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@transmutrix.bsky.social
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🎮 programmer / game dev / game preservationist 💻 transmutrix.com 🕹️ transmutrix.itch.io Contact: 💌 transmutrix@hey.com

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 11h
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 9h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 11h
i dood it youtu.be/YXThjRHVF9s
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Priiism (Demo) - Gource Video
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 12h
i wanted to post a little gource video for the past month of work on priiism but i feel like i should put music under it or something 🤔
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 20h
- Horatio Hornblower, panicking
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Part 2 is up and I actually talk about Fennel some in this one: www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
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Falling in Love With Lisp, Part 2 — transmutrix
My experience learning Fennel for game development over 4 weeks.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 28/09/2026
“perfect is the enemy of done” as i slam their head into the toilet and start flushing. i give them a perfect swirly, as comeuppance for encouraging the world to be garbage for the sake of capitalism
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Developing a theory that the more evil and unethical a megacorporation grows, the more they find themselves compelled to develop a cute mascot to serve as some perverse form of sin eater
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i'm gonna try to write a little series of posts about my experience learning Fennel and writing Priiism in it this past month: www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
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Falling in Love With Lisp, Part 1 — transmutrix
How Fennel finally won me over on the Lisp family of languages.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when my rest period is over... i think i may finally get serious about studying assembly, and the reason is the most silly thing i can imagine >:)
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's been really fun learning Fennel and writing my first little project in it this month. the game is only about 3500 lines of code so far, and I bet if I got good at macros it would be more terse still
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if anyone has been intrigued by clips of Priiism, you can now play a wee demo of the game, if you'd like: transmutrix.itch.io/priiism
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priiism (demo) by transmutrix
an exploratory puzzle game about light and color
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
blasting through making a buncha stuff today! wish me luck at finishing on time ;u;
a colorful, dark environment with a large wall with a closed door, and a courtyard with a statue of a cloaked figure holding something under their cloak
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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 26/09/2026
green text on a black background reminiscent of an old computer terminal from the days before graphical user interfaces

the text reads, in all caps:
Technology used to be cool, but now it's owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. But there are transsexual furry hackers out there, still fighting the good fight
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melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my game design rule of thumb after releasing Angeline Era and 99.5% done with danchi days is "if it's filler don't make it". it lets you make sure each thing you add has some level of purpose and fits the game's worldview. It also means that much less of the design process is easy or copypasteable
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laney @saltmalk.in · 23/09/2026
every time I feel the need to make my art more palatable I channel my inner bjork
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as someone who grew up during Harry Potter's heyday of good marketing, who read all the books and watched all the movies and enjoyed them at the time, i don't understand its staying power? like why is Walmart full of HP stuff? why are there new games and shows? for whom-?
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the more unfinished projects you have the better. the bigger your graveyard the more strange zombies you can sew together from the body parts. do not feel self-conscious about it. just keep making.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so i came home after playing farmer for weeks and my allergies are set off big time??? i've been dealing with hay, chickens, goats, dogs, and for the most part no allergy problems? but i come home to my one-dog-nothin-else house and i'm coughing and wheezing all morning and my eyes itch
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
somehow in 3 weeks of house sitting i managed to get sick *twice* which is nuts because i was diligent about hand washing and cleaning things. after last night's food poisoning i was not up to a lot of gamedev this morning, so i cleaned the house thoroughly, fed all the animals, and came home
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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you'll never be able to generate respect
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The Code to Hell is paved with good indentation. @the-code-to-hell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s very unnerving how that turn of phrase is proven to keep the token-maxxing, loc counting, AI-deluded CTO’s and CEO’s off a senior dev’s neck. Willfully deskilling the best on their teams in favour of whatever Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have in store as they search for a path to profitability.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
straight putting a Bruegel painting in my demo because tiiiiiime
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i apparently ate bad boloney last night and didn't get sick until i went to bed many hours later??? i frew up but it was like the most minimal, specific time that's ever happened to me. one and done, not explosive, not super acidic. WTF is that about??? anyway i love deadlines
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Dandy -> AQF @dandy-tender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
not sure how I’m supposed to respect the profession after reading 100 articles like: Transgender May Be Maiming Your Daughters Permanently [PAYWALL] There is no evidence of this but many molesters and estranged parents we talked to think it could still happen maybe
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership
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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
love to witness the mass loss of privacy rights across the world and directly perceive a big part of it turning out to be for reducing legal hurdles to gambling advertising
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Leon @leonberdot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
raly loves flowery
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
haven't posted a clip of priiism in a while, been wicked busy! but things are shaping up. i have a LOT to do this week >.< no audio because i didn't wanna open OBS at the time lol
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bell curve meme about programming game cutscenes where the tails are "Lua coroutines", the idiot is me in 2018, the midwit is me from 2019-2025, and the sage is me this week, working on priiism -_-
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merritt @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026
me when i get the $36.52 from my involvement in the class action lawsuit against the company that exposed all of my private data to the entire world
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
got some bs on GitHub where it won't let me Star an archived repository now? with a tooltip that says "you can't star foo"
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
sometimes you end up brute-force hardcoding something that you know could be mathematically elegant because you're short on time and only have a few cases anyway, and it hurts your "i'm making crystals" feelings a little.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
me encouraging more people to get into niche programming languages, use an ancient piece of crap phone, divest from major platforms, and in general become weirder and less palatable to society at large
Twin Peaks "Shovel your way out of the shit" screenshot
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
finished paying off one of my student loans this month, which helpfully means my credit score has dropped a few points. stupid country :)
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i have enjoyed taking care of the chickens and goats so much that i'm pining for an alternate reality where i'm a rancher on paid off land and get to do my game dev and computer science without worrying about making it a job.
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
>user was blocked for reposting my post but they're the "CEO" of an ai "company" with no actual posts of their own 🙄
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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
as i've been making my game prototype this month, i've kept a dev diary in the repo, and post-release my intention is to release the repo with the full git history etc. it feels vulnerable to let someone read my thoughts and process (and doubts), but i wish more people did this, so i will.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
basically every single “why did this video game fail” retrospective is full of “and then the executive came in on monday and demanded everyone redo everything to match his great new idea” over and over again it’s important to get it right but at some point you gotta move forward
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dem politicians kicked women in the teeth on abortion for decades and their reward is that they got to move on from pearl-clutching about the Abortionplex and put their energy fully into kicking trans people in the teeth
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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 19/09/2026
No one is *forcing* anyone to do a shitload of recomps. Recomps are great, but the whole point of them isn't to just have an assembly line to pump out poor quality ones just to have them; it's a way to preserve older games, understand them better, and make them more accessible to new audiences.
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Vertex @endvertex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yep. And business people don't want that. They wanna turn everything into the McDonalds model where the work is rote, and the employees are cheap and replaceable. I would say "that's not good for something like games" but tbh it's not good for food companies either.
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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 19/09/2026
people need to understand having the same people on the team for years at game studios is the best because then you have a guy become "the boopler npc guy" and whenever future games have a issue with the boopler enemy everyones like "go ask the boopler guy, they'll know what to do"
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
recreationaldivorce
9am: i can't wait till bedtime

10pm: i have always wanted to write my own operating system
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