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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 21m

oh wow, i thought i was the only one beset by an army of julies!

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Dani Yuan | commissions open @dagger6.art · 1h

FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 2h

i don't post about my wife a lot (other than bragging about her music in my games!) because she largely avoids online communities, but she recently did this really cool utaite cover of leia: youtu.be/lICdaBKqGb8

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moody - Leia【歌ってみた】/ cover

YouTube video by moodtheva

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 3h

after this thread someone actually emailed me to ask where they could support my work in general, which is very sweet! i went ahead and set up a basic ko-fi page. there aren't any rewards on there for now because i'm not sure what would be good to offer yet ❤️

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 4h

“A computer cannot be held accountable, and that is its central value proposition.”

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 19h

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 4h

i've used a bunch of site generators over the years too and never really liked any of them. i've also written some really crummy minimalist ones and they, too, weren't very fun to use

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 4h

this immediately strikes me as waaaay less annoying than writing html by hand (which i commonly do for my pages) or writing markdown and making it work (same), and a lot more powerful. omg. after i learn some more i may try recreating one of my blog posts in it or something for comparison

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 4h

so much going on the past couple days that i'm a bit overwhelmed, but this morning i'm finally experimenting with Pollen by Matthew Butterick and it's super cool. i haven't made anything worth reading yet but i'm learning and having fun!

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 5h

But if someone didn't write it on their side blog, how do we know for sure? /s

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 21h

one hopes that this sort of thing will be a slap in the face to some people and make them reconsider what they are willing to hand-wave and shrug off in the course of making their indie games. whatever their projects are worth, it probably isn't this, and only more so if they're phoning it in

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

obviously having _the game_ be ported and playable is the main event, but i think turning the original code into kind of a living museum could be awesome. i'm giving this thought and doing some experiments around it.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have to write all the notes _anyway_ in the process of doing the rewrite, but maybe i can set an environment up for myself where it's easy to have fancy crosslinks to things and notes. it could be really neat. i've thought about using Racket + Pollen for something like that but i'm not decided yet

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

something i've been thinking about: it would be really cool to make an original, now-un-buildable historical game codebase into a browsable digital book with annotations? like make all my notes about what magic numbers are doing and things like this into a nice package with good typography

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so things take longer maybe, but will hopefully be of high quality and historical value to people like me in the end <3

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i've thought about trying to be louder about those projects or have a ko fi or patreon or something going about them in case other people care about those games and wanna help somehow, but that too feels like a big mountain and not likely to really go anywhere '^^

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are old games i'm in the process of preserving with rewrites where i could probably get permission to make the original source code public, but i'm hesitant to do that until the ports are complete, even if it would help draw support, because i don't want drive-by vibe coders to show up -_-'

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

unbidden keto lesson APPARENTLY: if you decide to eat some Reese's Pieces off plan during a family visit and then go to bed you may have nightmares all night and then wake up feeling like absolute shittttt

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

between the last of the cash i had stashed around the house for emergencies and several small lucky breaks stacking up, i think we might just barely be able to make ends meet this month :') yay!

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are whole communities of people who like lacing up their shoes in fancy, intricate ways. that's awesome! folding napkins. taking pride in being really good at using dental floss. so many things to experience and enjoy and improve at.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we're lucky enough to live in a universe like this! the longer you look, the more you can see, and that applies to everything! infinite room for art, for meaning and beauty! there's an art to "arts" but also in making good fries, or being a good friend, or playing games fast, even just movement

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i was having this exact convo with my partner today after we watched a nerrel video! one of the things that makes humans special is being able to find art in anything if we *care enough about it* to develop discernment for it and respect for whatever processes are involved in it

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Doodle | Making Starmadillo⭐ @doodle.arcticpolygon.com · 02/10/2026

This is why having utility doesn't exclude something from being art. A car engine is art to people who love cars. A mechanical watch is art to people who love watches. A codebase is art to people who love code.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

historically it was a term for a documented refusal to participate in war or enlist in a draft for religious or philosophical reasons

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

increasingly the phrase i feel most encapsulates how i feel about the current moment of the software industry, the game industry, and the economy at large is "conscientious objection"

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

launching Edge for the first time made the macOS window manager shit the bed somehow, so everything minimized to the Dock maximized all at once-???

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Fast, secure, and AI-powered browsing" fuuuuuuuck you buddy.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

people will squander gigawatts of power and terabytes of bandwidth and millions upon millions of users' hours alive on earth with their software management decisions and then be like "i put my Fiji water bottle in the recycling bin ✨"

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

like how fucking full of yourself do you have to be to ship a 1 GB executable to run mostly Facebook with a straight face. how do you let yourself be seen at restaurants and shit. people are from a different planet than me. on my planet i'm apologetic about my EXE's but unapologetic about my thighs

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"overweening" comes kind of close in my hater-brain, I guess? idk, the feeling is like this big gross cuckoo chick that's entirely extractive and gives nothing to the host society it's been changeling'd into, but it's a web browser or a photo editor or whatever thing, with whatever org working on it

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

largesse isn't the right word. is there a good word that captures "taking something in excess presumptively while also being entirely undeserving of the thing taken, and smug about it" ?

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

but it's always a big pile of shit that not only stinks up the place, but is _also_ taking up a lot of space in your digital house, being tripped over and navigated around

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

like if you were making the best thing ever that ran like a dream and did everything perfectly, maybe it could be justified if it was huge on disk for some reason.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the largess of people making shit products has always been one of the more offensive things tech companies routinely do

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so I'm installing Microsoft Edge to test an exception someone had in Priiism. the compressed installer is over 400 MB. The uncompressed .app is ONE GIGABYTE IN SIZE.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a little black bear just crossed our yard! hopefully he doesn't get into any trouble.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Uncle Andy met with a terrible fate, didn't he?

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like partials and the arrow macros to thread values through a series of calls, etc. Neat little language

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fennel is my first Lisp and there are lots of cool features I haven't really learned to use yet haha

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as for macros, i only use a few in Priiism and they're basically all just conveniences like inc! (increment in place), +=, -=, etc. i haven't really done a super lot with macros yet. i have one other macro for loading a list of modules into a table, but that's specific to Priiism's architecture

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

well, you could do the hot reloading exactly the same with plain Lua, MoonScript, or any other dialect of Lua actually! this particular hot reloading setup, embedded in a Fennel REPL, is based on this template project by Alex Griffith: codeberg.org/alexjgriffit...

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min-love2d-fennel

A minimal setup minimal viable setup to get started with Phil Hagelberg's game design process.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i deliberately kept the source uncompiled for curious eyes, so i'm glad at least one person got some use out of that haha. sorry about the parens! it helps if you have an editor extension to color corresponding ones, like RainbowBrackets for Sublime Text.

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transmutrix @transmutrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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