When analyzing the world, it's important to be careful to avoid mixing is and ought. You should reason and care about both of them, but the tools you need are different. And blending them is likely to lead to self-delusion!

Results like this are also why measurement is so important when doing perf work! “Rewrite in Rust for better perf” was a reasonable hypothesis given what they knew at the start, but then real measurements showed it didn’t work in practice here.

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

Fields of Aaru is finally announced! 🌾 Our Steam page is live, and we are so incredibly grateful for all the wishlists and kind comments so far. Yesterday was a massive day and we're officially exhausted, so today we're just sharing some chill fishing vibes. 🌅🎣 #indiegame #cozygames #gamedev

there is a strong intellectual tradition in cognitive science (that goes well beyond Chalmers) around thinking of many of the tools we create (rulers, books, maps, whathaveyou) and a lot of our social interactions as necessarily integrated parts of our cognition and integral parts of our humanity

ggplot defaults are bouba, matplotlib defaults are kiki

Tonight, after working on it as a hobby basically every day for 1.5 years, I'm releasing my first game, an atmospheric boulder-pushing puzzle game, inspired by classics such as Boulder Dash. Been fun, but a lot of work! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #followfriday

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

Has there ever been a better acquisition in terms of ongoing product quality than Microsoft's of Minecraft? The deal closed in 2014, and was followed by more than a decade of excellent upgrades all very much in the spirit of what people loved about the original en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecra...

Shoutout to the #bevy team for their work on AutoDirectionalNavigation. Almost 700 lines of manual layout building ui code deleted. Huge win for bevy devs and the engine as a whole. #GameDev #indiedev

So apparently we've just trained people not to read, not to even notice the existence of text through web UX dark patterns abusing it.

It's pretty tough. Believe it or not, though oil is denominated in "barrels" this is only a unit of measurement and they are not shipped in actual barrels. Also it will outgas and poison everyone around it

It's super exciting to see more games built with Bevy start to mature and bloom. I love the toon shaded style!

IGN just premiered the exclusive announcement trailer for our game! My wife and I have spent over 3 years building Fields of Aaru, a cozy life sim set in an ancient Egyptian inspired afterlife. Having IGN reveal it feels surreal. youtu.be/wu3RVvxqfG4?...

Extract from "The Hidden Hierarchy of Illness" by UK consultant Tarek Gaber journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

Thread: I want to go over these two shots again, indulge me in a bit of pixel peeping. I think this is an illustrative example because it sets the question of faces aside; from a purely technical lighting fidelity standpoint, DLSS 5 makes this scene worse.

good thread about how badly dlss5 as demo'd appears to fuck lighting

We cannot get rid of pastoral environmentalists soon enough

A little different than my usual writing, but I've written a blog post about our usage of Bevy/egui/Rust at Nominal, the company I work at. Give it a read! nominal.io/blog/nominal...

At long last, my Next Generation Scenes PR is out for review! This will be a huge step forward for the flexibility and usability of Bevy scenes. Stoked to finally get this in the hands of the people! github.com/bevyengine/b...

A TRPG should teach the GM how to design within the system, rather than just feeding canned adventures, or dumping a bunch of rules and saying "see ya". If they don't understand how to build with your tools, then they won't. Show a new GM how fun it is to prep a game.

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-...

First, I will say flatly that code review is not for catching defects. It's a venue for finding expert consensus. Having that kept us from doing this: bsky.app/profile/deth...

Went from knowing nothing about NixOS to contributing to it in 20 days! I don't know of many other Linux distros that'd allow that. Feels really reminiscent of Bevy's approach to FOSS: make the average user capable of contributing on onboarding, then provide a shallow on-ramp.

I just released version 0.6 of Avian, an ECS-driven physics engine for @bevy.org. #physics #gamedev v0.6 features move-and-slide, joint motors, and an overhauled broad phase using BVHs, resulting in massively reduced overhead for scenes with a large number of colliders. joonaa.dev/blog/12/avia...

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis." So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water. Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

Hi #bevy ! It's time for your weekly #bevymergetrain :D Nom-nom-nom: gobble up 8 PRs worth of #rust #gamedev goodness, as we go over the work that the community thinks is ready to merge: gist.github.com/alice-i-ceci... Enjoy!

Growing up, I was bewildered by stories where magic was real, something anyone could learn, but many people didn't bother. Surely if you could reshape the world, augment yourself in fantastic new ways, limited only by perseverance and imagination, everyone would leap at the chance! Evidently not.

It's #ScreenshotSaturday and I'm celebrating by releasing an updated version of the trailer for Abysm, my atmospheric puzzle game inspired by classics such as Boulder Dash. store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #puzzlegame #indiedev #gamedev #steamtrailer #steamdeck #sokoban #bevyengine

At the risk of interpreting a joke earnestly, the slow part of software development was never the time to write the code in isolation. It is always dealing with everything else. Also AI, as awesome as it is, does not change the everything else part.

especially if you're only doing acceptance testing btw. I have worked on so many things where the correct behaviour of something cannot be verified either reliably or at all by interacting only with its external UI. I realise this probably sounds really counter intuitive but it's true

Sometimes it just comes down to feel. #GameDev #indiedev

Another Monday, another #bevymergetrain! After a long day of reading, commenting and thinking (so much PR review), it was time for "yet more PR review!". Follow along, and learn a thing or two about open source, Rust, game dev or even software engineering :D Read: gist.github.com/alice-i-ceci...

Everyone who rhapsodizes about agricultural labor should be forced to spend a year as the lowest tier of farm worker. And not on a ‘organic’ , ‘sustainable’, ‘regenerative’ etc farm. One of the big commercial, mass-market operations that actually supply most of the world’s food.

Okay so here's a hand grenade: I think a lot of people have the wrong idea of software dev because they've mainly encountered it via the hero-worshipping FOSS cult-of-the-genius narratives. Spec writing, design meetings, figuring out what's needed and what's nice-to-have - that's not software dev!

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like, more than any project I've worked on, the Discourse around Bevy is disproportionately just incorrect. Not sure if it's because: * Bevy moves so fast (aside from the editor); * Bevy is relatively niche; * Gamedev attracts a lot of confidently incorrect people

This is a major difference between my approach to DEI, and many other people's. I've never been to Grace Hopper, and I'm not going. I don't hold listening lunches. Women have been giving the same very specific feedback for decades. You don't need to hear it again. You need to act.

imo playtesting should be in service of your vision, not deciding what the vision should be

It’s a bit of a nerdy obsession for me that while fashions change, the aesthetic fundamentals are hard wired into us, and nowhere is this more visible than the archaeological record. Humans like patterns, repetition, scale relationships, symmetry, colour balance, handles and squiggly shapes.

Sprinkles, my GPU particle system & editor for #bevy, has reached v0.2! 🍩💕 it comes with a huge performance boost, trails system, local/global coords, new editor features / QOL improvements & more!! ⤷ full changelog: github.com/doceazedo/sp...

Abysm today: Added testing credits to the game, which included adding support for in-line text links. It's #TrailerTuesday and you can watch mine on the Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevy #bevyengine #puzzlegame #lovecraftian #steamdeck #pixelart

My "ECS for Beginners - Learning Rust on Easy-Mode" presentation at Rustlab in Florence last year is now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXEc-WCGFBQ #bevy #rustlang #gamedev 🦀🎮

Deep technical dive on optimization. The game is MUCH more performant now. If you are into #bevy , #rust , #GameDev , or #indiedev I recommend this one. Sadly no facy images on this one. Just a ton of technical depth. exofactory.net/blog/2026-03...

it is rather funny how much programmers argue about copyright given how little almost all of them know about it

Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️. But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

** Speaker announcement ** At RustWeek 2026, Nico Burns will talk about building Blitz, a new no-javascript web browser engine in Rust! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/nico/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! #rustweek2026 #rustlang

This is also a thought you should have had if you have contributed to open source. ALL open source is in play for military use for example. If helping any government contractor is your specific bright red line, then you shouldn't do open source, because you won't know if you've crossed it.

First point release that I prepped on my own! That was fun to learn; there's a *ton* of little process steps that are needed when operating at this scale and polish.

Tsubame Heavy Industries is building the Archax, a 4.5 meter tall pilot-optional humanoid robot for heavy labor: tsubame-hi.com/en/the-archax/