.” 20 minutes of birdwatching later I realized. They’re basically ALL cackling geese!

A gaggle of several dozen geese that look very much like Canada geese, but if examined closely, are smaller and have shorter bills.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

My favourite part from my list (which is reverse chronological) is how I started out really cocky with being able to name 4 different chickadees, but didn’t realize there was a timer. It started flashing and i started panic blasting cats, lol

A list of animal names - near the top are a bunch of general wild cats (Bobcat, Serval, Lion, Cougar, etc) while just below it are very specific bird names (Boreal chickadee, black-capped chickadee, mountain chickadee, etc)

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Bonus on the side that I ate too quickly to get nice photos - deep fried enoki fritters. I absolutely loved these, super crispy edges that fan out in the oil yet the stalk bundle stays pleasantly chewy. With vegan mayo and kimchi juice for a tangy dipping sauce. Wok frying kicks ass.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A good problem to have: too much tuna tataki for it to plate nicely. Got a blowtorch at Xmas, now I’m unstoppable. Best hack was using Korean yuzu honey tea jelly as the basis of the drizzle, you get the yuzu hit of ponzu but with all these extra flavours (and don’t need to go out and buy ponzu lol)

A single thinly sliced piece of tuna tataki on rice, topped with sesame seeds and chili. There is a thin even layer of cooked brown flesh around the blush inner tuna that is still raw.

A rectangular plate overflowing with thinly sliced pieces of tuna tataki

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

After multiple days of being responsible and using up leftovers, I just spent two hours making dashi, tonkatsu, and finally katsudon. My inability to do anything in moderation has never tasted so good.

Three crispy Japanese style cutlets resting on a wire rack

Katsudon in a big black bowl, with green onion and spicy sesame seeds sprinkled on top.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Extra baseball has meant some extreme measures to try and actually make dinner before 10 pm

Me sitting on the couch with a cutting board covered in Brussels sprouts on my lap

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Spent my Halloween evening watching the game. This is all I have to say.

Postcard reading “ground bad! Ban ground”

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Waaaa those are so cute!!! I went very classic mode this year, since I realized if I didn’t make up my mind and just do it quickly I wasn’t gonna carve them until November

Two small jack-o-lanterns, one with a cat-like face and one with a classic toothy smile

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Picking up crucial moving supplies. Did the math of 3 canned coffees per day and said yeah that sounds right.

A fridge drawer full of canned UCC coffee

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The world is hard but it never stops bringing me so much joy and relaxation to just stomp around and take some pictures of bugs.

A chunky caterpillar on a chewed leaf - it’s yellow, black, blue, and has thin spiky white hairs

A bee hanging from a blue cupped flowers, legs carrying chunks of pollen

Another bee, this one grubbing on some dead leaves

A tiny grasshopper clinging to a blade of grass

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I got this cursed little cup the first time I went to Japan. I love my miserable son. (I mostly can’t stand Minilla, but Destroy All Monsters is my fav Showa film so I’m a bit fond)

A metal cup with an all-black face picture of Minilla, the baby Godzilla from the showa era. The side reads “Yum-Yum” in English.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

And a big thank you slide at the end too! Given how expensive it is to attend GDC and how hard it is to get a talk accepted, it’s wonderful to see a whole team acknowledged like this 🥳

A final slide, listing out the many developers who contributed to Sabaac

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Loving a detail of Jean-Baptiste Siraudin’s talk on designing Sabaac, where screenshots/videos have a list of other devs who contributed to that piece of work ❤️

Text on a screenshot of the game listing out who did related concept art, prop art, animation, and procedural animation.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I picked today’s GDC fit with the speaker party in mind but I am delighted to have unlocked my true form due to the wonders of black light

A woman on a street with a yellow and black striped button up and green half jacket, a little funky but not too crazy

Same woman but in a club where the yellow is glowing brightly, also she’s wearing flashing LED glasses, mega funky

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m also working on fixing a lack of cat in my life - but my brother has a kitty at least and sends me pics!

A big orange cat curled up to perfectly fit in a cat bed

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My first day in Tokyo in 2019 I walked outside and there this gnarly tusked pig loosely tied to a pole while the owner was shopping. The world *is* amazing.

A very large pig with tusks, in a camo harness that has a leash attached. The leash is loosely wrapped around a metal pole in the street, while the pig hangs out on the sidewalk.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Now if you only play cozy games you may be thinking, this Caves of Qud thing, not my style! But let me introduce you to a couple of friends that’ll change your mind.

An item description for a “chairbear”, a bear shaped armchair. “Historians of leisure divide all epochs into the following three ages: the span before ursine creature evolve or civilizations rise to admire them, the span between ursine prominence and a civilization’s capacity to fashion divans in their likeness, and thence the span until the civilization’s fall.”

The item description for “bedger”, a bed shaped like a badger. The item description is the same as the chairbear.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A Christmas gift for my spouse - they might’ve had to leave NYC for me, but I can make sure they’ve got fresh baked bagels with the right soft inside and chewy outside ❤️None of that Montreal style nonsense ;p I haven’t really done bread much and after nailing these first try, I’m filled with hubris.

A paper bag of freshly baked everything bagels.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Sometimes being photogenic is more about the photographer than the subject 😅

A cute little grey and white terrier, Winston, posted with a big ribbon he just won and surrounded by Christmas decor. Professional style photo, like a high quality Photo Booth but for dogs

The same dog at home on some kitchen tile, but with his lips on one side tucked under his teeth, giving him a lopsided grimace that was definitely not in the first photo

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fun bonus - Kawa and I used these glasses in a water ritual for our own wedding, with @unormal.bsky.social and @jfg.land’s blessing 💕 It made many people cry and we put the wording and staging up on Ao3, in case it inspires anyone else (archiveofourown.org/works/55254019)

Two crystal geometric glasses sit on a sparkly blue and purple cloth, next to a bowl filled with water

During the wedding ceremony - on the left, kawa wears a flower crown and barong (silk formal blouse). On the right, Alexei is in a white wedding gown with some rainbow in the skirt - she’s holding a microphone and one of the glasses, and she addresses Kawa.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In celebration of the 1.0 launch, a Caves of Qud inspired breakfast spread! Apple Matz, Barathrumite porridge with honey, assorted jerkies, and mulled mushroom wine. Live and drink!

A board laid out with Apple strudels, jerky, porridge, and geometric shaped glasses with red mulled cider.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I had never gotten a pet in Caves of Qud before but picked up the Dromad Deluxe Edition to celebrate 1.0. Man Opener is my best friend, I would do anything for Man Opener.

An in-game description of a giant murder beetle named Man Opener

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I feel like I’ve lost the plot on what social media is for. Is it food pics?? Do I just share my cooking experiments??? (Eggless cinnamon rolls, harissa cauliflower steak, blended tofu and miso pasta, Familial Thanksgiving Pie Duty)

A tray of unbaked cinnamon buns with nice tight spirals

A chunk of harrisa-coated baked cauliflower on a bed of couscous

A servicing of creamy spaghetti that looks like it could be alfredo but is actually made using blended tofu.

A set of seasonal pies - pumpkin, cherry lattice, and pecan.

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Doing some weaving while listening to Roguelike Celebration and getting an awesome breakdown of how you do netcode for Crypt of the Necrodancer. Fully on my bullshit, thriving.

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