Orta Therox

@orta.io

Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net

Bought a new t-shirt in the size "small" for the first time in a few years, and it's a great fit! This year I've lost 6kg (13lb) in fat from the gym and gained a tonne of muscle. It's been fun.

A screenshot from my gym app shiowing fat in kg going from 27kg to 21kg

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked it up and got the label, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link over the next week and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

i've finally updated the work on my site stfj.net. there's a lot there, sorry. I built this site to be the kind of comprehensive archive I would want from any artist I liked — going all the way back to college (even to work that's not that good) no i dont have a SSL cert nor is the site responsive

Today was my first day at Pursuit.org as their Director of AI Product Engineering. It's a non-profit I've spent over a decade volunteering for, helping people go from an average salary of $18K to $94K. Now I get to help build the education platform that's helped hundreds of people make this jump.

Pursuit

tldr; Want to skip straight to the news and find out about my new job? On December 15, 2014 I went to dinner with Jukay Hsu. I was 25 years old and not too proud to say yes to a free meal, and my frie...

fabisevi.ch

Well folks, happy Claude Codiversary for me. It's been a year since I adopted the tool. I made a blog post after 4 days, 6 weeks and now 12 months! I've shipped ~1,100 PRs with it, and I think the team's measurable gains are 1.x, and are definitely worth it. blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/0...

A slack message saying "Also, I've seen enough signals now that 'm going to start exploring using Claude Code for a month or two"

In one year we've fully shifted @puzzmo.com from being a RedwoodJS + React Native codebase to being a very web app-y web app. They were great foundations to start with but the path of the company just took us in other directions

Me, telling the Puzzmo slack that I'm going to be deploying the final PR which removes RedwoodJS from the codebase