Just found out that android stickers get sent immediately on LinkedIn rather than being added to the current draft message. I just accidentally sent a recruiter a picture of a sloth in bed when trying to politely say that I wasn't interested. 💀💀💀

So excited to do a fresh round of accessibility training! practical-accessibility.today

A piece of helpful information: I despaired (with no voice) of trying to change some direct debits toa new bank account, with the websites of the actual companies often giving no way to do that. (Predictably Which magazine made it very straightforward.) So I just cancelled the DDs with the bank.

The internet will never change...

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

I really need to remember to press the share button each day

I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Been getting an increased amount of spam tagging me in bluesky these past few days. Not entirely sure what to make of it...

I've shutdown my CV management tool mikevdv.dev/blog/2025-11...

I'm like 45% of the way through a really important set of fixes for the player controller in Mirrorstone. A key benefit is that the player puppets will also work for NPCs. #gamedev #rust #bevy #mirrorstone #indeidev #rustlang #bevyengine #mmo #rpg #mmorpg

While I typically hate trash TV, my guilty pleasure is crappy police consultant procedurals. However, as someone who works in tech, whenever the - somehow compulsory - topical tech episode comes up I immediately glaze over...

Added the ability to check any player's stats on the in progress website.

Today is my first day back at work after the wedding. That means I won't be doing any game dev probably until Monday evening.

Getting married tomorrow. Ain't that an interesting turn of events. Only 2 years of planning with my best friend and love of my life to get to this point.

Really think that designing the website for 4/3 is a great idea for my retro online rpg. First time doing a website exclusively using rust too so that's been interesting. Yes I'm getting married on saturday, im staying calm. #mirrorstone #rpg #mmo #mmorpg #gamedev #indiedev #rust #rustlang

Doing a quick test to see if I can make the website look like the game's UI. #mirrorstone #pixelart #webdev #rust #rustlang #mmo #mmorpg #rpg

Decided I'm going to use Dioxus for the mirrorstone site so i can have it share some code with the game for stuff like avatar rendering and authentication. dioxuslabs.com

For way, way to long. If there's an error on login it would crash the dev build of the game. This is now resolved. #gamedev #indiedev #mirrorstone #bevy #rust #rustlang #mmo #rpg #mmorpg

Using public transport for school trips should be considered a war crime. What do you mean there's 30 kids on a train carriage on a peak time train...

And that's it. I'm off work for my wedding next week 👋🏻

I feel like a kid who's counting down to their birthday 🎈

It's so close. Only 13 more days till I marry the most incredible person ❤️

Exactly 2 weeks till I get married ❤️🥹

We fucking warned you. Every person involved with technology even remotely called this a mile off... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

I think one of my biggest frustrations on mirrorstone is knowing my own limitations when it comes to pixel art. I work at improving my skills but there's only so much time in a day and I put most of my skill points in programming 😂

Stringable Bows. #mirrorstone #rust #rpg #mmo #mmorpg #rustlang #bevy #bevyengine #pixelart #isometric #indiedev #gamedev #crafting

Doing a little experiment to have intro logos. Honestly not sure how I feel about it tbh...

It's fucking happening already. Of all the moronic outcomes of the Online Safety Act. The fact there's now obvious targets of you want to gain unauthorised access to a large number of government IDs... Eurogamer.net share.google/rx8yo4CqRgOh...

Just watched the long walk. Well fuck... #longwalk

I'm wondering if I should just say fuck it and pay the steam licence fee for mirrorstone so I can start getting wishlists

Alongside some pretty heavy reworks to the scripting engine, Items can now be combined using the MVP of the crafting system. See the example below of me combining to half loafs of bread into a full loaf. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #mirrorstone #bevyengine #rustlang #lua #mmo #rpg #mmorpg

Started buying soap for the house from Bed Bath & Beyond. I don't know what the Americans are putting in this shit but it smells so fucking good.

My fiancée just described the taste of "sweet" as "like soft salt" and I don't know how to respond to this...

Last weekend was my stag do, and I had the pleasure of seeing the statue of the goodest boy.

2 different Ubers with only the last letter different. We got in the wrong one, got out and then witnessed the guy who's taxi we just got out of confidently walk over to ours and get into it and then out again 15 seconds later. Glad we're not the only idiots 😂

Sorry for cutting the stream short everyone. Something came up while I was on the phone that needed my attention.

Today on stream, we got skill levels into our modestly multiplayer online role playing game. They don't currently impact anything but this is a really big addition! #gamedev #indiedev #trustlang #bevyengine #orpg #rpg #mmo #mmorpg #pixelart #twitch

In last night's stream we started mocking up what we want the skills UI to look like. Not sure about pagination...

Imagine a TTRPG game where in the final session its revealed that all the players are actually separate personalities of a single character...

Might have to upgrade this before the next stream... #rustlang

One of the dumbest articles I wrote is the one where I decided that threads would be the dominant social platform... mikevdv.dev/blog/2023-07...

Why is computer exhaust heat not as comforting as house radiator heat?

I mentioned this briefly on stream the other day but the UKs new mandatory ID checks for "nsfw" content online are a trainwreck.

Oh cry me a fucking river... I work in London 2-3 days per week and I can say for certain the MPs saying this have not ever taken a train at rush hour in the midlands never mind the north of England...

We found out live during the stream yesterday that a stream clip of my modestly multiplayer online role playing game made it onto #thisweekinbevy. Feels so good 😂 youtu.be/cGZViqCrBog?... #gamedev #indiedev #bevy #bevyengine #rustlang #mmo #rpg #twitch #lua

After today's 5 hour stream and a little work after to cleanup, player to player trading is fully added to my modestly multiplayer online role playing game. #gamedev #mmo #rpg #bevyengine #bevy #rust #rustlang #pixelart #indiedev