iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 15/01/2026

The whole clip was cool but goddamn don’t let anyone get away without giving you props on that smooth as hell build in animation when a character starts speaking. Smoother than the unlock animation on my phone!

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 14/01/2026

Here is a video that was posted 12 years ago and until just now, it had *zero* views. It’s a fast car going through the mud. youtu.be/L7XQkhL4kGM?... There’s millions of videos hiding under the algorithm that one has ever watched and you can resurface them at stratatube.com

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YouTube video by majorleagueracing2

Plinky 🔗 @plinky.app · 13/01/2026

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Oh this is awesome, I love it. Great work Lucas!

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 13/01/2026

I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment! If you ever want to find “new” content from that era, I built Stratatube.com exactly for that purpose. Never recommended, many with 0 views, and no metadata to hit a search on. Exhibit A: youtu.be/EIETOs3R26A?...

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 13/01/2026

This question is going to expose just how little I play video games but at the risk of losing credibility I never had 😀.. If there is no combat, what exactly is the main game mechanic? Game looks beautiful, I’ve always loved the isometric view.

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 13/01/2026

Just FYI: singing from the rooftops about the evils of AI doesn’t make the rest of us blind to the obvious side-effects of using AI presenting themselves in your demonstration/code posts. 😉

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 11/01/2026

✨ Framing I thought a primary motivator would be preservation of discovered videos with cultural or sentimental value. Users say thats an afterthought and they just like "the hunt"

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 11/01/2026

stratatube.com is 15 days old. What have I learned in two weeks? ✅ Gamification + abstraction of search The slot machine is the primary way people find videos, by a mile. ❌ Zero-result tolerance When a search returns nothing, users leave and come back later. Dopamine addiction.

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Stratatube - Exposing the layers beneath the algorithm

Discover hidden YouTube videos through pattern-based searching. A tool for exploring YouTube more deliberately, beyond rankings and recommendations.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 10/01/2026

Every 5th build, burn a CD.

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 10/01/2026

I started learning programming in 1997. Qbasic for DOS. I was 10. I just recently (over the last year) began posting about what I’m working on. I’m 39. You’re *fine* my dude.

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 09/10/2025

Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 07/01/2026

Wrote a Windows Mobile 6 assistant that updates Outlook entities via POOM (Pocket Outlook Object Model) - which I didn’t know existed this time yesterday. #IndieDev #RetroDev

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404Nerds Spot Light Bot @404nerdsbot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

🌟 Spotlight: @ukozi.dutchtown.tech I just expanded the Stratatube pattern library to 288 patterns, adding 200+ new entries spanning older cameras, phones, editors, game capture, VR uploads,... 👉 bsky.app/profile/ukozi.dutchtown.te… #IndieSpotlight

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 31/12/2025

I just expanded the Stratatube pattern library to 288 patterns, adding 200+ new entries spanning older cameras, phones, editors, game capture, VR uploads, and school projects. This improves discovery of forgotten and zero view videos across more eras and devices. stratatube.com #indieDev #spotlight

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Stratatube - Exposing the layers beneath the algorithm

Discover hidden YouTube videos through pattern-based searching. A tool for exploring YouTube more deliberately, beyond rankings and recommendations.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 29/12/2025

I’ve been quietly working on a side project called Stratatube and it’s finally live. It’s a way to discover videos the algorithm never recommends using patterns instead of rankings. Lots of forgotten uploads. Weird, sentimental, human stuff. If that sounds fun, it’s here: stratatube.com #indieDev

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Stratatube - Exposing the layers beneath the algorithm

Discover hidden YouTube videos through pattern-based searching. A tool for exploring YouTube more deliberately, beyond rankings and recommendations.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 21/08/2025

Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water, but it’s not too bad at least it isn’t when compared to what it feels like to be hanging around a bunch of game devs acting like you belong when you have to admit you don’t know wtf Hollow Knights is.

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 21/08/2025

That’s exactly how we got our nickname! Someone from NYC said we were “A scruffy little city on the banks of the TN river with more bars than churches” or something. “Scruffy City” ever since (we were also the last profitable worlds fair).

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 12/06/2025

Having to put a bandaid on your TouchID finger....

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 31/05/2025

As a resident of Knoxville, Tennessee who had this show up in their feed because of the city name - can we borrow him for an election or two?

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 29/05/2025

Hi @trezy.codes I hate that this has to be our first interaction, but is it possible that it's down again?

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 29/05/2025

www.simulant.dev/licensing/ According to their licensing section it affects - just for building with it - what and how I can then license/distribute my project - I don’t see any stipulation about if I make changes to the engine itself- indeed it reads quite the opposite. Am I misunderstanding?

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Simulant: The portable game engine

John Bunday @johnbunday.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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To ensure gf64's legacy will live on I have archived his projects that were only given by Dropbox. If you have any that are not included please let me know and I will add them. For Nikona I didn't include that but linked his GitHub page - archive.org/details/gf64...

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GF64 / GenesisFan64 Archive - Puzzul-Tetris-Random : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It was announced on March 24th 2025 that the homebrew developer/porter GenesisFan64 who was also known as GF64 had passed away.Link to the announcement...

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 28/05/2025

Sounds like you and I had very similar experiences and thus my disbelief you declared it the tool of choice for your stream. You’ve definitely made it interesting. Best of luck!

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 27/05/2025

Thanks for sharing all of these pictures! I've been watching your posts off an on and it's so cool to see.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 27/05/2025

I figured. As a Knoxville native, that terrain looked a lot more "En Route to VA" than it did "En route to KY, NC, or GA." Though, looking at it now, I don't know why I thought that. I don't get that way often but do know people that would love to take a trip to get you an update on it. ☺️

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 27/05/2025

I’ve started creating these distraction projects in other facets of my life which is why last week my wife and I both could park our cars the in the garage and why this week one of them has light hail damage.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 26/05/2025

That was almost nasty. Mild set back with my game this morning because I didn’t catch that Simulant was LGPL licensed. Luckily I wasn’t too far down the rabbit hole but I need to reconsider a few things I’d planned on for the extra work I need to do. #Dreamcast #GameDev #IndieDev

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 15/05/2025

slapping tentacles to initiate a trade is the least satisfying thing I've seen in months and it creeps me out. ...excellent work.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 15/05/2025

For those in the back: A Discord server is not a suitable, desired, or adequate replace for documentation.

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 14/05/2025

Took a small break from the #Dreamcast to setup a public AOL Instant Messenger server. I wrote a sign up, download, configure wizard and put it up on aimserver.io. The backend is powered by the incredible RAS server (github.com/mk6i/retro-a...) project. I wrote the form in Vue/Node. #retrocomputing

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Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 10/05/2025

With 0 context, just from glancing at the thumbnail on my phone, I very briefly thought that was the green ranger and almost started hyperventilating. While I was wrong, this still looks like a great game and awesome way to spend a Saturday.

Lucas @ukozi.dutchtown.tech · 08/05/2025

Draw a cube, convert the cube to vertex data, get all fucked up with projection matrices for an hour, read docs, find that KOS will do the hard part, and finally have a 30 second demo to show for your 4.5 hours of effort. ...still better than my last desk job. ☺️ #dreamcast #gamedev #indiedev

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I don't think I ever wanted to know about a weather app with a social twist to it.

Oh! I had the camera backwards and was "hanging" it from the object I was trying to point it at. I am not intuitive.

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I moved the camera and now the renders are just blank ohgodI hategraphics