Woke up on the sofa this morning with a chocolate cookie wedged between my buttocks. While not ideal, on balance this was preferable to what I initially thought had happened.

TIL Ms Excel returns 0^0 as #NUM instead of the algebraic standard 1.0 because of maintaining backwards compatibility with Lotus 1.2.3! I’m thinking maybe it’s time we have that choice in a user preference? While you’re here, I’d like to also suggest TAU() = 2*PI() and L’Hospital’s rule 0/0 = 1.0

TIL @damiankastbauer.bsky.social is two days older than me.

I can’t praise this style of advertising enough. Almost Dadaist in form. Informative yet disrupting. Impactful and yet fun.

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Not the best news, but certainly better than the alternative. Kontakt and Traktor are safe for now.

Made a decent pun today. User report came in that sound emitters weren’t changing filter states when going underwater. I said “you could say this was immersion breaking”… Thanks I’ll be here all week. #gamedev

Had a brief glance at X/Twitter just now. Oof

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I don’t think GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio would be half as appealing if Visual Studio’s built-in intellisense wasn’t broken in a fundamental way. Or maybe that’s why it’s broken in a fundamental way? If you’ve ever used Clang/LLVM you know how much better things could be. #gamedev

When I get a new follower

So watching The Devil Wears Prada again to get up to speed on nr 2, because obviously I’m watching that one in the cinema soon. The cinema that serves alcohol in the auditoria. Spegeln in Malmö. /1

What is “Italian Brainrot” and why is it pervasive enough to be a series of coloring books?

I’m under the impression that UE6 is based on UEFN, not UE5, from a) reading Tim’s press release + b) reading what ex-employees said in the aftermath. Seems unlikely there’s a scenario where buying Epic is investing in UE5 as an ongoing #gamedev ecosystem. www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

Who took the wooden cabinet sides away and why?

Hey @delaneyking.bsky.social was this you?

Clearing out some old gear that should be disposed of responsibly, I reflect on how these cables are now worth more than the #leapmotion device they came with.

Read this book “Commodore Amiga The Stolen Future” over the weekend while sick with stomach flu. Pretty good summary of the Amiga demo era. Not entirely accurate in places, but close enough. Some of my best teenage years in writing. Probably a factor in me moving to the Nordics too. #gamedev

So I have to ask: This new “market” for over-30s clubbing and raving… Isn’t that simply the regular market? I did some of my most atrocious nights out in my 30s because that’s when I finally had enough money to do it. Over-40s is a bit more reasonable as now you have to function in the morning.

Die Natur hat dem menschen eine Zunge, aber zwei Ohren gegeben, damit er doppelt so viel hört, wie er spricht. *they said, typing with two thumbs*

I caved and ordered a tube

T H A N K S

So maintaining a game engine’s tools and tech stack is hard and you need to pay good people proper money to do the work, and that’s why some industry leaders in #gamedev have had enough of it and want to move on to slop content generation via datacenters. How’s that for a summary?

If you’re a #gamedev I’d give LinkedIn a wide birth for a few days.

So the entire industry pivoting to making a single game, forever, specifically targeting teenagers, who (mostly) take a break from the hobby as they approach adulthood, and no cohort of teenagers like anything the last cohort liked… You’re telling me that’s not perpetually exponentially profitable?

1000 people laid off. One Thousand People #gamedev www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

Classic gaslighting story www.lbc.co.uk/article/man-...

Why do they do this? #gamedev

Anyone seen this movie “Sirat” yet? I caught it on Saturday, and omg intense. Talk about memories of my 20s too. The soundtrack is by Kangding Ray, and it available on the regular purchase platforms. I just bought their back catalogue too. Pulsating, ambient, textured, trippy. #music

There’s a commonly held belief that the legacy of vibe coded software will generate a ton of lucrative gigs for senior coders, but the gigs will be “painful.” I have to point out that this is the typical experience of starting any new job with a legacy codebase, at least at the beginning 😂 #gamedev

Show this to a Gen-Z graphics/renderer programmer and listen to their reaction and comments with a wry smile. #gamedev

It’s 24.7 today. I’m apparently healthy but it feels uneasy to consider what is happening to my body.

As of yesterday, my BMI is 24.8, which is the lowest it’s ever been since I was a teenager. How did I do it? IBS forced me to quit lactose, wheat and fermentable carbs.

Is there a flag for people that are bisexual, but with high standards? Asking for a friend.

If this laundromat was featured in an open-world video game, it would probably get cut during development for being too silly.

I didn’t even know misconduct in public office was a crime here 💀 You’re telling me that’s been illegal this whole time??!

So Prince Andrew. Ick. - Better late than never?

At the British Museum today. The word “acquired” is doing a lot of heavy lifting,

London coffee hits different when you get a free cookie like this

In London today after a long hiatus. First lunch experience: Poke bowl but with doner kebab meat on top. Conclusion: Couldn’t be more London if it tried.

Any trans people show up in the Epstein files yet? None so far. But I heard from various tabloid outlets that we need to protect children from trans people. Are some of these tabloid owners implicated in the Epstein scandal? Yes? You think their trans debate might have been a diversion tactic?

Omg the human expert made it better??!! /sarcasm

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Why are we moving to Git again?”

As a Filipino, I can confirm that much outsourced digital labor in the Philippines consists of "remotely faking processes described as automated." Since these workers are contractually forbidden from disclosing this work, people remain continuously surprised by this in the year of our lord 2026.

Most of the Google Genie 3 discourse doesn’t seem to acknowledge that the demonstrations so far are all silent. So no, I don’t feel intimidated by it. Anyway… #gamedev

Neil Gaiman. Ick.

Don’t spend all day looking at screens - it’s bad for your eyes. *Unless it’s a workplace screen, in which case stay right where you are you little bitch.

Last week I discovered that the pub I’ve been going to for 8 years has a hidden cocktail bar. Tonight I got taken to another floor of the pub I had no idea was there before. It’s full of people I know. I don’t know what’s real anymore.

At this point, using ++ as a prefix increment in a for-loop is a kink for me. I can’t pretend that it isn’t. #gamedev