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Return of the TODEPOND PONDCAST. Here's a behind-the-scenes look of everything that's currently going on on planet Todepond. This pondcast is only for people who are paying supporters either here or on Liberapay or Youtube or Bandcamp :) Thank you for all your continued support!

The TODEPOND PONDCAST is back. For paying supporters only. Things mentioned SPLASH IS A COLOUR FORMAT TOP 9 WAYS TO MAKE TIME TRAVEL SCREENS in SCREENS in SCREENS

Welcome back to the TODEPOND TIMES. What's new this week? Six months of weekly videos I did it! I posted one NEW VIDEO EVERY WEEK for six months. Those of you who have been around for a long time will know that this is how I started: I put up one NEW VIDEO EVERY WEEK every single week, and this is h

Welcome back... to the weekly... 🐸 TODEPOND TIMES 🐸 What's new this week? Radical openness I've been working on the workshop that I'll be running at the upcoming Art Meets Radical Openness event in Austria. I'm running it with some other members of Pastagang, which is a creative group that anyone

Wow! Hello again. I've got some exciting news to share: I'm leaving my full-time job at tldraw (which I will dearly miss) to move into freelancing. It'll be a busy start to 2026 for me as I'll be prototyping contributor tools at Wikipedia (which I'm very excited about). But in the long run, I'll be

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Updates from errorcamp, ICLC, and a new paper. TODEPOND PONDCAST — Jamming together (YouTube)

Peak district, Twirl, and ICLC! TODEPOND PONDCAST: Twirl (YouTube)

Wow I'm early this week! It's another update. Keynote planning — I am not dead yet New tool — Dente Pondiverse updates TODEPOND PONDCAST: Dente (YouTube)

TODEPOND PONDCAST: Intensity (YouTube)

The pondiverse is here. TODEPOND PONDCAST: Pondiverse (YouTube)

Here it is. Days since tode fell asleep: Too many. Days since bot went missing: Loads. Days since berd flew away: Sorry, I can't. TODEPOND PONDCAST: Where the hell is the TODEPOND PONDCAST? (YouTube)

Welcome back to another— These updates have stopped being weekly, which is bad. I hereby declare bankruptcy on keeping up to date with my deadlines. To get back on track, I'm going to reduce the quality of these posts. I'm pretty sure this will let me get back to a weekly cadence. Welcome back to th

Well then! It's time for another weekly— No, they're really not weekly, are they. They haven't been weekly for a while. It really is because of how busy I've been. First I was in Belgium, then I was in Berlin, then I was in Los Angeles, and last week... Last week I was at a wedding. So here we are w

Welcome back to another non-weekly episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 I'm late again! I'm very late, so it's a three-in-one. WARNING. This is a triple length pondcast. This time it's because I was away in Los Angeles! Keep reading for more details... LIVE I was in Los Angeles for SPLASH, a bi

Welcome back to another weekly-ish episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 It's another two parter because I missed last week because I was in Berlin for— I'll get to that. What's new these past two weeks? Deaths of the tadi web Talk season continues. In preparation for my keynote at Berlin Causal

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Blur I've been working more on the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand, and I've been using heavy use of blur for a money shot in the intro. "Money shot" can mean different things (apparently) but I'm usi

Welcome, again, to the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Login In my continued explorations of radical simplicity, as part of the tadi web, I continue to make tiny little experiments, and I share them in my tadi lab. This week, I made a little experiment that got a little more attenti

Well well welcome back to the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Boosh I did a second livestream! Another one! Except this time, it was over double the length, hitting eight and a half hours. What I did was, was that I, I watched one episode of the Sandpond Saga, just one, and I did th

Welcome back. It's time for another weekly edition of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Open Talk preparations are underway. I've been developing the keynote I'm giving at Heart of Clojure. I've been working through what content would go into the talk, and I now have a loose strin

Welcome back... to another weekly episode... of the 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? We got accepted! We got accepted. Dave Ackley and I got accepted for Onward! Essays!, which will take place at SPLASH later this year. We're both really pleased! The next step is to come up with, and pl

It's here again. It's time for another weekly episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 I've been way too busy. Ok so I wrote this pondcast ages ago, and then I got very ill, so this is very very late. Sorry about that. What's new this week? I finally wrote my (first) write up of Arroost. I've done

Oh my god. It's time for— It's been a weird week. Thank god it's the— 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Reaction reaction I did a livestream a week ago. Its premise was simple. I would react to— Ok, a long time ago, I released a video called Spellular Automata. And recently, a tech influ

No update this week, because I did this instead, whatever this is. And hello to all the new supporters. LOADS of you joined this week. Welcome. Reaction Reaction (YouTube)

Hullo. Welcome back to another weekly edition of the ... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? This is not a fish In the future of coding world, I released a new video! It's called This Is Not A Fish and it's a video adaptation of a recent episode. Check it out here. And a new future of codi

Welcome back welcome back! To another weekly episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Shepherding Me and Dave Ackley had a call with each other, discussing how to proceed with our submission to Onward. We were conditionally accepted, and we need to make changes to get fully ac

Hello, it's me. And this is yet another weekly episode of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Stitch This week, I’ve been working on the first exhibition for Torn Leaf, my silly online gallery. The submissions have been truly wonderful. There’s a nice mix now, but there’s still room

Hi hi hi. Welcome back... to yet another weekly episode... of the... 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What's new this week? Todepond I've been working on my write-up for Seet, a short-lived project that I worked on as part of my Ink & Switch residency. The funny thing with the write-up is that I'm trying to

Welcome back again. Again it’s time… for another weekly episode… of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Confession I recorded some more voice over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. Who knows if it’ll be used as “concept art” or end up in the real thing. I recorded a few ta

Well hello again. It’s time for another weekly episode / edition of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Out of time This week, I recorded some voice-over for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I’ve been exploring how to time it. As you might imagine, there’s a lot of repeti

Welcome back nerds. It’s time for another weekly edition of the… … oh no … something isn’t right. This pondcast is a week late. I missed one! No, that’s ok. I’ll just do… two pondcasts in one week. That’s fine. So here they are. I present to you… two pondcasts, one after the other. This first one is

We return… to another weekly episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Torn leaf zero This week, I made a video to announce my- wait I should fill you in first- I’ve been creating an ‘experimental online gallery’ called torn leaf. It’s currently (and always) accepting submissions

Hello hello welcome back everyone. It’s time for the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Natural code Work continues on the essay that I’m writing with Dave Ackley! We’ve been having many more chats and recorded ‘dialogues’. It’s about the idea of natural code. Basically… um… and this mig

And so we return. For another weekly episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Why we are coders I’ve been working with Dave Ackley. We’ve been trying to put together an essay to submit to splash, where I talked last year. Specifically, we’re hoping to submit to onward essays, wi

Ello. Welcome back to another weekly episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Bot went missing This week, Flora Caulton made some concept art for an animation she’s making for the next video, Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And I love it. If you didn’t notice, I like to ‘connect’ cons

Finally, it’s another weekly episode of the 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? A lot. Twenty minutes I’ve been editing and arranging the video, getting all the sands in order. As part of this, I’ve been cutting up and stretching around different pieces. This has caused some bits of music

Welcome one, welcome all. To another weekly episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Top 100 “Top 100” is a popular video format on youtube. Top 100 Ways To Walk Top 100 Ways To Die In Garry’s Mod Top 100 3D Renders The format continues to develop as youtubers push it further an

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the… Apologies. I’m a bit unwell, so I’m saving my voice. And I’m getting the computer to read out this week’s episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Part one: Final shot Last week, I told you that Ivan Reese agreed to make the music f

Ah. It’s time for another weekly episode of the 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Vision pro I made a stupid little video that parodies the Apple vision pro. Go watch it! Previously, I’ve posted any “bonus” content as unlisted videos. But this one felt polished enough to make public. It

Ohhhhhh yes. It’s time again… for the weekly… Uh, this week, let’s take a behind-the-scenes look into the music of the Arrows video. It’s time for a DEEP DIVE. Wait! Patreon isn't powerful enough for this DEEP DIVE. Head over to my website to see it instead. Click >> HERE <<

Hello and welcome back to another weekly edition of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Sixteen scrappy fiddles Whenever I’m making a video, I repeatedly export what I’ve got so far. It’s partly to make another form of backup. And it’s partly so that I can rewatch it again and again.

It’s been a very very long time since the last video vote. But the next video vote is finally here! It’s the… 🐸 VIDEO VOTE 🐸 The next video will be… the… 🏆 Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And it’s going to be the finale of the Sleeping Tode Trilogy. Tode will finally wake up! But today we’re voting for

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the … 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Arrows in arrows in arrows The new video is FINALLY OUT!!!! Go watch it here before reading on. As this pondcast includes some major spoilers, as you may have noticed!!!!! I feel such a sense of relief from

It's here. Oh berd... 🎵 Arrows in Arrows in Arrows (YouTube)

Hey I just posted up a tiny teaser trailer for the upcoming Arrows video. Go watch it! The main video will come out on the 12th January. If you want your name to appear in the credits, you still have a tiny bit of time. Please make sure you've done any last edits by tomorrow. Instructions for how to

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the… Wait. Before we get started, make sure you claim your spot in the Pond of Fame for the upcoming video. There are instructions in the last post. If you’ve entered your email, and you haven’t got your secret code yet, then feel free to email me! todepond@

Welcome back to another weekly episode of the… No, this isn’t a TODEPOND PONDCAST. This is an update where I ask you to CHOOSE something. These were way more common back in the day. Those of you who’ve been around for a while will remember them. Recently, I’ve been working slower, so there haven’t b

Can you hear me ok? It’s time for another weekly episode of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Replacement This week, I’ve been working on Arroost (for the next video). I’ve been putting more in place for one of the ending sequences of the video: An infinite zoom sequence. Zooming in

Welcome back… to another weekly episode… of the… 🐸 TODEPOND PONDCAST 🐸 What’s new this week? Pixel I added a new thing to Arroost. It’s a square shape. And it’s for storing information. Arroost is a machine that ticks forwards at a speed of 120 beats-per-minute. Whenever it does this, all ‘pulses’