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A sketchbook page. On it there are marker drawings. There are two cards and a math diagram. The first card has italic "T"s in two corners like a playing card. It has three arrows inside. The second card has a lambda in one corner and "y" in the other; it has another card in it with "x"s in each of two corners and in the middle. The math diagram consists of three parts: a set above, a set below, and a labelled arrow between them. The top set consists of an apple and an orange; The arrow is labelled: "x squared plus x plus one" (with math symbols); the bottom set consists of the following: pair of apples, pair of apple and orange, pair of orange and apple, pair of oranges, singleton of apple, singleton of orange, empty tuple.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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inkandswitch.com
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 🌍🌎🌏)
Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
inkandswitch.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
elliot.website
formation of the mandelbrot fractal
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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joshuahhh.com
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!
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
elliot.website
Adding a lil asymptote to sin
August 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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draknek.bsky.social
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
elliot.website
Squarifying each quad in a loop of quads using inverse bilinear transformation
July 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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inkandswitch.com
Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role!

www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer...

(Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)
Automerge TypeScript Maintainer
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity
www.inkandswitch.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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bandukwala.me
Dogfooding a todo list in hazel
July 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
elliot.website
Here's an old comic I made for elliot.website/editor/
Comic:
 First panel is of some code with wingdings equal to an code-inlined image editor with a sketchy fish in it.
 Then there is a text-message dialogue:
 Left person: Hi Sam. Do you think you could make my fish sprite nicer? Right person: Okay, I will try! My coding skills are pretty weak though... Could you help me get my sprite into the game code?
 Left person: Oh! I inlined a sprite editor into the code, check it out here!
 Now there is the first panel again, but the fish drawing is immaculate.
 Right person: I edited the sprite IN THE CODE!
 Left person: Beautiful :')
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
elliot.website
abstract explorational sketch of relational layout from a few months ago
A drawing consisting of many overlapping and containing boxes following some rules: boxes in red boxes are vertically juxtaposed, boxes in blue boxes are horizontally juxtaposed, green boxes are for grouping, cyan boxes are either empty or unrelated to any boxes inside or overlapping them.
June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
elliot.website
Typing and snapping things together
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
elliot.website
A configuration of orange boxes in rows and columns with gaps. There are arrows between the tops of orange boxes in the same row. There is an outline around the configuration. There is a black box connected to the outline.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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joshuahhh.com
BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc.

live-workshop.github.io/primer/
The LIVE Primer
The LIVE Primer
live-workshop.github.io
June 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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inkandswitch.com
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
www.inkandswitch.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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paulsonnentag.bsky.social
What if you didn't need git to collaborate on games?

We've been prototyping a new approach to collaboration in Godot: live and async collaborative editing, with branches and diffs, built right into the editor.

We're looking for people to test out an early version, see link in next post:
May 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
elliot.website
Making progress on my relational layout lib. Did a pass on improving the API and hopefully the code is more readable now.
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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laurasinisterra.bsky.social
Newsletter is back with some textiles + computation artworks and life updates.

theimpermanent.substack.com/p/three-text...
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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todepond.com
you can save and open screenpond creation on pondiverse.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
elliot.website
Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year.

I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)
April 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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todepond.com
its kinda crappy and there's a lot of scaffolding in place but it works

pondiverse.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
elliot.website
April 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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spiralganglion.com
I'm working on a game with @elliot.website.

#screenshotsaturday
The words "A pixel is not a little square" rendered several times in chunky pixel font, black on a white background. Through the middle, the letters are scattered into crumbled pieces. Large black concentric rings on a white background, like ripples in a pond or a heightmap or grooves in a vinyl record. Around the outside the rings are crumpled and shattered into black bits, like grains of sand. At the right, there's a faint grid-like pattern.
April 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
elliot.website
A diagram showing two large node-and-wire mechanism above and to the left of a smaller diagram showing boxes stacked in a tree configuration.
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
elliot.website
2 Mechanism
April 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM