iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/09/2026

Really excited to be hosting a panel next week as part of Science Summit, leading up to UNGA 81: Participatory science as a regenerative framework. Register to join us, fully virtual: event.sciencesummitnyc.org/list-of-sess...

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SCIENCE SUMMIT NEW YORK CITY

Join global science and innovation leaders at the Science Summit in New York City. Submit your session, connect with peers, and contribute to sustainable development goals through science.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 07/09/2026

Officially on a self-hosted PDS - cheers @tranquil.farm! Is this the start of my atproto era? We shall see :D

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/08/2026

Our recent work has been featured on the cover of Science! Multiple things to be excited about here:

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 24/06/2026

Been thinking about this a fair amount recently (especially as I’ve been doing a bunch of proposal writing and such) - how even mundane writing tells you something about the person who wrote it.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/06/2026

Among many other things! This was a ton of fun. Thanks Brennan for the chat, and looking forward to listening to more episodes :)

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 27/05/2026

I've been gesturing towards the idea that: 1. Groups can be smarter than individuals 2. Proven in other fields and species 3. Social protocols + sensemaking make it buildable I'm trying to gather papers, books, etc that lend precedent or otherwise support the idea Open contributions via @semble.so

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Collective Intelligence Research (by Rudolph Fraser.) — Semble

Explorations into the idea that a group of humans is "more intelligent" than the sum of their "IQ" (i.e. "groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent")

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 27/05/2026

I am going to make so much use of this

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 27/05/2026

It was a joy to chat with Ronen, get some insight into the direction Cosmik and co are going, and explore all the shared vision we have (which only seemed to increase as we went!). Also inspired some exciting concepts for the future of participatory research (including with @atproto.science!)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 06/05/2026

So sad this isn’t universal. Instead: * I have to choose to either get a bunch of content in my feed I don’t want to get the bits I really want to see from someone * Multiple channels on YouTube is a thing * Discovery of my own stuff is worse * Poor access to circles of trust and identity

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 26/04/2026

I do love the classic formulation of “naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors”, but if you think about it they’re all communication problems 😛 For real though, this is such an important part of what we do!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 21/04/2026

‘git history reword <commit>` 🎉 Thank you, one more minor inconvenience I encounter every so often that now need not be an inconvenience!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 08/04/2026

Look I know I don't usually post about stuff like this, but... I am so looking forward to it, it should be SO much fun. And for a good cause! Sad my Sunday plans were cancelled but glad I'll be able to catch it ^.^

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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Evan You @evanyou.me · 13/03/2026

Vite+ is open source under MIT and free for everyone.

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just thinking about this again these past two days The exact same game can succeed or fail based on whether the people jumping in are getting the game they expected A lot of the wrong players -- players that won't like it -- jumping in to play is really gonna color perception of that game.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 03/03/2026

The community being built on display here is so inspiring 💚

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 24/02/2026

IMO a tragedy of AI’s trajectory (amongst other complicated feelings I have) is that it theoretically has the potential to be powerful as a tool for play, but the reality is contrary

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 21/02/2026

My heart is so full tonight at this concert. Amazing music, and especially a joy to get to chat with the group. Haven’t smiled like this in ages, I so needed that. 🙂

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

we have 6 different clouds all collaborating: - Dynamic mask clouds based on "cloud cover" parameter - High up stylized cirrus clouds to create direction\interest - Far static horizon cumulonimbus, to create a "back plane" - 2x static midground clouds for parralax -"bounce plane" clouds

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 20/02/2026

Oh no, I’ve found a new obsession.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 19/02/2026

Oh hey I was wondering about the viability of this. Want to look into implementing this under @vite.dev Vitepress (for the @frameshifter.org site and eventually my own once I finally get around to migrating off VuePress and implementing the blog stuff I’ve learned from building that)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 19/02/2026

Corollary to an argument I've been making recently: If you're applying AI to solve something for you, maybe what you actually have is a UX problem. open.substack.com/pub/signalsn...

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AI as Friction Indicator

If stakeholders use AI to "translate" your organization, you've lost the narrative. Learn why shadow AI is a friction signal—and how boards can reclaim the mission.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 18/02/2026

A couple months late, but finally got to write about some exciting work that was finally published and the broader impacts. Link to the full blog post in thread!

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ProtoPro @handle.invalid · 20/01/2026

ProtoPro is no longer invite-only, and we've moved the app to the regular domain: www.protopro.blue

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My obsession for a decade: Parts of games are real, not fiction. Like, you are not really becoming a powerful knight when you gain a virtual level. That's fiction, fantasy. But you DO gain real skills. In manipulating buttons, game tactics etc. In multiplayer games, the friendships are real.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 06/01/2026

I was amazed when I saw @rachael-kretsch.bsky.social present about this in an @rdaslab.bsky.social meeting. ROOL and GOLLD are stunning (dare I say beautiful) structures. She presented about this for @eternagame.org last year too! Recording available at eternagame.org/eternacon/2025 #RNASky 🧪

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Eterna

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 02/01/2026

EternaJS in TypeSlayer ^.^

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 27/12/2025

It’s only networking if it comes from the LinkedIn region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling friendship

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 26/12/2025

Man, what a fun way to spend Christmas, curled up doing a score study of John Powell’s score for HTTYD with a fresh copy of the book from Omni and the deluxe soundtrack on play. Really gives me a deeper appreciation for this fantastic score

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I wrote an article about dialogue choice as part of a narrative designer’s toolkit *aside* from branching, instead considering how choice can invite us to *perform* a character. My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/12/2025

I learned about Brian Eno’s “airport music” when I was in college. Just came across this cool overview by @arbitersofsound.bsky.social of a different but related device in Japan for train arrivals and departures: youtu.be/-KxQIEhsFQk?...

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The fascinating world of Japanese train melodies

YouTube video by Mixed Signals

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/12/2025

This is huge. I’ve tried doing type performance analysis before, and it was pretty arcane. This is a big step forward and will be super helpful for improving DX. Also, it’s just straight up cool.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/11/2025

Look I know this is old but this is too funny not to share now that I’ve seen it. I love this.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 26/11/2025

Huge news for accelerated graphics and compute in the browser!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 29/10/2025

This is awesome. Every time I touch a regular expression I’ve thought of how nice this would be😄

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 18/10/2025

This idea of trying to simulate a thematic concept rather than just treating it as aesthetics closely mirrors a comment I’ve heard and made multiple times in serious games: make the thing you’re applying games/play to *the game itself*.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 13/10/2025

@protopro.blue Having fun poking at the app since being approved. :) Couple suggestions: * Newlines in description fields * Social icon for ORCID * Sections for projects, awards, volunteering, and publications Looking forward to seeing y'all develop!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 25/09/2025

Finally got to watch this last night, and I was so impressed. Big congrats to @djaxx.bsky.social and the others who contributed. This was a joy and a privilege to view.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 29/08/2025

Seeing Sonic Pi pop up in a come of posts has me thinking about multi-modal interfaces again. What if a DAW let you seamlessly switch to a text-based editing paradigm (akin to changing between staff and piano roll)? Are there edits that would be easier to make/represent?

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/08/2025

I take this and raise you: Sid Meier’s Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 25/08/2025

I was surprised by how good this feed is. Moving right to the top of my feed list

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 14/08/2025

Barbara Chamberlin on developing VR experiences for Diatetic training #seriousplay25 HoloLens experience was great for perceptorships during the pandemic when medical students couldn’t be in person with patients Developing a taxonomy of action for VR

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 14/08/2025

A compelling project presented by Shaun Foster of a VR experience allowing you to try out usage of a 19th century printing press. Love how this allows for experiencing something normally out of reach (unlikely you’d have access to try out a tool like this in depth IRL!). #seriousplay25

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 14/08/2025

#seriousplay25 day 2 keynote with @stephenreidedu.bsky.social - “Play Matters”. Lovely, funny, inspiring talk - assuming the recording gets posted, definitely give it a watch. Won’t do it justice here Listing all the roles he’s taken in games - “I have not done any of those things - but I have”

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