Beyond excited to be stepping up as Broken Frontier’s managing editor! So many fun things to come!👀

as a white+british person who grew up in handsworth, it was an absolute joy! it is the definition of well integrated - so many (SO MANY) different cultures all living together and getting along with their lives it was difficult to leave & find that so many other places seemed to be so far behind

This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.

Welcoming @lydiaturner97.bsky.social as Broken Frontier's new Managing Editor! So exciting. www.brokenfrontier.com/broken-front...

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

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Backgrounds by Mónica Armiño for Puffin Rock (2015–), created by Lily Bernard, Tomm Moore and Paul Young, Cartoon Saloon

God they were the best

Made a Balanced Stepper. I was exploring a fusion between a slider and a stepper. Came up with an interesting interaction pattern. #swiftui #interactiondesign #uidesign #uxdesign #prototyping

@case.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/hab... thought you should know about this one if you didn't already - feels very up your street! really charming design - especially love the touches like backup battery + connecting to existing lights.

catching up on #metaconnect going in i was concerned about an all day computer on my face all day with an OS made by the same people making horizonOS those live demos have not done anything to dissuade my fears 😅 meta are great at r&d, but (at least for xr), cannot seem to build good software

spent a couple of days on this but something was missing.... added birds and suddenly it all made sense 🐦🐥🐓🦆🐤

My next course, Whimsical Animations, launches in “Early Access” in 1 week from today! 🎉 The most important thing to know is that registration will only be open for 7 days. You’ll be able to register from Sept 24th to Sept 30th. Otherwise, you’ll need to wait for the full launch, sometime in 2026.

spent a couple of days on this but something was missing.... added birds and suddenly it all made sense 🐦🐥🐓🦆🐤

Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

A dream of the fields study

suuuuper happy with this animation i made in @jitter.video a couple months ago revisited it to make some changes recently & really happy with how fluid it is 🏄‍♂️

Concept art by Steve Pilcher and Bill Cone for Brave (2012), dir. Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews, Pixar

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reform are really pushing HARD in wales. i've had consistent reform leaflets/post through my letterbox over the last year & nothing from other parties. grim to see, very worried for next year

Made a utility that tracks realtime circular motion. Great for gestures in VR. 🐧🪄⭕ #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

i saw someone point out that the selector for time on iphone alarms is actually just a really long list and not truly circular. everything i’ve known is a lie

And our round 2 winner! #GoshBFDD

#goshbfdd round 3: action!!!!

#goshbfdd round 2: stamps

#goshbfdd attempting watercolour this evening, so results may vary! round #1: biscuit

From this week’s Beano.

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out. IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Announcement! I've been working on Unity support for the new OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, and today we shipped a public native API in OpenXR Plug-in 1.16.0-pre.1: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com... This API is a pure C# port of the OpenXR spec, currently limited to spatial entities.

spent the weekend drawing frogs 🐸

Never has the cover of a DVD lied to you more about the story inside

BeamXR Live on Quest lets you stream to Twitch or YouTube without a PC, and the app is out now for free in early access. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/beamxr-live-...

Niantic Spatial SDK brings centimeter-accurate outdoor VPS, live scene meshing, and semantic segmentation to Quest 3 & Quest 3S. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/niantic-spat...

verrryyy slowly making my way through donkey kong. absolutely a game to savour. look at this beautiful art direction!!!!

My read right now is that "you can just talk to the computer" as a source of AI hype is somewhat justified as a monumental shift in computer interaction, but the generationally huge bubble-pop mistake that's coming is also assuming the LLMs can *do* things as capably as regular computers

first bsky feed I've tried that seems to be *actually good* 👀

Prototyped some more VR UI interactions, like tabbing, and inventory slots. The items seamlessly transition between 2D/3D, and pop out with an awareness of how the player would most likely hold them. #GodotEngine #gamedev

youtu.be/1lDltFyTQXE?... grats to the @beamxr.bsky.social team for launching native quest livestreaming this week! streaming any app, without the need for an integrated SDK is pretty sweeeeeet

@majormcdoom.bsky.social hey! i have a vivid memory of an inventory system you made that had a beautiful 2D->3D mechanic in it, but can't find a video despite spending a while scrolling! any ideas?

It's Burryman day in South Queensferry. I love the fact that nobody know why they do it but the tradition continues.

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it. Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...