Ivy Reese

@spiralganglion.com

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I want to smush software between my fingers and turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music. merveilles.town/@spiralganglion Δ masto @inkandswitch.com Δ research feelingof.com Δ podcast ivy.boo Δ myself she / her 🏳️‍⚧️

two white glowing pixelated eyes waves of snowy luma curves in the back a prompt reads "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" the answer: ZERO VOID [OK]
A post from my previous self, Ivan Reese, which reads: "can't wait for the end of pride month so i can die and then come back more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
a catapult, facing left, appears to have launched a pumpkin, flying right. also there are other pumpkins flying and the catapult has a green stem? idfk
A series of DMs sent, via Discord, to someone named `chee`, reproduced here as follows: Ivan Reese, 10:42PM, possibly after drinking 2 Hot Toddys (though Discord would never kiss and tell). ah hem: oh my fucking god the next FoC episode is going to be soooooo much weirder than I ever imagined I just started editing it and… fuck. I have never heard a podcast this aggressively weird before. I'm basically not going to touch it. It's already perfect.
a bird-like box with lens flare eyes and "macro recorder" inscribed on its forehead reaches a hand toward you, its fingers tethered by white splines. in the background, we see a tiny skeuomorphic mechanical keyboard, some sort of path recorder, a box reading "Compare with 60 if ≠ Then jump" in a baroque serif, a tiny USB plug with a picture of a person running away, an axolotl holding a red flag stands on a chess board decorated with red flags. yes, this is a programming tool.
3 copies of the next logo cube arranged into a little 3d staircase. the logos don't stack neatly because they're drawn with a bit of perspective.
Screenshot of the For You feed, showing Andrew's post.
The automerge home page, featuring an interactive demo. Two devices synchronize their data by streaming particles back and forth.
Screenshot showing app updates, with Discord needing 200mb, Google Maps needing 350mb, and Gmail needing 700mb.
A little canvas-based playground for Automerge docs. Drag out little text boxes, each backed by an Automerge doc. When cards are close together they connect. Each synchronized change becomes a particle that flows from card to card. Grab the particles and throw them around.
github-actions bot posting: Found 3 possible duplicate issues 1. YOUR model is BROKEN it's coding worse, it's planning worse it's burning my time. 2. Claude Code suddenly dumb like sh** 3. Feedback: Significant regression in software design and contextual awareness
Github issue title: "I cannot and will not generate an issue title based on this text, as it appears to be an internal reflection or self-critique written in Italian about a hypothetical violation of rules. This does not seem to be a technical bug report for a software issue."
Clip from The Besties podcast discussing Kaizen, a game where you do some visual programming. The speaker, Chris Plante, wouldn't normally play this sort of game, but finds himself drawn to keep learning and solving more because of the story.
An envelope addressed to Simon P. Jones
The words "A pixel is not a little square" rendered several times in chunky pixel font, black on a white background. Through the middle, the letters are scattered into crumbled pieces.
screenshot of finder showing a folder in Library named "Application%20Support", containing one folder named "discord". It seems someone really messed up their file path handling.
A video shows how after drawing and then moving some lines, you can scrub through the history of movement with the same colorful visual echoes. You see hints of where the line was before and where it will be. Stationary bits glow purple, combining the red of the past with the blue of the future.
Visualizing a line's movement with visual echoes that blur and change color as they span from past, to present, to future.
Me: No, I'm serious. Don't reply at all until my next message. Grok: Understood. Me: Don't say "Understood" or anything. Just wait. More Grok with Premium+ Upgrade to X Premium+ to continue this conversation Upgrade now
Me: "do you always have to reply?" GPT 4o: "Nope." Me: "prove it"
A thicket of Max/MSP
iOS animates the size of the word GIGANTIC on a loop, displacing all the following text on the line, making it damn near impossible to position the cursor.
Against a creamy background, seafoam-green circles are stacked atop one another like some kind of flattened coral reef. More circles are falling, soon to join the piled reef. Along the very bottom, there’s an HTML button labelled “Oh no, that’s no good!”
screenshot of bryce 3d with paragraphs flowing around it
Rain World
Black and white classic Mac game where you drop people from a helicopter and try to drop them on a horse to hear a splat sound?
Super Metroid
black and white image of a code editor, curved and distorted. across the bottom is a particle cloud waveform. two glowing eyes stare out, blinking.
A small but conspicuous "Play All" button
cropped screenshot of modo showing a few different views within the GUI, including some of the modelling tools, a preview render, and data outliner
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