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everest

streaming at twitch.tv/wondervilleNYC

i’m talking in about an hour (gonna livecode some RSS)

flier for Wordhack, happening now!
everest

__ Handwriting your RSS feed __
A short guide for updating your RSS feed like you update your handmade website

Do you write your HTML by hand? Have you ever wondered if you could keep an RSS feed similarly - no management software, only a webhost and a text editor?

I've written a barebones guide to handwritten RSS. It's so, so, easy.

everest-pipkin.com/teaching/ha

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joël

@abundance I did that for years, before I installed a CMS, because I though it was cool. Finally some retroactive validation 💜

Packbats, creative

@abundance We wrote a blog post about doing handwritten Atom feeds just recently - I think they're fussier but both are pretty easy to make!

Russ Sharek

@abundance

Check the generator tag on the #2ClownsInACloset podcast for a related Easter egg.

Been doing this the hard way since the second episode.

everest

I'm moving across the country! In two weeks!! Aaaa

In a bid to reduce my boxes, I'm selling a TTRPG bundle with all three copies of my games currently in print– World Ending Game, The Cloister, and The Ground Itself, at very steep discount ($48, like solidly 40% off).

(Unfortunately, shipping on these is US-only because of some silly limitations to my Paypal account, I will fix this for next time).

You can pick up the books here;
py.pl/1fQsDO

I'm moving across the country! In two weeks!! Aaaa

In a bid to reduce my boxes, I'm selling a TTRPG bundle with all three copies of my games currently in print– World Ending Game, The Cloister, and The Ground Itself, at very steep discount ($48, like solidly 40% off).

(Unfortunately, shipping on these is US-only because of some silly limitations to my Paypal account, I will fix this for next time).

all three books sit on a table - the cloister (yellow zine cover) is on top of the stack
Odo Tournesol

@abundance Such a good deal! I wish I wasn't between jobs I'd snap this up

everest

I was commissioned to make a game for No Quarter this year!

The Poppy Grower is a tool-assisted solo journaling game about an agricultural worker growing poppies on an asteroid, played in a proprietary fantasy OS.

Opening this Friday at NYU Game Center in Brooklyn. RSVP is free but required!

Here: eventbrite.com/e/no-quarter-ex

a screenshot of a fantasy desktop system, with various windows and applications set over a field of flowers
lee

@abundance Hi Everest, do you know if No Quarter is one night only or if I can go other days as well?

everest

Spoke with Hyperallergic about some of my current work, the garden as a site (which, despite the headline, is equally a site of dystopias), my animals, "datasets", queerness in isolation and through the landscape, as well as my wants for queerness in culture

hyperallergic.com/831571/evere

 Everest Pipkin on the Utopian Potential of Gardens
The trans nonbinary artist, writer, and game designer employs data as their medium to expand on the broader “garden” and the often violent ways in which we preserve its beauty.
garden center goth

@abundance i greatly enjoy “I am one of many animals in this world, and in that vast relationship of connections there are so many thousands of ways to be present and to be witnessed, what is my gender to a crow?”

🌹 thomas

@abundance I enjoyed this interview! Especially grateful for your inspiration touchstones. Some names (George Gessert, Ursula Franklin, etc.) I had not heard and am excited to look into.

efelbar

@abundance that was beautiful, thank you so much for sharing

everest

I have a new game! And it is out now:

Drift Mine Satellite is a maintenance text adventure about a person living underground in a limestone mine, and their work on the local communication network that has sprung up there.

It is a utopian apocalypse fantasy, a forever-camping world narrowed to linear miles of RVs parked under a mountain, the people who live in them, and the systems that interconnect them, both social and material.

Find Drift Mine Satellite here; solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/

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I have a new game! And it is out now:

Drift Mine Satellite is a maintenance text adventure about a person living underground in a limestone mine, and their work on the local communication network that has sprung up there.

It is a utopian apocalypse fantasy, a forever-camping world narrowed to linear miles of RVs parked under a mountain, the people who live in them, and the systems that interconnect them, both social and material.

The start screen for Drift Mine Satellite
everest

Drift Mine Satellite was commissioned for the Sun Thinking exhibition on Solar Protocol, a network of solar powered servers that connects from whatever server is in the most sunshine. It is programmed for the browser, with low-energy use and computational power front of mind. The entire story is told via spatialized text - no images, no libraries, just divs and textboxes and basic javascript. I truly hope you enjoy playing it.

everest

for the last two months i've been writing about trees, specific and individual trees, ones whose lives have become entangled with humanity.

every time i go researching one tree i find three more i want to write about... so i think i'll be at it a while yet.

at cohost.org/notable-trees

The loneliest tree in the world

A sitka spruce growing on Motu Ihupuku / Campbell Island, 170 miles distant from the next closest tree.

Motu Ihupuku (Campbell Island) is an uninhabited sub-antarctic island of New Zealand. With a maritime tundra climate touting consistent rain and wind (precipitation 325 days a year, gale-force winds 100 days a year), the island is home to seabirds, seals, grasses, mosses, and shrubs.

And exactly one tree.
everest

solar system map in the spatialized text tool

a map of the solar system picked out in plaintext. astronomical symbols for the planets
everest

the spreadsheet that made the star map room

a bunch of rows of planets and stars, with x & y coordinates
everest

man, rip to the hardy tree, an ash which grew for 160 years among (and around) the hundreds of gravestones stacked around its rootstock. it fell today camdennewjournal.co.uk/article

the trunk of an ash tree piled with gravestones in Old St Pancras churchyard. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy#/media/File:2780theHardyTreeOldStPancrasChurchyard.jpg
everest

My newest game IS OUT.

The Barnacle Goose Experiment
is an abiogensis body horror idle clicker where you play as a researcher in a biodome tasked with generating a world out of their own body.

Music from Ben Babbitt, halina heron, Geotic, Adobo, Jún, Smokey Emery, Sadurn, Zac Traeger, SamanthaZero, and Eli Rainsbury and supported in part by Arts Council England.

Play it free in the browser now -
everest-pipkin.com/barnacle-go

My newest game IS OUT.

The Barnacle Goose Experiment
is an abiogensis body horror idle clicker where you play as a researcher in a biodome tasked with generating a world out of their own body.

Music from Ben Babbitt, halina heron, Geotic, Adobo, Jún, Smokey Emery, Sadurn, Zac Traeger, SamanthaZero, and Eli Rainsbury and supported in part by Arts Council England.

A screenshot of the title screen of The Barnacle Goose Experiment, with an image of geese being born of a tree
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Matt Keeter

@abundance This is *fascinating*

Are recipe times randomized? This mushroom + salt seems to be taking much longer than expected.

(Also, a minor bug: repeating a known recipe seems to forget it in the log, i.e. the ??? in the second log)

Screenshot of the game, indicating that I'm trying to combine [mushroom] and [salt] to make "drug".
siobhán o'flynn

@abundance super super super cool... sharing with students & games loving folkx

Casey Kolderup

@abundance wait I haven't had time to play yet but you got SADURN??? What an iconic team up 😭

everest

spent this week working on a very small tool for making intractable unfolding texts entirely out of the html <details tag>

you can try it at ravel.neocities.org/ !

three panels: write, view, and code. the same &quot;introduction to ravel&quot; is displayed in all three, in nodes, in visual html, and in html code, respectively
everest

i've tagged out 600+ open source, experimental and tiny tools by their qualities and built a new website for sorting through them!

these are all tools towards joyful digital creation, with the goal of enabling working entirely outside of proprietary systems- moving instead from one hand-made software to another.

(the list takes submissions if it is missing yours >:))

tinytools.directory

screenshot from tinytools.directory;

✨ Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup
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This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.

The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.

→ Submit a tool to the list!
→ View this list as Markdown (no Javascript)
everest

my cat.... she is so beautiful ....

a 2 year old tortoiseshell cat looks at the camera
everest

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively painting / blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer directly in the browser, and doesn't send info anywhere:

everestpipkin.github.io/image-

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