transmutrix
@transmutrix.bsky.social
🎮 programmer / game dev / game preservationist
💻 transmutrix.com
🕹️ https://transmutrix.itch.io
Contact:
💌 [email protected]
💻 transmutrix.com
🕹️ https://transmutrix.itch.io
Contact:
💌 [email protected]
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transmutrix
@transmutrix.bsky.social
· Feb 4
It's cold and snowy back in the hills lately. Just north of Sid's Fork, the townspeople say a strange howling wind comes rattling down off the ridge sometimes. Probably nothing right?
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there are old games i'm in the process of preserving with rewrites where i could probably get permission to make the original source code public, but i'm hesitant to do that until the ports are complete, even if it would help draw support, because i don't want drive-by vibe coders to show up -_-'
October 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
there are old games i'm in the process of preserving with rewrites where i could probably get permission to make the original source code public, but i'm hesitant to do that until the ports are complete, even if it would help draw support, because i don't want drive-by vibe coders to show up -_-'
unbidden keto lesson APPARENTLY: if you decide to eat some Reese's Pieces off plan during a family visit and then go to bed you may have nightmares all night and then wake up feeling like absolute shittttt
October 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
unbidden keto lesson APPARENTLY: if you decide to eat some Reese's Pieces off plan during a family visit and then go to bed you may have nightmares all night and then wake up feeling like absolute shittttt
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On a related note,
October 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
On a related note,
between the last of the cash i had stashed around the house for emergencies and several small lucky breaks stacking up, i think we might just barely be able to make ends meet this month :') yay!
October 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
between the last of the cash i had stashed around the house for emergencies and several small lucky breaks stacking up, i think we might just barely be able to make ends meet this month :') yay!
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This is why having utility doesn't exclude something from being art.
A car engine is art to people who love cars.
A mechanical watch is art to people who love watches.
A codebase is art to people who love code.
A car engine is art to people who love cars.
A mechanical watch is art to people who love watches.
A codebase is art to people who love code.
I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them.
And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda
And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda
October 2, 2026 at 1:16 AM
This is why having utility doesn't exclude something from being art.
A car engine is art to people who love cars.
A mechanical watch is art to people who love watches.
A codebase is art to people who love code.
A car engine is art to people who love cars.
A mechanical watch is art to people who love watches.
A codebase is art to people who love code.
increasingly the phrase i feel most encapsulates how i feel about the current moment of the software industry, the game industry, and the economy at large is "conscientious objection"
October 1, 2026 at 3:59 PM
increasingly the phrase i feel most encapsulates how i feel about the current moment of the software industry, the game industry, and the economy at large is "conscientious objection"
so I'm installing Microsoft Edge to test an exception someone had in Priiism. the compressed installer is over 400 MB. The uncompressed .app is ONE GIGABYTE IN SIZE.
October 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
so I'm installing Microsoft Edge to test an exception someone had in Priiism. the compressed installer is over 400 MB. The uncompressed .app is ONE GIGABYTE IN SIZE.
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Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you.
Sounds fucking horrifying.
Sounds fucking horrifying.
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
September 30, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you.
Sounds fucking horrifying.
Sounds fucking horrifying.
a little black bear just crossed our yard! hopefully he doesn't get into any trouble.
September 30, 2026 at 1:13 PM
a little black bear just crossed our yard! hopefully he doesn't get into any trouble.
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I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
hntrbrk.com
September 29, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her."
www.thecut.com/article/what...
www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
www.thecut.com
September 30, 2026 at 1:19 AM
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
i wanted to post a little gource video for the past month of work on priiism but i feel like i should put music under it or something 🤔
September 29, 2026 at 9:44 PM
i wanted to post a little gource video for the past month of work on priiism but i feel like i should put music under it or something 🤔
- Horatio Hornblower, panicking
At least let me describe in detail exactly how I was going to win if the game had continued just a little longer and no-one else had done anything
September 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM
- Horatio Hornblower, panicking
Part 2 is up and I actually talk about Fennel some in this one:
www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
September 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Part 2 is up and I actually talk about Fennel some in this one:
www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
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“perfect is the enemy of done” as i slam their head into the toilet and start flushing. i give them a perfect swirly, as comeuppance for encouraging the world to be garbage for the sake of capitalism
September 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
“perfect is the enemy of done” as i slam their head into the toilet and start flushing. i give them a perfect swirly, as comeuppance for encouraging the world to be garbage for the sake of capitalism
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Developing a theory that the more evil and unethical a megacorporation grows, the more they find themselves compelled to develop a cute mascot to serve as some perverse form of sin eater
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
appleinsider.com
September 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Developing a theory that the more evil and unethical a megacorporation grows, the more they find themselves compelled to develop a cute mascot to serve as some perverse form of sin eater
i'm gonna try to write a little series of posts about my experience learning Fennel and writing Priiism in it this past month: www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
Falling in Love With Lisp, Part 1 — transmutrix
How Fennel finally won me over on the Lisp family of languages.
www.transmutrix.com
September 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
i'm gonna try to write a little series of posts about my experience learning Fennel and writing Priiism in it this past month: www.transmutrix.com/posts/2026/2...
when my rest period is over... i think i may finally get serious about studying assembly, and the reason is the most silly thing i can imagine >:)
September 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
when my rest period is over... i think i may finally get serious about studying assembly, and the reason is the most silly thing i can imagine >:)
it's been really fun learning Fennel and writing my first little project in it this month. the game is only about 3500 lines of code so far, and I bet if I got good at macros it would be more terse still
September 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
it's been really fun learning Fennel and writing my first little project in it this month. the game is only about 3500 lines of code so far, and I bet if I got good at macros it would be more terse still
if anyone has been intrigued by clips of Priiism, you can now play a wee demo of the game, if you'd like: transmutrix.itch.io/priiism
priiism (demo) by transmutrix
an exploratory puzzle game about light and color
transmutrix.itch.io
September 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
if anyone has been intrigued by clips of Priiism, you can now play a wee demo of the game, if you'd like: transmutrix.itch.io/priiism
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i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
September 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
blasting through making a buncha stuff today! wish me luck at finishing on time ;u;
September 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
blasting through making a buncha stuff today! wish me luck at finishing on time ;u;