iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Beetroot Paul @beetrootpaul.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

• Awakening • My first picoCAD model, created for a jam, based on a scene of Link playing ocarina in the front of the Wind's Fish Egg in the remastered The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening game. #lowpoly #picoCAD2 #link #zelda

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I think I've been on the West Coast long enough that it's seeped in. I saw a sticker of a moomin holding a bottle of kerosene with a lit rag in it on the side of a parking meter and my first thought was "oh, I bet that's called a moolootoov cocktail."

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dma.space @dma.space · 08/01/2026

dma.space is proud to announce our grand opening! We'll be opening up the space, giving tours, demoing projects, and accepting membership sign-ups. No RSVP is needed! Fri Jan 16, 5pm - 10pm Sat Jan 17, Noon - 10pm Sun Jan 18, Noon - 9pm #pnw #seattle #hackerspace #makerspace

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

For those who might be interested in the "runners-up" for my obviously very important Favorite Game of 2025 honor, there are several worth mentioning:

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

It has been my tradition to name a favorite game of the year, and seeing as we're coming down to the line, it's time to make a choice! The choice in 2025 is easy: it was Blue Prince, for reasons that I cannot explain in a spoiler-free way. As it should be.

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Excited to present Blua at the Handmade Seattle mini-conference today (handmadecities.com/seattle/)! Attendees will be bombarded by acronyms and initialisms that start with the letter B.

handmadecities.com

Handmade Seattle Lite

In-Person Events for for Low-Level Programmers

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I will tell you why prompting an AI system, even if you get something good back, doesn't make you or the generative model you used "artists." Artists are communicators, not consumers.

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Getting a chance to demo Blua to some folks at Handmade over the weekend was really refreshing! My "what would I do if I won the lottery" right now would more or less be a lot of Blua stuff and related research with no strings attached to making a Product out of it.

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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

ok, time to roll out #picotron 0.1.1e (;^ _ ^) First up is the new BBS runtime, including: copy/paste, tooltray widgets, png & gif capture, and kinda-persistent file storage (IndexedDB). Try it in your browser with a windowed cart like picocalendar by pck404: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=142...

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I haven't decided what my end goal for Blua is, other than as a core component of games and software I write for myself, but one thing some folks have asked me is whether writing about the design and implementation would make a good textbook. Maybe? I wonder how that typically works.

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I alluded to my virtual machine on Twitter earlier - here's the skinny: in 2022, I decided to build myself a bit of a web-based notebook to my own liking. Part of it was building a vanilla JS parser for a markdown-like syntax that I liked.

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My personal doctrine of total resistance is as follows: if those in power wish to see people suffer in places like this one, to see them panic and at a loss for words, then to pursue joy and to speak clearly will be acts of opposition.

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Brian Jackson @axnjaxn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Would people be interested in seeing more of the behind the scenes work I've been doing for the last couple of years? I've kept a lot of my tinkering outside the PICO-8 to myself, but I've been working on kind of a bigger project.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

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