Notices by Ivan Reese (spiralganglion@mastodon.social)

@nikitonsky space is the only key used by both hands

Banger of a post on use of icons in UI. Learn from Tahoe's mistakes!
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115842181787810835

The Feeling off Computing end-of-2025 spectacular is finally finished, slinging its way through the web to your ears!

This one is, alas, agonizingly zany. The most music cues… the best writing in an unscripted podcast… the confusingist themes. Infinite predictions?

It is such an absolute unit of a bonus episode that I have decided to set it free for everyone. Listen on patreon, RSS, mp3, float your boat! Merry Christmas? "Ow my head"

🎄You want it? Well then catch: https://www.patreon.com/posts/all-of-false-146699458

This game looks perhaps off-puttingly childish, graphically. But it's got one of the smoothest difficulty curves I've ever felt in a "puzzle sickos" game. I've been stumped for the exactly correct amount of time by every single puzzle. It's a puzzle design magic trick. Highest recommendation.

(I'm playing on my phone, but I'm sure other platforms would be good too.)

https://spooky.express

This fucks but, like, I'd rather just get rid of all the text.
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115379677276345667

This is the strangest 2-minute research summary I've seen. Ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MalKBuenRkw

Ink & Switch is hiring someone to

* help engineer and maintain the Automerge TypeScript library, and
* build experiments that get people excited about Automerge!

It's a great group of creative people pushing computers to be fundamentally better. We'd love to have you.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automerge-typescript-maintainer/

The difference in physicality is striking. I really *want* to touch the Lions.
https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/114744671432385546

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

History has fully shown that Alex Miller was right, and all the people saying "what if he promises to only talk about programming?" were wrong.

@nikitonsky It's a normal RSS feed, but the font size is 72px.

@nikitonsky No wait!!

It's a normal RSS feed, but I use AI to replace all the words with longer synonyms. AI upscaling for text.

Might actually do this.

On my personal website I have an RSS feed… and a CSS feed: https://ivanish.ca/feeds/

I just decided what the third _SS feed will be.

Coming in December.

#DecemberAdventure

@TodePond yes I'm looking for fun/interesting things people would like to do with sand

secret weird things people do

When I get a new game, I always open the Options menu first.

When I get a new program, I always open the Preferences menu first

When I get a new device, I always open the Settings menu first.

@annika what's the purple on the building?

@annika @TodePond Whose word?

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. Certainly can't write it down. Most definitely not in brief.

So I did the only thing that comes naturally: felt my way through it, out loud, exploratively.

Titles are hard, so it's called "Live as in Alive”, perhaps glancing sideways at the recent d-d-discourse about live programming vs live coding.

#40 —> https://ivanish.ca/hest-podcast/

@annika Faultymedia

The Future Off Computing