Lots of videos in this one. Turns out full screen shaders and drag to place belts are harder than one might think. I think I have a cool thing to contribute to the #Factory game genre. exofactory.net/blog/2025-12... #bevy #GameDev #rust #WGSL

This one covers porting to #bevy 0.17, moving to Avian for physics, and a lot of QoL fixed. #rust #GameDev #indiedev Lots of images and videos in this one. exofactory.net/blog/2025-11...

Just ported my game to #bevy 0.17 and switched physics engines. The Avian physics engine has been a dream. Collider::convex_hull alone brings a tear of joy to my eye. So much nicer to work with compared to Rapier3D #IndieGameDev #Gamedev

Protip for those of you porting your games from #bevy 0.16 to 0.17. Make sure to set Pickable properly on full screen entries. I spent too much time getting scroll working. TLDR: the loading screen that I tweened transparent was still there and was intercepting everything. #IndieGameDev

Maybe it’s all the hours I’ve spent building a factory game, but I wanted to relax with something different. I’ve heard great things about #SilkSong and finally picked it up. It’s fantastic but good god, not relaxing. I just wanted to avoid that “veterinarian in a zoo” feeling while doing #GameDev

Latest Exofactory dev blog post reflecting on Steam next fest and the new updated timeline. I’m pretty exhausted and I hope it doesn’t show through too much lol. Long story short lots of learning. exofactory.net/blog/2025-10...

The Exifactory Demo is officially out. Way fewer bugs thanks to the testers particularly on the #Linux build. The game is part of Steam Next and the algorithm really matteres for #IndieGameDev so I would recommend checking and playing the demo early this week store.steampowered.com/app/3615720/...

Upside of using #bevy and open tooling is you can get your games to compile on non corporate approved architectures. I just got the #aarch64 and #RISCV builds running. If you have real RISC-V hardware and want to test let me know. Here is the game running natively on a Pine Book Pro. #GameDev

The Exofactory demo has been soft launched and is available to download on Steam. So so so much work. Lots of game dev specific stuff in this one. Will hard launch as part of Steam Next fest but you can play it now. #GameDev #rust #bevy exofactory.net/blog/2025-10...

There are a lot details in this one. The work I did over last month convinced me that ECS might be by far the best way to build a factory game. If you are interested in alpha testing or technical code details I recommend talking a look. #gamedev #bevy #rust #indie exofactory.net/blog/2025-09...

I recently finished my little side project. A custom designed Alice layout #Keyboard focused on being lightweight and travel friendly. Powered by the #rust / #rustlang based RMK firmware, and designed in #kicad Don’t laugh too much at my soldering and bodge wire.

Happy to publish the latest Exofactory devblog. Long story short then Belnder/Bevy Skein plugin is amazing and terrain level of detail is annoying. Way more technical detail in this one. #bevy #GameDev #rust #rustlang exofactory.net/blog/2025-08...

It feels weird to bring a desktop to the woods but #bornhack is the type of place where you can do that. Even with the rain it was worth it. #gamedev

A bit nervous but not seeing much #bevy content. Working on a factory game in #rust with #bevy - just hit Steam! If you’re into #indiedev dev logs, I have an RSS feed. This week: art, but usually ECS challenges and procedural terrain pain. First large-scale game! exofactory.net/blog/2025-07...

Tariffs can be smart policy—if they’re stable. Say a 30% chip tariff locked in for 10 years: companies invest, build plants, plan ahead. But if policymakers flop around like a fish, no one bets on it. You get the pain without the payoff.

really wish #uutils was under a copyleft license. It’s cool but using it just makes it easier for mega corps to lock down things even more. Yah #rust / #rustlang is faster and more secure, but #GPL is better for society.

For people working in #rustlang / #rust If you are considering a CPU upgrade I strongly recommended NOT putting it off. The faster compile times are nice, but the increased responsiveness of the lsp/rust-analyze is GAME CHANGING. Before everything took a hundred ms. On my new CPU it’s all instant.

Hot take. Curb Your Enthusiasm is a bad show. It’s bad like Sinefeld is bad. Like I don’t get how people enjoy it. I couldn’t even finish the pilot.

Nothing is more satisfying than seeing a hard drive show up after soldering on a bodge wire to fix a broken pin. Family pictures saved. In other news I suddenly see why people would choose cone topped soldering irons over chisel.

Really liking the look of the #gleam programming language. Does anyone have any experience with it? Like I really like the BEAM VM but really don’t like Elixer (and really don’t want to work in Erlang)

It’s that time of year again. Getting pumped for #FOSDEM again. I am thinking it might be nice to do a queer centric, libre ethos dinner or something the evening of the 2nd or 3rd. Would anyone be interested?

Shout out to the European Biostasis Foundation for their excellent get-togethers and training sessions. If anyone in Europe is interested in cryonics, being frozen post-death, or wants >0% chance of being brought back, you should check them out along with their partner organization, Tomorrow Bio.

Lukewarm take. If you are running Linux on your desktop or laptop you might as well set the “mitigations=off” kernel parameter. You gain like 30% more performance on certain CPUs and the risk of one VM leaking data to another via branch prediction leaks or whatever is minimal.

Just set up a self hosted FreshRSS instance. I’m pleasantly shocked to find that in 2023 RSS is alive and kicking. It’s a nice change from more centralized (or even federated) media aggregation sites.

It is just me not paying attention or did Codeberg e.V. just pop out of nowhere to start taking names and kicking butt? As far as I can see everything they are working on looks amazing.

I don’t understand leftists that support Russia. Russia is a purely capitalist, ultra right wing nation that is literally doing a late stage capitalist imperial war.A leftist supporting Cuba or China I can understand. Russia? No. Russia being a capitalist state makes the 80s era theory not valid.

Are users of the Brave browser in a cult? Brave is made by a crypto ad company ran by crypto bros. Yet Brave users insist on pushing brave everywhere. Haven’t we learned that using products made by ad companies is a bad idea and that trusting crypto bros is a bad idea? Combining the two is just. Ugh

I can’t decide if I love Seafile or not. One one hand it’s the fastest file syncing program in the land. For many small files it’s literally 100x faster than Nextcloud. On the other hand I see weird programing choices and bad UI everywhere.

If you don’t support IPv6 on your services you say “I don’t care about the poorest users in the developing world who don’t have proper IPv4 endpoints”. You know you hate CGNAT, why force less fortunate people to use it? Saying no to IPv6 because you don’t want to learn it is some level of privilege

Hot take of the day. If you don’t support ipv6 on your services you are the problem. Don’t let a skill issue hold you back. Stop thinking with IPv4 style NAT and all of the “problems” will go away. Use a proper firewall like a sane person.

If you haven’t enabled zram on your systems you should. It’s basicly free ram. I’ve seen compression ratios of 250:1 and the latency is negligible.