If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

This is incredible

WORD OF THE DAY. Excellent. To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

@tvaziri.com Hi - I heard on the radio today that some movie companies are using CGI in behind the scenes footage to hide the fact they are using CGI. This sounds like a parody/ satire but I wondered if you'd heard of it or if there was any truth behind it?

I got the NinjaSparks newsletter ready REALLY early today. Will be nice not to still be writing it at midnight for a change! 😄 I will be publishing it at around 10:30pm UK time. Sign up on the website ninjasparks.com #newsletter #creativity #inspiration

Diversity remains a critical part of any healthy and thriving organisation - even if an extremist supremacist dictatorship tries to taboo the phrase. Good on Python for standing by what makes it so powerful - not money, but people. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pyt...

Whenever you see hateful posts on social media, please remember that about 50% of internet activity is now AI/bots, so it's likely that it isn't even a real person. Don't fall for the crap that's trying to divide us, just ignore (block) and move on.

So Amazon web services is down, and there's a power cut in the village I live in. Coincidence?

I'm on the ball today! Just scheduled the latest issue of NinjaSparks.com newletter. Will go out at 10pm UK time. Now I can get back to finishing off the first version of BeepMini.

Making artwork for my fantasy console. This will be the screen where you load a game cassette. It shows a textmode image of the console with a mini version of the splash screen. #screenshotstaurday #indiegame #gamedev #javascript

The Crew 2 is accidentally one of the funniest games ever made because of its procedurally generated storefronts. "CHICKEN GRILLED COFFEE" "SHOE" "BUY ONE GET SECOND ONE" "CIRCULAR DOTS" "$3B.9B"

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Managed to publish the Ninja Sparks (ninjasparks.com) newsletter early today! Before midnight for a change 😊 Means I can spend the evening struggling away on my 3D engine for BeepMini. #javascript #newsletter

Scrabble

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Last night I published a gallery of flow fields animations people have sent in. I still have a bunch more to add. I also added some additional colour palettes to make them even more beautiful. You can view the gallery here: brush.ninja/gallery/part... #javascript #physics #particlesystems

Having a little play with procedural generation to try and make a really big map you can walk around in Beep8. This uses algorithms, and repeatable random numbers to create a consistent world from a single seed number. #javascript #gamedev #indiedev

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I thought I was going to be early with the NinjaSparks.com newsletter this week then I started playing the new Neal.fun game and now it's been delayed by an hour or so. It's basically done now though so will be published shortly. #newsletter #creativity

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Saw some particle flow images last night and thought it would be fun to make a quick app for Brush.ninja. I am not very good at the maths but found a bunch of formulae online and am enjoying the results. #javascript #creativecoding #particles

Saw some particle flow images last night and thought it would be fun to make a quick app for Brush.ninja. I am not very good at the maths but found a bunch of formulae online and am enjoying the results. #javascript #creativecoding #particles

Been tidying up the beep8 github repo (mostly the readme) to try and make it more useful. Is there anything else I should add? github.com/BinaryMoon/b... #github #opensource #gamedev #indiedev #javascript

Some progress on beep8 and the game maker! The game maker can now make game files that can be loaded. And the game is almost functionally complete. I need to separate a few bits and then I can turn it into a "console" that can load games you or others have made! #gamedev #javascript #indiedev

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Nobody, and I emphasize, nobody should go to the US. If you're games industry, I promise you that there are better events everywhere else.

now there's an obit I can get behind www.thenation.com/article/poli...

@ericmigi.com just ordered a Pebble Time 2 - was umming and ahhing for a while but finding out there was a javascript api convinced me! Excited to see the finished thing.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

A little bit of progress on the comic I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. They have gone from thumbnails to rough sketches. And now I see it like this I realise it will take longer than I thought! #comic #art

What is humanism, anyway?

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

BBC News - Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters www.bbc.com/news/article...

Currently making a small pixel art editor for beep8. This is mostly for the map editor so you can design icons for the games you make. Everything else will use the textmode editor. #beep8 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #javascript

Spent the last week building a sound library for beep8. All these sounds use zzfx to generate the effects live using javascript, which means the "files" are actually just a short array of numbers (parameters). Updated the preview app, and the games. beep8.com/examples/sou... #beep8 #sfx #gamedev

another month, another tortured soul for my Fold Up Club members 🍅

Been reading my son's comics and got inspired to make my own. Studied digital art at uni and dabbled with all sorts of art.yhrough the years but never did it commercially. Wanted to make it with my son but he isn't as excited about it as I am 🤷 #comicart #art

Been reading my son's comics and got inspired to make my own. Studied digital art at uni and dabbled with all sorts of art.yhrough the years but never did it commercially. Wanted to make it with my son but he isn't as excited about it as I am 🤷 #comicart #art

on the payment processor situation from someone with experience in fintech… voidfox.com/blog/payment... “I guess I'm asking for some understanding, both of Itch's position, and the entire landscape, before declaring them at complete fault and dumping them in the sewer with all the other bad actors.”

Happy National Relaxation Day to all those who celebrate.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Looking at the Starbucks website and it seems I can order extra syrup in the drinks. I think I'd need an extra couple of glasses for all these. #syrup #diabetes

Good morning. Did you call your local censorious payment processor and let them know you’re upset with their bullying of Steam and itchio? No time better than the present yellat.money

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Nintendo has announced the cast for the live-action Legend of Zelda movie, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san.

My wife had the idea to make a bookmark as part of our sons teacher gift for the end of the year. The teacher loves Star Wars so I've spent the morning designing the things. There's space for my son to add a message. #starwars #reading #books

I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles. (I don't know who made this image, if you do, let me know so they can be credited)

Private Eye hits the nail on the head