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akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
"Building a toy is an excellent place to start designing a game." - https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/

I didn't really understand most of the rest of the article, but I love it for this sentence alone already. I recently have a vague feel for a card game I […]
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merveilles.town
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
I found and joined a friendly #urbansketchers group in my town. I hope that it will help me exercise more often, so as to slowly improve my skills. And also just spend some time in nice company and friendly atmosphere.

#watercolor #beginnerart #urbansketching #theWorkshop #theObservatory
A notebook with a watercolor painting of old buildings, held in hand. In background above, the actual buildings from the sketch, blurred.
September 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
"Local First: the Secret Master Plan"
is a lovely presentation linked from today's newsletter by #inkandswitch, with a demo of their inspiring Patchwork system - watchable via:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-012/

#localfirst
Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar
A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars
www.inkandswitch.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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That's 5D-educational chess.

#fuckgenai #chatgpt #genaisuckscameldong
r/technology Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes + 442 comments | recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.
July 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
"(...) ‘Wind Knitting Factory’ is a wind powered knitting machine that is attached to the facade of a building. (...) When it is windy the machine knits fast and with less wind the machine knits slowly. (...) Occasionally the knitwear gets ‘harvested’ and transformed into scarves. (...)" […]
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July 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
"Universally condemned as the ugliest and most wretched device to ever fly people to Space - both by its enemies as well as beneficiaries - the Instigator was nevertheless considered uniquely critical for continued success of the most sensitive among the top […]

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A small Lego Blacktron build, with an open antenna dish at the front, and a smiling minifig sitting inside the cockpit. The build is mostly in black bricks, with a few yellow accents. A Lego Blacktron build of a small spaceship. The build is mostly in black bricks, with a few yellow accents. A hand is holding it above a simple background diorama mimicking a metallic asteroid surface. A small Blacktron Lego build of the "Instigator" is preparing to dock to a bigger one, the "Renegade" from 2025. A small Blacktron Lego build of the "Instigator" is successfully docked to a bigger one, the "Renegade" from 2025. Its pilot minifig is sitting inside with a smile.
June 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
HN has it's bad and it's good. Here to me is one of the really good - still need to skip some.comments not worth reading, but already the top comment and its thread I find so uplifting, soothing, and inspiring:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268448

"Ask HN: How do I give back to people […]
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June 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@Sandra hi! may I ask about the MOC instructions you've published on your website, like: https://idiomdrottning.org/kohaku - are you using some specific software to generate them?
Kohaku
idiomdrottning.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@Luanti Hi! I'd really like to use Luanti with a gamepad. I just attached one, enabled it in advanced options and restarted. Some things seems to be kinda working, the functionality seems there, but the functions are super awkwardly assigned to the actual buttons and joysticks on my pad. I tried […]
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merveilles.town
May 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🆕 Legal Corner article!

This time we talk about the" threshold of originality" for copyrightable source code!

👀 What is this “threshold of originality” ? Are there types of code that are not automatically protected by copyright?

Find out more […]
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May 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@ice I see you made some games with #rpginabox; may I ask you for some personal opinions? I'm specifically interested to try and make some simple attempt at a low-res bitmap platformer; I understand that the engine is presumably aimed more at top-down & fps, but from some vid making a 2d […]
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May 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/08/19/aquaplus-piece-vs-panic-playdate/ #theLudarium / #theObservatory
Aquaplus P/ECE (vs Panic Playdate)  ⌘I  Get Info
The P/ECE was a Japan-only handheld/mobile gaming console released in late-2001. It was created by Aquaplus, a company better known for visual novels, so it ...
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May 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
#watercolor #beginnerart #poland #spring
a photo of a hand holding a sketchbook with a watercolor painting of a triangular yellow field between green trees topped with blue sky. the real field from the painting is visible above in the background
May 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@n0iroh being a dev interested in post-#ipfs tech, I love how you structured your https://www.iroh.computer/docs/quickstart and https://www.iroh.computer/docs/examples/gossip-chat tutorials for a gradual onramp 😍

Also, please tell me it's really what I'm thinking, that the golden idea/thesis […]
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May 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@OpenArchive I just found you through https://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-iroh and https://github.com/OpenArchive/save-dweb-backend. Can I somehow set up a personal #iroh + #veilid server to use for storing Save'd data from my own phone?
OpenArchive (@OpenArchive@mstdn.social)
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mstdn.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Have you heard about the Legal Network? It is a neutral, non-partisan group of experts in different fields involved in #freesoftware legal issues.

Once per year, the members of the Legal Network community meet face-to-face and share legal expertise in the Free Software Legal & Licensing […]
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April 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@ben I tried to play with Torque to assemble a Dalvik executable (https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/DalvikEXecutable.pdf). A few notes I made during that:

1) I wondered why you don't seem to use a `rust-toolchain.toml` file to specify/pin the nightly version needed; I'd think […]
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merveilles.town
April 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@akkartik did you see the Torque post on https://lobste.rs/s/ysnxuq / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698801 ? brought back the memories of Mu to my mind
Kartik Agaram (@akkartik@merveilles.town)
7.15K Posts, 342 Following, 1.6K Followers · Building programs that are useful, easy to install, easy to run, easy to modify, easy to share.
merveilles.town
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
@neauoire can varvara work on an 84x48px mono display? Are there some known apps/ROMs that would be usable? I don't know the uxn ecosystem well so sorry if I'm naming things wrong here. Long term I'm hoping to upgrade to 160x68, but it'll take a while if ever.
Devine Lu Linvega
It’s always night under the ultraviolet sun.
merveilles.town
April 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
#theworkspace #keyboard
A dark, shadowy, indoors night photo of an LCD screen of an old Nokia 5110 on a small printed circuit board. Some colorful wires and plastic parts provide support behind, held together in the palm of a hand. A fragment of a laptop screen with some code is vaguely visible in the top-right area. The Nokia LCD shows: a low-res smiling Vault Boy on the right, and some text on the left in various languages: "Hello, hackerman! Cześć, Ciao, Привіт!"
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Blinking a LED light on a #nRF51822 microcontroller board, coded in raw ARM/Cortex-M0 #assembly...

Because both Rust and Arduino IDE currently weren't able to get me to that point for not-yet-clear reasons. And I don't want to have to do C.

https://akavel.com/nrf51822-blink

#theWorkshop #blinky
March 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
My recent build of a #chorded #keyboard, a clone of Chordite. Work-in-progress firmware in #rust and (still some) C at: https://github.com/akavel/chordite-rust

Planned next steps:
- practicing actually typing on it... (the hardest one);
- tweaking and […]

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A prototype chorded keyboard being held in a left hand. Thumb is below a cardboard-like rectangle, remaining fingers pass through a hole and rest on greenish switches visible over the rectangle. A USB cable is visible below the cardboard. A cardboard rectangle with a narrow rectangular hole on its left side. To the right of the hole, eight switches are visible, arranged in two irregular rows of four, each row roughly parallel to the hole on the left. Some thin metal bars are visible between the switches, holding them to the cardboard with small tightened screws. A white USB cable is extending to the right from below, neatly tied in a loop with a piece of red velcro. A cardboard rectangle with a narrow rectangular hole on its left side. To the right of the hole, four narrow slits are visible, perpendicular to the hole. A bunch of colorful wires come out of the slits, ziptied near the bottom and going back up and right into a Teensy printed circuit board attached to the cardboard. A USB cable extends out of the PCB. Two thin black metal stripes are also visible arranged vertically, with small screw heads visible over them. The whole assembly rests on a cutting board.
March 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM