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November 2025
This month, we celebrate Hundred Rabbit's 10 year anniversary and remember with great fondness how, in November 2015, we sat together at a coffee shop in Montreal, puzzling over how we would start a new life on the water. Here's hoping for 10 more years of learning and documenting experiments around low-tech and resilience!
We finally stashed our summer sailing gear, we compressed everything into vacuum bags drawing out as much air as we could to discourage mold. We're entering the month of December in Victoria, and we are beginning to feel the increasing dampness of winter in our clothes, we also see it as the condensation gathers on Pino's windows.
Devine spent the last few days in Austria at the Ultramateria Festival to talk with local artists and activists about the design philosophy of Hundred Rabbits. Devine also gave an Orca workshop, played some techno in a gorgeous venue, made a brief appearance on Austrian television and Fireside Fedi.
Rek spent time troubleshooting a raw water leak in Calcifer II, gaining in-depth knowledge of yet another part of the engine. What was learned was documented in the ever-growing engine care portal under raw water pump. Rek has also been working on the upcoming Playdate version of Donsol!
Book Club: This month we are still reading Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert.
October 2025
- Rabbit Waves, released a new page called Celestial Compass, and added a button for those who wish to link to the website from theirs.
- Bagel, wrote about a cursed programming language idea in which functions return multisets(bags) and compose by multiplication.
- CCCC, added a prime factorization mode.
- Punk Rabbits, completed 2 new rabbits(#55 and 56).
We sailed Pino back to Victoria before heading east for AMP Festival 2025. The venue was packed! The Aliceffekt show started with a bit of radio taiso, to make sure everyone had a chance to limber up, it was pretty funny.
As the trees were shedding the last of their leaves, members of the Merveilles community composed a spooky mixtape(download), and we folded paper to craft ourselves some homemade Halloween masks. Like every year, we carved a pumpkin. This year's design was inspired by the Hollow creature from the amazing animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign.
We spent the rest of the month with family, seeing friends and reviewing microgrant applications for Rhizome.
We have re-opened the store for sticker sales, but at the moment we cannot ship them to the US due to the suspension of the de minimis exemption. We hope to resume shipments as soon as we can figure out how to comply with the new shipping rules. The sale of our physical books to the US is unaffected. We'll end this update with the mention that Oquonie is part of the Playdate Catalogue fall sale lasting until Nov 13, 2025. Thank you to everyone who continue to explore our strange little world.
Book Club: This month we are reading The Outsiders by Susan E. Hinton, and Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert.
September 2025
As promised, we released a revised transcription of Devine's talk Permacomputing 101 for Critical Signals 2025! We have moved our website to a Canadian TDL(100r.ca), so be sure to update your bookmarks! We will keep the .co version of our website online for redundancy.
Rek finished revising the upcoming updated version of the Victoria to Sitka logbook and passed the text over to Devine for proof-reading. The finished publication will feature 104 drawings, 19 recipes, and 18 new sections on a variety of topics. We hope to release the digital version early next year, and the printed version a bit later.
Our friend Erik(d6) designed a bespoke chat server so that the Uxn community could meet up through an interface designed specifically to interface nicely with tiny clients so we hacked together a little rom for it. Get in touch if you'd like to hang out on there!
Devine is performing in Montreal on October 11th, as Aliceffekt, at the AMP Festival 2025. They've also released a new album this month, called Ver'Iystl(Bandcamp), adding further dimension to the many places populating the Neauismetica. Let us know if you're planning to come!
Book Club: This month we are reading The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, and we are continuing to read Middlemarch by George Eliot.
August 2025
In preparation for a programming class that's coming up, we've implemented a graphical tiny-BASIC runtime called Sunflower BASIC. It contains the essential blocks of a BASIC language interpreter with enough features to communicate elementary programming concepts and how each one is implemented. We've also released the Permacomputing 101 talk given at Critical Signals 2025 which covered a few interesting aspect of digital preservation and some tactics to craft software in a way that may last.
Choosing to remain in the Southern Gulf islands in August this year has permitted us to pick blackberries, plums and apples. We have incorporated the fruit into cakes, or just squished whole berries over morning toast. We processed some of the apples into jam, and are currently delighting in eating through the rest. We've also been experimenting with the solar cooker, preparing some cinnamon buns in it for the first time! See our cameo in our friend Peter's latest video.
This month's drawing is a tribute to Moebius.
Book Club: This month we are continuing to read Middlemarch by George Eliot.
July 2025
This month we sailed into the Juan de Fuca Strait, escorted by pods of orcas and a lone young humpback whale. The last time we had been here was in July 2020, on our way back from Japan. After weathering gale force winds at anchor in Becher Bay, we stopped in Port San Juan. The beaches there are covered in old growth driftwood, carried there by winter storms. Some trees are so large and have been there so long that people have installed swings on them. The way to Barkley Sound was bleak, we spent 10 hours of it in a fog bank, only to emerge near Cape Beale to a bright sun over jade-colored waters. We pulled into Ucluelet the next day, just in time to meet up with our friend Avi to view the building site for their upcoming boatyard project.
We spent a few days anchored in Barkley Sound, in an anchorage with the biggest population of hummingbirds we'd ever seen. The hummingbird visits were constant, with 3-4 buzzing around us at all times. During our stay there we completed our game entry for Catjam named Polycat. The game is very hard, but also very short. Watch a video of Devine playing the game.
In the second half of July, Pino sailed back to the Southern Gulf islands and stayed anchored alongside a friend, messing with their laser engraver, hiking, picking blackberries, and working on projects. Instead of hummingbirds, in Fulford, we had kingfishers, they really liked sitting on the wind vane's arrow on top of the mast. See this amazing drone footage shot by our friends aboard MV Poem.
Devine has been invited to talk about permacomputing at Critical Signals on August 12th. They will try to introduce some of the ideas that they find most interesting via practical examples. Save the date!
Book Club: This month we are reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
June 2025
For a few days, Pino became a land creature, living on stilts, while we scrubbed and re-painted the lower part of the hull. Our propeller had a bit of a wobble, which we hope is now corrected. We also battled with the old wheel quadrant and were finally able to remove it, at least a part of it. Boaters have frequently helped us while we were in boatyards, and we are finally able to pay it forward. We offered both advice to those who asked and lent tools to folks that needed them. It felt nice. Teapot's new bottom has seen water for the first time, the new gelcoat will allow us to take it around into bays for many more years to come.
We spent many June days working on both Turnip Complete(Uxn book) and the enhanced version of the Victoria to Sitka Logbook, with frequent breaks to enjoy the beautiful places we found ourselves in.
The beginning of our sailing season has been very blustery, allowing for some good sailing, but also often forcing us to wait at anchor for clement weather. Later, we sailed through the San Juan Islands to meet up with some Merveillans on Blakely Island. We are very grateful to be part of a community of such kind, curious, and generous people. The image that was drawn for this month's update represents cooperation between members of Merveilles.
Book Club: This month we are reading Ill Met By Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt, Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien and Girl's Last Tour by Tsukumizu.
May 2025
Oquonie was released on the Playdate Catalog this month! We'd like to thank everyone who sent us photos of their progress in the game, it has been nice to follow along. The game is kind of our first official release on a modern handheld platform, and we're happy to see that Uxn roms run well on it! It might be one of the first original Playdate games implemented that way?
In other news, Devine started working on a book, the working title is "Turnip Complete". The goal is to write a complete and stand-alone implementation guide for the Uxn virtual machine and devices, along with some example programs and thoughts about playful computery things. We might have something to show for it come autumn, maybe.
We've left Victoria for the summer, and are falling back into the groove of waking up at dusk to catch the tide. We have a quick haul out lined up, and afterward we'll be sailing around the Gulf Islands until the fall. We have lots of projects to finish up these next couple of months and can't wait to share them with you.
We share photos of life aboard throughout the month on our little photo site, if you're curious to see what the daily life aboard Pino is like.
Book Club: This month we are reading Artemis by Andy Weir, Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy and the Indolent by Ruth Stout and A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen.
April 2025
- Wiki, updated water, ditch bag, woodstove installation, and added new photos and information on first aid kit.
- Rabbit Waves, updated Triangular Bandages with animated gifs, and First-Aid kit with new med suggestions (also appended a .txt list of meds and their intended use).
- Hakum, began a new comic sequence named Sabotage Study(not yet completed).
- Orca, modified the behavior of the lowercase-j operator to allow for jumpers to grow.
- Solresol, improved the documentation.
- Uxntal, improved the documentation.
The weather is getting warmer, which is perfect for airing out Pino's lockers, and drying off moldy clothes and tools. Anything stored in the v-berth lockers, below the waterline, suffer from extreme wetness. It is a very, very annoying fact of boat life, but there is really no way to bring good air flow in those spaces. We scrubbed the lockers clean, parted with items we no longer needed, and sent two laptops to the recycler.
In last month's update, we mentioned Flickjam, a game jam based on Increpare's Flickgame. We received a total of 27 entries! They're really fun, and all playable in the browser. Devine's jam entry is about a very adorable rabbit learning to play the word "rabbit" on a xylophone in Solresol.
Devine spent some time off the computer, skating and folding paper. The paper computer pages have been updated to cover some new ways in which computer emulators can be operated on paper. While on that subject, we highly recommend Tadashi Tokieda's excellent talk named A world from a sheet of paper.
Another item on Devine's list was to gradually phase out Uxnasm.c in favor of the self-hosted assembler. We're not 100% pleased yet, but it is getting closer to retirement.
Starting on May 20th 2025(1000 PST/PDT) the Playdate Catalogue will include Oquonie. The game is also available on our itch.io store.
The video for Devine's November 2024 talk A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand is now on YouTube.
Book Club: This month we are reading Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins, Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, and we are still making progress on the The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
March 2025
In the above illustration, little Ninj is going through a first-aid kit, looking through our supplies to see what needs to be topped off and what is out-of-date. Rek drew a list of suggestions on what to include in both a first-aid and a medical kit for the Rabbit Waves project, we plan to add more items soon(thanks to everyone on Mastodon who suggested additions! It'll be in the April update).
We will spend the first few days of April participating in Flickjam, making small games in the style of Flickgame, a tool originally made by Increpare, in which the world is navigated by clicking on pixels of different colors to head in different directions. Devine ported Flickgame to Varvara, and wrote a compiler for flick games to uxn roms.
This past month, Rek finished transcribing the entire 15 weeks of the Victoria to Sitka logbook! We have plans to turn it into a book, in the style of Busy Doing Nothing, with tons of extra content and illustrations.
March was a very good month for silly calendar doodles. Our paper calendar is always in view, it documents important events like releases, appointments, as well as food, memes, and other noteworthy things that happened on each day.
Book Club: This month we are still reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, it's a long book!
February 2025
On February 14th, we celebrated our 9th year living aboard our beloved Pino. Read a short text by Devine, which expands on what it means to truly be a generalist.
Despite the weather being less-than-ideal, we were able to install our replacement solar panels, and revisit our notes on solar installations.
Devine completed Nebu, a spritesheet editor as well as a desktop calendar, alongside many other little desktop utilities. Nebu is just over 8.3 kB, a bit less than a blank excel file.
In times of increasing climate and political instability, it is a good time to get together with your community and make plans for emergencies. Consider reading Tokyo Bosai about disaster preparedness, this elaborate document deals with disasters that occur specifically in Japan, but many of the recommendations are useful regardless. We released a new page on rabbit waves with suggestions on what to pack in an Emergency Bag. Remember, every emergency bag is different, and what is essential varies per person.
We also put together a print-it-yourself zine, which combines useful information about Morse Code and Signal Flags. If you have printed the zine and don't know how to fold it, see Rek's illustrated instructions. Speaking of signal flags, we printed stickers of Rek's ICS flag drawings.
The nice weather finally arrived this week and we were able to redo Teapot's gelcoat. This was our first time working with gelcoat, our friends Rik & Kay, who lent us their workspace, were very patient and generous teachers. We will continue the project later when the gelcoat has cured.
Book Club: This month we are reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
January 2025
Devine spent time improving the html5 uxn emulator, and thanks to their hard work it is now possible to play Niju, Donsol, and Oquonie directly in the browser on itch.io, the same goes for projects like Noodle and Tote.
It's been a long time coming, but Oquonie is now playable on Playdate. Rek spent the last week converting the 2-bit assets for Oquonie to 1-bit, because some of the characters and tiles were too difficult to read, now all of the assets work perfectly on monochromatic screens. As an amazing plus, Devine got the music and sounds working perfectly, just like in the original iOS version.
From January 19-25th, we both participated in Goblin Week, an event in which you make goblins every day for a week(whatever that means to you). See the goblin series made by Rek(viewable here in higher rez also) and the one made by Devine(Mastodon).
Pino has earned two new replacement solar panels this month! We have not installed them yet, it is still too cold outside in Victoria (we are expecting snow this week).
We share photos often in our monthly updates, and so Devine spent time building our very own custom photo feed named Days. It is possible to follow the feed with RSS.
Book Club: This month we are reading How do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino and Middlemarch by George Eliot.
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