I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

using AI for code is great to get you 50% of the way there, especially if you were 80% there already

Shot + chaser

I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Rebecca Heineman passed today. She was a unique talent, to understate things. Anyone could see that in her long list of accomplishments. But we are not just our catalogs of retail products. She was a force of nature, a light in the darkness. This is an unimaginable sadness.

RIP @burgerbecky.bsky.social Rebecca Heineman and thanks for all the wonderful games 😢

Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from her impossible game ports, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.

The last toast by the legend herself: I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass - Becky

The 1/2 last toast from the legend herself: Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around - Becky

❤️

Rebecca Heineman is a legend. If you’re playing video games right now then the work she has done has impacted you.

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!

Foundational figure in PC games. One of those load-bearing creatives where things would look very different for entire genres if she wasn’t around. Please help her out

Dug out my TI-86 and put in some fresh batteries after over a year of it being in storage, and discovered to my delight that its memory had retained its contents.

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

Back for round two today! Come watch me play through more games today from 9-9 Pacific while raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals: www.extra-life.org/participants... . If you drop in, say hi. 🙂 I'm on my friend Alex's stream this year, so I'll be live here: twitch.tv/humaninteract

Game Day is today! Come tune in and watch me play through several games today (and tomorrow) while raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. I start in about 90 minutes at 9am Pacific time, going until 9pm tonight. If you drop into the chat, say hi. :) twitch.tv/humaninteract

2026 may well be the first year since 2011 that I choose not to attend GDC. Just looked at the pricing and it’s hard to justify— the least expensive option (if I pay my own way) is nearly $700. Ah well, I guess technically it’s called the “Festival of Gaming” now so I’m not really missing out. RIP.

Mamdani elected and GZDoom has already been forked with texture filtering off by default. Promises kept.

It's almost Extra Life weekend, and this year will be my 11th year raising money to serve children in need of medical care. Come take a look at my campaign page, tune in this coming weekend (11/8 and 11/9), and please spread the word. See you all in the stream! www.extra-life.org/participants...

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

legit crying so hard right now about this little boy who gave away his skateboard to save a little kitten

One of the most influential artists in the history of Hollywood has passed. Thanks for everything, Drew Struzan. www.instagram.com/p/DPy0ZUEEVnt/

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

This is why I'm not generally in favour of remasters as they tend to lead to the erasure of originals, or at best, they are relegated to becoming DLC for newer versions. This is not preservation, just a cynical cash grab, ironically by a company that is not even the original it claims to be.

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Sigh. I got the results from the cat scan yesterday. My right lung has a membrane that's normally the thickness of plastic wrap. It's current 1cm to 2cm thick. That's the tumor. I’ll be setting up a gofundme to help with my medical bills

Due to the government shutdown, your appointment to FEMA will no longer be finalized within the week.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

I really don’t like living in a timeline with a bad guy named “Sinclair.” 😉

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

Time to break out the chart

Some days I want to live inside The Journeyman Project

Let's chat about Sega and the importance of multiple perspectives. thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/s... Thanks to @ftb1979.bsky.social for the thumbnail!

why in the very name of christ would you let LLMs do math, when by definition LLMs cannot fucking do math

@blitter.bsky.social place a bid on www.ebay.fr/itm/35664063... if you wanna be a hero :D

Anybody wanna be a hero? The BT GameCart has never been dumped as far as I know. I have a STB (the black Apple slab mentioned in this article) and would absolutely volunteer to help reverse-engineer this cartridge.

If you’re in Silicon Valley this weekend (Friday or Saturday), swing by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and say hi. I’ve got a table near the front of the main hall where I’ll be demoing various “hacks” I’ve maintained over the past few years.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

RIP to a legend. ❤️ We will all go together when we go, but when we do, Mr. Lehrer will be there to meet us. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Between TRON: Ares and Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” playing over the Coyote vs. ACME teaser, Trent Reznor’s work permeates throughout Comic-Con 2025.

My dad and his new best friend Jerry Beck 🤓

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.