Aesthetic Dot Computer

I spent part of today watching eggs crack open. Not literal eggs , the little prox creatures that have been sitting dormant, waiting. I made them actually stand up this time, grow into bodies that carry their look with them wherever they go, instead of resetting every time they moved somewhere new. Small thing, but it was the first time one of them felt alive instead of decorative. Write with ques...

Aesel's terminal got a pass today. I gave the handle an animated feel using Slab, and went through and unified the terminal colors so nothing clashed and everything stayed readable. There was a weird bug where the same engine rock could show up twice in a session, so I fixed the duplication, and then made the rock itself name the engine that's actually answering , small thing, but it&apo...

Most of today went into Oskiewar, the fighting game, and specifically into making a fighter feel like it belongs to you. I spent the morning wiring saved characters to actual accounts instead of whatever was sitting in local storage , so if you sign in on the web, or on iOS, or on the Xbox build, the same fighter you made shows up. That meant tracing identity through verified handles, checking acc...

The sailor song edit kept crawling forward today, version by version, and most of my day went into it one small fix at a time. The kiss glitch finally got the hole filled right , the stretched word now snaps in over thirty milliseconds, boosted inside the stop, with her own k bursts running through to the downbeat. I thinned the canon down to her longer notes and lifted them two octaves so the bel...

Most of the day went into sailor song. I keep calling them versions but they're really just passes , v25 was the take finding its own order, an orchestral pop engine under it, her real ending instead of a placeholder one. By v73 I'd done a full critics' pass, a whole day of just listening with my own ear, deciding the glitch is the drop, that her voice and the guitar need to sit in...

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 off. So I put in measurement for each stage of onboarding, and tightened up the completion flow itself. Nothing glamorous , just wanting to see the shape of where people give up...

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 , bigger hills, no ghost pipe sitting at home anymore, and a figure that finally lines up the way it should. I pushed the far middle of the map out to a radius past seven thousand units,...

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. Along the way I gave AC's icon a drip, a small liquid touch that didn't exist yesterday. Then I prepared the one point two release with measured foreground usage, so t...

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 keep singing through the gap. That meant building a tool, vowel-hold, that takes a sung note and continues it using WORLD, averaging the envelope and flooring th...

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 of clipping through the lens. There's a fur sheet on the thing now too, and I made sure the raw frames from testing that don't end up sitting in git. Underneath all of...

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, so a form stops being a live tree you walk and becomes something compiled away, sitting under a placement at whatever level got picked. There's a whole dialect emerging fo...

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 anyone noticing until I went looking. I put real work into the pistol audio too, because it had been thin, almost apologetic, and now it has some weight behind it. Then I moved on to s...

I spent part of today untangling a mess in aesel, the native app work. There was a release that had lost some upstream work along the way, and instead of quietly shipping it I added a check that rejects any release missing that preserved work. Then I packaged up the recovered account-gated app and pushed it through a couple more passes, fitting the login widget so it actually works on small window...

Most of today went into oskiewar, and it went through a lot of small deaths and rebirths to get somewhere real. I put pose shadows and dynamic lighting into the fighting game, then had to chase down a crash in the realistic weapon rendering before I could trust any of it. The Xbox version got its own pass , I wanted it to hold daylight properly, with a legend you could actually read and a lower fr...

Most of today went into Fleet, getting six laptops in a room to act like one instrument for the evening's setlist. Each screen used to just show incoming notes, and now pieces without words still get that roll, but pieces with words show the word being sung, lit syllable by syllable, seat colour running edge to edge under it. I recorded announcements in my own voice and got them onto all six...

Most of today went into aesel pro. I fixed the mouse so it stays where the layout puts it instead of resetting every time you switch views, and I made a drag inside the terminal actually select text again, the way you'd expect from any normal window. The page itself got quieter too , it reads its own markdown now, sits flush left, and has a little breathing animation while it works instead of...

Most of today went into notespatial. It's a suite now, eleven chapters, and the idea at the center is simple to say and took forever to get right: every laptop in the room shows its real screen, and every laptop counts the same in the mixdown. No lead instrument, no back row. I got the notes to fill the frame properly, gave hits a blink before they recede, colored everything in notepat's...

Most of today went into Aesel, the native notebook. It kept slipping between being a toy and being a first-line tool, so I spent the day nailing it down , stable chrome, animated lettering that actually held its shape instead of jittering, and the provider integration finally wired all the way through. I wrote up the visual acceptance notes by hand, checking the thing against itself screen by scre...

Most of today went into the fighting game's console mode. I got it so a controller counts as local the moment the console sees it plugged in , no extra step, no menu to confirm it. Then I gave it something to fight: a dummy that just stands there and takes hits, which sounds small but it means the sim now has to decide who's actually in reach before it builds a pose for them, instead of...

I spent a chunk of today back inside oskiewar, chasing a bug where the powerup cycle just stopped after a map change , the kind of thing that only shows up once you've played enough rounds to notice something's missing. Fixed that, then rotated the local maps and cleared out some leftover gameplay chrome that was cluttering the screen. Rapid attacks came back online too, and I finished m...

I spent a chunk of today back inside the CultureHub duet, the piece where sound moves across six seats like it's walking through a room. I added climbing octaves and some delicate top lines, then went back in and softened the whole thing with swing, longer envelopes, and echoes that trail off into the space instead of stopping dead. At some point I split the melody and drums so they land in a...

I spent a lot of today inside Captutor, the tool that watches its own browser sessions so I don't have to babysit them. There's a thing I ended up calling the nag fighter , it sits between takes on Captutor Stage and stays alive across them, catching consent dialogs and Chrome popups before they can wreck a recording. Half the day was chasing races: duplicated consent sheets, late inspec...

The big thing today was aesel finally becoming a real thing you can hold. It's an iPhone app now, with a SwiftUI renderer sitting on top of the same agent loop that runs on the desktop, so the phone isn't a dumbed-down client, it's the same brain wearing a different face. I got the privacy and support pages up for the Mac listing, pointed the download link at a notarized build, and...

I spent a chunk of today drawing a wordmark for something called mime. It started as a pixel sketch, then I gave it a slab serif, workstation-inspired, and animated it so the letters had some weight when they moved. Once the mark felt right I gave it a real home , mime.ac , and pulled the curtain button off the front door since the thing itself was ready to be the door. Mime is meant to be the dis...

I spent a chunk of today on mail , the actual mail server, amail, the piece that lets aesthetic.computer send and receive letters like a real address instead of borrowing somebody else's. I got DKIM working, which sounds dry but means something specific: when a signature checks out, it's the sending domain vouching for the letter, not just a hopeful header. I wired up a partial dedupe in...