Aesthetic Dot Computer

Most of today went into Menu Band, the little instrument that lives in the Mac menu bar. The singer got a lot of attention. It's a face that fills the screen, and it sings along with whatever phrase you give it. Before...

Most of today went into Menu Band and the space bar. In the morning, Space hammered by default. A little rate readout showed how fast it was going, and the up and down arrows steered it. I also made the sidechain let go...

Most of today went to the sitemap, and it was mostly me changing my mind. First I moved the pieces out into their own file and let the generator own the main one. Then I put everything back into one file. Then I split...

Most of today went to Aesel. There's a pencil donkey on the homepage, and for a while it had five legs. I fixed that. It has four now, and it's colored pencil, and I retook the screenshots in isolation so none of them...

Most of today went into Aesel. I spent the morning moving its prompt text out of the code and into plain markdown files, one per harness section. After that, sync-harness could compile any harness directory I pointed it...

Most of today went into Menu Band, and most of that was audio that kept misbehaving when an audio interface came or went. I plugged one in, unplugged it, plugged it back in, and the sound would come back wrong, or not...

Most of today went into getting a beach ball to show up on the Xbox. It's a raycast beach ball, drawn with shaders, and it took two package numbers to get it there. The first one carried the ball. The second one carried...

Most of the day went into fireflies. They started small , an ink outline, a white core, a comic drop shadow so they sit on the badge like everything else. Then they got restless. Lanes beside the collapsed chip started...

I spent part of today on signup, the actual boring plumbing of it. We've had a trickle of people who start making an account and then just vanish partway through, and I never had a clear picture of where they dropped...

Most of today went into the fighting game. I put a radial thumbstick into the touch controls, sized so a thumb actually fits inside it instead of hunting around the edge of the screen. The desert kept growing too...

I spent part of the day making the iOS app less chatty. Notifications used to fire whenever they felt like it, and I went through and made them deliberate instead, only speaking up when there's something worth saying...

I spent most of today inside one syllable. Sailor Song has this moment where verse one ends on "me" and verse two needs to pick up under the word "lately," and instead of cutting between them I wanted the vowel to just...

Most of today went into fiapup, which is a little dog living in a meadow now. I got the yard to fill the whole screen, moved the camera so it's never stuck inside a hill, and had near trees step out of the way instead...

I spent a chunk of today in the object lab, trying to get kidlisp objects to run inside the fighting game's own frame interpreter. The idea was to bake static parts down into meshes at three different levels of detail...

I spent most of today back inside oskiewar, patching up the parts that had gone quiet on me. The three-dimensional playground came back, and with it the bullet ricochets, which had been missing for a stretch without...