Yes yes yes I used pouch with a couchdb backend (some cloud service owned by IBM IIRC, now dead). Perfect combo, ran on everything that you could connect to the internet.

So the spirit of the patty might safely escape its earthly prison.

— your local taphophile

Pouch was amazing! I remember when in 2013-14 I build an app with phonegap and run OTA updates on iOS using realtime sync (dbs with attachments) + a bit of rx.js sprinkled on top. It was so fast that I could see the changes in the app as I was typing in futon.

It felt like magic!

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape So, I'm walking through a park when I see this thing lying on the ground: It's a disposable vape that someone has discarded because it's emp...

(possibly slightly deranged, but serious) question: what vape would be the easiest to convert/Frankenstein it into a Meshtastic node? I'm in a mood

blog.jgc.org/2026/01/ther...

I caught a cold yesterday and now I'm couched. Bessel van der Kolk was right: MY BODY KNEW

MY BODY IS READY

433 - How to Make a Font that Says Nothing · Untested Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

Same, same, I even made a font about it
untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-ho...

Organ²/ASLSP is still growing on me too, you should give it a listen!

DISOBEY · Untested Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

hehe, good timing, I'm thinking about the same at the moment: untested.sonnet.io/notes/disobey/

DISOBEY · Untested Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

#untested #129: DISOBEY

untested.sonnet.io/notes/disobey

Late Night Beard Elemental: Important Meeting Notes Doodles and visual storytelling by Rafal Pastuszak

Late Night Beard Elemental

#doodle (via potato.horse)

www.potato.horse/p/3Qu0ibZGAN...

I tried to grow a beard once, then cut it after six months; no one noticed. To beard is not my gift.

I have an uncle—the beard of the family. Come to think of it, he *is* mostly beard. Nihil in natura perit.

Sketch: Music for 18 Musicians Music for 18 Musicians album cover recreated in p5js

Hehe, not the same thing per se, but I was in a similar mood a few years back, so ended up recreating an album cover with p5js: 18-musicians.vercel.app

Ensō Themes – Accessible, Vampiric, Cozy · Untested Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

#untested 128: Ensō Themes – Accessible, Vampiric, Cozy

untested.sonnet.io/notes/enso-t...

#ux #writing #a11y

Such a fun and concise intro to the IndieWeb, featuring some of my friends and role models. Give it a read!

opening up hours! to chat!! thank you @potato.horse for inspo and excited to hear from you ALL (aka everyone) byyyyyyyyyyyyye xxxxxxxx

blog.greg.technology/2025/08/30/c...

I made a little animation which seems to fit @chezpanique.bsky.social's article well

blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-...

#animation

On the off-chance that trying to sustain a train of thought for longer than 10 seconds feels like chasing globs of mercury across an ever-tilting floor. If you wanna beat the constant churn of the algorithm.

blogtherapy.substack.com/p/cultivate-...

#indieweb #substack #writingcommunity #amwriting

Chrome vibes, metal beats, and 3dfx Glide like it's 1999 all over again.

my goodness, I can almost smell that UI

unicode of course!

untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-ho...

433 - How to Make a Font that Says Nothing · Untested Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak

#untested 127: How to Make a Font that Says Nothing

untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-ho...

#typography #a11y #ux #thelema #writing

Also, after spending half the day with Sofia Isella's music I'm starting to wonder if:

- Chelsea Wolfe
- Fiona Apple
- Primus/Tool
- and Lingua Ignota

participated in some Expanse-like musical-genetic-collective, likely some time around 2005 AD

Moved on to Fu Manchu and Sofia Isella afterwards, and ended up with a Tinnitus Thursday.

wait, I have a doodle for that!

(from sonnet.io/posts/emotiv...)

Next: Halcyon of course

(probably helps that I don't speak any Russian - if I recognise a familiar word, I just imagine the meaning of the rest of the song)

АИГЕЛ — Татарин // AIGEL — Tatarin [Official Music Video | English, Russian, Tatar subtitles] YouTube video by АИГЕЛ AIGEL

Starting the day with some pytest/Selenium refactoring appropriate music

no need to be a 10x dev when you can be a code gopnik

youtu.be/yQR_NLeXKtw?...

I think I know her cousin

(from sonnet.io/posts/hummin...)

Working on the next #untested note. Guess what it's about!

Left:
Vibe coded a tiny web app to extract colour palettes from movies. It works pretty well! If I re-write it from scratch, I'll post it here.

Right:
Wada Sanzo's Dictionary of Colour Combinations

(In other words: I'm fighting the urge to add more themes to Ensō – this is my way of channeling it)

The lights look great imo, although with Bsky's video compression you get some antialiasing/blur for free™, so it's a bit hard to judge!

🚀 New devlog update!
Spent the week working on volumetric smokes
#gamedev #indiedev #topdown #godot #indie