Looks like latest Android/NothingOS is taking inspiration from Windows. The wifi is broken and the search bar now asks to search the net before filtering my apps list. How does this shit get past the most basic of checks.

Lol. "Supporter premium" final tickets more expensive than a 3-day weekend F1 Paddock Club pass at Barcelona. Wild. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ahh, the beauty of lego.

The amount of national newspapers stating the maccies Big Tasty is being _upgraded_ to 1/4 pounder patties from 1/3 shows how much oversight AI writing is getting. In other news, mcds have ruined the last 'ok' burger they had.

Something lovely waiting for me at home after getting back from Graphics Programming Conference! That's my evening sorted. MILESHIPS by @ianmcque.bsky.social

Scotland. fucking hell.

On way to Breda for graphicsprogrammingconference.com! Looking forward to it. Let me know if you will be there :)

Weighing up whether this is the perfect "do on the plane to GPC" lego set. Though don't know if it will survive in its box past the weekend :)

Łukasz from Wookash Podcast (@gameengineering.bsky.social) has posted a lengthy conversation I recorded with him a few weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU... It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)

Honestly, F1 is just a little bit rough to watch with any excitement or energy these days. The steward decisions are so inconsistent every week and last few races the camera direction has been atrocious.

This idea for a RISC-V machine similar to RC2014 seemed like a good one so I've been thinking about it for the last few days. I've put together a rough plan for how it might be done - I'm interested in what people think! github.com/MichaelBell/...

Not only did we achieve the £5k target, but we nearly got an all time best! Getting within £40 of that is incredible. Many thanks to everyone who supported us during the event!

Five hours left, and we are a few hundred below our 5K target! if you can help out, please do - its for a wonderful cause! justgiving.com/page/teamche...

We are on Day 3 of the fundraiser - Live with Ghnomia playing Hades 2! Watch cheesethieves on Twitch and support! www.twitch.tv/cheesethieves

Just about to start playing The Roottrees are Dead. Excited about this one! Come help me

It’s day two of our livestream fundraiser for Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity! I’ll be live at 9am on twitch.tv/cheesethieves until 5pm. I’ll play some mystery and puzzle games. Come join me, and if you can donate at cheesethieves.co.uk

Day 1 of Cheese Thieves fundraising for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity has begun! I am playing Eriksholm mostly, will see how the stint goes! Watch at twitch.tv/cheesethieves and you can donate to the cause using the link under the stream.

Every year a few of us get together to raise money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, in a few days we'll be doing it again for 2025. Please check out our campaign page at justgiving.com/page/teamche... and donate if you can - it's an incredible charity that touches a lot of people's lives.

Did you know every Monday I sent out a newsletter with some of this week's thoughts on automation in games? And I won't make you make a substack account!!! andrewfray.dev/newsletter.h...

We have the schedule! It kicks off next week with myself playing Eriksholm by @riverendgames.bsky.social. You can help Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity with fundraising here. It is greatly appreciated and helps children and families in hospital. #gamechangers justgiving.com/page/teamche...

Looking for a new challenge? We are hiring for remote C++ dev roles in the UK: www.linkedin.com/posts/colinr...

Today is a Lego day.

Yep, that's right! It's time for the Cheese Thieves 🧀🧀 to assemble for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity #GameChangers. More details, and how to contribute to the cause which helps children in hospital can be found at www.justgiving.com/page/teamche...

Williams on the front row alert! #f1

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

A significant amount of tech tuber "game dev" hot takes could be disproved (or, less frequently - proven) with a single pix or renderdoc capture. Following some basic frame profiler guides could dramatically improve content in this space.

Doing a clear out of old things. Found these interesting items!

Now this is a little small-form-factor delight!

Really looking forward to this :)

This is infuriating.

Probs last pizza making of the summer by the looks of it!

I know Deadlock is still in beta, but fuck me does it hurt to be hit with a 5hr MM ban because of a lobby bug that separated me from my regular team on the only night we can play together.

New short post: "Thinking about convolutions for graphics" aschrein.github.io/jekyll/updat...

Todays activity 🏁

I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water in data centers andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...

This is *immensely* stupid advice. They don’t use energy while they’re sitting on a hard drive not being accessed. They very much use energy while you’re going through them all and deleting them. It’s also a fraction of a fraction of the energy saving you’d make by driving less or similar.

One of those drivers that refuses to let faster cars pass

AMD FSR Redstone is our upcoming suite of ML-powered AMD #FidelityFX neural rendering technologies. 🟥 Get your game Redstone ready with #FSR 3.1.4 🟥 We've also updated our #UnrealEngine FSR 3 & Radeon Anti-Lag 2 plugins to support UE 5.6. Details ➡️ gpuopen.com/learn/amd-fs...

Back in 2021 I released a Vulkan sample that demonstrated adding ray-tracing to a traditional game render pipeline. Since then the code has rotted away and stopped working. So this week I finally resurrected it! Hope it will keep being a learning resource for beginners. github.com/diharaw/hybr...

We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I

It's time to share the program for the 2025 Advances in Real-time Rendering in Games. Check out all the details here: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.... and, of course, come attend the course live on Tuesday August 12 at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver!

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

Some more personal news: www.linkedin.com/posts/colinr...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Hulk podium, yaaaas!

All REAC 2025 content is LIVE! Enjoy enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

New Post: Why FPS matters when comparing upscaling quality domipheus.com/blog/why-fps...

FWIW, @hardwareunboxed.bsky.social have confirmed they always lock FPS in upscaling comparisons 👍

Double Sauber points! Wonderful.