Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 25/09/2026I’m also working on planets.at but I don’t know if y’all are ready 141
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 07/09/2026i keep mocking up things that it would almost be possible to physically build 0103
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 12/07/2026i hate games like this because there’s always normal words it won’t accept 110
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 25/03/2026I just hit Yegge Stage 8 it’s like launching the rocket in Factorio now what 0100
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 22/03/2026today I added cellphone support, so you can play it on a tiny screen! worm-bas.pages.dev 140
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026this is the graphics for the worm/snake parts that Jan designed. I still love them 120
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026WORM.BAS was my favorite game. It was written by www.unixpapa.com Jan Wolter, who had written it as port of unix SNAKE but with better graphics. Jan died in 2015. 130
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026the fun part is it didn't distinguish graphics mode from text mode. so you'd be in DOS and could have lines and charts and stuff overlayed on top. And you could reprogram the ASCII characters on the fly to make a sort of sprite set 151
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026it ran on the Zenith Z-100, which was a weird little box with a built-in screen, ran a version of DOS wasn't quite PC compatible, but did have an Intel 8088 chip like a PC has 130
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 07/03/2026alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com 7332
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 17/02/2026oh interesting, because of my Chaldean trip I put Via and Populus on either side of full 110
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 17/02/2026the others moons fell out naturally once i had: 1. court cards mapped to element-of-element via Golden Dawn 2. element-of-element mapped to geomantic figures via @polyphanes.bsky.social ‘s blog 3. geomantic figures mapped to planets and directions via tradition 4. planets in Chaldean order 150
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 17/02/2026I’m glad you asked! the 12 Tidal Gua have a traditional mapping to the ecliptic, which is offset exactly half a sign from the zodiac (they’re _centered_ on the solstices, instead of _starting_ on a solstice) part of my goal is to show how systems fail to tidily fit together 120
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 16/02/2026I had a huge fucking crisis about which of the 16 moon phases were gonna go on which end of the dragon. I made a judgement call. (pls disagree) 200
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 16/02/2026I didn’t have a way to get sound replication praxis out of the speely but I was able to down-convert to farspark, extract the noise stream, then upconvert back to speely >.< 120
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 14/02/2026I also had it kinda mixed up with the Goya painting, which I must have learned about in college, which was itself taught with the mistranslation “The *dream* of reason produces monsters” 020
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 10/02/2026the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in days is figuring out 3100
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 08/02/2026it’s kind of remarkably hard to track down the providence of this exact image, which comes from wikipedia, but it seems to be a modern-ish redrawing of a genre of chart that appeared in propaganda for the Technocracy movement in the 1930s 130
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 06/02/2026I think the hoodie version is going to come out better but this is not bad 140
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 05/02/2026oh I found a version of the VSM that includes amplifiers/attenuators but I’m not sure it helps clarify anything 110
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 05/02/2026the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in months is figuring out what the hell Stafford Beer was up to when he drew this fucking thing 12562
