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Ivan Reese
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i want to squish code between my fingers @inkandswitch.com Δ futureofcoding.org Δ ivanish.ca he/him, rural canadian
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 8d
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 6d
Anyone following me from the world of gamedev? Wanna work with me? Have friends / followers who might? Get in while the getting is good!
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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 6d
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
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 8d
Yeah, it's a bit on the short side, alas. I ended up cutting about an hour. Some of it wound up as a bonus episode on our patreon.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social · 10d
Subtext Retrospective www.subtext-lang.org/retrospectiv...
Subtext Retrospective
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 11d
Here's a post summarizing the reasoning: feelingof.com/the-name/

We had hundreds of comments worth of discussion about this, and the main takeaway is that nobody can agree on what the name should be.

Ultimately, I just had to make a choice.

Regardless of name, it's still the same community.
The Name
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 11d
The renaming is complete.

RIP Future of Coding

Long live Feeling of Computing!

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Feeling of Computing
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 12d
Did you enjoy the Esolangs ep? (Did anyone tell Daniel? Hehe)

If you're so inclined, you can read a bit of behind-the-scenes about the ending (free), and listen to some extra fun cut content ($5) over on our Patreon.

[🙇 person bowing U+1F647, UTF-8: F0 9F 99 87]

www.patreon.com/posts/pokemo...
Pokemon Go | Feeling of Computing
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 13d
When you make an esolang, you speak through the creation of the language itself. The language is a statement. Maybe it's a joke. Maybe it's heartache.

The "first" episode of the Feeling of Computing podcast — Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously.

feelingof.com/episodes/078
78 • Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 14d
Ah, seems like I needed to search for Cameron rather than the film. Yuck.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 14d
Wait really? I tried to google this and only found mentions of a pledge that this movie would include a "No AI" disclaimer.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15d
The redesigned characters look like entirely different people. Baffling. I wish they'd just given this the Nightdive treatment.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15d
I don't like the redone character designs. The feel more consistent with the modern DX games, which I didn't like. So to me, this feels like the updated original trilogy with the prequel actors.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 16d
This book came out today and seems interesting
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17d
In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...
A copy of "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code" by Daniel Temkin. The cover features an image of a blue sky with clouds with various vertical colorful stripes overlaid across it.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19d
(Should I tell them all it was a troll??)

(Nah some of the replies are really interesting)
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19d
I love ??= but often wish I had =?? to assign only if the thing on the right exists.

Do any programming languages let you customize the syntax? Feels like that should be a thing.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d
Right hand on mouse, to place the caret.

Left hand on A,S,D,… mapped to "comment", "string", "code", …

You hold a key. Anything you speak is inserted with that syntax.

If you hold "code" and say "for i and p in particles" it infers `for (let [p, i] of particles) {`
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d
Now, I actually really like the "they're gonna slow each other down" interpretation. It suggests that both sides of Pixar give creative constraints to the other. That feels very true to me.

But they also help each other improve, and coupled flywheels don't.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d
Your speed looks like a square root of the energy you invest, not a hockey stick.

As for coupled flywheels, that's gonna depend on how they're coupled (ugh), but casually, they're gonna slow each other down. They're not gonna help each other go faster. That's perpetual motion—just add more wheels!
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d
I should be more specific: this makes the metaphor even less credible to me.

It'd be a great metaphor for diminishing returns — energy grows with the square of velocity. It gets harder to speed up as you speed up.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 20d
wow that's quite the passage
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21d
Love this.
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tldraw @tldraw.com · 21d
In addition to starter kits, this release completes the months-long effort to make the tldraw SDK compliant with WCAG 2.2 AA. Paperwork coming soon.

In practice, this means better keyboard controls, a clearer, more customizable UI, and accessibility improvements for all of our users and customers.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21d
They're basically low-pass filters for mechanical energy fluctuations. They're about resisting change.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21d
Flywheels:
* Need constant energy to maintain their rotation (cuz friction)
* Resist being sped up or slowed down

So they're a good analogy if you want to talk about, say, maintaining the status quo as it gradually rots away.

SF people use them to mean "perpetual motion machine" without realizing.
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 21d
Don't make me tap the "that's not how flywheels work" sign.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 21d
Last week I watched a city burn from a rooftop in Kathmandu.

Here are my reflections on what sparked a revolution: a government social-media ban, rage at corruption, and the unchecked power of global tech.

schmud.de/posts/2025-0...

#buddhism, #nepal, #nepokids, #genz
Signals in the Fire
Making sense of the chaos in Kathmandu, the burning of data centers, and the real impact of banning social media.
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