"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are […]

Some lessons I'm learning after five years of #gamedev: 1. I didn't realise just how important Steam reviews are. A positive review is HUGE 2. Platforms other than Steam are rarely worth the effort 3. [Most] games are really, really cheap for the value and entertainment they provide 4. Reply to […]

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

I am giving a talk at a conference in a few weeks time... about generative AI! I'm trying to collect some real-world data, so I would love your input. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ3es7qvjrubuRzOh0scAgilSINwnTW2qj6eHiYUfBSvq0Eg/viewform I'm trying to collect as many answers as […]

Lol, #infinitecraft does make me giggle

No _you're_ the one pushing last-minute fixes at 9pm on a Friday night #yolo #gamedev

Starting the music with @viusmusic <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-O9-6pC3IM

OH MY GOD WHAT THEY RELEASED NEW CONTENT FOR DIABLO 2 RESURRECTED WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT Literally my favourite game of all time. I hope they didn't screw this up :c https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24243863/rain-annihilation-in-reign-of-the-warlock

I've never felt older

Me on the Steam "Wishlist Actions" page today #gamedev Just three days to gooooo

Listening to unreleased music for the first time 🥹 #gamedev

Absolutely phenomenal read

(2024 Jevon) Why would it ever take so long for a game to go from "polished playable demo" to "ready for release"? Surely there can't be _that_ many remaining bugs to fix? (2026 Jevon) Ohhhhhhhhhh

I got the The Oracle archetype! https://mastodon.social/@soundasleep/wrapstodon/2025/c2ae611bc44477db #wrapstodon2025

The joy and buzz after using all your skills and experience with a massive code base to carefully and reliably improve performance by a factor of 10. 🥰 #gamedev

Wee that was good little boogie #eqnz

Currently at inbox 220, so close to zero...

Summer? In late October? Not a chance! #wellington

Here's a free top tip for creating a long-term, high-value online web platform: Stop putting AI slop and async and react in everything, and instead focus on your user experience. This message has been brought to you by the ten thousand flashing relayouts and "loading..." and async calls and […]

How senior engineers are *really* made https://youtube.com/shorts/Ioi7DPTHG6A

Wow, New Zealand is currently at 98% renewable energy generation. I've never seen it so high! Yay 😊 https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data

A reminder.

If you're still on #twitter, did you know that if you post ANYTHING in ANY reply - a link, a picture, or even just words - it's completely inaccessible to mobile users without having to sign up to Twitter? Stop using Twitter!

Argh. If you're a content creator still on Twitter... please get off :( it's so horrible to use to actually form relationships or do cool things

I'm at #migw this week, starting off with three days of #gcap! 🥰

I am officially on the market for a new email provider - recommendations welcome! Gmail and #google is removing support for POP in two months time, which is the whole reason I was using Gmail in the first place. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

Solo gamedev is very easy. See, all you have to do is literally a thousand things simultaneously while not doing more than 8 hours work a day, every day. Oh, and also the end result is entirely subjective and nobody will have the same feedback and it's unlikely to be profitable #goingslightlymad […]

I'm ashamed to be a New Zealander today, it's embarrassing to be on the wrong side of history :( https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/574427/kiwis-can-be-proud-nz-isn-t-recognising-palestine-yet-pm-christopher-luxon #nzpol

Had to do an international bank transfer of about $300. Paypal's fee was $16, WISE's was $1.60. How does Paypal even exist?!

I can still barely believe in German airports, you can just buy beer and RTDs from basically every convenience store. In the airport! Next to the chilled water! It feels illegal!

I have eaten at least one pizza every day for the last nine days. And I LOVE IT In related news, Germany may have excellent vegan candy & toppings, but its vegan restaurant options are rubbish

Is this a novel observation? No, of course not. But it's the deepest dig I've done on the output of a current model, and while the text sounds a lot better and more consistent than the models of a couple of years ago that started this "AI" #hype / #bubble , it is absolutely useless in terms of […]

Ow my feet

Also my goodness I'm tired

I have just landed in Frankfurt airport and the illusion of German efficiency has been shattered

Oh no, there's a talk about doing gamedev using SAFe. I threw up a little.

exercises in concentrated academic spite are my absolute favorite papers to read eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

Do not try mixing lemsip and coffee together. It is like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up after smoking for a decade. 0/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND

"Generative #ai ...] will mean anyone can do anything instantly, and thus nothing will be worth anything (hope lies in the idiotic paradox of tech companies trying to corner the market on something by eliminating its value)." <3 [@WinstonRowntree […]

I have been adding `-ai` to all of my desktop #google searches recently and I LOVE IT. It's refreshing, clearer, and WAY less advertising and shopping. I do lose a couple of things, like currency charts and the calculator, but that's easy enough to workaround. An added bonus: None of the […]

"The problem is that most people have begun outsourcing their critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. And it shows." https://skarlso.github.io/2025/06/07/re-my-ai-skeptic-friends-are-all-nuts/ #ai

I wish I had the audacity of my insurer. Decreasing the sum insured by 30% while simultaneously increasing the policy premium by 25%.

Today I learned you can add `-ai` to a #google search query to get rid of that generative AI garbage. And it's easy to add a new custom & default search engine in #firefox. THANK GOODNESS

Spent the day without the internet and without the threat of generative AI and it was *brilliant*.

Chance of this moronic decision backfiring? 100%.

Trying to do novel software development in 2025 is so hard. Google results are shallow, trite, and irrelevant. And their AI overviews never help. You have to know where the correct answers would be before you search. :(

Glad to see Twitter is still irrelevant... Twitter post: 6 likes Mastodon post: 5 likes, 2 boosts, 1 comment Bluesky: 25 likes, 6 reposts, 1 comment, 1 follow

Who could have predicted it https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563240/elon-musk-calls-for-donald-trump-s-impeachment-as-feud-erupts-over-tax-cut-bill