mal of colm

category theorists don't want you to know that category theory is dead simple if you are allowed to visualise it in 3d tear down the category cabal now!!!

long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is exactly as good as I hoped it would be. Been meaning to step in for years.

today's alex-mega-gamedev-tip: one of my favourite passtimes is getting deep into design thoughts on whatever im working on; on walks, in the shower. but dont let the thinking get more than about 1 day ahead of the process of actually making it. any more, and you're probably wasting your time... 🧵

im fond of his little jokes

just found out there's a melee local that does top 8 graphics based on a game of the winner's choice... and at some point it was won by a man of taste

Arnell Group's Pepsi BREATHTAKING Design Strategy document is probably worth $27 to me. if the only way I'd get to see it again was to pay $27 i would do so in a heartbeat

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

solving laplace's equation ∇⋅(∇f)=Δf=0 for a height field f given three known points

A dev friend introduced me to this talk yesterday and I absolutely loved it. "Even when you think you're really hot at making decisions on the fly, you're almost always regurgitating something that your background mind has already figured out" youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

Witness the mesmerizing sea angel (*Clione* sp.), a real-life creature gliding beneath the ice of the White Sea. Captured by Alexander Semenov, this beauty is no illusion.

The nascent HTML-in-Canvas API is exciting to me not because of flashy effects, but because it extends the semantics that the DOM can (tractably) represent — as a tiny example, it's possible to show an element in multiple places, cheaply, under arbitrary transforms. folkjs.org/demos/html-i...

Made a proper export now, with the leadup before the stutters.

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

New video on Interface Studies: The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity youtu.be/VzjvBYaGHgA

Doorman bebop hook interaction fixed!!! A whole new world of possibilities has opened up for me!!

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

I got laid off last Monday! Not sure yet what the next move is, in the mean time I’m just gonna chill out for a while.

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

leave regurgitated hp content behind in 2026 and play this atmospheric game about witches that is heart-warming, funny, and queer instead

for whatever this might mean to you: two of the most transcendent blood on the clocktower players i’ve ever witnessed just released a video game

Vancouver Game Garden is just around the corner with a fresh new spring date!! 🎮🍃 This year's showcase of local indie games & video game art returns to the Roundhouse Community Centre on June 13 + 14, 2026! ✨ Interested in showcasing your game demo or art? Apply here: vangamegarden.com/exhibitors

I made a youtube video showing off the game! youtu.be/Qh--JHqgnQs

a lot of folks around GDC at the "all chat" event at tiat last week saw me do a bite sized version of this talk about childhood memories of new age, pure moods, and how it ties into conspiracy theories & much more. anyway, reminder: you can watch the full version here www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wg...