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Software feller. I’m also on mastodon.social/@archagon.

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Archagon @archagon.net · 21h
Loved this article by mathematician/educator/researcher/artist Vi Hart about the Navier-Stokes proof, its antecedents, its politics and ethics, and its effects and relevance:
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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post | Vi Hart
The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds famil
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Archagon @archagon.net · 07/10/2026
Regarding AI: has there been another technological innovation that elicited roughly equal amounts of glassy-eyed fanaticism and visceral revulsion? I don't think this dynamic is going to change and I wonder where it's going to lead.
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Archagon @archagon.net · 06/10/2026
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." By that measure, pairing Matter devices[1] to an Apple Home is the definition of insanity. You can attempt to pair 20 times using *exactly the same steps* and only succeed once! [1]: Ikea, specifically.
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Archagon @archagon.net · 05/10/2026
Punch Brothers at #HardlyStrictlyBluegrass!
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Archagon @archagon.net · 05/10/2026
Somebody, somewhere on social media mentioned Concord grape pie, which I didn't know was a thing, so I thought I'd make one to see what it's like. Delicious! Tastes like an adult version of childhood grape candy. And I'm finally figuring out how to avoid soggy pie bottoms.
Concord grape pieA slice of Concord grape pie with prepared pourover coffee on a red plate
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Remar Games @remargames.se · 02/10/2026
Tower of Gold is coming November 1st! 🎉 It's a massive puzzle/action game with a first-person overworld full of characters and mysteries. I'll release a trailer alongside the game, but here's a small teaser in the meantime! #indiegames #indiedev
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Archagon @archagon.net · 30/09/2026
Really fun story of a hack by @aresluna.org: aresluna.org/a-hackers-gu...
aresluna.org
A hacker’s guide to bending the universe
If you're going to conquer the world, you can't let a broken CRT monitor stand in your way.
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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy October Eve! For Hallozeen this year, I made a 16-page walkthrough for a 36 year-old shareware classic. Primarily out of trash. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, besides me, but here you go! emmfoolery.itch.io/a-hallozeen-... #dosgaming #retrogaming
The opening game screen of Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray, for MS-DOS. A game released like, two weeks before I was born. Hugo's outside a haunted house! Spooky.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Earlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...
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A complicated game
Who gets credit for Order of the Sinking Star? Where should the names appear for the creators of its source material? And would you notice if a great game designer sat next to you?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026
Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵
A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's impossible to despise the DOGE crew as much as they deserve. The result of their work includes the death of millions, and a possibly irreversible decline in America's scientific and technological capacity, and they actually increased the debt to do this. World historical villains.
“There’s this misconception that we all just went in there and didn’t really think about what we were doing,” Hassen said, speaking virtually from a hotel room in San Diego. “I spent 24/7 thinking about it, waking up at three in the morning thinking, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ … And I know I did.”To Hassen, whose pre-government career involved turning around distressed companies, “DOGE was not radical,” he writes in the book. It was “not a wrecking ball, but a catalyst.” “Did we eliminate the deficit? No. Of course not,” he said. “But we made it on the top of everyone’s minds, albeit briefly, for a few months, that this deficit is something that we need to fix.”
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Archagon @archagon.net · 17/09/2026
Sick:
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in the future
https://billwurtz.com spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/78cT0dM5Ivm722EP2sgfDh patreon: https://patreon.com/billwurtz yt music: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCeATCXpa1wVcGWSl9rWmI2g apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bill-wurtz/id1019208137 pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/bill-wurtz/ARnXpvcKjV5z2vm twitch: https://twitch.tv/billwurtz soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/billwurtz bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/billwurtz.com ex-twitter: https://x.com/billwurtz instagram: https://instagram.com/notbillwurtz donate for some breakfasts: https://paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VXTWA8CDYP4RJ oops, no ai
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Archagon @archagon.net · 14/09/2026
Dunno how people get used to mice in macOS without `defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1` (disabled acceleration)
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Archagon @archagon.net · 10/09/2026
I attended the Lucas Museum member preview, and one of my favorite pieces was a study for a long, elaborate mural titled Telephone Men and Women at Work by Dean Cornwell. Would *love* to see high-res photos of the actual mural, but looks like it's in private hands: www.bostonherald.com/2009/10/...
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 09/09/2026
fwiw, i've really been enjoying using Indigo recently as a shared bluesky & mastodon client. the ui is super clean, it makes reading nice, and most importantly, it's great at crossposting. check it out! —me
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Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon App - App Store
Download Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon by Aniline Applications Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Indigo…
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 01/09/2026
A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
but, when you start outsourcing concepts that are *very* fundamental with a high degree of agency, like problem solving, decision making, creativity, artistry, craftsmanship, and communication? you're slowly sacrificing yourself to a prediction machine. you run the risk of losing yourself
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Archagon @archagon.net · 01/09/2026
How many cities are named after a *bar fight*? "[Sebastopol, CA] was originally named Pine Grove. The name change […] has historically been attributed to a bar fight in the late 1850s, which was allegedly compared by a bystander to the long Allied siege of the seaport of Sevastopol (1854–1855)."
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BART @bart.gov · 25/08/2026
Come take the full tour of the BART A, B and C Cars on display at the Western Railway Museum! The new interactive exhibit lets visitors step aboard three legacy BART cars and explore the technology, design, and history of the system. Thanks to @bsky.app for supporting longer videos now!
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Archagon @archagon.net · 27/08/2026
What's wrong with me that I keep listening to this, uh, "cover"...
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 24/08/2026
its ogmo!!
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Archagon @archagon.net · 27/08/2026
PSA: this jazzy album slaps.
aratkilo.bandcamp.com
Visions of Selam, by Arat Kilo
13 track album
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I read this 17 years ago and I think about it probably once a week. One of those things that I read that literally changed my political understanding of the world (and put me at odds with my family but that was coming anyway)
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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...
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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Knytt has been faitfully recreated by @bitkidgames.com to run on current operating systems and was just released on Steam and GOG, completely free Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2656050/...
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Knytt Classic on Steam
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the indie freeware classic, rebuilt for modern machines! Explore a maze-like planet as the Knytt, a peaceful being abducted by aliens, find your missing ship parts, a...
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 26/10/2025
It's a lovely sunny day! If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
Map of Europe showing locations of memorial benches.
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Another cross stitch completed! As usual, it’s from a historic Berlin woolwork pattern, published around the 1840s and included in fol. 360 at the Winterthur Library 🪡
Allie’s hand holding a finished cross stitch of a book and tablet leaning up against a beehive and a rosebush A Berlin woolwork pattern of a book and tablet leaning up against a beehive and a rosebush
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/07/2026
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…” [nytimes.com]
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Archagon @archagon.net · 29/07/2026
One of the most obnoxious errors in modern macOS. Dude, you're a fucking computer. JUST TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO TO UNPLUG THIS DRIVE (Oh, and status remains unchanged after several days. Yes, I'm sure it's doing something *super* important…)
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BART @bart.gov · 28/07/2026
Check out what we found in the BART media archives the other day ⬇️ 🎥 🎞️ This animated short is from the 1960s. BART’s Automatic Train Control system was heralded as something that had never been attempted before, a new paradigm in the history of mass transit.
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Waxy.org @waxy.org · 23/07/2026
3D gaussian splat tour of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral: many nice touches from the the cutaway view to the cars and ambient audio, try WASD movement inside with Shift to sprint vincentwoo.com/3d/grac...
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Grace Cathedral
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Phil. A. Ménard (AKA The Chatty DM) @chattydm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is, quite possibly, the best piece of game writing not supposed to be read in the whole of existance. #CavesOfQud
A Caves of Qud object found in a legendary Lair. A bear shaped chair called a chairbear. 

"Historians of leisure divide all epochs into the following three ages: the span before ursine creatures 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."

Condition: Perfect.
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Archagon @archagon.net · 22/07/2026
Whoa: when playing CS2 with wired AirPods Max 2s, the audio is positioned *perfectly* in space around my head. I feel like I have some sort of superpower, knowing exactly where enemies are just from their footsteps. Valve's audio engineers are magicians. (Other headphones get ~80% of the way there.)
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 21/07/2026
hi! i don't really do video content a lot, but i was invited by 3024 to do a deep dive on my career, composition process, and dynamic implementation. because it's usually a private chat, i requested that the archive be posted for free for anyone to check out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn5U...
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Lena Raine Interview (Deeper Dive 61/3024 Mentoring Program)
YouTube video by 3024 MUSIC
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set theonion.com/a24s-elden-ring-film-s…
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It's such a bizarre experience having kids and regularly watching kids content and recognizing how many behaviors are displayed as villainous that are currently being lifted up as virtue in real life
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Archagon @archagon.net · 18/07/2026
Fun to think back: 9games.pages.dev
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Bennett @foddy.net · 09/07/2026
given that there's a contact sensor in the ball, i think the world cup broadcasts are missing an opportunity to implement screen shake
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Archagon @archagon.net · 07/07/2026
Guys… uh… the chuds are using this analogy as a *positive* thing. We're completely cooked.
A post from Hacker News titled: “Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter”
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Archagon @archagon.net · 06/07/2026
Made a sour cherry pie! Parbaked the lower crust this time. Pie sides did not retain their fluting, but the bottom was much closer to my crispy ideal. Might use less butter in the dough next time.
Sour cherry pie with lattice crust.A slice of sour cherry pie.
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Archagon @archagon.net · 03/07/2026
I’m discovering that sfplanninggis.org/pim/ contains an insane treasure trove of San Francisco architectural history: historic building value surveys & context statements, property photos from the 70’s, even low-flying aircraft shots of most streets from ~2000 onward — from all 4 compass directions!
sfplanninggis.org
SF PIM | Property Information Map | SF Planning
Search for a San Francisco property and display a range of government held information about the property, e.g. parcel number, permit history, zoning, official address, zip code, taxable values, build...
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Archagon @archagon.net · 01/07/2026
Can fully instrumental EDM be funny? Yes!
tipper.bandcamp.com
Spunion, by Tipper
from the album 2012 EP Trilogy (Bubble Control/Puzzle Dust/Shatter Box)
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itch.io @itch.io · 30/06/2026
Leap Year: A clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Now 20% off on the #ItchSummerSale! managore.itch.io/leap-year
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Archagon @archagon.net · 29/06/2026
Notes indexing is so borked on my Mac that I've resorted to using my iPhone to find notes and then open them on my Mac through Handoff. 😵‍💫
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
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