Hedera Hex

brb, updating your priors

programmable ink researcher at ink & switch.
feeling of computing podcast and community.

disjoint: she / hrt 🏳️‍⚧️
ointment: https://ivy.boo
rejoinder: https://feelingof.com
adroit: https://spiralganglion.bandcamp.com

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2026-10-03 16:37:54 UTC

merv friends, am i doing this pfp thing right? it’s my first spooky season.

2026-10-01 20:12:11 UTC

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Taylor ([@surprisetalk](https://mastodon.social/@surprisetalk )) always turns up in the most unexpected places.

2026-09-19 19:21:20 UTC

send me your recs for an intro to (textual) programming for an 11 year old

2026-09-17 01:52:44 UTC

I have decided to spend the rest of my life doing T4T.
This is what I've always wanted. I just hadn't realized it.
After living my life the way I have all along, and then recently opening up about it online and now being surrounded by more and more people like me in this way, it just makes sense. It feels right.
I love these people. This feeling of community I get. They're all about T4T, and have welcomed me into that way of being. It makes me feel a warmth in my heart that I haven't felt before.
Yes, it's unfortunate that there's a lot of infighting within the T4T (and broader) community. I just want everyone to do T4T the way they want to do it, not succumb to our most base impulses. (can't spell that word right on the first try. it always comes out as "subcum" for some reason.)
The internet is hard. It's hard to get these feelings across in text. I need human connection. I need to meet people in the flesh, and do T4T together.
So from now on I'm gonna be loud and proud about it! Everywhere!
Tools for Thought are fucking awesome. Let's give everyone T4T and make the world a better place.

2026-09-16 18:24:42 UTC

this is really cute! i would love to see so much more exploration of "typical graphics tools, but for playing with dynamic graphical simulations". if the ever-evolving state lives in the canvas, throw some damn canvas tools in the mix!!
https://mas.to/@adama/116247835492947797

2026-09-15 16:43:29 UTC

I've never given a talk before.
Sure, I've been on stage hundreds of times. But i've never done the "give a tech talk" thing.
I wonder what that'd be like.
Would it be loaded with feelings? Would I be animated and playful? Would the subject matter be something very dear to me? Would there be weird technical details and unexpected twists and disquieting quirks? Would ZERO VOID make an appearance?
Well… you're about to find out.
PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurWDZ8ENpA

2026-09-13 03:23:24 UTC

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a little 7/8 never hurt nobody :)

2026-09-13 03:02:01 UTC

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it feels ungrateful to say but... i can't wait until lamplight discovers other time signatures, tempos, and weirdly expressive modulations thereof. the 4/4 of it all feels out of place.

2026-09-06 03:00:33 UTC

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i refuse to go to twitter. fuck musk, he and his simpering feckless cronies want you and me dead.
[@disconcision](https://types.pl/@disconcision ) can you post this here plz?

2026-09-02 18:45:28 UTC

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are you subscribed to the FoC patreon? the bonus episode i just posted talks about this kind of malleability (though i don't ever use them M word)
(if you're not subbed lmk and ill send you the mp3)

2026-09-01 19:22:30 UTC

really good "how did we get here" on the current enclosure of OSS commons by wealthy, phobic fascists
> We witness the same pattern over and over. A tech project is declared "apolitical," and defines any accommodation of marginalized contributors as a political act, and keeps the actual politics of the maintainers—nostalgia for ethnically white homogeneous cities and hostility to gender-neutral pronouns—off the table entirely. Because that's just, you know, how they feel. "Apolitical" has never meant a lack of politics. It's meant politics that current power doesn't have to defend.
edit: the author is here — @npub109f…3mc6 — give 'em a follow!!
https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/117196600480460269

2026-08-31 19:28:28 UTC

Check out this kickass demo from many of my favourite people! Years of work on realizing user-space malleable software, boiled down to a whirlwind tour.
Also.. I wonder if the witch-hat hacker ZERO VOID will make an appearance 👻
(please direct all complaints about the editing to yours truly, heheh)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4UxGijnuXEs

2026-08-25 03:01:36 UTC

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there are a thousand 12 days in 32 years.
12 days is a kinda cool chunk of time. i think most of my best projects, trips, casual flings, etc have been about 12 days.
a thousand of them.

2026-08-24 16:02:25 UTC

i am *aching* to get back to work on this game. but not until i'm done my album.
(thread)
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/117/151/323/662/547/410/original/2a41705ac11e80b5.png
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2026-08-24 15:33:31 UTC

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it's been a record-breaking rainy season here in alberta. hardly a day above 30. still waiting for the summer feeling to begin.
(though i'm not complaining — give me -20º and deep snow year-round)

2026-08-21 18:36:49 UTC

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i'm immune to my own awful forms of mockery, by construction.
aside: i can't remember if it was that episode, or maybe the one where we do three bret victor talks, but there was a bit where lu is like "we're two and a half men… well, maybe two and a quarter men" and for some reason i had this overwhelming yearn to say "yeah cuz i'm only like 3/4 male right?" and had no idea why (legit, this was waaaay before egg crack). weird fuckin things brains do. wish i had let myself say it, that woulda been a wild turn.

2026-08-21 00:46:43 UTC

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those sure sound like the things haskellers would enjoy :p

2026-08-19 03:37:33 UTC

an icon burned into my childhood
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/117/120/083/559/487/376/original/02fc3de49d3ed508.jpeg

2026-08-17 05:05:44 UTC

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yeah, but i also ingest material for personal enjoyment. it's not all grist for the content mill!

2026-08-16 23:34:57 UTC

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hell yes. could not agree more. i've never seen that post mortem, but DX is one of my formative games, so thanks for the reference!

2026-08-12 01:08:57 UTC

ok hear me out
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/117/079/863/075/611/963/original/1466d586b4b71f29.jpeg

2026-08-08 15:59:51 UTC

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still waiting. just a few more days.
it's stopped being funny, alas. getting harder to feel like myself.
mind, it was probably worse the first time. i didnt know what to expect.
but this time... what happens if it doesn't work? these patches survived the first round seemingly untouched. what if they survive the second? they very likely will. will i notice any difference at all? how many more sessions until i do?
it's the last big thing that gives me dysphoria. (though im sure once its gone, my brain will find something else to obsess over)
just a few more days?

2026-08-03 22:05:47 UTC

the final moustache week!
[had my second laser session on friday. i'm now in the awkward period of extra thick black stubble, can't shave it off, have to wait for it to fall out on its own.]
[it occurred to me that, fingers crossed, this is the *last time* i will have a moustache like this. it'll never be this bad again.]
[i've always always hated this hair. good riddance! but also… i guess it's weirdly cute? cuz of the rarity of it? i'm never gonna look like this again! this is the last chance i have to see myself like this.]
[i'm happy about this. i'm amused by this. i'm laughing about this. i am patient. i am relieved.]
[sure, it'll be so much better when it's gone. but i also like sitting with something that will be gone, before it's gone.]

2026-07-31 13:51:40 UTC

this is my new favourite "skateboarding" video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rk4lHKhrwMk

2026-06-18 18:26:30 UTC

there's a new todepond video and it's so good!! you're gonna hate it, be sure to leave a nasty comment before you close the tab cuz that definitely doesn't have any (shhhh)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zg_yAnrs5UA

2026-06-18 03:44:32 UTC

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my daughter is in grade one and cursive is part of the curriculum. i can't remember the reasoning, but it was something about benefitting other aspects of language learning.

2026-06-16 01:09:18 UTC

can't remember if i shared this fun computer thing i made
it's a lil toy for interactively exploring 1-bit dither — including my beloved Atkinson dither from the MacPaint era — by playing with it like it's a board game
try it here, but note there's zero instruction and the UI is full of secrets: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/dither-explorer/
or, more fun, watch me explain how it works by saying words and moving my hands a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZcmWhTeOM&list=PLCC8lmauZTzeEP7mIsOOI4HKeeyBN2rIy&index=5&t=114s
trip out, have fun <3
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/757/112/747/342/310/original/cda2d1dd2e3b6b0f.png

2026-06-04 20:51:43 UTC

is this "malleable software"?
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/693/812/481/120/245/original/11ef414177bb9f60.mp4

2026-06-01 23:49:59 UTC

this website is giving me very many feelings for some reason. something about feeling like it's *here* makes it very real.
https://sunny.garden/@kayserifserif/116677112949056068

2026-05-31 02:18:54 UTC

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Reminds me of this bit from Rudy Rucker's Infinity and the Mind.
Algebra is just numb geometry.
(https://www.rudyrucker.com/infinityandthemind/#calibre_link-260)
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/666/788/954/961/685/original/8240a9137cb84180.png

2026-05-31 02:03:23 UTC

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I've only used it a tiny bit.
We have 3 folks at Ink & Switch working on a plugin for Godot that adds Automerge-powered local-first collaboration with back compat for git. I've kicked the tires on that, but, like… I don't really like Godot? I dunno.
(for ref: https://backstitch.dev)

2026-05-30 18:38:59 UTC

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say more! how so? what's it about?

2026-05-30 16:04:33 UTC

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hmmmmm you make a good point

2026-05-30 02:52:02 UTC

currently working on:
* legal name & gender — I don't want to mess with my passport 6 weeks before a trip (Berlin for Local-First Conf in July), so this is on hold.
* voice — i have fantastic control over pitch (but my upper range is awful after years of abusive singing and general neglect) and good control over resonance, so now it's just a matter of habituating. i can speak with good pitch like 80% of the time, and good resonance like 2% of the time.
* makeup — got some to try, haven't tried, waiting until i have some time by myself because i haven't done this in 20 years and feel a ton of shame about it
* clothes — i have a few cool dresses and skirts now, enough that i can spend all week in affirming outfits. huge boost to my disposition. (also, tights! finally found some that fit my tall frame.)
* facial hair — waiting until the fall to begin laser, to avoid sun exposure. sad about this. one of my strongest sources of dysphoria (so much so that i was conscious of it waaay before i ever started wondering if i was trans)
* social — i'm out to everyone except my in-laws, who i believe are quietly transphobic. they're next. tomorrow? wish me luck.
what else should i be doing/trying?

2026-05-28 02:17:55 UTC

last year, i had a little "dress rehearsal" for replacing a deadname with a chosen name.
and yet i still have accounts and such under the old "future of coding" name instead of the new "feeling of computing" one. alas.
so i guess i'm gonna be stuck with accounts under "ivan reese" for a loooong time. such is this life.

2026-05-24 03:37:19 UTC

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either that or you were one of the handful of folks who picked up on, like, months worth of me dropping gradually more glaring hints :D
but i prefer the prophetic interpretation, yes

2026-05-22 17:20:36 UTC

hi everyone!! i'm ivy
this is my re- #introduction
at this point in my life, three things matter most to me
three: i think computer programs are alive, and i'm sad that we make them out of text. to program — to be present with the computer — i want to see and touch things as they dance through space. i want execution to have rhythm i can feel. this is what i'm trying to make my career about.
two: i think songwriting is one of the more powerful forms of magic. my partner and i sing to each other, "when you put it in a song, that makes it true." songwriting is more than lyric and melody. it's laying in the grass at night and screaming to the stars. it's leaving your body and entering any instrument. it's pulling something out of yourself, turning it into culture, and living with it as the years go by and you change and you discover new ways that it means something about you.
one: i think companionship is so important that it overrules almost everything else you can do or be as a person. being aware of other people, and feeling their presence in your life, is essential to being a whole person. i would go so far as to say that the definition of "human" extends beyond the individual body and mind. i want to spend my life growing closer to everyone who will have me in theirs.
it's lovely to meet you. may our paths cross many times.

2026-04-23 21:58:30 UTC

Ink & Switch is 10 years old this month. I've spent the past while helping build a little celebratory project called Tenfold! It's an interactive art piece — play with right here: https://inkandswitch.com/project/tenfold

2026-04-16 15:52:08 UTC

i really struggle to write lyrics for songs and would love to hear your
a • general pointers / tips
b • feelings about lyrics
c • favourite lyrics

2026-04-14 16:30:33 UTC

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ah yeah, makes sense. thanks.

2026-04-14 16:22:19 UTC

Alright so the post-ironic big brother aesthetic is now fash
I'm so tired
(screenshots from the startup Doublespeed, an AI content farm)
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/403/974/094/078/617/original/1ed46ee9ffdf29fc.png
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2026-03-22 15:25:55 UTC

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happy birthday to us!
here's to 400 more
🍰

2026-03-07 17:16:21 UTC

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taylor is such a fascinating person. never fails to surprise.

2026-03-06 05:46:47 UTC

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oh hell no, not gonna entertain that.
because it's not "complexity" — it's beauty and color.
semantics are aesthetics.
it's dull to frame things like that as a burden to be eliminated.

2026-02-13 16:34:18 UTC

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haha yeah, okay — cool.

2026-02-13 05:10:13 UTC

Hey @npub1z8r…mrq6, I don't think I got a copy of your 2222 impl. Would love to add it to the official collection.

2026-02-12 22:18:28 UTC

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this will make much easy read many word with eyes feel good

2026-02-11 14:05:01 UTC

I made it! New home instance!
Will post an introduction soon — just filling the empty void for now.
Previous profile: https://mastodon.social/@spiralganglion