iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I gave up already… no matter what - rejection. Pointless to do something. Always someone else, someone better and with a better passport…

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If I seem distant lately - I’m sorry. I’m not doing well. Rejection after rejection. The one for the only fitting job in my city just crushed me. It’s insane to realize I’ll never get hired. All my experience is worth zero. Having to go back in 2027 is certain death. I try not to think…

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

That’s what I thought! The app kind of looks like a sickly cute cozy game 😆 But it’s a knitting counter, I failed to find one that does what I need and how I want, so decided to make one

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you! Heading there now :) After a few attempts to draw some stuff I realized I forgot all I knew about drawing 😅

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thank you!! 💖💖💖I somehow didn’t think of that one as a source for app stuff - but I did snag some supercute bees for a prototype earlier this week :)

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ok, dumb question: where do you find UI stuff like cute buttons? I can’t draw at all, and I think Canva visuals don’t really work in this case 😅 #iosdev

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I miss you too!!! And every time I see anything that has to do with penguins - my first reflex is to send it your way :D

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Totally! I just couldn’t find one that I would like,so thought it could be good practice… at the moment making the app seems almost more fun than knitting itself. Then I’ll try to knit something using it… but first, polishing that UI

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I made my first app!!! Can already use it, but want to add some stuff and make it prettier. Now I wish I didn’t quit drawing classes back in the day! #iosdev

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW! The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them. How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... Please wishlist and share - thank you! #indiedev

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My code always works when I write it while drinking coffee from this cat cup @kellerlache.bsky.social got me 💖💖💖 #gamedev #indiedev #friends

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today I learnt that the security in the #IndianaJones and The Great Circle game does NOT yell “You farted!” #gaming

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

let pos = CGPoint… It’s likely “position”, not “piece of shit” 😂 (note to self) #Swift #xcode #indiedevs

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

GenAI is for guys who don't know how to think or learn and are gonna make it everyone else's problem. Which is why it appeals so very much to the exact people who have *always* done this: billionaires and executives

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Same! My teacher labeled me as hopeless and bad-at-math and I ended up hating it forever. Learning to program now and my bf explained me some math stuff and I’m like - wait, so I’m able to understand it??

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Something like that, yes! It’s like - their community would indeed be a nice place if they played their power fantasies somewhere in the bedroom and not online 😝😝😝

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Anyone else finds many cozy/wholesome/cute game communities similar to high school cliques shit, just “morally superior”?🤔 I like this kind of games, but the people in power in those spaces make me cringe. P.S. I’m cunty and I know it 😝

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

😱😱😱😱😱😱 What in the living fuck is that, and why do I have to discover it the moment I’m excitedly showing “look what I made!” to my boyfriend 🤨 #indiedevs #iosdev

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thank you! You’re a lifesaver! Decided on separate scripts for now, the games are very simple but all very different, and the assets used are also different :)

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Anyone’s got minigames in their game? Do you have them all in one script, or a separate one for each? I’m talking about the simplest minigames. :) #indiedevs #gamedev

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Friends who have bunnies - ever thought of your furbaby becoming a model? 🐰 Since I currently don’t have pets 😢, I need 2 short videos of your 🐰- reply if you’d be interested and I’ll text you the details! Yes, it’s about @rarerabbits.bsky.social ! #indiedevs #rabbits

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belinda garcia-maguid @bgmaguid.com · 13/11/2025

absolutely heartbroken to announce that i was part of the crystal layoffs today 💔 if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫 i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Another thing is potato pancakes, the German and Ukrainian edition is only different because of the sauce: we eat them with cream, and in Germany it’s “Apfelmus”, which is basically apple puree.

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Here’s my cold season favorite, putting it in pics as it was too long :P (more coming up)

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

So I just wrote “fuck” instead of “func” 😂 I guess it’s time for a break. #Xcode #iosdev #indiedevs

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

There are lots of nice recipes on the budget! Do you have some foods you can’t eat or absolutely hate? Then I can share some nice recipes!

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Anyone or a friend has an #Swift course on Udemy or elsewhere?😊 I’m soon picking something up, and would like to support one by someone cool. ✨ #iosdev #Xcode #AppleDeveloper

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you’re wondering if I’ve got my dirty paws in this pie 🐰you aren’t wrong! 💖Wishlisting already pawssible!

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Aww, damn! I’m not based there, and timezone is different…sad because those games sound exactly up my alley :))))

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Omg! I’m all eyes and ears :)) thanks for tagging me!

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Tbh I did think about that the other day, like “what if” - but thought I was just being angry-sad because I’m not into AI. The ASSistant feature is only neat when it’s about small things, like when I write and it suggests possible stuff like some autocorrect - but that’s pretty much it

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It is! What that is good for is quick search or like a teacher that would never call me dumb - this is extra cool for neurodivergent humans. :) But it absolutely can’t make good decisions, it isn’t intelligence - it’s a model.

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

What if all the “quit learning coding, no one needs juniors, AI is taking over” is coming from the same tech bros pissing their pants about every new shiny thing? I haven’t heard much of this from actual devs… and tbh the code that AI wrote for me was quite shitty and messy… #indiedevs

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Do I have any #Roblox devs here? 😉 Some friends of mine and I are up to something… #indiedevs

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Spent hours one day and hours of another to figure out why animation doesn’t show on screen… …turns out I used an absolutely empty frame to initialize 😅 #learningtocode #indiedev

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Totally! And the game name sounds somehow familiar - not sure where from though :)) Feel free to email me at orchid at pawsandclaws dot co - would love to hear more about what you need in terms of community development!

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If your team needs a CM who saved all the fucks to give for your game - I’m here ☺️ 📍Düsseldorf, Germany (Yes, I do obsess over every game I work with - to the point of unhealthy) #indiedevs

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Apparently a bed jacket is almost as mythical as the infamous poop knife 🔪

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Orchid🇺🇦👩‍❤️‍👨🇩🇪 ✨ @orchidgoth.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Post the link to your social media right meow. Pin the post! 📌 Enjoy Katja’s tiny teeth as a reward. #Gamescom #indiedevs

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