Jonathan Romano
@luxaritas.com
Software development and creative endeavors. Currently working at the crossroads of biotech, games, and crowdsourcing @frameshifter.org @eternagame.org
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Jonathan Romano
@luxaritas.com
· Nov 22
Oh hi bunch of new followers who found me somehow 😄 Quiet for the moment due to life, but hopefully soon you can expect some thoughts here on software, art, music, design, community, collaborative and hybrid intelligence, games and game development, open source, citizen science, etc!
This is awesome. Every time I touch a regular expression I’ve thought of how nice this would be😄
📢Introducing ArkRegex📢
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
a drop in replacement for new RegExp() with types ⬇️
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is awesome. Every time I touch a regular expression I’ve thought of how nice this would be😄
This idea of trying to simulate a thematic concept rather than just treating it as aesthetics closely mirrors a comment I’ve heard and made multiple times in serious games: make the thing you’re applying games/play to *the game itself*.
Take that game idea in the back of your head -- how could it communicate its core idea through mechanics and systems, before aesthetics and narrative?
@raphkoster.bsky.social on the difference between thematic experimentation vs mechanical experimentation.
@raphkoster.bsky.social on the difference between thematic experimentation vs mechanical experimentation.
October 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This idea of trying to simulate a thematic concept rather than just treating it as aesthetics closely mirrors a comment I’ve heard and made multiple times in serious games: make the thing you’re applying games/play to *the game itself*.
@protopro.blue Having fun poking at the app since being approved. :) Couple suggestions:
* Newlines in description fields
* Social icon for ORCID
* Sections for projects, awards, volunteering, and publications
Looking forward to seeing y'all develop!
* Newlines in description fields
* Social icon for ORCID
* Sections for projects, awards, volunteering, and publications
Looking forward to seeing y'all develop!
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@protopro.blue Having fun poking at the app since being approved. :) Couple suggestions:
* Newlines in description fields
* Social icon for ORCID
* Sections for projects, awards, volunteering, and publications
Looking forward to seeing y'all develop!
* Newlines in description fields
* Social icon for ORCID
* Sections for projects, awards, volunteering, and publications
Looking forward to seeing y'all develop!
Finally got to watch this last night, and I was so impressed. Big congrats to @djaxx.bsky.social and the others who contributed. This was a joy and a privilege to view.
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Finally got to watch this last night, and I was so impressed. Big congrats to @djaxx.bsky.social and the others who contributed. This was a joy and a privilege to view.
Seeing Sonic Pi pop up in a come of posts has me thinking about multi-modal interfaces again. What if a DAW let you seamlessly switch to a text-based editing paradigm (akin to changing between staff and piano roll)? Are there edits that would be easier to make/represent?
August 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Seeing Sonic Pi pop up in a come of posts has me thinking about multi-modal interfaces again. What if a DAW let you seamlessly switch to a text-based editing paradigm (akin to changing between staff and piano roll)? Are there edits that would be easier to make/represent?
I take this and raise you: Sid Meier’s Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title
Tom Clancy's Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
Tom Clancy's Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title
Tom Clancy's Necronomicon
Tom Clancy's Necronomicon
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I take this and raise you: Sid Meier’s Introduction to Algorithms, 4th edition
Reposted by Jonathan Romano
I was surprised by how good this feed is. Moving right to the top of my feed list
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August 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I was surprised by how good this feed is. Moving right to the top of my feed list
Barbara Chamberlin on developing VR experiences for Diatetic training #seriousplay25
HoloLens experience was great for perceptorships during the pandemic when medical students couldn’t be in person with patients
Developing a taxonomy of action for VR
HoloLens experience was great for perceptorships during the pandemic when medical students couldn’t be in person with patients
Developing a taxonomy of action for VR
August 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Barbara Chamberlin on developing VR experiences for Diatetic training #seriousplay25
HoloLens experience was great for perceptorships during the pandemic when medical students couldn’t be in person with patients
Developing a taxonomy of action for VR
HoloLens experience was great for perceptorships during the pandemic when medical students couldn’t be in person with patients
Developing a taxonomy of action for VR
A compelling project presented by Shaun Foster of a VR experience allowing you to try out usage of a 19th century printing press. Love how this allows for experiencing something normally out of reach (unlikely you’d have access to try out a tool like this in depth IRL!). #seriousplay25
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A compelling project presented by Shaun Foster of a VR experience allowing you to try out usage of a 19th century printing press. Love how this allows for experiencing something normally out of reach (unlikely you’d have access to try out a tool like this in depth IRL!). #seriousplay25
#seriousplay25 day 2 keynote with @stephenreidedu.bsky.social - “Play Matters”. Lovely, funny, inspiring talk - assuming the recording gets posted, definitely give it a watch. Won’t do it justice here
Listing all the roles he’s taken in games - “I have not done any of those things - but I have”
Listing all the roles he’s taken in games - “I have not done any of those things - but I have”
August 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#seriousplay25 day 2 keynote with @stephenreidedu.bsky.social - “Play Matters”. Lovely, funny, inspiring talk - assuming the recording gets posted, definitely give it a watch. Won’t do it justice here
Listing all the roles he’s taken in games - “I have not done any of those things - but I have”
Listing all the roles he’s taken in games - “I have not done any of those things - but I have”
Discussion after Drew Davidson’s #seriousplay25 talk on collected stories in the field of play: In difficult times, play is hard, but powerful in how it helps us survive, connect, and see a path forward.
August 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Discussion after Drew Davidson’s #seriousplay25 talk on collected stories in the field of play: In difficult times, play is hard, but powerful in how it helps us survive, connect, and see a path forward.
#seriousplay25 day 1 keynote from Michelle King. Many wonderful thoughts, just a few of which:
- How words and language are powerful tools for sensemaking and connection
- How context and location affect our understanding and perspectives
- How words and language are powerful tools for sensemaking and connection
- How context and location affect our understanding and perspectives
August 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#seriousplay25 day 1 keynote from Michelle King. Many wonderful thoughts, just a few of which:
- How words and language are powerful tools for sensemaking and connection
- How context and location affect our understanding and perspectives
- How words and language are powerful tools for sensemaking and connection
- How context and location affect our understanding and perspectives
Recently discovered MySQL 9.4 supports WASM libraries. WASM everywhere, yes pleeeease! Performance + interop is awesome.
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Recently discovered MySQL 9.4 supports WASM libraries. WASM everywhere, yes pleeeease! Performance + interop is awesome.
Looking forward to speaking at the Serious Play Conference in just a couple weeks!
Coming fresh off the tails of announcing @frameshifter.org and grounded in what we've done @eternagame.org, I'll be discussing why #play and scientific discovery games are a powerful tool in the current moment (1/2)
Coming fresh off the tails of announcing @frameshifter.org and grounded in what we've done @eternagame.org, I'll be discussing why #play and scientific discovery games are a powerful tool in the current moment (1/2)
July 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the Serious Play Conference in just a couple weeks!
Coming fresh off the tails of announcing @frameshifter.org and grounded in what we've done @eternagame.org, I'll be discussing why #play and scientific discovery games are a powerful tool in the current moment (1/2)
Coming fresh off the tails of announcing @frameshifter.org and grounded in what we've done @eternagame.org, I'll be discussing why #play and scientific discovery games are a powerful tool in the current moment (1/2)
Today I get to formally announce that I have co-founded and will act as founding director of a new nonprofit organization, @frameshifter.org.
Introducing: Frameshifter, a new nonprofit program (fiscally sponsored by @superbloom.design ) accelerating discoveries and inclusion in science through public engagement in research.
July 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today I get to formally announce that I have co-founded and will act as founding director of a new nonprofit organization, @frameshifter.org.
Fun thought experiment/writing prompt I came up with the other day:
What if everyone had the ability to bilocate, but only over a short distance (like 10 feet). Or to take it a step further, add another restriction like you can only do half as much/half as fast, or it needs to recharge
What if everyone had the ability to bilocate, but only over a short distance (like 10 feet). Or to take it a step further, add another restriction like you can only do half as much/half as fast, or it needs to recharge
July 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Fun thought experiment/writing prompt I came up with the other day:
What if everyone had the ability to bilocate, but only over a short distance (like 10 feet). Or to take it a step further, add another restriction like you can only do half as much/half as fast, or it needs to recharge
What if everyone had the ability to bilocate, but only over a short distance (like 10 feet). Or to take it a step further, add another restriction like you can only do half as much/half as fast, or it needs to recharge
Yikes. Interrogating incentives is well within the scope of metascience, and is important for both understanding and building systems to do science as well as understanding how these interests influences the science being done and how
After two really enjoyable days at #Metascience2025, I wrote about how one 🌶️ moment encapsulated the controversy over metascience's issues 📑, inclusivity 🤗and future public value 🔮 #STS #AcademicSky
All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
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All feedback welcome on here, or by email 😀
warrenpearce.pika.page/posts/what-i...
What *is* metascience? Issues, inclusion and future public value - Warren's blog: Publics, politics, science and technology
This week, the biennial Metascience Conference came to London’s “Knowledge Quarter” with around 800 participants from a wide range of roles, including researchers, librarians, research funders, publis...
warrenpearce.pika.page
July 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yikes. Interrogating incentives is well within the scope of metascience, and is important for both understanding and building systems to do science as well as understanding how these interests influences the science being done and how
Will be interested to see how this develops, but glad to see the Nuxt folks getting strong support.
Also, branding synergy much? All the triangles!
Also, branding synergy much? All the triangles!
NuxtLabs, creators of Nuxt and Nitro, are joining Vercel.
Same license, roadmap, and open governance, but now in a joint mission to build the best web.
Same license, roadmap, and open governance, but now in a joint mission to build the best web.
July 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Will be interested to see how this develops, but glad to see the Nuxt folks getting strong support.
Also, branding synergy much? All the triangles!
Also, branding synergy much? All the triangles!
I want to thank whoever got Matteo Mancuso to play at Syracuse Jazz Fest. His set was amazing, so glad I got to see him live.
June 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I want to thank whoever got Matteo Mancuso to play at Syracuse Jazz Fest. His set was amazing, so glad I got to see him live.
Me rn in the current humidity
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Me rn in the current humidity
Reposted by Jonathan Romano
I encountered this when revamping Eterna’s base graphics a while back. I actually came up with a “cell shaded” version that this graphic reminded me of, which was cool but ultimately went with a more modern+neutral smoother gradient.
It can be subtle or striking, depending how far you push it, but it just looks so much nicer than simply having a more muddy version of the same colour.
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I encountered this when revamping Eterna’s base graphics a while back. I actually came up with a “cell shaded” version that this graphic reminded me of, which was cool but ultimately went with a more modern+neutral smoother gradient.
Kalandra - The State of the World (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by kalandramusic
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June 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This looks SO cozy
it's my birthday today! 🤸 I'd appreciate if you shared my little ghostpup (WIP) indie animation project as a treat 🥳🥰 Thanks for the support! ❤️
#animation #original #art
#animation #original #art
June 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This looks SO cozy