Matt Sutton
@xietanu.bsky.social
Using computers to study brains. Tinkerer in #pico8 and #picotron
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Matt Sutton
@xietanu.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Strawberry Src v1.2.2
www.lexaloffle.com
I've realised I've not posted about Strawberry Src here - I've created a code/text file editor for #picotron, and you can find it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148...
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
Reposted by Matt Sutton
#picotron 0.2.2 is up on lexaloffle and humble: picotron.net
- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples
Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples
Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
January 14, 2026 at 10:50 AM
#picotron 0.2.2 is up on lexaloffle and humble: picotron.net
- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples
Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
- Splore (ctrl-1 to toggle fullscreen!)
- Native Window Exports
- Search Across Files
- File chooser() / Generalised Drag & Drop
- Updated Manual with more sections & examples
Changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
Reposted by Matt Sutton
I just published Chunky Rally - PICO-8 version!
Satisfying drifts, high score hunts, and guaranteed fury when you hit that tree that just wouldn't move out of the way!
Play for free: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153...
#release #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #racing #freegames
Satisfying drifts, high score hunts, and guaranteed fury when you hit that tree that just wouldn't move out of the way!
Play for free: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153...
#release #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #racing #freegames
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
I just published Chunky Rally - PICO-8 version!
Satisfying drifts, high score hunts, and guaranteed fury when you hit that tree that just wouldn't move out of the way!
Play for free: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153...
#release #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #racing #freegames
Satisfying drifts, high score hunts, and guaranteed fury when you hit that tree that just wouldn't move out of the way!
Play for free: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153...
#release #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #racing #freegames
Reposted by Matt Sutton
I'm working on an update for "Chunky Rally", my drifty racing game.
This update will introduce a track editor with easy to share custom races.
@xietanu.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful with the development - I can't wait to try the races that people come up with! #picotron #gamedev #racing
This update will introduce a track editor with easy to share custom races.
@xietanu.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful with the development - I can't wait to try the races that people come up with! #picotron #gamedev #racing
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I'm working on an update for "Chunky Rally", my drifty racing game.
This update will introduce a track editor with easy to share custom races.
@xietanu.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful with the development - I can't wait to try the races that people come up with! #picotron #gamedev #racing
This update will introduce a track editor with easy to share custom races.
@xietanu.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful with the development - I can't wait to try the races that people come up with! #picotron #gamedev #racing
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bottom line: we (liberals, lefties, anti-racists, pro-trans, et all) simply cannot accept the implicit premise that fascists are the authentic brits, that they have the right to be heard & we do not, that any disagreement must be solved by us listening to them
August 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
bottom line: we (liberals, lefties, anti-racists, pro-trans, et all) simply cannot accept the implicit premise that fascists are the authentic brits, that they have the right to be heard & we do not, that any disagreement must be solved by us listening to them
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Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
August 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
I've realised I've not posted about Strawberry Src here - I've created a code/text file editor for #picotron, and you can find it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148...
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
Strawberry Src v1.2.2
www.lexaloffle.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've realised I've not posted about Strawberry Src here - I've created a code/text file editor for #picotron, and you can find it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148...
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
It's a bit of a down-scope from SpaghettiCode, instead more like Picotron's inbuilt editors but with new QoL features.
Reposted by Matt Sutton
Improving (err.. fixing) sandboxed file access for #picotron 0.2.0e so that it can properly handle tools running directly out of the bbs. Here's the incredible Strawberry Src by @xietanu.bsky.social running as a drop-in replacement for the default lua/txt editor (note the workspace icon).
May 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Improving (err.. fixing) sandboxed file access for #picotron 0.2.0e so that it can properly handle tools running directly out of the bbs. Here's the incredible Strawberry Src by @xietanu.bsky.social running as a drop-in replacement for the default lua/txt editor (note the workspace icon).
Reposted by Matt Sutton
also inventing medicine that controls chronic conditions is good and acting like it's a bad thing because it costs money is fucked up
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
also inventing medicine that controls chronic conditions is good and acting like it's a bad thing because it costs money is fucked up
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Anything less than full Nuremberg trials will be a failure
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Anything less than full Nuremberg trials will be a failure
Reposted by Matt Sutton
new game alert!!
MOLE MOLE - out now !
💣 Blow stuff up
🛌 Take a NA P
🌊 Turn around don't drown!!
🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES
📲 Works decent ish on your phone even !
adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole
MOLE MOLE - out now !
💣 Blow stuff up
🛌 Take a NA P
🌊 Turn around don't drown!!
🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES
📲 Works decent ish on your phone even !
adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole
April 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
new game alert!!
MOLE MOLE - out now !
💣 Blow stuff up
🛌 Take a NA P
🌊 Turn around don't drown!!
🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES
📲 Works decent ish on your phone even !
adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole
MOLE MOLE - out now !
💣 Blow stuff up
🛌 Take a NA P
🌊 Turn around don't drown!!
🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES
📲 Works decent ish on your phone even !
adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole
Doring more experimenting with userdata operations in #picotron - this time out a particle system with batch drawing. The result: fireworks over Düsseldorf, reflected in the Rhine.
April 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Doring more experimenting with userdata operations in #picotron - this time out a particle system with batch drawing. The result: fireworks over Düsseldorf, reflected in the Rhine.
So, finding out userdata operations in #picotron are pretty powerful? Here's real-time handwritten digit recognition in Picotron, with the model updating each frame and only using around 4% of the CPU.
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So, finding out userdata operations in #picotron are pretty powerful? Here's real-time handwritten digit recognition in Picotron, with the model updating each frame and only using around 4% of the CPU.
This feels particularly mask-off to me. TERFs have spent a lot of effort to create a narrative that their bigotry is 'protecting women', but pretty hard to make argument like that for ace people (and JK doesn't even really try). Give it 2 years and she'll be spewing some tired old bi-phobia.
She is trying to remove another letter from "LGBTQIA"
April 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This feels particularly mask-off to me. TERFs have spent a lot of effort to create a narrative that their bigotry is 'protecting women', but pretty hard to make argument like that for ace people (and JK doesn't even really try). Give it 2 years and she'll be spewing some tired old bi-phobia.
Reposted by Matt Sutton
everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about
SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about
Reposted by Matt Sutton
Those who learned history's lesson of the Holocaust appear to be today's concentration camp guards and gestapo, whose takeaway appears to be "obscure your identity when participating in crimes against humanity."
Other institutions have forgotten this main lesson: there is no appeasing fascists.
Other institutions have forgotten this main lesson: there is no appeasing fascists.
March 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Those who learned history's lesson of the Holocaust appear to be today's concentration camp guards and gestapo, whose takeaway appears to be "obscure your identity when participating in crimes against humanity."
Other institutions have forgotten this main lesson: there is no appeasing fascists.
Other institutions have forgotten this main lesson: there is no appeasing fascists.
Reposted by Matt Sutton
This is the inevitable outcome of transphobic ideology. It harms cis people as well as trans if you don't fit a stereotype. If you don't look or act a specific way conjured up in the minds of the gender critical brigade you are, what they consider, a fair target.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
6'4 cis woman says Walmart fired her after customer 'accused' her of being trans
A cisgender woman who says she was fired from Walmart after a customer “accused” her of being trans says the situation is “heartbreaking”.
www.thepinknews.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is the inevitable outcome of transphobic ideology. It harms cis people as well as trans if you don't fit a stereotype. If you don't look or act a specific way conjured up in the minds of the gender critical brigade you are, what they consider, a fair target.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...
Pulling together some my work on SpaghettiCode into a library for creating dynamic UIs in #picotron. E.g. the column on the right is 30% of the window width, with a minimum width of 80px. Aiming for something kind of like CSS flexboxes?
Hoping this'll be useful for a few projects down the road!
Hoping this'll be useful for a few projects down the road!
March 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Pulling together some my work on SpaghettiCode into a library for creating dynamic UIs in #picotron. E.g. the column on the right is 30% of the window width, with a minimum width of 80px. Aiming for something kind of like CSS flexboxes?
Hoping this'll be useful for a few projects down the road!
Hoping this'll be useful for a few projects down the road!
Trying out a theme setting for SpaghettiCode to give an easier/more unified way to change up the colours. I just have a few thrown-together examples at the moment, but I plan to add more and a way for users to define their own.
#picotron
#picotron
March 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Trying out a theme setting for SpaghettiCode to give an easier/more unified way to change up the colours. I just have a few thrown-together examples at the moment, but I plan to add more and a way for users to define their own.
#picotron
#picotron
Adding the ability to edit saved carts, as well as the RAM, to SpaghettiCode - making it usable while sandboxed. Any cart in its appdata folder will be editable. The run button also works to run the loaded cart rather than just what's in the RAM!
#picotron
#picotron
March 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Adding the ability to edit saved carts, as well as the RAM, to SpaghettiCode - making it usable while sandboxed. Any cart in its appdata folder will be editable. The run button also works to run the loaded cart rather than just what's in the RAM!
#picotron
#picotron
Got the file explorer in SpaghettiCode to be quite a bit more fully functioned - you can now drag and drop to move files around, or right click for options like creating new files and folders, cut/copy/paste and delete.
#picotron
#picotron
March 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Got the file explorer in SpaghettiCode to be quite a bit more fully functioned - you can now drag and drop to move files around, or right click for options like creating new files and folders, cut/copy/paste and delete.
#picotron
#picotron
Reposted by Matt Sutton
