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Insipid but well-meaning software developing art gremlin.

"Incoherent; mayhem." - 4/5 stars.

"Couldn't make any sense of any of it, it's like he's talking to himself." - 2/5 stars.

https://mastodon.esmevane.com/ironchamber
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Get you a partner that loves you like agent models love flailing around and making huge irredeemable messes instead of reading even a little bit of the existing code.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
my dog caught me with some biltong earlier today and he's been following me around and yearning at me ever since
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The folks dunking on this are cracking me up. (I have so many hot takes about the "Avatar bad" thing that I.. p r o b a b l y shouldn't let myself act like posting goblin about it.)
Guillermo del Toro says he has seen all 3 ‘AVATAR’ films and calls them “masterpieces”

“I know where it’s going and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people… I can say there are very few Americans that have created an entire mythology”

(Source: Konbini/TikTok)
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Nonzero chance I will grab Nomad for my tablet this week or next, and attempt to sculpt one of my doodles.
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This list is objectively correct, though I'd probably try to fit Phantasy Star 3 in there honestly. That single game was worth buying the Genesis for.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Douglas Adams knew we'd wind up cursing at the robots almost immediately, while weirdo corporations foisted them on us. No individual ever wants to buy one the whole series, just executive boards. Marvin probably really had all of that dismissal and snark coming to him, now that I look back on it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Kind of feels like you could tip over the whole gig economy app industry with an individualized series of apps that use atproto
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
idk if i want a cozy roguelike. i want to emerge ragged from the ruins of every failure where i didn't build the engine right, i think
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I think my Zed (preview) just got the rust analyzer solver updates and holy crap.
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hope everyone carved their traditional Stankonia pumpkins and has candy for the kids on their candy strut.
Outkast released 'Stankonia' 25 years ago today. 💿
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wait where IS my object permanence, anyway? Did I ever really have it? It’s probably gone forever.
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Thank you everyone who's contributed! We're now over 50% to our monthly funding goal, which will allow us to be a pretty reliably sustainable volunteer-run organization that is still able to spend money on e.g. legal, hardware, hosting, etc, costs as we need in order to fulfill our mission!
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Catching smug stray comments from LinkedIn under Bret Victor's "Inventing From Principle" and trying so hard not to reply.

I don't know why I keep responding to messages in there, every time it's on a backdrop of pure rage bait.
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
moderate amounts of diggity
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Parents: what are your favorite meals where the bulk of cooking can be done ahead of time, and you can quickly do the last steps after picking up your kid from daycare?
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is because LLM chat bots are an interface, and chat is a terrible way to interact with a tool. IMO. There’s more to it but that’s the central intractable fact that won’t be answered by any further exploration of the technology as is.
I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.

Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design.

This needs to be said louder.
October 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Or, hear me out: occasionally you work out a spell / knickknack / goober that fits the game you wanna play perfectly and the right move from there on is either sweeping redesign or make it different / worse to guard the current system design
just read about dnd 5e’s silvery barbs. they made a better counterspell that works on everything and is also a 1st level spell slot lol
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reading someone else's `PhantomData<(A, B, C)>` notation and facepalming as I think about all the times I put multiple phantom data fields into shipped code when I could've just used a tuple.
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

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October 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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I have discovered the exact balance of black coffee and coke zero that will let me live forever
June 8, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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anyway i will do it for $300k a year and a special button that lets me play an airhorn in jerry's house
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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you cannot stop the user from downloading the video while simultaneously letting them download the video.
October 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The gunk in people's brains about explaining stuff is that they confuse "the what" vs. "the why + how"

"The what" with monads is: it's a category theory concept, here's all of these principles to digest and obey

"The why + how" is: you get tons for free if you have a thing w/ these 4ish functions
October 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
don't talk to me while I'm walking my dog, I'm thinking about GOBLINS and how to explain them
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM