they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 3w ago

i'm running a programming contest next week! we've spent the last few months thinking about how to make a fun contest in a world with agents. I think we've got a good answer :) Starts next friday. Give it a try! and mutuals dm if you wanna test or chat about this

i'm running a programming contest next week! we've spent the last few months thinking about how to make a fun contest in a world with agents. I think we've got a good answer :) Starts next friday. Give it a try! and mutuals dm if you wanna test or chat about this

ICFP Programming Contest 2026@icfpcontest.bsky.social · 3w ago

The ICFP programming contest is next week! This year's contest will focus on the little men running around inside your computer icfpcontest2026.com has everything you need to participate

the internet has lost *legibility of effort* - the ability to easily whether something took meaningful human work It's why we all catalogue vibe-code tells. And I bet that we'll find new ways to show our humanity through our work eieio.games/blog/legibil...

Bobbie did a great job with this and getting to be interviewed for it was a ton of fun!

Bobbie Chen@bobbiechen.com · 2mo ago

Today, it has never been easier to create something, anything. But when given the opportunity, most people never do. So I interviewed four creators I admire, on how they make the exciting, creative, uniquely-personal things they do - and here's the result: digitalseams.com/blog/making-...

I'm speaking at my favorite event - Wordhack - next Thursday! I'm gonna show some unreleased work and talk about how the internet is good, actually. come by! say hi!

Ouros rules btw

Michael Kamm@michaelkamm.games · 2mo ago

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

some of my favorite eggs from the marc andreessen egg gallery - thank you builders

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc marc-egg.eieio.games

announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc marc-egg.eieio.games

The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells

Loved this reasoning behind using custom hardware over a phone app

Adrian Hon@adrianhon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More on Strandfall, the solarpunk orienteering larp I'm making with @x13n.com! Some fun new photos and UI mockups in here, plus I'm trying out a new thing with the "solarpunk" angle, which sounds better and more descriptive than "low tech" or "retro-tech".

I am designing this year's ICFP programming contest! if you've got strong opinions on what makes a good programming contest I would love to chat. Bonus points if you've done the ICFP PC before. Or if you've got ideas about making a good contest in the age of agents!

document.querySelector("paper") (this is all live in the browser)

they're calling it the strangest triple feature of all time

made my terminal explode when i close it

terminal to terminal communication prototype

made a bouncy ball that lives in my terminal and on my desktop

parseword is very very good

Josh Wardle@josh.powerlanguage.co.uk · 5mo ago

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

I made a crossword

I made yt-browse, a youtube channel search TUI Filter by date range, use regexes, order results by views/duration/date, find playlists, and ignore shorts. Everything is cached; search is instant after an initial load. it's like search, but for youtube github.com/nolenroyalty...

working on a task tracker for sisyphus (compatible with any boulder and hill)

made something i'm calling "really easy tetris"

a fun part of making an MMO that runs over ssh is that you can play inside your editor

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

really fun seeing snakes.run on a proper crt :)

kate@lordfuckpuppy.social · 5mo ago

Big fan!

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

I was up till 3 AM forking go's crypto library. Here's a fun lil debugging story for about why: eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? · eieio.games

I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library

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every time i moved my cursor in my browser today

Wrote about how I like understanding code (featuring my dog playing with a balloon) eieio.games/blog/will-ai...

Will AI Pet My Dog for Me? · eieio.games

Sometimes I don't want to outsource work. Where should I draw the line?

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idea: captchas that are ~impossible for humans to solve serve them to bots that you suspect are using AI models to solve captchas. if they solve it successfully they fail the test.

unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots where you can arbitrarily set any of the dots. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal! anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille: