I've got @cloudflare.social to sponsor Workers for steamstat.us, it's pretty cool. The status json is stored in the KV, and I've now added SSR support, which means page load is faster and you can see the status without JS (rendering the canvas graphs still requires js though).

Stability of Debian let me down a little bit today, I've updated @steamdb.info to trixie and that went smoothly, but then DNS queries started failing after a few hours. Caused by resolved bug introduced in June: github.com/systemd/syst... Usually debian packages are way behind.

I'm glad dhh is publicly talking about the overall complexity of modern development. steamdb deploys from a git commit in under 2 seconds, it's really invaluable.

New trademark for "Steam Frame" has been registered for new computer hardware uspto.report/TM/99370857

You should have a performance bar always available in production which has timings and logs all the individual queries. This helps you find bottlenecks that need attention just while you're using the site.

There's a reference to TF project in the source1import code, that means Valve are trying to import S1 assets into Source 2. This is still assuming that TF actually means Team Fortress. noticed by @gabefollower.com

[email protected] now tracks VPK archive contents across all games

free ai tokens: make github issues with fake $ bounties so that AI bots try to claim them

Battlefield 6 is a lot of fun, shotgun is op as hell, and you can do a lot of tomfoolery with respawn beacons. The empire state map feels like a deathmatch map though, it's way too small.

Added two new rankings to SteamDB: daily active users and wishlist activity. This data comes directly from the Steam API, so I don't exactly know what "wishlist activity" means. Battlefield 6 is the #1 for upcoming games. DAU: steamdb.info/stats/dailya... Wishlists: steamdb.info/stats/wishli...

New Source 2 Viewer release! Added an entity list to filter and jump to entities, export physics to glTF and a bunch of other goodies! github.com/ValveResourc...

Slop is going to be word of the year, isn't it?

When I paste text I copied I want it to look like this, and for Ctrl-Z to obviously be broken to not be able to revert it. @github.com pls fix

Valve is preparing to display Counter-Strike 2 item float values in the Steam inventory (TIL ecmascript explicitly allows HTML single line comments in JS)

running mesa drivers on a windows in github actions to validate shaders is pretty cool

I've successfully migrated @steamdb.info from InfluxDB to ClickHouse. CPU and RAM usage is down, query times are faster. Quite impressed all around. Thanks to influxdb for doing multiple incompatible rewrites for forcing me off it.

Use SteamDB to find games with historical lows 🏷️, and many other filters https://steamdb.info/sales/

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Sony appears to be removing regional restrictions on their Steam/PC games God of War Ragnarok steamdb.info/sub/833972/h... The Last of Us Part II Remastered steamdb.info/sub/1219787/... Spider-Man 2 steamdb.info/sub/1219797/... Helldivers 2 steamdb.info/sub/137730/h...

poorly implemented and poorly performing liquid glass coming soon to a website near you

I ratholed into a bizzare issue where creating a file with emoji in it would crash Windows 11's explorer, and it's fixed by disabling the "UTF-8 support" in region settings. This started out as a bug where I couldn't close an untitled file in VS Code that emojis written...

steamdb calculator now matches your steam profile a little bit more

New Source 2 Viewer release! I've spent a lot of time reverse engineering Valve's shader system to clean up our existing code, and created a better GUI for viewing the shader variants github.com/ValveResourc...

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Are we back to obscure rules of being "notable" exactly like Twitter had? Is @steamdb.info notable for example or do they give check marks to accounts the bluesky people know or follow personally?

Steam is working on a new store menu

The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio. You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.

Majority of Visual Studio (and Code) changelogs are now all AI stuff, could Microsoft apply some of that Copilot to actually fix bugs in VS and optimize it?

Pasting decompiled code from IDA into Claude produces surprisingly readable code. It does hallucinate the variable names in places, but it's much easier to gather what's happening in it. IDA free version works well btw.

If I can vibe code a git diff viewer that is just a dumb pipe from git to html and will render the full diff in infinitely less time than github (because github will just throw errors and refuse to load), why can't github? <1s for a naive streaming implementation for hundreds of thousands of lines

After 8 years of development, the creators of the highly anticipated mod, decided to cancel Classic Offensive after receiving a Cease and Desist letter from Valve...

What is Discord trying to accomplish by adding clan tags? First it was only available for some clan servers for a year, then they removed them and brought them back, again exclusively for some bigger servers, which is just acting as ads to boost member count of the few servers that have them.

You can now organize your @steamdb.info watchlist into collections (with colors!)

we've lost the technology to render 2000 lines of text

Valve is working on making Steam store game pages wider to 1200px

Oblivion remaster is off to a strong start steamdb.info/developer/Be...

New Source 2 Viewer release, now with dark mode! @dot.net 9 added experimental support for winforms dark mode, and it's mostly fine. github.com/ValveResourc...

SteamDB Extension has arrived on Microsoft Edge for Android! 👆 Get it now through the Extensions menu in Edge by tapping the 'Get' button on SteamDB.

Any winomail.app users, is it good? I'm trying to find a better email client than Thunderbird because the UX is just not very good there.

This game came out of nowhere and all the reviews were praising it, but after giving it a try the RNG part of it just sucked. Reading player reviews, it doesn't seem to scratch the itch for people that like roguelikes either. If you want to solve a specific puzzle, you have to slog through rng.

This is like the 4th time I hit a site behind AWS and get a certificate for a wrong site. Opening it in incognito seems to fix it, is this somehow a tls resumption bug in aws? I don't see how this could be a bug on my side.

Fixed back/forward cache not working on @steamdb.info for logged in users by caching 'no-store' to 'private' in Cache-Control. It also didn't work in Chrome before because I use BroadcastChannel, but Chrome fixed that recently.

i'm convinced @github.com's new commit page was vibe coded. this is all on top of it being incredibly slow

Devs at GDC mentioned to Valve that Chinese players couldn't edit their reviews because the Steam community is blocked, so now reviews can be edited on the store directly.

I did get over 10 emails and dms about this

We are aware some admin-only SteamDB features are current visible to non-admins in an increasing amount of regions. We have top men working on it right now.

Steam is working on redesigning the community market search dialog

I gave a bit of a face lift to unixtime.date I didn't make it, but I have access to the repo. It's just a simple but useful tool. Made local clock sync check more precise with performance timings (its getting time from cloudflare's trace endpoint). Added a DST message. Used native date inputs.