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LiltWisp
@liltwisp.bsky.social
programmer
Making Applicant Hell, a game about applying to jobs.
Still finding my footing in this world.

prefer mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@liltwisp
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Hello. I will be sharing development of Applicant Hell, a game I am making to stay sane in the depths of unemployment.
I will never financially recover from my purchase of this small bottle of maple syrup, but I will not regret the pancakes.
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 AM
It's important to build for a more desirable world, but you should know few hire for a freer world, even if it's the one most want.
February 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
ⓘ It's more fun to use ANSI escape codes directly when making TUIs. Break the ncurses and embrace incompatibility.
Meandering the pit of unemployment, there is simultaneously too much, and not enough time.
Fall into the cracks, and your time is short. Wander the endless plains, and time stretches to boredom.

(I have created a terminal utility to measure my time in Limbo.)
codeberg.org/liltwisp/tim...
February 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I have been busy fixing config files, and writing a small bluesky client, and figuring out financials, and job-hunting, and a million other things, but we'll see about returning to that videogame I'm making soon.
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Meandering the pit of unemployment, there is simultaneously too much, and not enough time.
Fall into the cracks, and your time is short. Wander the endless plains, and time stretches to boredom.

(I have created a terminal utility to measure my time in Limbo.)
codeberg.org/liltwisp/tim...
January 29, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by LiltWisp
Computer! Play "Unemployment Theme (night version)"!
The Silver Case OST (Unreleased) - Morishima Tokio (4th ver.)
YouTube video by Transmitter
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
In further avoidance of Javascript, I will be making all future web requests with half-baked Bash scripts and curl. Thank you.
January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I wrote a bash script to download bluesky embeds from newsboat. I'm not terribly happy with it, but it helps fill the hole in my heart for a newsboat-like bluesky client.
January 22, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Writing fail2ban regex is like cleaning house.
Vulnerability scanners looking for php files like so many gnats swarming for garbage that... isn't on my server.
Computer, ban them all.
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Behold! My unprofessional professional site.
www.mendidev.com

I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but it is interesting, so I'm giving it a soft launch. Please grasp my silly little art with your eyebulbs.
Mendidev
www.mendidev.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:13 PM
This one's still going, though.
In the spirit of Bluesky not transmitting my PNGs, you may instead email [email protected] to receive my drawing of Maxwell the cat.
Also my PNGs don't post here because of a Bluesky bug.
January 14, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The process broke when someone got greedy and tried to open two streams of screaming at once, so experiment over for now.
Limited time only

$ telnet 65.87.7.110 44444

for continuous screaming
January 14, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Lowercase is unbecoming. Which is why it is important to use it. To Unbecome.
i love the internet
January 12, 2026 at 6:57 AM
eyes open
January 11, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Limited time only

$ telnet 65.87.7.110 44444

for continuous screaming
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
i love the internet
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
In the spirit of Bluesky not transmitting my PNGs, you may instead email [email protected] to receive my drawing of Maxwell the cat.
Also my PNGs don't post here because of a Bluesky bug.
January 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Email is such a busted-up old protocol.

What do you mean encryption is tacked on and downgrade-able?
What do you mean Postfix sends the user's IP address by default?
What do you mean the old mbox format is All Your Mail Concatenated?
What do you mean there are like 3 DNS hacks to prevent spoofing?
January 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
My thanks to the Internet stranger who kindly tested my email config while I was asleep, no I do not relay your spam.
January 6, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Sorry for not gamedev-ing, I've been contemplating setting up an email server.
January 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Every time I think about my financial situation I begin to hear the FTL: Faster Than Light soundtrack.
January 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
This stupid little ditty has been stuck in my head for two days.
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'm tempted to write a frontend to Stack Overflow that uses the data dump instead of the API, but this too is an unsound financial decision. And it's like 60 GB.

archive.org/details/stac...
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
camera test

#GameDev #IndieDev
December 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think this is the first interesting result I have had trying to make music, but unfortunately:

- I am still not very good
- The style is not what I want

I might yet admit defeat and find some nice creative commons tracks.
December 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM