It's bedtime but I'm probably going to sit up playing my little bee game until my daughter raises an objection to not being cuddled in bed. Guess that makes it beetime until then. 🐝

I spent two hours today screwing around with CSS techniques I am not going to use in the end for a little game project of sorts and it occurs to me in retrospect I just needed a CSS crimes afficionado from Cohost's heyday who could have told me how to do (or not do) what I wanted in minutes.

Really enjoying that kid's cool birthday cake post that's going around but you end up seeing how some people set themselves and their future kids up for misery expecting that they can engineer a child who will be their special interest buddy and make for good social media content.

reminder that i’m making a simple static site generator with zero AI involved make your own website now and it’ll be that much easier to fuck off of Bluesky when you inevitably need to

Despite endless troubles getting my toddler to sleep I had a great weekend and did a lot of work on my website rebuild. Only the links and blog sections left before I have basically everything I had on the original accounted for, and then I can look into moving my domain from Heroku.

Saw a really disturbing post on Tumblr of all places where someone was being virulently anti-homeschooling because they knew a formerly homeschooled adult once who 'acted weird' (my paraphrasing) socially and it's like, sweetie, why do you THINK they were homeschooled... 🤨

Unreal quadrupling down on AI? Well, if you're considering Godot, keep in mind that the last version that was not made with AI contributions was 4.5. You can perhaps extend some courtesy to 4.6, but 4.7 openly includes AI-generated code and LLM-assisted changes. Do with this info what you will.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Getting some quality items out of my 26 million Neopoint gun.

Survival point 'n' click? Apocalyptic relationship 'em up? Fantasy romance? Pre-Shenmue Shenmue? Suikoden spinoffs? Gothic RPG? Square doing very not-Square things? Hot air balloons? All that and many more PlayStation delights are right here: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/category/pla...

Having the absolute worst time of it managing to type 'solstice' correctly on last week's school notes.

After spending all day on Twitter: People are essentially evil. After spending all day in the real world: People are essentially decent. After spending all day on Bluesky: People are essentially 38 years old.

I never even saw that Bluesky license thing directly, maybe because I've insulted enough people who "build" things with generative AI at this point, but I just knew somehow it was AI-generated junk. Like almost every software toy that's gained traction on this platform for months. 😬

What a beautiful game! Look at the colours used here - magical work! :D

Today in 'you use your own custom-built software' problems... my brain is going in too many directions so my productivity timer application has too many timers added to fit on my screen... I wonder how far I got with that tabbed timer setup when I was working on it at the end of 2025... 😓

Me: *seeing other people obtaining stacks of online social capital from sharing their toddlers' deep insights belying their tender ages* Duck (thoughtfully): "Everybody has a mouth."

Just before I woke up I got a dream that was a five-second fully cinematic pitch for a gay romance plot, and I mean great! 'tis the month! But why did my brain decide to cast Chris Pratt. 💀

Went to a science museum. This is the most important thing I learned.

Midjourney, known primarily for software that generates inherently unattractive images unfortunately now smeared all over the Internet like toddler poopoo, have nonetheless achieved a perfect visualisation of what it looks like when you spend a lot of time smelling your own farts.

cozyMIDI: my brand new 68k mac application coded in C (and sweat). Plays standard MIDI files assuming you have an external module plugged on the modem port. Runs on a Mac Plus, speed is perfect on a SE/30 and up. Has fun animations during playback (see the 2/2 post in this thread) #macintosh 1/2

Got a new Pasokon Retro feature on @pcgamer.com, celebrating Relic's worldwide Steam release today! Enjoy! www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

Delighted to wrap up a week of school none of us were feeling much. 😂 This weekend I'd like to add mouse controls to our spelling game because I like the keyboard controls but my kid clearly finds them annoying. He'd love touch even more but none of the machines we are using even have touch screens.

It appears that Bobby Prince has died. Doom - Quake - Rise of the Triad - Duke Nukem. So SO many more. I can say this is someone who composed a song just for me. Not many people can say that. Dude's a legend. RIP my old friend. www.legacy.com/legacy/rober...

Blew 26 million Neopoints (over a third of my savings) on some new Neopets battle item that is supposed to occasionally generate new valuable items during battle and I'm discovering at leisure that the problem with this is... how many battles in between items...

This week has been a drag but I am delighted to report the spelling game I made for my kid continues to serve us well. He isn't even judging my terrible pixel art (but I will update that at some point, for the sake of my own shame).

Finished Sally Hepworth's The Family Next Door, which I started reading last year because my kid was obsessed with the miniseries for reasons known only to him. The book has good bones, but the execution was a bit uneven. (Spoilers ahead) #booksky

canyon.mid sounds like the music for a news channel that only reports good news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4...

All the things that governments crow about harming children, whilst actively pushing AI on them.

I can't believe we're still having people whining about others not using their 'real name' on the Internet in 2026. It's not about 'real' names, because lots of us actually consider our handles just as much or even more 'real'. It's about access to government names for IRL harassment purposes.

Looking at the page of links on my website yesterday I remembered one web game I really want to add for historical purposes: my first encounter with incremental games, Candy Box. This is one to pull out whenever someone says, 'I'm bad at making graphics, so...' 🤭

HELLO, WE HAVE A BOOK OUT TODAY! You can get Daughter of Tides in ebook for just $1.99 today and Prince of Storms for $3.99 and that's a pretty good deal for this much sexy romance about gods & monsters & how people hide many sins under the idea of "inevitable progress" amzn.to/4ot87oy

Well I don't know that a Commodore phone is going to delight everyone but I personally love that the hard line they're taking with this product is 'you can try to do everything on it except be online' and I think many people on here would benefit from that. 🙃

Rebuilding the streaming section on my website (for largely historical purposes at this point) and was reminded while adding my one programming stream of the fool man who showed up that night to try to tell me how to write Python code. Very weird behaviour lol.

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Had a terrible dream last night that my toddler knocked my phone out of my hand and cracked the screen even through the cover. I've dreamed about plane crashes and being chased by murderers and this is the one time I've woken up and literally said, "Thank goodness it was only a dream!" 😰

People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

Wife who has been unwell and is still somewhat stuffy was asking me, "Have you read June? The sci-fi series." and it took me way too long to realise she was actually saying Dune and anyway the end of this story is I have now fully conceptualised the rival sci-fi series June.

My biggest editing client has officially replaced me with an LLM, meaning I am now functionally unemployed. If any of you need a proofreader or copy editor and value having a human being who can tell right from wrong doing the job, let me know?

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Only going to say this once for the 'you post on Bluesky/use x technology so you are hypocritical about genAI' clowns: this garbage is in all computer things now against our will! You don't get to shit all the way up to my doorstep and then tell me I can't go outside and object to the stink!

One good thing about the Ren'py genAI revelation is it resolved an ongoing debate in my head over whether I should continue to develop the rudimentary visual novel engine I accidentally built last year as its own thing or not. Yes, I should absolutely develop my tool that I actually want to work on.

Delighted to see the back of this past week. Struggled to get the bare minimum done and didn't get to relax enough either. This week will be better! (or else)

It took me 2.5 years to do it, but I released my first full game on Steam a month ago. It's about a cat detective solving a murder and a heist in a museum... I think it's neat. You should purchase and play it~! 🖤🔎 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

The new key art and some screenshots of my tiny oasis building game WATERFUL ✨️

Shaka, when the letters fell.

Finished Casual by @kojiadae.bsky.social recently. This one took me a while to really get into, but I don't mind that. There's a certain point where you get to see all the threads of the narrative coming together and I find that very rewarding. (Comments that will be spoilery follow...) #booksky

Slightly derailed my wife's afternoon by telling her about the scaffolding livestream.

Wrapped up a harrowing set of weekdays and promptly reinstalled APICO on my laptop, so that's setting the tone for this weekend quite firmly. 🤭🐝

read most of it, a few thoughts: unburdening oneself from the pressure to sell - yes you shouldn't chase trends - yes people should keep making games - yes ignoring gamedev tips youtubers - yes the part about deleting save files and dropping inputs - pls no