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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congrats! The whole idea of virtual worlds,VR or not, starts here. It's amazing not that it just "holds up", but it still gets stuff right that games today don't. It's BEGGING to be explored. Cheers.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

volleyball #pico8. My 10 line AI puts up a tough fight!

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Maybe more insidious - would Meta's coding assistant suggest pytorch, while Gemini suggests tensorflow? Will this slow down technological progress in a turf war over suggestions?

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Subset of misinformation - model owners have even more sway of opinion and sentiment than platform owners. I can go to Facebook for my opinions but at least someone's name is next to an opinion. Now... Why wouldn't I trust the AI? And there's no citation!

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A lot of gamedev manifesto talk lately about making games for yourself. I always try to make games that I enjoy playing myself, but I will confess that I get kinda teeth-grindy that my games just dont seem to resonate with more people. Have a gif of me grinding out a time trial.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wow! Is that really pico 8? The colors really pop.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sally's Star Racers PX, my #pico8 mode 7 racer, is now up on itch! Give it a go! Try to collect all 48 stars! paloblancogames.itch.io/sallys-star-...

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Sally's Star Racers PX by Paloblancogames

Intense, classic racing!

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Very busy weekend... So I vibe-coded a lite 3d platformer engine in threejs. Not much to write home about, but it was a fun experiment! Build 3d levels with just csv files and some json! ldjam.com/events/ludum...

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Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com · 18/04/2026

The Theme for Ludum Dare 59 is... Signal #LDJam

Chat conversation between 3 people in "The WARM Room". Illudumnati Hive says "after removing beta anomaly, and careful consideration by the system, we choose this". Ricky Nevah GGYU says "Banger choice loom" with a fire emoji. The active users says "Copy. Signal is go!"

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Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com · 17/04/2026

Ludum Dare 59 kicks off in roughly 2 and a half hours! #LDJam

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thanks for playing! And for sharing! You're pretty good at it!

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thanks! Not the first mode 7 racer on pico8, but I do think it's the first in a while, and the console has come a long way.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Sally's Star Racers PX is complete! Probably my most ambitious #pico8 game. 8 tracks, 4 different characters, and 47 achievements to unlock and save with local storage! Only available on the BBS for now: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=186...

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This was an excellent interview - cheers. Loved the comparison to learning Git. I also liked his advice on research - I've been trying to think similarly and carve off activities that can be done unsupervised.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm enjoying polishing up some skills by working on Sally's Star Racers. I want to get better at quickly composing music, so I've decided to compose some little tunes myself. I'm going for a "snowy" vibe with this song. Good for a snowy race? #pico8

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's funny the things that matter to kids. Some customization is super important - they spend so much time deliberating who to play as. That's playing to them as much as what I would call "playing the game"

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

At my daughter's request, you can now select your character in Sally's star racers! My daughter designed two of the characters, and Hungry Harry makes a guest appearance! #pico8

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thanks! This is the first time I've really made a full game with it. Happy with how it turned out.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I might have overtuned the "hard" difficulty a little bit. #pico8

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great piece. I do scientific programming for a big company. The tools struggle on the "fundamentals" of my problems. But the trivial parts, like visualizations and CLIs, it knocks out easily. I'm increasingly trying to think "what parts of my job do I actually have to own myself?"

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think we are all waiting to see it! Enjoy and hope y'all are feeling better ASAP.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

@thattomhall.bsky.social thanks for organizing and MC-ing another #toyboxjam. I really appreciate all of your enthusiasm with the group! It's the only game I finished from 2025 - busy season of life. Love that you set up an environment to help us finish and succeed.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Just submitted my first racing game to #toyboxjam 2025! Try out Sally's Star Racers for some mean, mode 7, #pico8 racing! paloblancogames.itch.io/sallys-star-...

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Looks like you compute every single pairwise distance and then sort... right? Is there any way to avoid this? Man, rust is so fast lol... My part 1 in JS takes like 10 seconds on my laptop.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Just wrapped up day 8 on #AdventOfCode . Is there any way to avoid computing every inter-box distance, then sorting smallest to largest? Pretty straightforward implementation of sets, but computing every distance between 1000 boxes is slow in vanilla js. paloblanco.github.io/AdventOfCode...

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Advent of Code 2025 Solver

A javascript-based static solver for advent of code 2025.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I just wrapped up day 8. How do you avoid computing every pairwise distance? Don't you need to compute every pairwise distance so you can sort them and step through?

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thanks for sharing! I'm also doing JS. I'm normally a python guy. I can follow your code just fine, but how do you run it? Are you using node? I don't see any function to load an input file. Do you have some html you are framing this in?

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Seems like a lot of people merged the ranges right away in part 1. I considered it but I've gotten into trouble by anticipating part 2 incorrectly, so I did not.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Continuing to make progress on #AdventOfCode . I'm REALLY interested in starting to make some games with #LittleJS ... but I want to build up some JS muscle memory to make it a smoother experience. This has been a good way to do so! paloblanco.github.io/AdventOfCode...

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Advent of Code 2025 Solver

A javascript-based static solver for advent of code 2025.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

So, I'm plugging away on #AdventOfCode. My GH repo has been cloned by 37 unique cloners?? Are these helper bots? Something specific to Advent of code? LLM related scraping?

Plots from a GitHub repo for Advent of code 2025 showing that 37 unique cloners have cloned the repo in two days.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Delightful so far - thanks! I am taking baby steps into web dev while I solve the problems. Today - a smidgen of css and open-graph metadata really class up a static website! paloblanco.github.io/AdventOfCode...

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Advent of Code 2025 Solver

A javascript-based static solver for advent of code 2025.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

paloblanco.github.io

Advent of Code 2025 Solver

A javascript-based static solver for advent of code 2025.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#AdventOfCode has arrived! Glad it is a tad shorter this year. I really want to get a little better with javascript, so I'm forgoing python and building a janky little solver as I go. Give it a try on your own inputs (once you're finished, of course). paloblanco.github.io/AdventOfCode...

paloblanco.github.io

Advent of Code 2025 Solver

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I'm a prime candidate for this game, but I've passed. I played the (very generous!) demo, and while it looks great, I found it to be kinda bland. @adzuken.bsky.social captures the vibe well: www.destructoid.com/reviews/revi...

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Review: Bakeru

Bakeru appears on the surface to be a spiritual successor to Ganbare Goemon. It seems that way beneath as well. But beneath that?

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My favourite jam! I'm gonna try to carve out some time.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A crusty, purely corporate IP is being revived and used to bolster a deserving indie developer who will now receive a ton of attention on their work. I think this is winning!

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Obviously this is beyond a standard user, but it is possible to do a clean install of Windows 11 via a USB installer. Had to do this on my surface, the"flagship" ms platform lol. The support for older silicon is nonsense, and is clearly meant to drive sales via fear.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I've read (and agree) that this game is like the 2d precursor to skyward sword. Both on the linear side, heavily built around the mechanics of the items you get, tight world design with lots of intertwined puzzles. If you like this you should try that one for a 3d jaunt.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

For the record - I like chameleon twist! But also... Any genre in which chameleon twist makes the top 20 needs more competition lol. It's fun! But it being "one of the best" simply means there aren't enough of these games being made.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It's admittedly been a sec since I played the original. I recently tried to play dkc2 and the difficulty combined with my FOMO of leaving KONG letters and coins behind really brought it down for me.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

OOO man, hard disagree. I find that all the issues I have with dkc1 - the squirrelly controls, uncertain hit boxes, and weird level geometry collision - are amplified 10x by the increased difficulty of the sequel. I forgive them in the first game since it's a relaxing romp.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I'm very curious about all of this as well! I would love to make a simple walk/run cycle for a little character, even if it is clearly just segments of a model moving separately.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I hope they do, but they had the gumption to charge full price for the switch 2 update for Sonic generations, no upgrade discount or anything, so I'm not optimistic.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Being a dad is sitting in agony while your two kids insist on driving around in circles in the new Mario kart to keep picking up food and cycle through Peach's outfits.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I noticed that. I played one knock out tour, fired up a few older games (someone had to treat sonic frontiers!), and I was suddenly below 80%.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

O man. I can see the retractable belt on the middle one from here. What an excellent feature on an action figure. I feel like everyone i knew had one.

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"I wish there was a single, agreed-upon best practice for installing Python"

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

So, lots of responses for "which ones." But are folks generally just using them for agent stuff, code and otherwise? I'm curious about non-agent use cases. Like, RAG on the company share drive, or automated summary tasks (ie summarize my inbox at 7am every day).

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Palo Blanco @paloblanco.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thanks! I forget about that system prompt, even after our internal team described how much time they had to spend developing theirs.

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