Threw together a new tiny Pico-8 game. Fall down the endless abyss and collect coins to get a high score.
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#pico8 #arcadegame
Threw together a new tiny Pico-8 game. Fall down the endless abyss and collect coins to get a high score.
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#pico8 #arcadegame
I've been thinking about a fun idea recently for small digital collectibles I'm calling virtual badges. Each badge is a tiny 64x64 pixel image that contains a cryptographically verifiable certificate of ownership embedded directly inside it.
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Pixel art of an alien cyclops blob
Pixel art of an alien cyclops blob
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Palindrome 'em, or d'n' I lap?
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There once was a man named Luigi.
He was cleaning his house with a squeegie.
But his house was haunted;
A single Boo taunted.
It gave him the heebie-jeebies.
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This is a haiku
I am so sorry for this
It is really bad
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I made a useless button.
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A Bad Drawing of some WcDonald's French Fries
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another bongard problem
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Looks like we're still far from complete but it seems like we have around half of 8-piece endgames that show up in practical games via opposing pairs of pawns lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...
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Even more on deriving point values for chess pieces from endgame tablebases. This time: seeing about the robustness of my methodology.
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More on deriving point values for chess pieces from endgame tablebases.
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15.02.2026 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0forgot to post this yesterday, but it was up on my site: athingper.day/31
13.02.2026 05:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A red balloon with a trailing ribbon.
I was lazy today, so you just get a balloon.
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bongard problem 5
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I try to design my own ranking system. It'll probably turn out worse than Elo's.
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I propose a new way of dividing the year into seasons. One where the longest day is in the middle of Light season, and the shortest is in the middle of Dark season. Then the remaining seasons can be called Rise season and Fall season. Well, today is the start of Rise season!
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Number Facts:
5 is the number of Euclidean solids.
14 is the largest number of distinct sets obtainable by repeatedly applying the set operations of closure and complement to a given starting subset of a topological space.
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Some alien scribbles.
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A prototype for a drifting mechanic in a racing video game.
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