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Joe Strout

@joestrout.bsky.social
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Connectomics engineer, programmer, author, tango dancer. Creator of the MiniScript programming language.

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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Catch up on what's been happening in the MiniScript world — including big news about GitHub language support and MiniScript 2.0! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Weekly(ish) News — September 17, 2026
(Editor's note: sorry for the long delay since the last update... it was a very busy summer! We'll...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MiniScript is now an officially recognized language on GitHub! It's been a long time coming, but a repo of MiniScript code is now shown in the "Languages" info as MiniScript rather than something else. An important milestone in MiniScript's history, and you were here to see it!
Screen shot from GitHub of a project showing "Languages: MiniScript 100%".
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Create your own text adventure in Mini Micro — it's easier than you think! dev.to/joestrout/cr...
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Create a Text Adventure in Mini Micro
Text adventures (sometimes called interactive fiction) are a classic and celebrated game genre — see...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
MiniScript coder Trey Tomes has released a cool project at github.com/treytomes/mi.... It's a sophisticated editor for synthesized sound effects.
Screen shot of micro-bfxr project running in Mini Micro
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Learn about the Mini Micro desktop GUI, and weigh in with your feature requests for Mini Micro 2.0! dev.to/joestrout/th...
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The Mini Micro Desktop GUI
https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro is a virtual home computer with a primarily command-line interface. ...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Catch up on what's happening in the MiniScript community:
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MiniScript Weekly News — June 25, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2 kept moving fast this week, with Preview 5 now available:...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
MiniScript 2 has just added the coolest feature that most users will never realize is there. dev.to/joestrout/co...
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Computed Lists in MiniScript 2
Progress on MiniScript 2 has been rapid lately, and it's now in the "final polish" stage. Today that...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
MiniScript news this week includes an SVG renderer for Mini Micro, and a new MiniScript-powered game on Steam! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Weekly News — June 05, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2 kept moving forward this week with a solid round of...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Catch up on what's been happening in the MiniScript community over the last week or two: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Weekly News — May 27, 2026
Development Updates The MiniScript 2 work continues to move forward at a brisk pace. Joe’s...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Use a couple simple web services to pinpoint your location on a rotating 3D model of Earth in Mini Micro.
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Where in the World Am I?
There are so many fun things you can do with web services, and most of them are trivial to use in...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
See what's going on in the MiniScript community in the last week or two: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Weekly News — May 14, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2.0 saw a bunch of steady progress this week, especially...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Learn how to make an animated, textured page flip, complete with page curl, in Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/hw...
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HWYDT: Turning the Page
On the MiniScript Discord this week, one of our users (Luckythespacecat) shared an animation he made...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Make a fun little vine-swinging demo in Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/hw...
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HWYDT: Swinging from Vines
The Venerable History of Vine-Swinging Swinging on vines has been a favorite game mechanic...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Learn how to do this on your own Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/ma...
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Make a Mini Micro Kaleidoscope
You have got to try this. Inspired by a Facebook post, I decided this morning to make a kaleidoscope...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I made a little kaleidoscope program for Mini Micro, just for fun. 😁
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Mini Micro Kaleidoscope
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Second demo video for PixelClaw, an LLM agent specialized for image processing: youtu.be/yZcb5DsSWts
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PixelClaw Demo 2
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Something I've been working on since Thursday: an AI agent for editing images! youtu.be/QVFHe-kePMc
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PixelClaw Demo 1
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm proposing a standard audio filter that allows us to distinguish AI speech from human speech. github.com/JoeStrout/HALO
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GitHub - JoeStrout/HALO: Human Audible Label of Origin, an audio transformation for clearly identifying AI speech
Human Audible Label of Origin, an audio transformation for clearly identifying AI speech - JoeStrout/HALO
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Learn how AI agents work, by studying this tiny LLM agent for Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniClaw: A Tiny LLM Agent for Mini Micro
Agents are all the rage these days. Claude Code was one of the first, and perhaps still the most...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
See what's going on in the MiniScript community this week:
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MiniScript Weekly News — Apr 9, 2027
Development Updates MiniScript 2 saw a nice round of progress this week, with function...
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A 2015 book wondered which approach to AI would turn out to be the "master algorithm" of general intelligence. I'm declaring a winner. www.linkedin.com/pulse/master...
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The Master Algorithm
In 2015, a book by AI researcher Pedro Domingos came out called The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. The author explored the "five tribes" of ar...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This week's news from the world of MiniScript: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Weekly News — Apr 1, 2026
Development Updates Work on MiniScript 2 continues to pick up speed, and the team shared...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Try this step-by-step tutorial in which you create a maze game in Mini Micro, helping a mouse 🐭 get to the cheese 🧀 ! dev.to/joestrout/cr...
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Create a Maze Game in Mini Micro
In the classic arcade days, there were a lot of maze games. That's because mazes are fun! They give...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A quick essay on the "Introduce Parameter Object" refactoring, how to use it in MiniScript, and how to do output parameters as well: dev.to/joestrout/pa...
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Parameter Objects in MiniScript
Sometimes a function starts out with a reasonable number of parameters, but as the code grows and...
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My thoughts about what skills a software engineer needs in the modern world: www.linkedin.com/pulse/softwa...
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Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI
I love writing code. I've loved it since I was a third-grader, writing programs out on paper and asking my older brother to check them for correctness.
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
See how far we've come on the 2026 roadmap. Spoiler: we are ahead of schedule! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Roadmap Update (March 2026)
At the end of 2025, I posted a MiniScript Road Map for 2026 (and beyond). We're now almost one...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Great news for MiniScript users on Macs: an open-source tool called Syntax Highlight now enables you to preview MiniScript source files (with syntax highlighting!) in Finder! Download it (free!) here: github.com/sbarex/Sourc...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Developer and blogger Kartik Patel helps you write your very first line of computer code in this easy-to-understand tutorial: dev.to/kartik_patel...
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Zero To Game Dev - First Line Of Code
Introduction Welcome to Chapter 6 of the Zero To Game Dev course titled First Line Of...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Prolific MiniScript game dev "DSlower" has made another masterpiece: dslower.itch.io/the-last-light Give it a try!
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The Last Light by DSlower, samlarsonstudio
Gather materials during the day, upgrade your tools, survive the night
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Check out "In My Bubble", a very original and fun puzzle game made by Florian Castel in Mini Micro! florian-castel.itch.io/in-my-bubble
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In My Bubble by Florian Castel
Nothing can affect you when you are in your bubble. You are isolated from the outside world.
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I designed a new calendar system recently: lunisolar.online
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Lunisolar Calendar - A Perfect 13-Month Calendar
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
MiniScript developer James Rozee came up with a clever way to use Tiled — a popular level editor — to design user interfaces for his Mini Micro game! dev.to/dungeoncrawl...
Screen shot of a UI layout in Tiled
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 17/01/2026
Investigating elected officials for speech is not law enforcement but intimidation. If governors and mayors can be investigated for criticizing federal actions, neither elected officials nor anyone else is truly free to speak. #holdfast
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A great MiniScript dev who (inaccurately) brands himself "The Slow Coder" quickly recaps nine amazing games he made in 2025, all made in Mini Micro! Check them out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBj9...
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2025 Project recap
YouTube video by The Slow Coder
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
An exciting new puzzle game, "Build It", is now available for Mini Micro! Finish building each level so that the hero can reach the goal. Play through 40 increasingly difficult levels, or use the built-in level editor to create and share your own puzzles! Free at: miniscript.org/MiniMicro/dlc
Screen shot of Build It game in action
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Check out "The Slow Library" by MiniScript programmer and game developer David Avila! github.com/David-Avila/... Not slow at all, this library speeds up development by adding some simple but very handy functions, including logging!
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GitHub - David-Avila/The-Slow-Library: Personal library for MiniMicro to optimize development speed of gamejam games
Personal library for MiniMicro to optimize development speed of gamejam games - David-Avila/The-Slow-Library
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I've just published a roadmap for MiniScript, Mini Micro, and related projects for the upcoming year (and beyond). Read all about it here: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
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MiniScript Road Map for 2026
With 2025 coming to a close, it's time to look ahead to 2026! MiniScript is now eight years old. ...
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I made a little free game for the holidays: Santa vs. the Snow Goons! joestrout.itch.io/snow-goons Have fun!
Screen shot of Santa vs. the Snow Goons
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Read Google Sheets data directly in Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/re...
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Read live data from Google Sheets in Mini Micro
Recently I've started working with a small team on a 5-month game jam. We're making a 2D...
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Read about Kartik Patel's experience learning to code with Mini Micro — and why he recommends it so strongly! dev.to/kartik_patel...
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EXPERIENCE: MINI MICRO
My Experience With Mini Micro Introduction This is another installment in my...
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The online edition of _Introduction to Computer Programming_ is now available in Spanish as well as German! introtocomputerprogramming.online
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Just found this interesting analysis of how #AI is continuing to get smarter, at an approximately linear rate: www.maximumtruth.org/p/deep-dive-...
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DEEP DIVE: AI progress continues, as IQ scores rise linearly
In spite of reports about a plateau in AI intelligence, advances continue
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I’ve recently realized how bad pepperoni is for me. So, I tried freshly grilled chicken (seasoned with garlic powder, black pepper, and red pepper) instead. Verdict: not too bad!
Small pizza with chicken
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Light and rain over #Tucson this evening.
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I took @thecurioustanguero.bsky.social 's "Tango Archetypes Quiz" (thecurioustanguero.com/tangoarchety...). My result: 26% Healer 17% Romantic 13% Builder Seems about right. (Understanding "Romantic" in a strictly platonic sense, of course!) #tango
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Tried a new dish this week: shrimp and broccoli with a citrus sauce. It was really good. #foodporn #health #cleanfood
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Recently discovered #raylib, and it’s amazing. It hits exactly the sweet spot for a cross-platform media layer. Sorry, SDL, but I don’t think we should see each other anymore. #gamedev #miniscript
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Joe Strout @joestrout.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Had so much fun at the Albuquerque Tango Festival! It’s a very well-run event. I just wish it weren’t over Halloween… I missed being home for that. #tango
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MiniScript @miniscript.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Read a great introduction to Mini Micro by developer Sebastian Nozzi. dev.to/sebnozzi/why...
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Why Mini Micro
My journey to Mini Micro in the search for simple, direct and modern computing experience
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