Jake Mauer

Dazzle, why doesn't my child speak to me anymore? Dazzle: first of all you have 2 kids

made a lil game this week where you grow trees play it here (: jack-turps.itch.io/sprout #gamedev #pico8

me: wow a certificate authority losing its keys? It doesn't get much worse than that. php: hello.

If you need a random color (e.g. procedurally coloring objects), you should use Oklab or Oklch color space instead of RGB or HSV. RGB may span the whole spectrum, but it does not pick fairly (leaning dark/muddy). Oklab is designed to more closely map to how we perceive color

What are these new anti-property tax righ wingers seeking?: https://json.blog/2026/10/18/what-anti-property-tax-is-about

Would you believe our game is built from basically just 1 texture?

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

watterson's principled stance against merchandising from a comics journal interview from 2013 www.tcj.com/the-bill-wat...

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

22nd Century Cowboy

Nancy 8/8/26 … cheese

Nancy 8/9/26

had a chance to playtest :::: a permanent echo absolutely gorgeous cyberpunk voight kampff crime investigation experience with strong as hell visual character and lovely music. highly recommend checking this out s.team/a/3727200/ @threemoreyears.bsky.social

Concept art by Nizo Yamamoto for Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989), dir. Masami Hata and William Hurtz, TMS

Visited the new Chicago Brand Museum today. It's fascinating. (It's not a museum of just Chicago brands; it's a museum of lots of brand, which happens to be located in Chicago.) Fans of typography, graphic design, package design, and more will love it.

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary https://theonion.com/teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/

Or to put it another way, his *bonus* is 253 $150k salaries.

We gotta kick Palmer Luckey outta retro gaming I’m sick of seeing him throwing his loser ass government contract money around in my hobby

Do not buy the war crime n64.

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

Nancy 7/28/26

HE'S BACK! comic by me.

This is a fun project: Use FFMPEG to simulate the sound of audio cassettes. I converted a few albums and it sounds extremely authentic. github.com/AARomanov198...

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

new toy: RayColor 🎾 generative palettes from a raytraced scene: one sphere, a five-sided room, three lights, mirror walls. drag the lights, harvest the colors. palettes stay coherent because every swatch is the same light in the same room. meodai.github.io/ray-color/ let me know what you think.

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

the SPEED at which I ran to my drawing tablet-

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

hitting a home run is one of the easiest things to do in all of sports since you don't have to run very hard

Someone in SE Michigan is selling a BUNCH of what seem to be internal GM posters from the ‘60s

“…we will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature…” scrollprize.org/firstscroll

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts