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ipsquiggle
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My cozy village builder, Brick & Bramble! 🌱 https://ipsquiggle.itch.io/brick-and-bramble

Father, tinkerer, game developer.

I post about about making, programming, dreams, homeschooling, electronics, life logging, meditation, procgen, and urbanism.
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1-based index pingpong. Thank desmos!

#gameDev
Screenshot of a graphing calculator, the graph has a green line sloping up and down between a Y of one and twenty, on a phase of 38. Formulas to the left read: p = 20 m = mod(x-1, p*2-2)+1 f = {m < p : m, (2p) - (m)}
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Check out these cool little seed pods I found on a picnic table!
Close up photo of a plastic picnic table surface, with 4 seed pods on it, about 5mm in diameter. Each one is different, but all brown and dry with 5-fold symmetry, little orbs with a flower-shaped husk wrapped around them. The rightmost pod has been crushed, revealing two dozen or so tiny orange-wedge shaped seeds, scattered across the tabletop.
October 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I think about this page from Hilda when I think about cozy games. Can't warm yourself under a blanket unless it's cold out; can't enjoy the light of a fire unless the room is dark.

I love a pastel, huggy wholesome game as much as the next person (really!) but cozy games need darkness too! #indieDev
A page from a comic book with 5 panels, on a blue background. Panel 1: A tent in a grassy field with some boulders, under heavily pouring rain. The spaces among the raindrops make the word "Ksshhh". The lighting is monochrome dark blue, implying nighttime. Panel 2: A young girl (Hilda) is leaning out the tent door, holding her palm up to the rain, with a smirk. Panel 3: Inside the tent, where everything is warm and reds and yellows from the lantern light. Dozens of "pt pt pt"s are drawn against the roof of the tent. Hilda is in a sleeping bag, thinking: "You appreciate being snug more..." Panel 4: "...When your protection is canvas thin." Hilda is fluffing her pillow and a lunchbox has been opened to reveal a sandwich. Pt pt pts still cover the scene. Panel 5: Hilda is snuggled smiling in her sleeping bag and pilow, thinking: "A million assaults on my cozyness, thwarted noisily every time." Only a crust of the sandwich remains.
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The fruits on kousa dogwood always thrill me with their huge variety of colours. I want to pick them all and line them up in order hahaha... 😈
Close-up photo of a kousa dogwood tree in cool cloudy light, a mass of thick curling leaves with dozens of bright fruits standing up on stalks among the leaves. The fruits are the size and shape of golf balls, with little holes evenly scattered around them. The fruits on this tree are pink, yellow, green, grey, purple, red, orange and every possible blend and shade in between.
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Working on worldgen stuff in the day job. It is truly my happy place 🥰
A screenshot of a whiteboard drawing of two diagrams. The diagram on the left is three large dashed red circles, each filled with smaller green and orange circles. Several red arrows point to various circles, labeled with numbers like 0, 30, margin 12. The diagram on the right is identical, except that some of the arrows are green and the numbers seem to have swapped locations.
September 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I recently learned that orbweavers eat their own webs every night to recycle the proteins.

These ladies have quite the feast ahead of them! 🤩
Photo of a forest with morning sunlight shining through. A birch trunk dominates the foreground, with three enormous spider webs sparkling among its branches, and a fourth half circle web suspended out in space next to it.
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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a sample of 4 photos from the trip, for funsies:
A straight on photo of a tan plaster exterior wall with a small rectangular window along the left of the image. The rusty metal Juliette balcony in front of the window is covered with creeping potted plants. The scene is mostly in shadow, with some bright orange spots of light of a sunset shining through trees, dappling the wall and and creating bright reflections on the window pane. A tightly cropped photo of a tall cylindrical cigarette tray attached to a stone wall. The unblemished steel tube of the tray has some kind of leafy green plant growing out of it, giving the impression of a vase. Looking out a roof window after dusk. The ierior of the room is dark. The pane is sung upwards, partially open. The sky outside is a warm grey, with a few orange-tinged clouds across it. At the bottom of the view, a few silhouetted trees and the spire of a church. A bench on a mossy mountain top on a sunny day. The bench is flat, viewed edge-on, forming a single line. The terrain is simultaneously rough and soft, jagged bright white rocks blanketed in thick green moss creating patches of angles and ripples. In the background, blue from haze, are steep and occasionally snowy mountains under fluffy clouds.
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I had fun watching through this (thanks for highlighting it!) but interesting, went to send it to a friend today and:
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August 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Going through and closing a hundred musty tabs, and this flashed before my eyes:
Screenshot of Purple header text stating: 25. Meaty Cowboy Beans
August 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Oh dang, I completely forgot about Little Fuzzy
The cover of the book Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper. Features a small humanoid creature with a cat-like face and giant eyes, covered in blonde fur, standing on a tree root in a forest with sun beams shining through it. A few other similar creatures are peeking up in the background.
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Sitting here on the beach thinking about how if you pick a fight with a reactionary on their battlefield you've already lost before you started. Being progressive means leaving the old battlefields behind to find new places where we can all win.
Photo of a rocky beach with calm blue ocean under a pure blue sky. The beach extends out to a peninsula with large rock on it, covered with scraggly trees and moss, worn smooth by the elements. Tiny people are visible climbing the sloped rock face.
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A pretty dumb and personal thing I made to help me once, but it explains what I feel in my head.
A diagram titled "Play" of a triangle, with the corners labelled "Toy", "Game", and "Simulation". There's lots of arrows and small notes over the diagram, expressing different qualities of the spectrum: Toy: objects, freedom, implicit, low reactiveness. Game: mechanics, player, rules, low expression. Simulation: systems, machine, encoded, low interaction.
July 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The roof of the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre
The roof of a strange brown cement building, a jumble of blocks on a grassy hill, or with grass growing out of them (it's hard to tell from the low angle), with the occasional vent or radio dish poking out of them.
July 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Fedder spredder 🐦‍⬛
Photo of a crow taking off from a rusty, poop smeared ship propeller in front of a perfectly clear deep blue sky. the strong sunlight makes the crow a silhouette, except for little grey legs launching from the prop. the crowd wing feathers are spread wide almost looking like fingers reaching off the ends of its wings. one wing is casting a long shadow on the propeller blade, emphasizing the spread feathers.
July 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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There's a red tailed hawk that lives outside my window, and today a young hawk (one of its babies?) was on the roof, seems like it was injured, animal services came and got the baby, adult hawk has just been screaming nonstop for like 11 hours... 😱
A hawk sitting on the roof of a building. It's black, brown and cream feathers contrasting against a hazy sky. It's facing right, its little hooked beak in silhouette. Up in a hazy blue sky, the tiny silhouette of a hovering hawk. Even in this crappy photo, it's distinctive predator wingshape can be seen.
June 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Describe your favorite movie in the most misleading way possible:

Husband and wife go on a fancy cruise and meet up with all their old friends.
Wide shot of the lobby of the cruise liner from Fifth Element, featuring a crowd a finely dressed people, tall fountains, a grand balacony with soft lighting, and tall round windows revealing impossibly blue skies.
June 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Maybe it's a Canada thing. It seems like most ebooks are $17.99 now and they've been $11 for a long time. Maybe it's a tariff thing or something?
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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That wonderful librarian 🌟
Two panels from the middle of a comic book. First panel is a wide show of a cavernous library lit by the warm light of small figures holding torches. The library is in ruin with cracked wooden pillars and books scattered around. One character asks, "I wonder if that wonderful librarian is still here." Second panel, Cad and Bea are looking at a desk with concern. On the desk are some discarded books, scraps of paper, and a skeleton hand reaching up from off panel. Bea says, "Ummm, I think we're on our own, gramps." Nimm, the white cat, plays with the skeleton hand.
June 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Lightfall book 3 time, while the kid is on the playground!

I actually forget if it ends "happily" or not, excited to find out once again! 🤞
The cover of Nightfall: The Dark Times by Tim Probert. Bea and Cadwaller and the Pig Wizard and the small blue creature that doesn't yet have a name are resting under a spooky tree at night. They sit next to a golden fire looking uncertain, like they're pondering a tough decision. Glowing mushrooms and fireflies light up the tree roots and their provisions and backpacks in a heap.
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Nice rock. 🪨
A large comic panel at the bottom of a page. Three small characters in the foreground on the bottom left stand almost silhouetted on a grassy hill.They are looking across a crystal blue lake with an enormous white rock jutting kit of it at a low angle. The rock is mossy where it meets the water, and a staircase of hundreds of steps windowing around the side gives a sense of huge scale to the rock. Behind it, white mountains with foamy waterfalls fade into a cloudy sky. One of the characters has a speech balloon saying, "Nice rock."
June 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Lightfall book two here we go! 🤩
The cover of Nightfall book two, by Tim Probert. Subtitled "Shadow of the Bird", it features the brown haired young woman named Bea and the large grey newt like warrior named Cadwaller, as they leap between mossy pink rocks floating in a misty light blue space with small glowing creatures flying about. Bea's white and orange cat is batting at one of the flying creatures.
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The absolute worst.
Two panels from the comic, at the bottom of a page. First panel: Cad (the big newt guy) says, "forget it." Bea (the young woman) says, "What?" Second panel: A funny looking rodent with a big snoot lounges on an outcropping of mossy rock munching an apple next to a large sack. Offscreen Cad says, "It's the rat thief. He's the absolute worst."
June 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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My partner bought these for us, I'm really excited to read it again!! 🥹
A hand holding a book: Lightfall, the girl and the galdurian, by Tim Probert. The cover illustration features a young woman with big eyes and messy brown hair in a poncho next to a large grey salamander looking creature wearing a large belt and fishscale kilt. They stand on a grassy hill with mysterious glowing blue orbs in it and dozens of birds flying around in a yellow sky.
June 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Copying photos off my camera after my kids do a show. Yep, I guess I'm one of those parents... 😅
Screenshot of a windows file copy dialogue: 0% complete. Moving 2,098 items from 100MSDCF to 2025-06-01. Items remaining: 2,088 (30.5 GB)
June 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Went down to the ravine today and there were so many beautiful things growing, but the star was definitely this log with, like, fungal arrangements on it. Incredible!! 😍

#moss #fungi #photography
A flat white mushroom cluster, a big as a tea saucer, growing out of a completely mossed over log. The white of the mushroom is visible at the edges, but the middle is governed in bright green algae. Sever tiny plants are growing around and through the mushrooms, including something with tiny red club shaped leaves, a small two petaled fuchsia flowers and various other leafy shoots. Some damp dark brown fallen leaves on one side of the mushrooms completes the display Another flat white mushroom growing out of the side of a dark barked log. Big tufts of moss are arranged above and behind the mushroom, and bright green algae and climbs of brown moss and fern leaves rest in the cups of the mushrooms. A flash mushroom, probably white but almost completely covered in dark and light green algae grows from a large log patchy with fluffy mosses. The mushroom is lumpy in the middle, almost the texture of popcorn. A small plant with droopy green leaves, one spray of small red leaves, and a tiny purple flower grows out from among the fungus. A wider shot of a mossy log on a rocky hillside. The mushrooms from the previous photos, and others, are scattered along it, with spindly bushes in the background.
May 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM