Joe Strout
@joestrout.bsky.social
Connectomics engineer, programmer, author, tango dancer. Creator of the MiniScript programming language.
Catch up on what's been happening in the MiniScript world — including big news about GitHub language support and MiniScript 2.0! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniScript Weekly(ish) News — September 17, 2026
(Editor's note: sorry for the long delay since the last update... it was a very busy summer! We'll...
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MiniScript is now an officially recognized language on GitHub! It's been a long time coming, but a repo of MiniScript code is now shown in the "Languages" info as MiniScript rather than something else. An important milestone in MiniScript's history, and you were here to see it!
Create your own text adventure in Mini Micro — it's easier than you think! dev.to/joestrout/cr...
Create a Text Adventure in Mini Micro
Text adventures (sometimes called interactive fiction) are a classic and celebrated game genre — see...
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MiniScript coder Trey Tomes has released a cool project at github.com/treytomes/mi.... It's a sophisticated editor for synthesized sound effects.
Learn about the Mini Micro desktop GUI, and weigh in with your feature requests for Mini Micro 2.0! dev.to/joestrout/th...
The Mini Micro Desktop GUI
https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro is a virtual home computer with a primarily command-line interface. ...
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Catch up on what's happening in the MiniScript community:
MiniScript Weekly News — June 25, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2 kept moving fast this week, with Preview 5 now available:...
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MiniScript 2 has just added the coolest feature that most users will never realize is there. dev.to/joestrout/co...
Computed Lists in MiniScript 2
Progress on MiniScript 2 has been rapid lately, and it's now in the "final polish" stage. Today that...
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MiniScript news this week includes an SVG renderer for Mini Micro, and a new MiniScript-powered game on Steam! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniScript Weekly News — June 05, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2 kept moving forward this week with a solid round of...
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Catch up on what's been happening in the MiniScript community over the last week or two: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniScript Weekly News — May 27, 2026
Development Updates The MiniScript 2 work continues to move forward at a brisk pace. Joe’s...
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Use a couple simple web services to pinpoint your location on a rotating 3D model of Earth in Mini Micro.
Where in the World Am I?
There are so many fun things you can do with web services, and most of them are trivial to use in...
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See what's going on in the MiniScript community in the last week or two: dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniScript Weekly News — May 14, 2026
Development Updates MiniScript 2.0 saw a bunch of steady progress this week, especially...
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Learn how to make an animated, textured page flip, complete with page curl, in Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/hw...
HWYDT: Turning the Page
On the MiniScript Discord this week, one of our users (Luckythespacecat) shared an animation he made...
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Make a fun little vine-swinging demo in Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/hw...
HWYDT: Swinging from Vines
The Venerable History of Vine-Swinging Swinging on vines has been a favorite game mechanic...
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I made a little kaleidoscope program for Mini Micro, just for fun. 😁
Mini Micro Kaleidoscope
YouTube video by MiniScript
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Second demo video for PixelClaw, an LLM agent specialized for image processing: youtu.be/yZcb5DsSWts
PixelClaw Demo 2
YouTube video by Joe Strout
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Something I've been working on since Thursday: an AI agent for editing images! youtu.be/QVFHe-kePMc
PixelClaw Demo 1
YouTube video by Joe Strout
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I'm proposing a standard audio filter that allows us to distinguish AI speech from human speech. github.com/JoeStrout/HALO
GitHub - JoeStrout/HALO: Human Audible Label of Origin, an audio transformation for clearly identifying AI speech
Human Audible Label of Origin, an audio transformation for clearly identifying AI speech - JoeStrout/HALO
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Learn how AI agents work, by studying this tiny LLM agent for Mini Micro! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniClaw: A Tiny LLM Agent for Mini Micro
Agents are all the rage these days. Claude Code was one of the first, and perhaps still the most...
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See what's going on in the MiniScript community this week:
MiniScript Weekly News — Apr 9, 2027
Development Updates MiniScript 2 saw a nice round of progress this week, with function...
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A 2015 book wondered which approach to AI would turn out to be the "master algorithm" of general intelligence. I'm declaring a winner. www.linkedin.com/pulse/master...
The Master Algorithm
In 2015, a book by AI researcher Pedro Domingos came out called The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. The author explored the "five tribes" of ar...
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Try this step-by-step tutorial in which you create a maze game in Mini Micro, helping a mouse 🐭 get to the cheese 🧀 ! dev.to/joestrout/cr...
Create a Maze Game in Mini Micro
In the classic arcade days, there were a lot of maze games. That's because mazes are fun! They give...
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A quick essay on the "Introduce Parameter Object" refactoring, how to use it in MiniScript, and how to do output parameters as well: dev.to/joestrout/pa...
Parameter Objects in MiniScript
Sometimes a function starts out with a reasonable number of parameters, but as the code grows and...
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My thoughts about what skills a software engineer needs in the modern world: www.linkedin.com/pulse/softwa...
Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI
I love writing code. I've loved it since I was a third-grader, writing programs out on paper and asking my older brother to check them for correctness.
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See how far we've come on the 2026 roadmap. Spoiler: we are ahead of schedule! dev.to/joestrout/mi...
MiniScript Roadmap Update (March 2026)
At the end of 2025, I posted a MiniScript Road Map for 2026 (and beyond). We're now almost one...
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Great news for MiniScript users on Macs: an open-source tool called Syntax Highlight now enables you to preview MiniScript source files (with syntax highlighting!) in Finder! Download it (free!) here: github.com/sbarex/Sourc...
Developer and blogger Kartik Patel helps you write your very first line of computer code in this easy-to-understand tutorial: dev.to/kartik_patel...
Zero To Game Dev - First Line Of Code
Introduction Welcome to Chapter 6 of the Zero To Game Dev course titled First Line Of...
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Prolific MiniScript game dev "DSlower" has made another masterpiece: dslower.itch.io/the-last-light Give it a try!
The Last Light by DSlower, samlarsonstudio
Gather materials during the day, upgrade your tools, survive the night
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Check out "In My Bubble", a very original and fun puzzle game made by Florian Castel in Mini Micro! florian-castel.itch.io/in-my-bubble
In My Bubble by Florian Castel
Nothing can affect you when you are in your bubble. You are isolated from the outside world.
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