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Marcel Goethals

@wolkenmachine.bsky.social
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In(ter)dependant researcher and toolmaker. Currently inventing programmable ink @inkandswitch.com Living in Paris www.marcelgoethals.com

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026
Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.
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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
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pvh @pvh.ca · 23/04/2026
Ink & Switch is ten years old this month! We made you a card to celebrate. inkandswitch.com
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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the great all-time landmarks of computer music is getting much-deserved preservation and recreation effort, with Laurie Spiegel herself teaming up with Eventide. Here's some history, some gorgeous recent(!) uses of the software, and why this is insanely awesome.
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Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse, the Mac's first instrument, in Eventide reboot - CDM Create Digital Music
It's 1986. Laurie Spiegel creates something unlike any software available at the time -- an "intelligent," algorithmic composer you can play as an instrument, for Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST. You're at N...
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🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 19/01/2026
Still thinking about worker vs boss mentality about AI.
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Little Bosses Everywhere
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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 03/10/2025
It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)
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Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 20/09/2025
12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!
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grant @grantcuster.com · 30/06/2025
Yep - some cool uses of it in the MacPaint video on kristenroos.ca/timeline. (it might go back even further)
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paint: a timeline — Kristen Roos
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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 22/05/2025
wake up babe new ink & switch dropped www.inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/sk...
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Sketchy Calendar
Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?
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pvh @pvh.ca · 05/04/2025
Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration. www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...
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Universal Version Control
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity
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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 10/03/2025
Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In the primal soup, lifeforms emerge
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 05/02/2025
The Ink team at Ink & Switch is starting something new — publishing our internal lab notes. These are (mostly) unedited, with all our puzzling and musing and prototypes unfiltered. Take a peek: inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/
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We’ve begun publishing the internal research notes we write within the lab. Some of these newly published notes come from our archives of past projects, others are being freshly written about our latest work. Be aware that these are notes we write for ourselves. Sometimes they’ll mention a term or name that you won’t be familiar with. Many notes link to other notes that aren’t public (yet?). If you’re interested in our quest to build a dynamic notebook with programmable ink, or are working on something similar yourself, there’ll be lots to see and learn here.
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Still the best video on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...
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David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa
YouTube video by scaynes
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
happy international constipation day
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Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Sketchpad: fun with text
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el @elliot.website · 16/12/2024
@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon) Features - dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once - use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
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An invitation into Droste's Lair
A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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The Aeterran Archive @aeterra.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
82SBI7 - An elderly man and his granddaughter sit quietly on a garden bench, observing the orderly movements of a robotic horticultural assistant. The machine, designed for precision farming, tends to the plants with mechanical efficiency.
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The Aeterran Archive @aeterra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
X9BUAE - Among sharp cliffs and tarpits, the hands of a lone worker sift through the arid ground.
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The Aeterran Archive @aeterra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
XT14ER - A cozy night, they seem unfazed by the stream of lights overhead. For them, it is ordinary.
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The Aeterran Archive @aeterra.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
8GPA45 - The night held the village in its palm. Across the sky, a ship moved like a blade through dark blue cloth.
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Some pictures from the archive.
Young professional at workCars fly by apartment window.Checking incoming electronic messagesHarvest time
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pvh @pvh.ca · 21/11/2024
tools for thought imply materials for thought
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Introduce yourself with four video games
simcopterthe stanley parablerain worldrollercoaster tycoon
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el @elliot.website · 20/11/2024
karesansui with pixel sort rake
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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 19/11/2024
My new favourite word
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Greg Bryant @gregbryant.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A new lecture by architect Christopher Alexander from 1995, now shown for the first time. 90 minutes of philosophy in action, as he wrestles with complex issues on a real building site, and with questions from an audience of mostly students. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wP...
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Christopher Alexander Lecture 1995 London
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"Solving simple problems may lead to improvement—but not innovation. For innovation, we need to re-frame wicked problems." www.dubberly.com/articles/why...
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Why Horst W.J. Rittel Matters
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Wrap your tool in a game, make it fun to play with, and shield players from the kind of people who enjoy holding others to strict standards of Excellence. Present your creation as an Excellence-Free Zone, a safe space for glorious trainwrecks.” mkremins.github.io/blog/creativ...
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Creative tools for non-creators
I keep coming back to the idea of tools that unlock creativity in people who don’t ordinarily think of themselves as creative. Yesterday, some of my scattered thoughts on the subject spontaneously cry...
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 16/11/2024
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Tudor Girba @tudorgirba.com · 16/11/2024
Anything in a software system can be made explainable.
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Arrow layout
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el @elliot.website · 12/11/2024
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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 outlineranother screenshot of modo, those one showing an audio waveform and node-wire scripting viewanother screenshot, showing an object template browser and some more modelling tools
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.”
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 08/11/2024
Lately I've felt a lot of "big feelings” — pain, yearning, confusion, frustration, desire — about computer programming. I can't quite explain how I feel, at least in writing. So I did the only thing that comes naturally: felt my way through it, out loud, exploratively. #40 ivanish.ca/hest-podcast
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Hest — The Podcast
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Marcel Goethals @wolkenmachine.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
SYNTAX? NEIN DANKE
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