eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I setup a ko-fi! ko-fi.com/eli_oat I’m using it as a kinda dev log, but also to see if I can bring in enough money to pay an artist and/or musician one day.ko-fi.comSupport eli oateli oat's small and nearly silent menagerie 011
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Within the space of 2 podcast episodes I've heard @austinwalker.bsky.social talk about totally unrelated "ore lords" 010
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Found this rock ptarmigan a few weeks ago in Iceland. It sounded like a lightsaber wielding frog stuck in a box. #birds 020
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I’m authoring this sat next to a stinky compost bin. Here’s a sound toy I made. smallandnearlysilent.com/electrokrill/ and an intro post. eli.li/electrokrill Thanks to sound girlie and number one audio witch @spiralganglion.com for helping me make sure it doesn‘t sound like hot compost smells.smallandnearlysilent.comelectrokrill 020
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Wrote a thing responding to a thing responding to a thing. eli.li/the-seed-ben...eli.liOatmeal - The Seed Beneath the SnowJimmy Miller wrote a lovely response to Sean Goedecke’s “Seeing like a Software Company,” which you know is itself riffing on James C. Scott’s 012
Reposted by @eli-oat.bsky.socialIvy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 09/04/2026a poetic little gem of a language > Designate, determinate, uxn, bqn, k, q, alike but not you — seek kiki. eli.li/kikieli.liOatmeal - kikiTo hasten hest. Behest, behave, behold, come now — meet kiki. Left from over a machine god awoken from the millennium broken. Designate, 141
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Beware thunderous ides! Keep them at bay, Make cute guys. smallandnearlysilent.com/bamagotchi/ 020
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Depending on who you ask rawk is either a compiler or a preprocessor for awk, implemented in POSIX awk. It allows you to write declarative, functional-flavored code, with support for first-class functions, operations like map and reduce, etc. eli.li/make-awk-rawkeli.liOatmeal - Make awk rawkA friend online recently replied to something I wrote about awk by saying: […] it’s a danged shame [awk] didn’t continue to evolve the way Ruby, 010
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Made a weirdo game about probabilities and moving around a grid to collect treasure, buffs, and debuffs. smallandnearlysilent.com/strata/smallandnearlysilent.comStrata 010
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A blog post sharing my new camera thing, leibovitz. I'd love to see what pictures you make with it if you use it! eli.li/leibovitzeli.liOatmeal - leibovitzFolks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another 010
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 02/03/2025A blog post that includes a sloppy screen recording of me walking through how I’m implementing a compiler that targets a VM using awk. eli.li/skwaking-wee...eli.liOatmeal - Skwaking Week NotesI’d never thought about adding playlists to my website, but then I did it and now I wanna add more. While I wait to put together another playlist, 020
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I may be leaning in to making my little game, mountain, a platforming game for platforming sickos (positive). It now features a hard mode and a super hard mode, that means you've gotta finish the levels in either 7 or 5 seconds. smallandnearlysilent.com/mountain/ #gamedevsmallandnearlysilent.comMountain 140
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I made a game. I can't get past level 7 of my own game... smallandnearlysilent.com/mountain/ #gamedevsmallandnearlysilent.comMountain 092
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 03/12/2024A while ago I made a game. On accounts of it being pretty boring to play, though, last night I added an auto play feature to the game so that it can play itself. Tap the v key on a keyboard to enable auto play. Reload the page to turn it off. smallandnearlysilent.com/broughlike/ #gamedevsmallandnearlysilent.comEli's Broughlike 050
eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The time grows close. The vibes will be chill. We prepare to enter DECEMBER ADVENTURE! eli.li/december-adv...eli.liOatmeal - December AdventureThe Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every 010