Emilia
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox, currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Organizer, Roguelike Celebration (and formerly !!con). Disabled (ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
It’s obviously not their choice, it’s all Apple being inconsistent abd hostile to small apps
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
It’s obviously not their choice, it’s all Apple being inconsistent abd hostile to small apps
If you enable it in a web browser first, it shows up in app!
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
If you enable it in a web browser first, it shows up in app!
The single funniest joke about a game being so bad it harms your computer is the time in ~2002 when Daikatana *literally, without a lick of exaggeration* crashed so hard it corrupted my hard drive and I had to reinstall Windows
i know it's 90% off but a warning to potential customers not to buy the steam version of heavy rain. it is not safe. it installs heavy rain on your computer
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM
The single funniest joke about a game being so bad it harms your computer is the time in ~2002 when Daikatana *literally, without a lick of exaggeration* crashed so hard it corrupted my hard drive and I had to reinstall Windows
I can’t believe we finally figured out what the “W” stands for
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I can’t believe we finally figured out what the “W” stands for
I think regularly about a decade-old tweet along the lines of “dogs lick us because they know we have bones inside us and they want ‘em”
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I think regularly about a decade-old tweet along the lines of “dogs lick us because they know we have bones inside us and they want ‘em”
The existence of a Mario enemy named Dry Bones implies the existence of Wet Bones
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The existence of a Mario enemy named Dry Bones implies the existence of Wet Bones
I adore how laughing yoga is such a clear example of how your subjective experience is mediated by parts of the brain with no concept of reality
You force yourself to laugh, and your limbic system says “well, laughter is a prosocial activity, so you must be socializing, here’s a burst of oxytocin”
You force yourself to laugh, and your limbic system says “well, laughter is a prosocial activity, so you must be socializing, here’s a burst of oxytocin”
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I adore how laughing yoga is such a clear example of how your subjective experience is mediated by parts of the brain with no concept of reality
You force yourself to laugh, and your limbic system says “well, laughter is a prosocial activity, so you must be socializing, here’s a burst of oxytocin”
You force yourself to laugh, and your limbic system says “well, laughter is a prosocial activity, so you must be socializing, here’s a burst of oxytocin”
your home body of water is a dinky little river? Mine is *the Pacific Ocean*
January 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
your home body of water is a dinky little river? Mine is *the Pacific Ocean*
xkcd's "sudo make me a sandwich" comes full circle
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
xkcd's "sudo make me a sandwich" comes full circle
Reposted by Emilia
Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this
The entire project of SRS is just “how to best model/predict the natural human forgetting curve”, so maybe that should be obvious. But it’s neat to me that fancy ML work is only needed upfront (with occasional retuning)
Neat high-level article from the creator of FSRS.
github.com/open-spaced-...
Neat high-level article from the creator of FSRS.
github.com/open-spaced-...
Spaced Repetition Algorithm: A Three‐Day Journey from Novice to Expert
A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm - open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:35 AM
The entire project of SRS is just “how to best model/predict the natural human forgetting curve”, so maybe that should be obvious. But it’s neat to me that fancy ML work is only needed upfront (with occasional retuning)
Neat high-level article from the creator of FSRS.
github.com/open-spaced-...
Neat high-level article from the creator of FSRS.
github.com/open-spaced-...
I finally sat down to learn how FSRS works (the latest spaced repetition algorithm for e.g. Anki), and while there’s some gradient descent in optimizing estimated settings for new cards, I’m sort of stunned the rest of the algorithm is Just Basic Algebra.
expertium.github.io/Algorithm.html
expertium.github.io/Algorithm.html
A technical explanation of FSRS
Spaced repetition stuff
expertium.github.io
January 12, 2026 at 5:28 AM
I finally sat down to learn how FSRS works (the latest spaced repetition algorithm for e.g. Anki), and while there’s some gradient descent in optimizing estimated settings for new cards, I’m sort of stunned the rest of the algorithm is Just Basic Algebra.
expertium.github.io/Algorithm.html
expertium.github.io/Algorithm.html
oh to be oliver smugly lying on top of his mom
January 12, 2026 at 5:09 AM
oh to be oliver smugly lying on top of his mom
Love when a software library literally does not do a thing it claims to, the example usage does not work, and the blog post explaining the feature has an explanation at the end saying "this post was written by taking a blog post written by [our competitor] and running it through ChatGPT"
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Love when a software library literally does not do a thing it claims to, the example usage does not work, and the blog post explaining the feature has an explanation at the end saying "this post was written by taking a blog post written by [our competitor] and running it through ChatGPT"
Reposted by Emilia
"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it
Losing my shit at Ashley St Clair doing a reverse Naomi Wolf.
January 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it
tired: "five whys"
wired: "five are-ya-locked-ins"
wired: "five are-ya-locked-ins"
January 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
tired: "five whys"
wired: "five are-ya-locked-ins"
wired: "five are-ya-locked-ins"
Reposted by Emilia
Making progress towards 2026 being the Year of Bespoke Software: 3 of the top 6 apps in my iOS screen time report yesterday were homebuilt apps not on the App Store
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Making progress towards 2026 being the Year of Bespoke Software: 3 of the top 6 apps in my iOS screen time report yesterday were homebuilt apps not on the App Store
Yeah, things are broadly positive (the qigong perspective would be “there can be temporary discomfort when qi starts flowing in a place it’s been stagnant”, my pelvic floor PT’s take is it’s temporary, and manual therapy from her helps), even if it’s extraordinarily frustrating at this exact moment
January 11, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Yeah, things are broadly positive (the qigong perspective would be “there can be temporary discomfort when qi starts flowing in a place it’s been stagnant”, my pelvic floor PT’s take is it’s temporary, and manual therapy from her helps), even if it’s extraordinarily frustrating at this exact moment
On the one hand, I do not miss either of the two times in my life I hated myself enough to Hackintosh.
On the other hand, I fucking miss my little 7” Dell netbook running MacOS, that thing was a true delight.
On the other hand, I fucking miss my little 7” Dell netbook running MacOS, that thing was a true delight.
January 11, 2026 at 7:23 AM
On the one hand, I do not miss either of the two times in my life I hated myself enough to Hackintosh.
On the other hand, I fucking miss my little 7” Dell netbook running MacOS, that thing was a true delight.
On the other hand, I fucking miss my little 7” Dell netbook running MacOS, that thing was a true delight.
lmao I am once again entering the pain cycle where my poor fucked up abdominal wall only activates properly when I'm doing certain forms of qigong breathwork + meditation, so if I meditate too much I get soreness from those muscles working in ways they are not used to. Literally DOMS from breathing.
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 AM
lmao I am once again entering the pain cycle where my poor fucked up abdominal wall only activates properly when I'm doing certain forms of qigong breathwork + meditation, so if I meditate too much I get soreness from those muscles working in ways they are not used to. Literally DOMS from breathing.
In every Magfest photo I see like 10% of the people are wearing respirators, and that 10% all rock
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 AM
In every Magfest photo I see like 10% of the people are wearing respirators, and that 10% all rock
forcefem browser userscript that just makes it "Clues by Samantha"
January 11, 2026 at 2:43 AM
forcefem browser userscript that just makes it "Clues by Samantha"
I once worked for someone who, on being called out for being a dick to their subordinates, explicitly said “well, my boss stole credit for my work, it sucked, now I’ve earned my turn, and someday it’ll be your turn”. I’m still stunned they said the quiet part out loud.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I once worked for someone who, on being called out for being a dick to their subordinates, explicitly said “well, my boss stole credit for my work, it sucked, now I’ve earned my turn, and someday it’ll be your turn”. I’m still stunned they said the quiet part out loud.