Snowman has been updated to 2.1.4, fixing an issue with hyphens in passage names. github.com/videlais/sno...
Release v2.1.4 · videlais/snowman
Fixes #1167 and updates dependencies. Full Changelog: v2.1.3...v2.1.4
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Dan Cox
@videlais.bsky.social
Pronouns: they/them Assistant Professor of Game Design 📗Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language 📗Twine Cookbook 🌐: https://dancox.me/ 📺: https://www.youtube.com/@DanCox ✍🏼: https://videlais.com
Go get it! (www.sup.org/books/litera...) So cool!
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Élika Ortega@elikaortega.bsky.social · 3w agoDelighted to share that Binding Media has won the 2026 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature! So honored to received this particular award because Hayles' work taught me to think about the weird literary works I've always been interested in. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
The timing of this kind of press is intentional. How are they going to make these games when Bethesda and Obsidian collectively laid off hundreds? Don’t fall for it.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Bethesda has announced a slew of new Fallout games, including Fallout 5 and Fallout 3 + New Vegas remasters. The company also confirmed my scoop last week that it is working with Obsidian on a Fallout game. I spoke to Todd Howard about the roadmap: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The @eliterature.bsky.social conference (ELO 2026) is currently running and the online exhibition launched a few hours ago. I served as a co-chair along with @lskains.bsky.social. #elo2026. projects.cah.ucf.edu/mediaartsexh...
ELO 2026 Online Exhibition
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Toward the end of this article is the most important point: assuming a change to HTTP verbs happens, the ecosystem has had twenty years of the current ones. That's major system changes across the board, from server software to client-side frameworks. www.theregister.com/devops/2026/...
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST
New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable
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There's a new minor version of Snowman fixing an issue reported by HiEv on GitHub about link parsing (github.com/videlais/sno...). No timeline on Twine rollout yet, but I'll get that going next and then an update to story format archive as well.
Release v2.1.3 · videlais/snowman
Fixes issue #1158 and does some smaller cleanup in the GitHub runners and workflows. Node engine version is now locked to >= 20 because of end-of-life of Node 18 in 2025. Full Changelog: v2.1.2...v...
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After 50+ hours of train travel in the last two weeks, I'm finally catching back up on monthly software updates. Extwee 2.3.18 (github.com/videlais/ext...) Quis 1.4.1 (github.com/videlais/qui...) CM-Packer 1.1.2 (github.com/videlais/cm-...) Simple-QBN 1.5.5 (github.com/videlais/sim...)
Release v1.5.5 (June 2026) · videlais/simple-qbn
Maintenance release for June 2026 with some documentation additions for works from 1930 to 1970. Full Changelog: v1.5.4...v1.5.5
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What's buried in this, and I've heard in other places, is a look at the use of tokens as an efficiency measurement. Starting with a base bucket of stokens per person, measuring workers based on tokens-used compared to work output. Prompt crafting. thenewstack.io/cursor-origi...
Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it.
Cursor's Origin, GitLab's Project Switch and Zed's DeltaDB are racing to rebuild code hosting for AI agents as GitHub buckles under the load.
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Catching back up on monthly/infrequent updates: SFA/SFA-GET (github.com/videlais/sto...) -- Added Chapbook 2.3.1 (from April 2026) SimpleQBN (github.com/videlais/sim...) -- Deps update
Online ink Editor (OiE) has also been updated to 1.0.2 (github.com/videlais/onl...). Depending on how the summer goes, I'd like to explore how to maybe use CloudFlare or another hosting platform for using permalinks for saving/hosting public ink projects.
Release v1.0.2 (May 2026) · videlais/online-ink-editor
This is a new, minor monthly update of the Online ink Editor (OiE). There is slightly better code coverage and an update in how
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After multiple hours today in working through how GitHub Actions can create release assets, I've now updated CM-Packer to a new, minor version. The new binary releases are part of a "pre-release" version (github.com/videlais/cm-...). Next minor version will use the new binary build approach.
Release v1.1.3-rc.2 (May 2026) Binary Release · videlais/cm-packer
Yet more testing of binary releases. Full Changelog: v1.1.3-rc.1...v1.1.3-rc.2
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As we continue to finish internal goals towards the publishing of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5, we are updating everyone on our work. For this blog post, May 2026, we highlight metadata such as publication status and creator nationality. eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...
May 2026 Update
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
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I completely missed my mid-April deadline of new updates across my projects, so I'm trying to catch back up over this weekend. Extwee was updated to 2.3.17 github.com/videlais/ext... I'm also playing around with binary builds again, which might go into beta testing as part of next minor update.
Release v2.3.17 (May 2026) · videlais/extwee
This minor update covers work for 2.3.16 and 2.3.17 to better align both NPM and GitHub versions. Primarily, this update focuses on dependency updates while also fixing a long-standing minor annoya...
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We need extra assistance as part of reviewing for Electronic Literature Collection 5 (github.com/eliterature/...). Please contact us (elcvol5@gmail.com) if you can read any of the following languages + willing to provide a short review of a work: Swedish Korean Gujarati Norwegian Catalan Tamil
I'm quite behind in monthly updates on things but hope to tackle most of them through the weekend. (And then update again mid-April 2026). Extwee: github.com/videlais/ext... Story Grammar: github.com/videlais/sto...
Yarn Spinner for Unity v3.2 is out now! It includes a few features, some nice quality-of-life improvements, a huge update to the VSCode extension, and a bunch of plumbing work in preparation for the much larger upcoming v3.3 🎉 yarnspinner.dev/blog/yarn-sp...
Yarn Spinner for Unity 3.2 is OUT NOW | Yarn Spinner
Version 3.2 of Yarn Spinner for Unity is out now! This release brings mostly small bugfixes and quality-of-life improvements, ahead of our larger upcoming 3.3 release where the entire underlying virtu...
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Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog? As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals. February 2026 Update: eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...
Slowly updating things for this new month. First up, Extwee (github.com/videlais/ext...)
Release 2.3.14 (February 2026) · videlais/extwee
I got sick around the end of 2025 and was not able to do a regular maintenance update on GitHub. (NPM was updated.) This minor update brings both back in-line with each other. What's Changed Chore...
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Last couple of days to submit to the ELC Vol 5. @eliterature.bsky.social Deadline Jan 31st!
Élika Ortega@elikaortega.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨💻📚 Last week to submit works for consideration for the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 5. Last minute questions? email us as elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com More info 👇
There's still a few days left to submit something for the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5! We recently updated the FAQ to include a spreadsheet form to email us for submission as well! eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/fa...
Frequently Asked Questions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
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Reminder: Extended deadline Jan 7 to register for the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group. online January 12 to February 6. bit.ly/ccswg26 #critcode
CCSWG26 CFP
Call for Participation: CCSWG ‘26 9th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group Jan 12 - Feb 6, 2026 To apply: Fill out this form Apply by January 7, 2025 20 years after the publication of the ma...
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I'm still recovering from being sick for going on a week, so things are slow right now. I'm working through updating dependencies for most of my software projects today and will be publishing minor project (monthly) updates soon.
My helpful niece remembered how I explained that I often don't run the heat in my apartment even when it is really cold outside last year. (I do run it if the temperature is below zero degrees F.) This year, she sewed a "heating pad" for me that I can use at the computer under my wrists.
I'm mostly saving this for me, but I did write about the infamous "You are not expected to understand this" UNIX comment in my dissertation using critical code studies and static analysis. www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered
: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
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I love this stuff. I have no use for it, will probably never use it, but will continue to be delighted by really tiny compilers for languages (that probably shouldn't be on embedded devices). www.phoronix.com/news/Micro-Q...
Micro QuickJS Engine Compiles & Runs JavaScript With As Little As 10kB Of RAM
Very talented open-source developer Fabrice Bellard who already is well known for his work on QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler, and FFmpeg, has another accomplishment: Micro QuickJS
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Oh, hey. New Lua version! Many years ago, I got into Lua and was even thinking of potentially teaching it, but the ecosystem wasn't quite there for low-end student users. I'm interested to see what's improved. www.phoronix.com/news/Lua-5.5...
Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language.
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☃️☃️ Good news everyone! ☃️☃️ The Electronic Literature Collection call for submissions has been extended to **January 31st.** That means you can enjoy the holidays *and* still have time to submit your work. Questions? Email us at elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
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The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026! eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
eliterature.github.io
The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!
