Loren Crain

A quick #PortfolioDay post. Photography, game development, 3D art, and full stack dev sorta stuff.

Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax) Andersonville neighborhood Chicago, Illinois 6-3-23 Teal blue jaws atop rusty chain link fence. #ColorADay #BlueTue #arachtober #31DaysOfOctober #ECK #macro #threewordgenre #nature #blue #spiders #arachnids #Halloween #bugsky #arachnids 🎃

Welcome to SysAdmin in 2026, where everyday is Patch Tuesday.

Testing controller support is kind of like making spaghetti

Happy Fly-day. We made it! Ultramarine hover fly (Toxomerus marginatus) CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 10-3-26 #FlyDay #eck #macro #nature #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #flies #pollinators #bugsky #diptera

Good video into the platform fighter graveyard. I'm excited to show what I've been working on for the next Antistatic update, maybe it will become notable enough to get a mention in something like this some day.

Rabies is making a resurgence in the US CDC staff cut by 30% since last year, including many of the Rabies Team Suspended rabies testing for months Universally fatal Dozens of undetected rabies deaths per year increase in vaccine skepticism #MAGA www.myheraldreview.com/news/lifesty...

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

A baby prawn! #marineplankton 🔬🦑

56 U.S. #screwworm cases since June, and 5 are active #RFKJr #MAGA #MAHA #TrumpIncompetence tucson.com/news/local/b...

I did another interface pass on my Don't Starve Food Guide to polish up a lot of the roughest spots. The Statistics Analyzer might even be useful now, maybe. foodguide.bluehexagons.com

"monoid" is either some kind of slur, or worse, some kind of haskell

I'm taking pictures of the Phainopepla and he takes off! Nice demo of the white stripe on the wings Otherwise he is like all black

Probably the most stressful and satisfying whittle of my life 🙂 I think this is as far as I can take the concept for now.

Computer, center the text inside of this div. Make no mistakes.

These diatom cells are dead, and have been cleaned, so we can see the beauty of the frustule, which is the silica-rich outer wall of the cell. Some of these images are stacks. #marineplankton 🔬🦑

Announcing Caves of Qud: Diaspora. 🌱 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5249200/...

Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) & crab spider (Misumena vatia) on pumpkin farm’s cosmos flowers (Solidago) Mathews County, VA 10-13-26 #ColorADay #redWed #eck #macro #nature #yellow #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #spiders #twosDay

What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE #PRGE #PRGE2026

I told my dog she was "a good girl" but it came out more like "omgggg Lucy ur such a googirl" and that was close enough to make my Android phone think I was talking to it.

Sekforde Street, London EC1R Bear with cub and cat with kitten door knockers #reference #materialreference #propreference

The most important thing in little tiny baby lizard photography is to accentuate the tininess Clark's Spiny Lizard baby atop the brick retaining wall around my bird photography spot in my backyard Look how small!

Painting is hard, but I think it came out okay.

The finish was tricky but fun! I put a sandwich bag into the middle, pushed the ball into it, added some finishing oil and sealed it up, then left the rest soaking in the stain.

Good thing spiders have so many legs, or they'd have to worry about tripping in every loop. Carpet will be an unfortunate evolutionary pressure acting against bipedalism forming in invertebrates of this size.

#SquirrelSaturday! Rock Squirrel stuffing her cheeks in my backyard

Regal jumping spider (Phidippus regius) on hairypod cowpea leaf (Vigna luteola) CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 10-1-26 Upside-down, blonde sentinel. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #stunday #eck #macro #nature #jumpers #threeWordGenre #art #spiders #macroPhotography #bugsky

My games are on sale on Steam

It’s FlyDay. We made it! Slosson's sharp-tailed bee (Coelioxys slossoni) Male cuckoo bee wakes up early on dry & thorny twig CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-30-26 #FlyDay #eck #macro #nature #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #bugsky #cleptoparasites #threewordgenre

Some how he has returned…

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

Hello sunshine! 🌞. Hydrozoa medusa from the genus Obelia looking stunning under polarised light. #marineplankton 🔬🦑

Made some Mooncakes! ✨️

The Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdStare Any bird looking at you staring you down trying to intimidate you to back off and retreat like this Osprey in Monterey

I know these layoffs are done with zero care or consideration but they going to see how bad of a culture they are preparing for themselves as a organisation. Who chould work well or care much about the job with outcomes like that being a risk. You provide zero security you’re not an employer.

Female Brown-winged striped sweat bee (Agapostemon splendens) on beggar tick wildflower (Bidens alba) Emerald gleam licks gold stream. CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-15-26 #ColorADay #macroMonday #eck #macro #nature #green #art #macroPhotography #native #bees #bugsky

Tiny knives, along with the knife used to carve them! If you have some long, thin wood and can avoid snapping them, these are a really fun five-minute whittle. Dunno what to do with them now though. Maybe I'll just give them out for free at craft fairs.

Tersa Sphinx caterpillar (Xylophanes tersa) on a slender twig Vibrant defensive eye-spots stare-down the morning. CREW pen flint strand lake trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-15-26 #ColorADay #greenSat #eck #macro #nature #green #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #lepidoptera #bugsky

store.steampowered.com/app/4331110

how tf did they make this without parametric CAD

Barbican Centre, London EC2Y Beech Gardens. Pond, concrete columns and glassed brick foot path #reference #materialreference #buildingreference

Sand wasp eye-to-eye (Bembix species) Dewy, sunrise, head-on portrait on an aging wildflower, amid the especially wet, marshy strand. CREW pen flint strand lakes & trails Bonita Springs, Florida 9-12-26 #MacroMonday #eck #macro #nature #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #wasps #bugsky

Masked agents illegally lead contractors onto Tohono O'odham land to mark saguaros and ocotillos for removal for #borderwall construction These are protected species under Arizona's Native Plant Law #MAGA #Trump #ICE #CBP tucson.com/news/local/s...

Wasp-mimicking thick-headed fly (Conopinae) on dewy Bristly foxtail seed head (Setaria parviflora) CREW flint pen strand Bonita springs, Florida 8-16-26 Wave ‘em like you just don’t care 🎶 #colorADay #redWed #red #flyDay #eck #threeWordGenre #macro #nature #insectThursday #diptera #BugSky #art

A friend requested a platypus carving, and after only a small (well medium) amount of wondering how the heck I was going to make that, this is what I came up with. I think it's a pretty cute lil thing!

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

A seven spot ladybird lifecycle painted on beach pebbles 🖌️🐞 #Invertefest #invertebrate #art #insect #bugsky #sciart 🐡🪲

Making a game that feels like this

#RepostAGhost I forgot I have ghosts to repost! The one on the left went to a new home a while back, the one on the right is still sitting on my shelf and has been lightly attacked by the cat at some point 😅

Macro Monday! Yesterday I saw a praying mantis in the backyard and I took its picture Macro Photography