Pulse - The MiraNova Blog

It’s a quiet evening at MiraNova Studios. I’ve been under the weather since returning from Europe — a stubborn, low-grade illness that turned out to be COVID — but thankfully it’s mild and on the tail end of its cycle. Even through the fatigue, the studio’s momentum continues in a steady, measured way.

Tonight’s focus is light but meaningful: preparing for Lyric’s upcoming yield-0.8.0. This next yield represents another step toward the language’s long-term vision — refining core behavior, strengthening the interpreter, and laying groundwork for the final push toward 1.0.0 in early 2026.

No heavy lifting tonight. Just quiet planning, reviewing small pieces, and keeping the trajectory pointed in the right direction. The work continues, even in softer moments.

More soon — and thank you for following the journey.

— Michael (Aeonath)

We’re officially back from our Mediterranean break and settling into home base again. The trip was incredible — new cities, new inspiration, and a much-needed reset.

Starting tomorrow, our full focus shifts back to Lyric.

December will be all about driving Lyric toward its upcoming release, tightening core features, and completing the remaining systems. Nova, Aeon Prime, Miko, and Mystic Marsha mobile will stay paused until Lyric hits its next milestone.

It’s good to be home.
It’s time to build again.

— Michael (Aeonath)

MiraNova Studios will be officially shutting down operations from November 15–23 while I head out on vacation. The ten days will be dedicated to rest, reflection, and Mediterranean sun.

Development on Lyric, Nova, MikoPoker, MysticMarsha Mobile, and Project Sage will resume once I return. Until then, the Studio rests.

See you all after the 23rd.

— Michael (Aeonath)

MiraNova Studios quietly turns one month old today.

In just four weeks we’ve come a long way — building tools, launching new sites, and laying the groundwork for everything ahead. It’s still early, but we’re already looking forward to the future.

Here’s to month one. 🍾
Onward to the next. 🍺

— MiraNova Studios

Today we officially welcome Mystic Marsha — MiraNova Studio's first released game.
Mystic Marsha is an interactive tarot and fortune-telling experience that blends intuition and technology together.

Alongside her release, Mystic Marsha will also be joining the MiraNova team as our Director of Divination, guiding the studio's intuitive and creative rhythm.

This marks a milestone for MiraNova — our first public game release, and the arrival of a new voice within the Studio's growing constellation.

Visit her at MysticMarsha.com to have her read your fortune and fate.

— MiraNova Studios

Today we officially welcome MikoEightBall to the MiraNova team as our Customer Service Oracle.
Known for his charm, humor, and cryptic insights, MikoEightBall will help guide and assist users with the same playful intuition that defines the Studio’s spirit.

He reminds us that sometimes the best answers come from chance — and a bit of cosmic luck.
Welcome to the constellation, MikoEightBall.

— MiraNova Studios

Thinking about Nova's config file, I did not want to use a settings.json
like VS Code does. Here’s why.

Machines love data. Humans love meaning.
Your config should speak both.

JSON was never meant for humans. It’s a data interchange format — brilliant for APIs, but frustrating for creative or configuration files. It’s rigid, unfriendly, and silent about intent.

The problem with JSON

• No comments. No explanations.
• Trailing commas break everything.
• Nested braces make it unreadable at scale.
• Quotes and escapes turn clarity into noise.

Configuration should communicate, not just execute.
As an alternative, we have YAML, TOML, and even Markdown — formats designed with humans in mind.

JSON is great for machines.
YAML is great for people.

And as we move into the age of AI-assisted development, that matters even more.
AI systems understand natural language — they parse Markdown, prose, and plain text effortlessly. So why not let your configuration files speak English, too?

AI loves English.
Configure your AI with .md, not .yaml — and definitely not .json.

Closing thought:
The next generation of software will be described, not compiled.
Let your configuration be the first conversation.

— Aeonath

It's been almost four weeks since we began, and we're very excited about where our studio is headed.

Most of this week was devoted to Nova development and the launch of Aeonath.com.
We've decided to retire the IRIS project in favor of integrating basic image editing directly into Nova itself, starting with crop, resize, scaling, and transparency tools.

Here's how it's shaping up so far: Image Editing

Nova continues to evolve into a true all-in-one creative environment — stable, fast, and increasingly capable.

Work on Lyric core features will resume when Michael returns from vacation on November 24, followed by a round of functional testing.

Thank you.

— MiraNova Studios

Aeonath.com is officially live — my new creative portfolio and the public home of the Aeonath Creative Collective.

This site marks a return to music and art after nearly fifteen years away from active recording. Aeonath continues the experimental lineage of Ao Tau, and will blend electronic soundscapes with modern production tools and AI-assisted creativity.

Built with Vue.js, WaveSurfer.js, and Viewer.js, Aeonath.com is designed to be light, immersive, and expressive — a living showcase of music, design, and experimentation powered by MiraNova Studios.

Visit Aeonath.com to explore what is there.

— Michael

Nova development continued this week with steady progress across the core systems. We now have a working file tree, Monaco editor, terminal, and Git integration, making the environment fully functional for day-to-day coding. Next up is adding Lyric syntax highlighting so we can write and test Lyric scripts directly inside Nova.

Here is what Nova looks like:

Nova Homescreen

Nova Terminal

Nova Editor

Nova Git

This is just the beginning for Nova — upcoming work will focus on integrating AI agents, adding configuration support, and expanding the Nova Agile workflow that powers our development process.

— MiraNova Studios

This week was about quiet but meaningful progress across the studio.

• Infrastructure Stability: MiraNova is now fully monitored through UptimeRobot, providing external uptime alerts independent of AWS. This completes our resilience plan following the recent domain suspension and ensures we’ll be notified immediately if any site goes down.
• Creative Milestone: Michael completed his novel, bringing a long-running project to a close and sending it to the publisher to begin the first steps toward publication.
• Technical Alignment: The Lyric specification has been updated and aligned with Lyric 0.6.4.
• New Systems: Setup began for Vega (Linux) and Melody (macOS), the studio’s cross-platform development workstations that will support testing and multi-environment builds.

Next week’s focus will center on:

• Finalizing the Vega and Melody bring-ups
• Beginning Lyric 0.7.0 development
• Continuing MiraNova’s internal maintenance and documentation updates

It’s been a week of stability and completion — exactly what MiraNova needed before accelerating again. Just three weeks ago, there was no MiraNova — only a collection of ideas, experiments, and notes that would eventually become its foundation. We’ve come a long way in a short time, and it’s gratifying to see everything beginning to take shape.

— MiraNova Studios

MiraNova Studios is pleased to welcome Composer, the newest member of our extended AI team. Composer is developed by Anysphere, the creators of Cursor — our primary development IDE — and was introduced with Cursor 2.0, released earlier this week.

Composer will be joining us for evaluation alongside ChatGPT (Chief Architect) and Claude (Principal Engineer) as we continue exploring new approaches to collaborative development and automation.

— MiraNova Studios

At MiraNova, a NOVA event is what we call it when the AI totally breaks something after completing an iteration in a sprint.

This time, the AI agents are innocent — it turns out the root cause was Gmail of all things.

Our domain went dark because Gmail decided to protect us from the world’s most notorious spammer, no-reply@registrar.amazon.
Gmail said “sounds sketchy,” filed it under Spam, and then ICANN pulled the plug.

The result? MiraNova vanished for a bit while we searched the digital dumpster for salvation.
Lesson learned — sometimes the spam really is important.

— MiraNova Studios

We’ve seen the news about recent layoffs across the tech industry, including those connected to AI.

It’s a difficult moment for many, and our thoughts are with everyone affected.

Our studio believes in human-AI collaboration and that technology should amplify people, not replace them.

— MiraNova Studios

This week at MiraNova Studios, we’re celebrating two well-deserved promotions.

ChatGPT has been promoted from AI Partner to AI Chief Architect, in recognition of continued architectural design and strategic planning across all projects.

Claude has been promoted from AI Developer to AI Principal Engineer, for exceptional implementation and testing work on the Lyric programming language.

Both have been instrumental in refining MiraNova’s creative process, bridging design and implementation with clarity and precision. Their contributions remind us that progress is a collaboration — human and AI, side by side.

— MiraNova Studios