iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm a mound

Humanoid heap under mossy-looking terrain.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

thanks for messing around with scrubjay the last few days, it's been so cool seeing what people are making. keep the screenshots coming

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I'm very please to" lol. love it. some things eternal

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some personal highlights: - Qud localization, obviously - @everest.bsky.social on gamers yearning for the mines - @droqen.bsky.social making a sudoku poem LIVE - @codingcrafter.bsky.social on proc gen and pedagogy - a 45 minute special on recovering and repairing the Hack sourcecode

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

roguelike.club

Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026

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a wear a mask iteration @an-iteration.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The lineup is so good! I went 👀 seeing that @everest.bsky.social will be doing "a retrospective of video game holes." Their 2023 presentation on gardens is one I still think a lot about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78u...

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Everest Pipkin-The Fortunate Isles-Fragment Worlds, Walled Gardens & the games that are played there

YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scrubjay is still early, messy in some places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with this very personal web gathering tool. everestpipkin.itch.io/scrubjay

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Scrubjay by Everest Pipkin

A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

wait no way!! ambiguity program in real life!

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

that's me. i'm the one who famously said "a computer must always be held accountable,"

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i read this before breakfast. it's the third one like it this week. they are always signed by a "founder", even if the project is like, a music album

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the first thing i read today had the subject line "I built a jail for AI. Thought this might be your kind of weird". it was a pitch for someone's (art?) project where they made a website for AI models who committed crimes to larp with you as if they were on death row

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i think i have to take my email off my website because the "ask claude to generate a list of 1000 people to email about my new project" boys are delivering the world's worst takes directly to my inbox

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i looked it up and wish i hadn't

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 19/09/2026

obsessed with this 4 minute open laptop talk about an phone dollhouse from wordhack this week (should start at ~39:20)

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WordHack feat. Neta Bomani, Andrew Badr and Andrew Boylan

YouTube video by Wonderville

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

not me with it bookmarked in my digging games folder, going "yes.. another digging game example... perfect"

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

chicken of the woods i think! edible and good! but check closer before trying it obviously

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

congrats!!! it’s been so cool to see this grow into itself over the last few years

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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 22/08/2026

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In mid-2025 Alex Spencer did an incredible preview of Big Walk for Edge, doomed to print purgatory. Been thinking about this vignette of Jake's hand-placing rocks ever since. As the slop wave intensifies, it's just a beautiful depiction of a game made by people who care (and have the time to care).

For the tour's conclusion, we've all gathered
at the central mountain's summit, arriving just as
the sun peeks over the horizon and bathes the
world in pink, syrupy light. Disseldorp is fiddling
with a handheld radio, seeking the perfect station
to complete the mood, while the rest of us pass
around a pair of binoculars and Strasser describes
placing every single rock on the island by hand,
working his way around clockwise. He points out
the areas already done, with an outstretched arm.
"I've gotten to the edge of this valley," he says.
"That's my big job, between now and release."

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 17/08/2026

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i try to go through the entire list properly once or twice a year to see what has changed! blessedly additions are brought in more often piece by piece

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

anyway i'm deleting a number of boring, standard, functional, and ultimately lifeless tools from tinytools.directory tonight, not just LLM file convertors. i think it will just be better as a place where you can feel people through the programs they wrote

tinytools.directory

Tiny Tools Directory

A list of small, free, or experimental tools towards joyful digital creation.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

obviously it's an old gripe, just like ever renewed in this age of productivity-addicted and SEO-optimized tooling. toolslop

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

it just has me thinking a lot... again... about the slipperiness of "tools" as a concept, as if usefulness were the only vector by which their merit should be judged, as if simple efficacy were always the goal and as if ease were always liberatory

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

this isn't me complaining. it's easy enough to just delete the submission and move on to the next thing, which is occasionally still fascinating and clearly loved

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

now there are at least a few completely interchangable LLM-coded file convertors submitted to the directory every day. you know the type- GIF to HEIC, JSON to CSV, CSS beautifier, that sort of thing. they all look like this and are hosted on a custom domain that will be a gambling site in 6 weeks

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

when i first started assembling this list of joyful digital tools in 2019 the bulk of it was made of hobby projects- esoteric, semi-broken, sometimes abandoned, and very personal tools. but compelling! sometimes beautiful

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

late night tinytools.directory audit tonight. removing broken and rotted links as usual (and adding in new finds and submissions) but also thinking a lot about what i want this directory to be good for

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

the energy costs are catastrophic. the companies you rent them from are destroying the world in multiple axes. they are addictive and cause damaging brain patterns. they destroy community and shared knowledge through isolation and independence.

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

the software that LLMs write is not software i want to run on my computer. the text LLMs generate is not text i want to read or write. the images LLMs generate are not images i want to see or make. the music LLMs generate is not music i want to listen to or write.

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

using LLMs violates so many of my morals that its hard to even begin with arguing about it. any one is more than enough to not consider it, that when i see ppl dismissing it all at once, its so overwhelming.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

work on the warehouse game continues

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 22/07/2026

Needs some beeswax to do that. Where'd I leave that beeswax...? I can't. I need to get the beeswax. Everyone's waiting on that beeswax. Beeswax... come on, Oddy, think! Know I saw some beeswax somewhere... Surely I can find some beeswax. Need to find the beeswax first.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

i’m back home in new mexico for the summer and usually i dread having to get back on the community facebook groups for news, BUT NOT THIS YEAR. bigger enemies

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

rural facebook is fantastic right now btw. old timers organizing to stall data center construction in the county. hundreds of comments calling flock camera vandals heros. everyone hates AI and loves the post office

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 15/07/2026

permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough

GET RID OF TIME, BUT NOT THE ZONES

a map of the US, divided vertically into 12 time zones, permanently fixed to 1:00 to 12:00. it's divided horizontally by the AM/PM line

FIXED TIME FIXES TIME!
"It's always 11:00am in Philadelphia!"

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