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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/09/2026

I needed to see this in an image so I just made an example in infininity painter on my phone

Kool aid man carries a picture, in this case the pitcher is another Kool aid man, ad infinitum

Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 08/08/2026

Oh whoops, I hadn't made the saturday zeepza.com game, all good now if anyone tried and was confused why it said no games available

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 25/07/2026

This reminded me of the overhead maps of the game "activeworlds" over time

Acriveworlds maps over time, mostly green with lines

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 16/07/2026

Probably needs more tuning, I think today's puzzle felt easier, actually, but I added spoiler letters that show up occasionally on hard mode wordbox to try to make it so you can't assume every location had a word attached @ zeepza.com/games/wordbo...

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 06/07/2026

New game in preview at zeepza.com/games/word-g..., a spatial game disguised as a spelling game

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 05/07/2026

I had some feedback that some of the UX bits of zeepza weren't landing for the younger end, I added a new "Jr" difficulty that is simplified for folks. My daughter enjoyed it :)

child friendly version of "letter drop" puzzle

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 04/07/2026

Yesterday's letterdrop had a couple glitches, so I added some systems to (1) prevent proper names (2) validate unique answers and (3) give "partial credit" for to make it easier to tell which words are part of the (ideally) single valid solution.

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 04/07/2026

I'm a big fan of that logged out dinosaur thing in chrome, I made the "error 404, page not found" page on my daily puzzle website a secret stacking puzzle zeepza.com/404

404 FOUND!! (this is a screenshot of 404, the secret stacking puzzle game on zeepza)

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/07/2026

if you refresh, does it still show this puzzle, (if not, I need to check my caching!)

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/07/2026

My kids and I do daily puzzles, like the NYT puzzles and such... but connections is kinda hard if you're a kid. I made a daily puzzle website that is kid-accessible, parent-fun, would love feedback zeepza.com

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 10/05/2026

Superboy is bluesky (clone), cyborg superman is is threads, the eradicator is X, and Steel? Idk, probably discord

After the death of superman, Steel (John Henry Irons), Superboy (Kon-El), The Eradicator, and Cyborg Superman.

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 28/03/2026

It was really fun submitting a game jam game last weekend. I got a bunch of positive feedback!

A favorite so far! There was just enough challenge to make it interesting for me! Loved the look and feel of it, all the sound effects gave it perfect feedback.

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 20/03/2026

workin' towards a game jam submission

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 05/02/2026

Wow, Claude has finally caught up to Godot

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 04/02/2026

I wrote a discord bot over the weekend that surfaces "top" bluesky posts and I accidentally made the posts sound too important, and, well, this one felt especially ironic

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 27/12/2025

I wrote ahsoka but hilariously my phone autocorrects that??

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/12/2025

Happy #dosember! I made a textmode (ZZT) game, jakeout.itch.io/botdown, for a dos-themed game jam, inspired by that old flash game "motherload". Kudos to @emmfoolery.bsky.social for organizing the jam. Lots more folks are also streaming old-school games if you're feeling nostalgic, at dosember.com

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/10/2025

These were the values of *corporate twitter*. Would love them to share theirs at this point. This whole thing reminds me more of web forum mods than I like :|

Grow business make us proud
Recognize passion and personality
Communicate fearlessly to build trust
Respect users voice
Reach every person
Innovate through experimentation
Seek diverse perspectives
Be rigorous get it right

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/10/2025

Saying, "harassment has never worked", then citing "civil society" "healthy discourse" after the previous post feels contradictory and likely to lead to more of the same disappointment.

Jay: Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked and harassing people in general has never changed their mind, yet it's a behavior that persists across social media anyways, with negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Human nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse. We're system architects at our core, we built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/10/2025

After being ratio'd, a new reply feels much worse than if she just stated said she won't comment on ban decisions.

Jay, posting through it with a picture of waffles: amazing breakfast this morning, I love waffles

Ian Coldwater: hey, so it's the Jewish day of reflection, whether or not you're Jewish I would really like to encourage you to reflect rather than post right now

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Jake Ouellette @jakeout.com · 03/10/2025

Sharing @jay.bsky.team's discourse over the last few days, feeling disappointed.

Jerry: bluesky user bursts into waffle house oh so you hate pancakes

Jay: too real, we're going to try to fix this, social media doesn't have to be this way

Lucas: have y'all banned Jesse singal yet, or

Jay: WAFFLES

Darryl:
Dear CEO, there's an active subset of Bluesky that routinely harasses trans and queer folks, even dozing them. This person in particular is a huge problem and even was cited in federal documents harming trans folks. What are you doing to address this?

"Lol are u a sad PEPE! Le epic meme right?"

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