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Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

LIVE 2026 takes place tomorrow! Join us for a wonderful set of talks showing off new programming experiences liveprog.org 👀

LIVE 2026, the workshop exploring making programming more direct, tangible, and alive, takes place free online on 17 October, 1900-2300 UTC LIVE features talks from academics, industry, and individuals. The schedule and presentation abstracts are on https:// liveprog.org/ We hope to see you there!

I am very pleased to share the program for LIVE'26: liveprog.org We have seven exciting presentations as well as a featured keynote by Brian Hempel! LIVE this year will take place remotely, so come join us over video-chat next Saturday (Oct 17) :)

nice demo of UIs for data types in the Hazel language

Noticed that my talk with @mkvlr.bsky.social and @unkai.bsky.social is up on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMo... Grateful for the time I got to spend with them 2 years ago, working on Live Programming experimentation in Clojure and Clerk.

here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...

been working with Carlos and the Quarto team on this stuff :)

We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details

Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/

I made some letters for this :) It was fun ty @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com and i&s.

Thinky Dailies is now available for everyone to play — no sign-in needed! 🧩 Every day, a new handcrafted puzzle with different rules. 📖 Catch up on the adventure so far before season 2 begins next week! thinkygames.com/dail...

Do you make drag-and-drop interfaces? Or do you wish you did, but they're just too hard? We're working on a new way to drag & drop! Wanna try it out? Join our study – we'll ask you about your drag-and-drop experiences, and get your hands on the prototype. Join here: forms.gle/J82tFtu6DqS8.... 🙏!

Fun video youtu.be/8_WPBuYYz9M with an interactive toy to play with these thegraycuber.github.io/hexponents

strudelifying hazel (internalizing strudel.cc)

The Navigation API is newly baseline! The web now has sensible, low-level routing for navigations.

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

formation of the mandelbrot fractal

12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!

Adding a lil asymptote to sin

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Dogfooding a todo list in hazel

Here's an old comic I made for elliot.website/editor/

abstract explorational sketch of relational layout from a few months ago

Typing and snapping things together

BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc. live-workshop.github.io/primer/

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

What if you didn't need git to collaborate on games? We've been prototyping a new approach to collaboration in Godot: live and async collaborative editing, with branches and diffs, built right into the editor. We're looking for people to test out an early version, see link in next post:

Making progress on my relational layout lib. Did a pass on improving the API and hopefully the code is more readable now.

you can save and open screenpond creation on pondiverse.com

its kinda crappy and there's a lot of scaffolding in place but it works pondiverse.com

I'm working on a game with @elliot.website. #screenshotsaturday

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