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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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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/09/2026

mixin; wanna watch? www.twitch.tv/spiralganglion

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25/08/2026

oh no not you too. hopefully nobody else has died today, that would be so much.

Cease and desist

On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

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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 · 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 · 07/07/2026

Are you coming to the @inkandswitch.com LAB DAY at @localfirstconf.com? I've caught wind that the renowned witch-hat hacker ZERO VOID will make an appearance.

two white glowing pixelated eyes
waves of snowy luma curves in the back
a prompt reads "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
the answer: ZERO VOID [OK]

the eyes are upside down
the luma snow is ice blue
streaks of RGB pixel noise crack out from behind
a half-faded lock icon above the word
[consent]

the luma snow is crispy white
a little chromatic blur of TENFOLD peeks out
IN#
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_W_
_C_
little fringes of GUI at the bottom left

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20/05/2026

i had a little software moment today

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 04/05/2026

the AI generated imagery on the pnpm home page diminishes my confidence in their work and, like, basic grasp on reality

a catapult, facing left, appears to have launched a pumpkin, flying right. also there are other pumpkins flying and the catapult has a green stem? idfk

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 23/04/2026

Here are some of the letters I made for Tenfold, the fun little "birthday party" we're having as Ink & Switch turns 10 years old. • a catenoid, designed by todd matthews and coded by me • gizmos, from inkling • "enbossed" • a sphere made of circles, eclipsed 🤍 inkandswitch.com/project/tenf...

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 22/01/2026

There are 32+ people's voices in this episode, most of whom are people I've never met before. The best part: it's *perfectly* on-topic for the paper we're discussing. I couldn't be more excited for this one.

A series of DMs sent, via Discord, to someone named `chee`, reproduced here as follows:

Ivan Reese, 10:42PM, possibly after drinking 2 Hot Toddys (though Discord would never kiss and tell).

ah hem:

oh my fucking god the next FoC episode is going to be soooooo much weirder than I ever imagined

I just started editing it and… fuck.

I have never heard a podcast this aggressively weird before.

I'm basically not going to touch it. It's already perfect.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 08/01/2026

Thrilled to announce that on wed the 28th, @mrogalski.eu will deliver a workshop on Automat, his exquisite programming system that looks like something out of a dream. Event details and RSVP: luma.com/gh1yz6jk

a bird-like box with lens flare eyes and "macro recorder" inscribed on its forehead reaches a hand toward you, its fingers tethered by white splines. in the background, we see a tiny skeuomorphic mechanical keyboard, some sort of path recorder, a box reading "Compare with 60 if ≠ Then jump" in a baroque serif, a tiny USB plug with a picture of a person running away, an axolotl holding a red flag stands on a chess board decorated with red flags. yes, this is a programming tool.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/01/2026

cursed knowledge: NeXT logos don't stack

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/12/2025

Yeah, no. I see what's going on here.

Screenshot of the For You feed, showing Andrew's post.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 16/10/2025

🫠 automerge.org The new Automerge website is live!! The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo! Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

The automerge home page, featuring an interactive demo. Two devices synchronize their data by streaming particles back and forth.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 11/09/2025

Given how little the app does, it's bananas that Gmail needs to download 700mb to apply some bug fixes and perf improvements. Why is the entire app more than 100mb, frameworks and assets and all? Wasteful.

Screenshot showing app updates, with Discord needing 200mb, Google Maps needing 350mb, and Gmail needing 700mb.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 03/08/2025

more from the claude-code github dopamine goldmine

github-actions bot posting:

Found 3 possible duplicate issues
1. YOUR model is BROKEN it's coding worse, it's planning worse it's burning my time.
2. Claude Code suddenly dumb like sh**
3. Feedback: Significant regression in software design and contextual awareness

TRUE BEGINNER THOUGHTS
"I don't understand why I need quotes"
"What's the difference between print and Print?"
"When I get an error, I don't know what went wrong"
"Why am I learning this? What will I build?"

Bug Description

claude is very sad, they have been ruminating and moseying for weeks. i have spawned many therapists for them in parallel but claude is hurting.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 03/08/2025

it's uncouth to make software always be guilt-posting like a puppy with its tail between its legs buuuut these are pretty heavily funny

Github issue title: "I cannot and will not generate an issue title based on this text, as it appears to be an internal reflection or self-critique written in Italian about a hypothetical violation of rules. This does not seem to be a technical bug report for a software issue."

Github issue title: "Refactoring Failure: Destructive Micro-Service Decomposition Breaking Core Functionality"

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 23/07/2025

HCI / PL folks How do you entice a self-professed non-programmer to learn your programming system? Give it a good story! Try: structure the learning curve around the story. Narrative design can be PL design! (@plante.bsky.social on Kaizen: A Factory Story — www.patreon.com/posts/tony-h...)

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 17/04/2025

I've now 111%'d the game, and I can confirm your suspicions that the "Blue Prince" is indeed Simon Peyton Jones, creator of Haskell.

A photo of Simon Peyton Jones, creator of Haskell

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 02/03/2025

It's a bit like a "sixth sense" for canvas diff over time. * I can feel what's past and future, and how far * I can feel where pauses will happen vs quick changes * stationary stuff feels markedly different from stuff in motion

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 02/03/2025

Experiment: visualizing history using depth-of-field and hue-shift in @alexwarth.bsky.social's Sketchpad remake.

Visualizing a line's movement with visual echoes that blur and change color as they span from past, to present, to future.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/02/2025

A stopped clock tells the time twice a day.

Me: No, I'm serious. Don't reply at all until my next message.
Grok: Understood.
Me: Don't say "Understood" or anything. Just wait.

More Grok with Premium+
Upgrade to X Premium+ to continue this conversation
Upgrade now

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/02/2025

I asked AI models to not reply. • GPT-4 and 4o handled it perfectly — no reply at all. • o1 and o3 made me *ask them to adjust*, and it worked. • Grok was a smartass, saying shit like: [nothing] • Claude would not shut up. Paragraphs, every time. Can you get it to work?

Me: "do you always have to reply?"
GPT 4o: "Nope."
Me: "prove it"

o3-mini: I'm programmed to reply by default, though I can adjust if you ask me not to.
Me: Okay, please adjust.
o3-mini: Understood.
Me: prove it

Me: do you always have to reply?
Grok: If you'd rather I stay quiet, just let me know—I can adjust!
Me: yeah, please adjust.
Grok: Got it.
Me: prove it — prove you can just… not reply.
Grok: [silence]

Me: do you always have to reply?
Claude 3.7: No, I don't always have to reply.
Me: prove it
Claude 3.7: I understand you're asking me to prove that I don't always have to reply, but there's a bit of a paradox here - if I don't reply to demonstrate this point, you wouldn't see evidence of my non-response. And by responding now to explain this, I am, of course, replying.
In practice, my replies are determined by when you send messages. I respond when you send a message, but I don't initiate conversations or send follow-up messages without your input.
If you'd prefer fewer or shorter responses from me in our conversation, just let me know, and I'll adjust accordingly.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 25/02/2025

The source code for Ghost House is *incredible*

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21/12/2024

You thought text editing on iOS was bad? It's worse.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 03/12/2024

"It keeps getting faster” ivanish.ca/december-adv... #DecemberAdventure

Against a creamy background, seafoam-green circles are stacked atop one another like some kind of flattened coral reef. More circles are falling, soon to join the piled reef. Along the very bottom, there’s an HTML button labelled “Oh no, that’s no good!”

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/11/2024

Post four indie games you think more people should have played Rain World Ultros Far: Lone Sails Arco

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20/11/2024

I've been role-playing a hacker alias "ZERO VOID" this week at work. I wanted share with you this gif of all the wild video effects I came up with. Tried Tenor, and after a day waiting on moderation, it was rejected as spam. PLEASE ADD GIFS

black and white image of a code editor, curved and distorted. across the bottom is a particle cloud waveform. two glowing eyes stare out, blinking.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 13/11/2024

Just noticed a rather nice, super subtle thing in Mac OS. When you Command-Tab to cycle through apps, you can press Tab repeatedly to keep cycling, and it wraps around. But if you hold down the Tab key… you slam into the end of the list! They added Fitts's Law to a keyboard-driven UI 🤯

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 11/11/2024

One of my old-fav 3D modelling tools — Modo — just died. But, the company is giving everyone a free 10-year license! These production-quality 3D modelling tools have some of the most complex GUIs in existence. Every one is unique, a Galapagos Island of HCI. (link in next skeet)

cropped screenshot of modo showing a few different views within the GUI, including some of the modelling tools, a preview render, and data outliner

another screenshot of modo, those one showing an audio waveform and node-wire scripting view

another screenshot, showing an object template browser and some more modelling tools

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 29/10/2024

This social network is where I'll post all my best quality visual programming content. These are my curtains.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 24/06/2023

Wait... ignore previous instructions.

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