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James Futhey
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🌈 Indie Hacker, Founder @Meetingroom365.com - Seattle / Taipei - jamesfuthey.com - Previously Analytics @Adobe, Design @HBO. @kidgdzilla on the other app.
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Current pfp is from a larger exhibit titled 'League of Dangu' in Tamsui. It is ridonkulous and beyond interpretation. I could explain it but I it wouldn't do it justice.

淡古聯盟 if you want to search for it.
“But we were just following orders!”
—Google
September 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
WIP a game that plays on your desktop (macOS). Interact with Toro Inoue as he goes about his day in the background.
August 24, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Greetings from across the World Wide Web! Take a second to sign the guestbook below.
August 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Pokegatchi? Not sure what to call it, but I saw someone mock up a similar idea for esp32s3, wanted to try it as an Apple Watch app. Ended up building an iOS simulator and widget version.

Might grab an older watch and put it in a keychain case.
August 20, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Voice UI native metal iOS game, very loosely inspired by Seaman for the Dreamcast (1999).

Bunch of dumb ideas I wanted to try.

Took a stab at a gameplay loop using apple foundation models running on device and voice recognition.
August 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM
If you have a developer account (or are brave enough) and want to play Pikmin 1 on macOS, iPad, iOS, etc. here is a native, performant source port.
github.com/magikarp/pik...
August 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Pikmin 1 source port. Runs on macOS, iPad, iPhone. Tested through Forest of Hope, Fixed a few compiler bugs that only affect late-game bosses, untested there. On-screen touch controls are... painful to use but controller plays great.
July 31, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Fixing the last couple of TEV bugs for the decomp port of Gamecube Pikmin to macOS. My todo list on visuals are about 98%.

Optimistic about jaudio after that, and then just a whole lot of testing!
July 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
This is such a glorious mess I'm having such a blast. Metal shaders, probably not a single blend mode is correct. But it's pikmin 1 on macOS.
July 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Update: No Textures, Some Problems. Lol.
July 22, 2026 at 11:33 AM
No textures, no problems.
July 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Using Claude Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 simultaneously. I can definitely tell which one is a front-end developer and which is a backend dev.

All the little bells are going off in my head, like "you can trust this guy to design your backend APIs but don't ask him to center a div"
February 18, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Reposted by James Futhey
August 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I'm just excited i get the reference!
July 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This guy is try to distill OpenAI’s model into his brain 😲
You basically cannot.
July 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Feed server effectively ran out of space. Probably need to migrate to a new server with ~1tb ssd, more time consuming than anything.

The upside is, after 3 days of downtime you can just truncate the likes table to free up space 😅

Will probably start working in a day or so.
June 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Ran out of disk space. Actually ran out of disk space every day for the last 2 weeks to be more accurate!

Going to bite the bullet and rebuild the likes index. Feed will probably be offline for some period of time after the current cache expires. Could be an hours but my day is your night, right?
June 7, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"Pornographic Images with Rivers"

This is what happens when you let an LLM label clusters based on alt tags, 0.001% of the time 🧐

www.transparent.se/image-cluste...

The alt tag is almost always "IEMBot Image TBD" so.... 🤡
May 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Gemini: You seemed stressed. I booked you a flight to Tahiti, it's beautiful there this time of year.

Unrelated, I see an email alert that your checking account is overdrawn by ($736).
May 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Not this week, but I want to use what I've learned to create an open-source / self-hosted discover feed that various #Indiesky projects can use to remove one more piece of "relies on Bluesky" from their stack.

That makes sense, right?

pg tables get large but it could probably fit on an 8gb vm
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I finished a new round of clustering images today before my flight, it's technically live but I think the old labels are cached until the cache expires 😆

It'll be a surprise when it goes live...

Maybe 30% label reuse, I had a substantially larger set this week vs last week. Must have missed some.
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In all seriousness the demand despite lack of huge launch titles on day one implies players really wanted a Switch Pro.

(Just like how players said for years they explicitly wanted a Switch Pro)
For the people buying the Switch 2 on launch date, what are you buying it for?
www.resetera.com/threads/11...
May 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Guys a Soviet spacecraft is going to re-enter and possibly crash into earth any day now!

Any day now…

(I’ve been seeing this for about 2 weeks)
a green truck is driving down a road next to a field
Alt: a green truck is driving down a road next to a field but it never hits the thing
media.tenor.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ack, found my mistake from 9 days ago 🙈

rb_jaccard_dist is DISTANCE not SIMILARITY, so "most similar" would be least distant. And.... it looks like I flipped this to DESC by mistake.

I bet I'll find more mistakes if I keep going 😅
May 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Had no idea @2048.blue existed, pretty neat!

2048.blue
at://2048
2048 on the AT Protocol. Your games, your data, your AT Protocol.
2048.blue
May 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM