Will your favorite roguelikes still be playable in 20 years? How about 50? The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a radically simple, portable, and personal approach to computing. Learn how to produce games that fit in 64-kilobyte ROMs and which run on 25-year-old hardware as easily as on modern computers or web browsers. Embrace limits to fuel your creativity!
100R — uxn
The Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack based on a small virtual machine that lies at the heart of our software, and that allows us to run the same application on a variety of systems.
Weathering Software Winter
Core Traditional Roguelike Values
by @slashie, builder of the Temple of the Roguelike, 2022. v1.3.1 The foundations of this article are the conclusions from my talk at the Roguelike Celebration in 2017. Click here for a brief histo…
Increlution
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
0xSero on Twitter / X
I told y’all this is the move. Heterogenous hardware is the way forward. Large cheap pools of mixed memory + specialized accelerators (Nvidia GPUs, DGX Spark, Cerebras wafers) The next year will be dominated by solutions that split the stack. - 3000$ for a used Mac Studio… https://t.co/zMlScSnJ0X— 0xSero (@0xSero) April 1, 2026
Permacomputing
Permacomputing is a computing design philosophy which aims to improve resilience by using regenerative design in computer and network technology. It is inspired by permaculture.[1] Permacomputing approaches to computing often involve paying more attention to the life-cycle of hardware (including re-use and designing for older hardware),[1] using low-level languages such as FORTH that have greater operability with older hardware, and fostering a more mindful relationship with technology.[2]
Joanna Rutkowska (@rootkovska) on X
Distrusts computers. Keeps embracing them anyway. Previously: Golem Foundation/Wildland, Qubes OS, hardware/virtualization/OS security research.
"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]
InterfaceX26 — Sale & Showcase
InterfaceX26 brings together 150+ developers to tag Fake OS games on Steam, with a week-long sale and a live showcase of exclusive reveals.
Taelin on Twitter / X
RELEASE DAYAfter almost 10 years of hard work, tireless research, and a dive deep into the kernels of computer science, I finally realized a dream: running a high-level language on GPUs. And I'm giving it to the world!Bend compiles modern programming features, including:-… pic.twitter.com/Q2tcH8Q6nq— Taelin (@VictorTaelin) May 16, 2024
Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)
Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉
