textjam spring2026
may 8th -> june 7th

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introducing the spring 2026 textjam

posted may 5
textjam is back!

its like a game jam, but you
can produce anything you want,
as long as its text based

if you were around for textjam winter 2023,
you know the deal: build something text-based over the
course of a few weeks, have fun, and show off what you
made at the end

some of the things folks built last time:

- pipes, a pipe mania game playable over ssh
- spotify-cover-maker UI, a tui for generating spotify cover art
- tiny text editor, a minimal text editor from scratch
- Calculator, a terminal calculator

this time around the jam runs from friday may 8th
through saturday june 7th, so you've got a full month

some things to know:

- there are no winners, this is a chill jam, just make
  something and have fun with it
- there will be in-person slots to come work on your
  projects, most likely the thursday cts night
- at the end we'll have a show-and-tell where everyone
  can demo what they've been working on

if you're new, don't worry, even a python script that
says hello counts as a valid submission, its more about
the process than the end result

hop into the cts-nl discord to hang out with
other participants, and check out how to submit
when you're ready
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