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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/07/2026

Which of these switches is on top here? 🤔

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 18/03/2026

Still not sure what this is supposed to do.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 13/02/2026

A new "ergonomics-first" color theme for #VSCode! github.com/mafik/bluepr...

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 15/01/2026

Transition with a twist www.shadertoy.com/view/w3tczf #shadertoy #glsl

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 10/12/2025

New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 21/11/2025

#automat knows how to scroll now ! 📜

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/11/2025

At the right zoom level, Window Capture becomes a window to the past.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 14/11/2025

Automat just got customizable backgrounds!

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 13/11/2025

Visual programming environments need more fun backgrounds. Picture from: poznan.eska.pl/galeria/kart...

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 17/10/2025

It's a mouse infestation!

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 11/10/2025

The #diy #keyer guide now includes a section on layout optimization. With ants 🐜! github.com/mafik/keyer/...

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 09/10/2025

I've built a tiny hand-held #keyboard. It's like Meta EMG wristband (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteF...) but actually working. Also comes with instructions on building your own one! github.com/mafik/keyer/ #wearable #keyer #cyberdeck

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 18/07/2025

So here is the new mouse trace chunking algorithm. Notice that mouse traces are now split into meaningful windows now and zooming no longer causes chaos. Also new bugs. Powered by segment trees. #gamedev #wip #ui #design

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 16/07/2025

Mouse traces now have little thumbnails on the timeline. Zooming is still a little chaotic but not for long... #wip #gamedev #ui #design

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 14/07/2025

My mouse pointer seems to be possessed. Is this the proper way to exorcise your PC?

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 10/07/2025

#Automat just learned how to move mouse! It's brewing me healing potions in #KingdomComeDeliverance2 right now ^^ #kcd2

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 27/06/2025

Here is a fun trick: signal handlers can perform surgery on the stack & registers for the interrupted thread. It can be used to inject fake function calls or steer the execution arbitrarily. It's almost like a built-in programmatic debugger that can be triggered with a "signal()" call.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 18/06/2025

4D depth of field Almost made a UI out of this 😅

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 22/05/2025

Randomizing some color palettes with #HSLuv www.hsluv.org

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 09/05/2025

Skyrim Alchemy macro is ready! JSON can be downloaded from the #machines-exchange channel in Automat's Discord (discord.com/invite/MRfuB...).

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 07/05/2025

Automat can now farm alchemy ingredients in Skyrim! It scans the shopkeeper's inventory, buying every "Giant's Toe" & "Creep Cluster". When done, performs inventory reset glitch & starts over. Another step towards fully automated alchemy grinding. #TheElderScrolls #skyrim

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/04/2025

Also for squiggly connections like this one. If I know the turn radius of the cable and horizontal displacement that I need to make, OtherLeg tells me how much vertical space the squiggly part will take.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/04/2025

Here I use it for placing the purple segments with fixed gaps (each segment is a pair of arcs with subtly different angles).

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/04/2025

Here is a tiny but useful function. Given radius of a circle and length of a leg of an embedded triangle, it finds the length of the other leg. It may seem silly but it really makes it easier to think about geometric problems. It's like LERP for geometry.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/04/2025

Some of notes made while making sense of x86 conditions. The worst part for me are the JB & JNB conditions which have dual use. They are used for comparing numbers and for "unsigned overflow" checking. This makes it hard to find a reasonable visual metaphor as it also has to exhibit this duality.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 18/04/2025

Do you know what's the difference between JA (jump above) and JG (jump if greater)? Conditional instructions in x86 come in 16 variants with a bunch of interesting symmetries between them. Here is a visual language that attempts to exploit those symmetries to make their meaning more intuitive.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 16/04/2025

Instruction immediates can now be edited! The widget allows decimal, hexadecimal & UTF-8 input.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 14/04/2025

Self-modifying programs can store variables directly within their instructions. I guess this has some interesting implications.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 07/04/2025

Any app can be a text input now

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 26/03/2025

Introducing bubble menu!

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 24/03/2025

Windows XP-like frame is now complete. No bitmaps were used in the process.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 21/03/2025

Personal opinion: Microsoft's design peaked sometime between Windows95 and Windows XP. "Welcoming UI" > "Professional UI"

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/03/2025

Long story short - an environment for automating games. It's not a super popular hobby. More specifically I'm trying to automate a Skyrim exploit where you repeatedly reset vendor inventory to farm rare alchemy ingredients.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/03/2025

Tesseract OCR (3MB model) vs Skyrim Tesseract seems to have issues with: - text shadows - text outlines - high-contrast backgrounds Which is exactly what most game UIs are made of =_= It's far from perfect but I guess we can work with this...

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 15/03/2025

Neither the idea of "movie clips are everything" nor ActionScript were the key to Flash though. It was how well the editor (Macromedia Flash 8) was executed. It looked like MS Paint and was just as easy to use. You literally could use it just to draw static vector images.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 15/03/2025

Do you want to know what was the secret to Flash websites? Instead of presupposing that "everything is a document" & "documents are a collection of boxes within other boxes" it went with "everything is a movie clip" & "movie clip is a collection of other movie clips" (Clips all the way down!) 🧵👇

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 15/03/2025

Isn't it crazy that something so simple is so difficult when attempted from within a web browser's sandbox?

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 14/03/2025

Don't you miss the times when apps were free to just access pixels of your desktop?

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 12/03/2025

Guess what happens when the instruction deck runs out of cards?

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 26/02/2025

I've added broadway lights to the assembler widget. Still not sure what to use them for...

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 19/02/2025

Stars in the background of the Assembler widget use a shape called "astroid" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid). Same idea as squircle, but instead of exponent 4, astroid uses 2/3.

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 17/02/2025

If my math is correct, this executes at 5 billion increments / second! And if we count the JMP at the end, it's 10 billlion instructions / second!

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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 06/02/2025

Comparing my notes on event handling to Ink & Switch lab notes. 100% agree. This is the way to do it.

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