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Ivy Reese

@spiralganglion.com
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I want to smush software between my fingers and turn my maternal instincts into multimedia. merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto @inkandswitch.com Δ research feelingof.com Δ podcast ivy.boo Δ myself she / hrt 🏳️‍⚧️ ab 🇨🇦

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/09/2026
Here's how Ivan created ZERO VOID, his hacker alias slash virtual halloween costume. I've since stolen it from him, since he's dead, and now refer to ZV as a "witch-hat hacker" cuz that's cute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMaP...
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ZERO VOID
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 24/09/2026
Sept FoC Virtual Meetup • www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7a... Three heater demos: • An RPG that lets you walk (literally) through the execution of code. • A content-addressable query-driven workspace. • A canvas full of micro editors and visualizers you can fully live inside.
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September 2026
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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've always hated that mainstream languages don't have macros as powerful as lisp macros. So I'm doing my small part to fix that. First an argument why we need them. jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-l... Second a library to add them to typescript sweetener-ts.github.io
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We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller
It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.
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chee rabbits @chee.party · 20/09/2026
and then out of the reflecting pool, like Aphrodite out of the sea draped in gossamer, comes Clippy
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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 19/09/2026
ux friends, does anyone have any resources (papers, studies, blog posts, talks, ...) exploring canvas interfaces, node base uis, that kind of thing... there's a wealth for visual programming but im struggling to find the same interest in other kinds of canvas apps/interfaces.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19/09/2026
send me your recs for an intro to (textual) programming for an 11 year old
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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Feeling of Computing in SF returns! @offline.arushibandi.com joins us next Saturday to chat data agency. atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:zl...
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Feeling of Computing // Downtown SF
Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with creative technologists. This month, Arushi Bandi, co-founder of Habitat (https://habitat.network) is joining us for a conversation about "doing what...
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Tyler Lawson @tyler.fun · 18/09/2026
this demo is such a tease. I want PlayBook yesterday.
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Arcade W. @arcades.agency · 17/09/2026
IVY TALK
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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 17/09/2026
Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought
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How to Research Tools for Thought
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nn @nicknoble.works · 16/09/2026
This is how close we are to finding the holy grail
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 16/09/2026
this is unbelievably good 🤯
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Boris @bmann.ca · 15/09/2026
You don’t really realize the breadth and depth of work that the Ink team has done until you see it blowing minds in one go. Ivy @spiralganglion.com did an amazing job presentating and of course huge work from the entire team over the years @wolkenmachine.bsky.social
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Mimi Reyburn @mimi.computer · 15/09/2026
I LOVE this talk
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/09/2026
here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...
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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
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Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nearly every general-purpose programming language is Turing complete. So ask not what you can do with a language, but what a language makes worth the effort. A short note on "effective expressiveness": www.inkandswitch.com/malleable-so...
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Effective expressiveness
Everything is possible. What’s actually worth the effort?
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 10/09/2026
haut boy summer
oboe

Hautboy \Haut"boy\, n. [F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See {Haughty}, {Bush}; and cf. {Oboe}.]
1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called {oboe}. See Illust. of {Oboe}.

2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry ({Fragaria elatior}).
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
seeing your initial idea just a scaffolding to take down with time is such a lovely take on the destructiveness of making a thing
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 09/09/2026
* Same data, bidirectionally editable in different representations via lenses! (!!!) * All in a composable hierarchy which itself can be molded! * Demos of a hierarchical composable behavior system that I don't yet understand!
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 09/09/2026
Outstanding new work on a composable and collaborative malleable computing environment from @inkandswitch.com!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxG... * Same data, collaboratively edited in different tools! * Same tools, themselves collaboratively edited! (cont)
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Introducing Patchwork-26
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Fiona Gallagher @psychic.surgery · 07/09/2026
Congrats to the winners of the AF voting! LESBIAN SLED DEATH was only a runner-up. However, it’s not RIP! The support I‘m seeing for this game tells me there’s an audience. So I’ll be working on it in a moonlighting capacity while I figure out what’s next! But first, Amnesia Fortnight continues!
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 07/09/2026
RIP lesbian sled death. alas.
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ari 💫 @arimelody.space · 06/09/2026
really not a fan of being called "delusional" for wanting to write the code myself. was this supposed to make me more interested in using AI in my work?
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Mia @mia.omg.lol · 06/09/2026
okay i wasn't going to quote this and i'm sorry for doing so, but this has been irking me for hours: i think what gets me about it is that this point has become prevalent to the extent that it essentially makes those of us that refuse to use AI for coding unemployable, which makes me **furious**.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/09/2026
terrifying article showing just how specific the nazi references are across DHH's recent output, and how clearly comfortable 1password's top brass are with this overt nazism.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/09/2026
1/4
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/09/2026
mixin; wanna watch? www.twitch.tv/spiralganglion
glitchy ableton girl filters
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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 04/09/2026
📝💝 but what a privilege it is to read your code kayserifserif.place/posts/2026/h...
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Handwritten code | Katherine Yang
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Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This week in Livelymerge, Dan Ingalls gives us a tour of Morphic: the scene graph, halos, text editing, and programming tools of the live, malleable kernel that lives inside an Automerge document.
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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 04/09/2026
I'm at the point where I'm embedding a full interactive scene including some scene specific js code in a png, so i can drop a png in the browser and it runs my scene.. what could go wrong
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 03/09/2026
Another absolute banger "Feeling of…" virtual meetup. I am continually amazed by all the creativity and energy in our little community <3 youtu.be/y6JUm11l1S8
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August 2026
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 02/09/2026
Be sure to unfollow me for even less great trans content!!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026
AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.
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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️ @brennan.day · 01/09/2026
Shopify, Stripe, Dell Technologies, Block, Cloudflare, Dropbox, Coinbase, OpenClaw, and TapTap. All companies that have given millions of dollars to a project run by a far-right white nationalist. Why are we okay with this? brennan.day/normalized-f...
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called…
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 01/09/2026
really good "how did we get here" on the current enclosure of OSS commons by wealthy, phobic fascists brennan.day/normalized-f...
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 01/09/2026
🧵
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Mia @mia.omg.lol · 31/08/2026
so, 1Password are sus*, proton aren’t looking too hot either, Bitwarden doesn’t work half the time ime, lastpass may as well be unencrypted, who is making a good PW manager with ssh agent and passkey support? *I see some people have emailed to complain - I may try that too as I have 10m on my sub
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 31/08/2026
Check out this kickass demo from many of my favourite people! Years of work, boiled down to a whirlwind tour. Also.. I wonder if ZERO VOID will make an appearance 👻 (please direct all complaints about the editing to yours truly heheh)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏
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eli-oat.bsky.social @eli-oat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I setup a ko-fi! ko-fi.com/eli_oat I’m using it as a kinda dev log, but also to see if I can bring in enough money to pay an artist and/or musician one day.
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eli oat's small and nearly silent menagerie
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 29/08/2026
can you imagine waiting years for gender-affirming surgery and then — boom — all GAS are cancelled!?! this is gonna kill people. absolute madness and senseless cruelty.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 26/08/2026
is software okay
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25/08/2026
someone very dear died today
On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25/08/2026
going through my follows, a bunch of accts have gone quiet, flip over to twitter, actively posting there? mmm thats the feeling of all my respect for you evaporating.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25/08/2026
speculative fiction: an llm on salvia
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 23/08/2026
she's at it again twitch.tv/spiralganglion/
screenshot of ivy streaming. her face, long hair, everything color crushed so it's all red. ableton live overlaid atop.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 22/08/2026
wait i didn't know we had one of these in the country. that's just plain weird.
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chee rabbits @chee.party · 15/08/2026
alright i’m in canada who wants to fuck
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