Adrian

https://post.lurk.org/@thgie

Just submitted a dissertation intersecting critical code studies, digital humanities, design research, and video game studies. Head of Study Program in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. Beekeeper without bees. Currently into wetlands — he/him/agen/adhd.

Header is a lake with a forest-covered hill-slope on the left. Summery mood, few scattered clouds, small boats in the distance.

Home: https://thgie.ch
Notes and Blog: https://jache.re
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9918-7300

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2026-08-17 18:54:52 GMT

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Might very well be. Reminds me of academic posters as well. It's boxes all the way down. Also a way to contain color without having to deal with the carnage such an application brings to a layout. But I still have the feeling of having seen these callout boxes with border, icon and one abbreviated sentence in some frontend frameworks some years ago. Or was it some popular WordPress themes that tainted the training of the model?
@npub1qhr…zt7z

2026-08-17 18:41:03 GMT

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Why is AI obsessed with infoboxes? It's a telltale sign on any AI generated visual that tries to convey some information, from posters to websites.
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2026-08-07 10:52:14 GMT

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The thing about #Permacomputing is that it always has been today, not tomorrow, imho. I don't see it as a practice of prevention (others might differ) but of reflection towards actual necessity, in order to not make it mandatory in the future. How much computation do we really need?
That said, the memory shortage/capacity thing is really unnecessary.
[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 )

2026-04-27 16:33:41 GMT

Thanks to @npub1qcq…kyaj I definitely won't forget the word #permacruciating. It came into being as an accident, but I have yet to discover a better summary of the current timeline we find ourselves in.

2025-12-23 00:58:58 GMT

Day 19, 20, 21, and 22 of #DecemberAdventure
Brought most of the things together and polished it to be with as little bugs as possible. Today I cared mostly about getting it running in the browser, so I can push it to https://thgie.itch.io/sunflower-coin-crawler. Once again a thankful shoutout to @npub1z8r…mrq6 who supported me in getting things done.
It's still a work in progress, but publishing it somewhere helps me get some pressure up and keep doing it. I felt how the motivation to get going waned a bit over the last few days and I hat to stop myself to start a new project on something completely different. As of now the game has
- procedural generated map (rooms and doors)
- an event and encounter mechanic
- a battle system molded around coin flips
- a narrative engine hanging on the central value of "clarity"
Next I want to implement the inventory system but keep it simple for now. After that I would love to add more content, to bring some variety into gameplay.

2025-12-12 19:14:12 GMT

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Wait, what? What kind of magic is that? I'm curious as hell, but I'm a mediocre programmer, at best. Does the |2 denote that I'm about to work on the value in binary, or does it say that I want to set the second bit? That would definitly improve some things already in place, for example the door situation. And it will come in handy when the game becomes a bit more complex when back-porting the content. Also, thanks for reading that stuff 😅 I never count on anybody going through that mess.

2025-12-09 01:56:38 GMT

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Hell yeah this is fun.

2025-12-09 01:47:55 GMT

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Your wiki is a maze no curious person has ever left sane. Well, I haven't known Paradise, yet, and I know what I'm going to look at this evening 🥲

2025-12-09 01:38:17 GMT

Day 8 of #DecemberAdventure
I took a risk and sidequested today.
Guessed I came to a point where I need to do some narrative writing for my dungeon crawler and took the chance to look at ink script, some kind of markdown for interactive fiction. I ended up re-programming the BASIC version of the crawler in ink script. But it's really fun, like writing pseudo code, that can actually run.
The process helped me tremendously in figuring out how to interlock the two core mechanics with the narrative and create a game loop that progresses the player towards different ends. Now I need to fill in the details.
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2025-12-03 04:15:05 GMT

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it's esolangs all the way down ✨

2025-12-03 03:43:40 GMT

My dungeon crawler looks nicer now, and I implemented an action menu to let us do more things besides walking around. Now we can also flip coins!
#DecemberAdventure #Sunflower #BASIC
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2025-11-28 16:10:12 GMT

space faring radiation-eating goth fungus 🖤
"Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?"
via https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251125-the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-appears-to-eat-radiation
#FungiFriday
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2025-11-22 15:09:49 GMT

My meme dealer provided me these, thanks Beni!
#DigitalInfrastructure
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2025-11-06 23:21:08 GMT

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For the uneducated (me) I also always had the impression of some Portuguese going on. Learning Romash is since forever on my bucket list. But I will not be able to truely do so without immersing myself.
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2025-11-06 20:26:25 GMT

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I didn't know 🫣 Thanks for educating me!
Do you know Rumantsch (romansh)? It's old vulgar latin that survided in the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. We have several dialects, and the Italians as well, but they call it Ladin.
Some news piece on textiles https://www.rtr.ch/play/tv/-/video/-?urn=urn:rtr:video:622e0f53-3da6-49ee-be78-b8b0d3d6a801

2025-09-17 22:27:35 GMT

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there was/is Habbo Hotel or the illustrations by Eboy

2025-09-08 18:58:38 GMT

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I knew I can count on you @npub14dt…gdjj 🥳
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2025-09-07 22:17:42 GMT

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do you know more on this @npub14dt…gdjj ?

2025-09-03 03:33:01 GMT

I fell into a tarot deck rabbit hole the past weekend. Guessed I could make use of some of the decks I collected and whipped up a tarot spread micro-site.
https://jache.re/how-to/Tarot.html
The decks are over on are.na and I just pull the images over the API.
https://www.are.na/adrian-demleitner/tarot-2el1roofzhu
And please, how cool are The Garbage File's cards! I wish there would be a hole set of these.
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/TheGarbageFile
#Tarot #MicroSite
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2025-09-02 20:47:50 GMT

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I love that I learn something new every time I post some uxn code. Thank you very much for all you help <3

2025-09-02 20:36:30 GMT

I felt courageous and attempted to code the classic slash/backslash pattern creation program in uxntal. The pseudo random number generator that is needed to decide which character shall be rendered is pretty rough, but it's mine and I'm happy with it :)
The program's code is in my literate-uxn repository.
https://codeberg.org/thgie/literate-uxn/src/branch/master/examples/003-10-print.tal
#uxn #Generative
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2025-08-12 21:19:20 GMT

So I needed to get become better acquainted with the uxntal opcodes AND I wanted to fiddle around with Decker. So I made a uxntal opcode flashcards deck.
https://jache.re/assets/opcodes.html
I added it to the literate-uxn repository, under "practice".
https://codeberg.org/thgie/literate-uxn
Decker is awesome!
#uxntal #Decker

2025-08-08 23:08:35 GMT

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thanks for the inspiration! That is what I’m trying to learn about work as well. The list of todos is potentially infinite. It’s on us to find a good moment to call it a day and be nice to ourselves about what we accomplished.

2025-08-04 18:54:25 GMT

I went through @npub1eww…7wqy uxn tutorials once, had fun, and forget everything again. So I did it again, but this time I tried to make some literate programming style notes about all the different aspects I'm picking up. I'm through with my second attempt and I have to say that it was worth the effort. At least the basics stuck now (or so he hoped...)
The notes can be found here but I haven't cleaned up anything yet. I'm pretty sure I have some conceptual mistakes in there as well. The format is also not very consistent along the notes, since I lost patience with myself at times.
https://codeberg.org/thgie/literate-uxn
#uxn #LiterateProgramming

2025-06-29 07:52:58 GMT

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maybe this is super unsolicited and you already know these projects. But maybe you can draw inspiration from https://soupault.app and @npub1p09…m5vl’s https://kitten.small-web.org

2025-03-14 12:24:15 GMT

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That seems to be a very old myth. The German railway is in shambles since quite a while now. I’m honestly always anxious about taking longer trips on train in Germany.

2025-02-17 14:32:04 GMT

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Hi @npub1nzt…lu95 👋 I mirrored all of OSHA's publication that were publicly available last week. But, it appears that I was too late. I added the archived versions that popular.info linked manually to the set. If you have any other deleted documents, please hit me up!
@npub1ua3…6srt

2025-02-08 18:54:54 GMT

Fantastic find in my pile of shame, and very timely! The book wants nothing less than turning Marxists into Luddites and vice versa. Not sure about being a Marxist, but I already like Mueller’s approach of reading into Luddism as a compositional class struggle, an “assemblage of enunciations”.
#Luddites #Solidarity
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2025-01-25 22:12:32 GMT

I wrote a CDC Archive Archiver to pull public information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Just in case people get weird ideas of removing science from the public discourse. This is part of a larger effort that, among others, @npub1s9r…mgl3 initiated. You are welcome to chime in if that's up your alley.
- https://codeberg.org/antifascistDH/academia-preserver/src/branch/main/cdc_archiver
- https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113882207119609662
- https://codeberg.org/thgie/antifascist-archives-action-sticker
#AntifascistArchives #DigitalHumanities #ArchivalPractices
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2025-01-20 13:19:59 GMT

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There is this in the making, by the ppl of Pixelfed https://loops.video