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John Balestrieri

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 1d ago

What?! I’m earning money on Reddit.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 1d ago

I took a photo.

40mm Timex MK1 aluminum chronograph

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Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 1d ago

LLM programming is like guiding a vacuum robot and nudging it toward the piles of dog hair.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 1d ago

I wrote some fairly complex shaders last year, with modular, nested functions, and it’s hard to get back into that code now. I’d rather work in a graph-based shader editor, and Codex was happy to help. ➀︎

I built one from scratch 20 years ago, so it doesn’t feel like cheating. ➁︎

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John Balestrieri

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Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 4d ago

Time to sell this bottle of Orbitz. I must have bought it in the 1990s (?)

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 5d ago

“I used to dig my own ditches, but now I direct the ditch digging.”

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John Balestrieri

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Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 6d ago

My home insurer provided us with a Smart Thing that monitors power quality, and it’s been helpful for alerting us when the oven clock needs resetting when we get back home.

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 6d ago

When making code changes, I ask the LLM to “explain it like I'm 5” and it has done wonders for our communication.

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John Balestrieri

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Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · 6d ago

Progress on the input simplifier; input line in gray; optimized path in red.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 15, 2026

Working on my curve simplification. Gray is raw Pencil input (hundreds of points) and red is the simplified path (a several control points).

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John Balestrieri

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John Balestrieri

@Tinrocket@mastodon.online

Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 14, 2026

“I’m checking which geometry helpers already exist so I don’t invent new math badly.”

I love Codex + GPT 5.4

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John Balestrieri

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John Balestrieri

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Full-time indie software developer: Computer graphics, computational design, iOS, macOS, and a beagle named Miss Muddypenny.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 14, 2026

Reimplementing variable width strokes; initial progress.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

I got the rocket emoji pin from WWDC ‘17, courtesy of John Wilker. Thank you, John! @jwilker@wandering.shop

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

For the watch peeps: Timex MK1 aluminum “California”

iPhone 17 Pro, 4x lens

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

Today’s mood.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

Long, dull video: I have stroke UV mapping in the live framework now, and more precise stroke picking. Everything is very responsive.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 12, 2026

Making progress and performance is better.

There are a few major systems working together.

1. Paths and vector data
2. Metal triangulation & rendering
3. Layering and compositing
4. Pencil & touch tools & widgets
5. UIDocument, serialization, undo, etc.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 12, 2026

Smokey Bear ‘44

(iPhone 17 Pro, 4x)

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

I stepped into the woods to pick up a piece of trash, but then I recognized the triangular hole in the fabric. It was my Fisher-Price parachute. Blue cords poked through the topsoil. Then a snowtrooper appeared.

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 11, 2026

QA, all day

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Mar 06, 2026

Oh hey, it’s #Marchintosh! HyperDither is free for a limited time. Go and pixel some stuff! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperdither/id1110997147

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Apple messed up the App Store by allowing ads in the first place. So often, keywords for popular apps are hijacked by rivals. Apple knows this. It’s effectively a form of coercion. “If you don’t buy y

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@Tinrocket@mastodon.online · Jan 21, 2026

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Further, Apple is taking money from App Store customers by having search ads, because developers have to raise prices to make up for the ad spend.

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