iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 6h

Got the eMac (running Mac OS Leopard) hooked up as a second screen for my modern Mac using remote desktop and a dummy HDMI dongle. It’s usable for writing, but scrolling and hover effects kill the FPS.

A MacBook Air on a stand next to an eMac, with the notes app displayed on it.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This went on for around 2 minutes. No I shan’t be learning how to make a single .zip file in the browser; this is more fun.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well idk what to tell ya. Have you tried just being content and not starting shit for no reason?

A console error: TypeError: Not enough arguments

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some of the larger images are a whopping 600x lighter (thank you image-q and oxi-png!), so the initial load time will be dramatically reduced once everything's hooked up.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not the prettiest, but this lil' tool takes a png, makes it 10x smaller, and keeps only 3 colours + transparency. Gonna' add compression tomorrow �

A basic HTML page showing a form where you can upload an image, and that image copied below the form, with only a few colours used.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starting this in earnest today... Time to leave behind the trailhead at the foot of the mountain, and lay some tracks 🥾

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sexy Netscape Communicator Lighthouse

A sketch of a costume for the Netscape communicator lighthouse, with the midriff exposed. There’s a yellow sash to represent the ray of light circling the lighthouse

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cuteness slider on this one is stuck in the maximum position 💖

A property panel composed of sticky notes, with various options ranging from size, image selection, terrain, and media, with a stationery themed UI.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might have to figure out how to turn my illustrations into stickers 🙈

a list of items being picked from a list. each item is represented by a sticker of the item, and a label saying what it is.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Building little cottages in the countryside and running a bed and breakfast sort of thing. Also planting a ton of flowers.

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loren @ribo.zone · 29/09/2026

my website turned four years old today! it has over 200 pages you can visit from your computer or phone or other device. i'm very proud of it

ribo.zone

a room, a scrapbook, a laboratory...

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was not kidding about using the washi tape for everything

a colour picker dropdown menu, with washi tape attaching an input to the list to pick from.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm using washi tape to fix *all* of my UI design problems.

A UI design based on stationery, with pink sticky tabs showing button icons. Many pieces of washi tape are used to "secure" a UI panel to the screen.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I didn't think it was possible to make Marketplace people any less reliable, and yet here we are 🙃

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the kind of tech I want to see! New and useful ways to interact with my surroundings, with a focus on the human experience, instead of a page from "1001 ways to extract rent".

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Netscape Communicator lighthouse + 56K modem. (actually I kinda want to do this one)

a very old Netscape Communicator icon. It's a shortcut!

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thought of you on my walk yesterday 🚪

La Porte, an establishment of unknown nature, that sits next to McKibbins Irish Pub. There’s construction cones all around.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh no I kinda love the clogged inkjet printer aesthetic🙈

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I need to change the ink cartridge in my design software

A mockup of 4 cut out images of the cat emoji in a 3D space. They are attached to the background with washi tape, and some of the images appear to be poorly printed by an inkjet printer

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(I may or may not be redesigning the look of my website 😜)

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe having wildly inconsistent handwriting will somehow make the whole "kerning problem" go away...

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you! The variants for randomizing characters look perfect for this!

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm definitely scared of the kerning 😰

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The <br> tag is thus named because it places elements further away from each other, making them unable to share body heat. brrr 🥶

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How hard is it to turn your handwriting into a font?🤔

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Made a potato-leek soup on Friday, boiling some chicken bones to replenish the broth supply rn, picked up some rhubarb at my mom's today (for scones maybe?). And squash? Cheap carrots? PIES?!? I love autumn. 🥰

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a bit of a chill in the air and I'm feeling so domestic! 🍂

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think this is a good plan maybe?

⬇️ On load:
1. Get position that will be loaded into
2. Load chunk manifest (list of every chunk with stuff in it, along with what’s in each chunk)
3. Load scene and camera? (to get FoV, it might not be visible *yet*)
4. Stream in all chunks within view radius (starting with closest chunks in FoV)
5. render terrain first
1. Render coloured geometry first
2. Render textures
6. render entities as they load in
1. Render a low-res version of all entities (with painting shader style applied)
2. Render the full version of the entities once their textures load in (with transition using painting shader)

🏃‍♂️ When moving (on chunk change):
1. unload meshes for chunks outside of view radius (consider putting them in a “warm” state where the meshes still exist in memory but just aren’t in the scene)
2. load new chunks, prioritizing the ones within the FoV

👀 When looking around (during loading):
- update inFoV properties of chunks to prioritize loading closest chunks

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't want any loading bars, so I need to dramatically shrink the assets I do load. 4-colour pngs downsized 10x are pretty smol. They don't look great, but to a GPU shader (which I know how to write now 🤓) these pngs are 🔥 FINEEEEEEE 🔥 🫦

A comparison of 2 images, a tree and a bulletin board, with image resolution reduced along with colour palette. The 4-colour, downsized images are less than 1% of the size of the full quality (compressed) ones. We go from 9KB and 211KB to 274 bytes and 1.5 KB.

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So I decided to put the current dev arc (editor tools to build big stuff faster) on pause to work on this new one, and I'm calling it... 🗺 The Limit Does Not Exist

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not ideal 😅 Every single image is loaded because I don't (yet) have a way of knowing whether something is going to be on screen or not. 🐌 The bigger my site becomes the slower it loads...

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Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Currently running into a bit of a *new pickle emoji* with the ol' website. So, before being interactive, it needs to transfer about 8MB of images (after a ton of compression). For anyone who visits the site for the first time on mobile, it looks like this: