Simultaneously addicted to "AI" Soul covers of songs from other genres and terrified for the future of music being highly personalised, stale retreads based purely on what's come before, without any creative spark.

This. Why on earth would you willingly expose all your online usage to a company that within the last six months has made chats users thought were private publicly searchable never mind the PI risks?

Modern nurseries keeping you updated with your child's day via app updates is mostly awesome, but damn do I get jealous of my son literally every day when I see the message "<name> had a nap of 2 hrs 43 minutes".

Mediatonic founder launches new group of studios under the banner Skeleton Crew

Using Swarm for code reviews more than I have in ages and returning to my overriding thought about it that it's my least favourite code review tool.. Not even the best code review tool I recall using for Perforce and the other one was over 15 years ago.

This genuinely might be my favorite NIN album and as someone that's been a fan for most of my adult life that's saying something.

Does anyone else love their kid's nursery but have a fundamental mistrust of literally anything they say, purely because of the food they claim your child eats lots of that they won't touch a morsel of ANYWHERE ELSE? Liars! Lovely, lovely liars!

Such a mild example of "Adult money", but incredibly excited at having just ordered the first 21 of the Discworld series from World of Books for only around £75 (pre-loved books ftw!). I gave most of my books to charity when I moved to London about 8 years ago, and finally have the space 🎉.

New hill to die on: - We need a Tron film every 15 years or so to deliver an absolute banger of a soundtrack Less fussed about actually watching the film this time, (Jared Leto? Really?). But damn am I enjoying the soundtrack.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Amazing how happy I am doing literally anything with code as long as I have a reliable form of source control. Realised yesterday that not having it gives me low-grade anxiety that I usually don't notice is because of not having backups.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Pet hate: - Retail websites who's filters don't actually work Genuinely one of the many things that have gotten worse on the internet over time and that LLMs are really good at replacing 🤦‍♂️

Dreading the impact of the UK's online safety act and how likely it is to enable: - Long-term censorship, - Detailed tracking of what people have viewed, - A raft of identity scams caused by inadequate data protection or legit appearing ID requests All in all, fuck the UK MPs that voted for it

Looting at Thames Water Net assets in 1990, £1,329m; 2024, £1,301m; 2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets NO shareholder investment since privatisation? Dividends £10.4bn. Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation. Water Commission didn't spot looting,

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

Epic confirms the upgrades coming to Fortnite on Switch 2, including 60fps performance, support for GameChat, and mouse controls (!) Plus, you get a free emote for logging in before March 31st next year: www.fortnite.com/news/fortnit...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

The new General Physics systems are well worth a look, they really bring a whole new way for players to interact with UEFN games.

Tl;dr: Labour are unpopular with the people who might vote for them, and have failed to attract any of the people who would never vote for them. Not so very complex really.

I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.

Just wrote a small essay of recommendations and tips for my team that are visiting London next week. Nice reminder for me that after 7ish years and living in multiple areas I do really love London and know it reasonably well.

Says so much about the usefulness of the feature that after 6 months of having this laptop I've only just found out it's a touchscreen. Still can't think of a genuine use for that, it's a standard form factor not a fancy bendy one that can double as a tablet.

This is TODAY! Join us at 5pm (UK time) for a very lovely chat with lovely #IndieDev founders who've... 👀seen some things👀 discord.gg/nKR8W4tq?eve...

It's been a week since I posted The Vulnerability Nightmare Thread and I feel more myself than I have done in TWO YEARS It's crazy what folding yourself up into little pretzel shapes to conform to others' expectations does to you.

jesus christ

Office-based today, so I'm getting some great focused work in. Only downside, I keep desk dancing at my standing desk and then getting super conscious that plenty of other people are unfortunately (for them) able to see that 😅

Been experimenting with "not Google" search engines lately, just had a really good trial with Kagi Search (would recommend if willing to pay $30pm or can expense), are there any other options folk would recommend? Loved the clean "no ads" results. DuckDuckGo I assume? Planning on trying that next.

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Went away for the weekend & barely touched email, have 115 unread emails in my personal account.....wtf? Time for some unsubscriptions!

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

Reposting because this cannot be overstated.

#UNREAL #GAMEDEV PRO-TIP: Even if you intend to make your entire game in Blueprints, without ever touching C++, create your project as a C++ Project cause you never know what you might need tomorrow

This is the ‘disruption’ playbook. I have really bad news for anyone stupid enough to be building reliance on generative AI into their processes. It’s so cheap!

Random moan to the universe, nothing is ever easy or straightforward 😅

A nice thing about working at a company where we have lots of internally developed cool tools is being able to directly feedback when something's awesome and make someone's day better. In this case an upgrade makes a huge difference in my day to day and it took seconds to say thanks in Slack.

Friends, I've been posting pictures of our (my wife & I's) little co-op wizard mining game for a while now, and I figure it's time we told you what it's called. Say hello to: Minermancers! #gamedev #indiegame Coming...not soon, but coming! 🙂

Can tell what kind of day I'm trying to have by the fact I'm on my 3rd different "Focus" playlist already. Synthwave is the winner! Thanks @sinbad3d.bsky.social, pretty sure this is one of yours you shared on twitter ages ago. It's great!

Gameplay Programmer Wanted! 🚨 For short-term work on; TANUKI: Pon's Summer 🦝Exp Unity and C#. 🦝Exp gameplay/UX programming. 🦝Exp Unity UI (uGUI). 🦝Exp shipping at least one title. 🦝Optional: asynchronous programming in C#/Unity (UniTask). contact AT denkiworks DOT games

OPPORTUNITY! - Writer - Total War - UK, or Bulgaria Not affiliated. Shares welcome! gamejobs.co/Game-Writer-...

I'm on the lookout for new contract opportunities! I'm a game coder and designer with 15 years professional experience in web, mobile and PC, playable stage shows and alternative controllers. I love bringing playfulness into spaces beyond traditional games 🧡 Portfolio: www.alistairaitcheson.com

Was a bit unsure about the Switch 2 pricing, despite understanding why those prices are arrived at and broadly being in favour of pricing actually rising finally......but they seem to be doing a really good job of backwards compatibility and providing info on how compatible Switch games.

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

Last year we organised a banger of an indie games biz focused micro-conference and expo in Bristol. We sold it out. It was awesome. So, we're doing it again! 👇

Signs you should definitely be calling in sick #1249214 - Takes you 20 minutes to call in sick with email, slack, calendar etc because you have so much trouble focusing

Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Changed some process things to make a regular call that took 2 calls and 2 hours go more smoothly, finished the new one in 30 min with hardly any needed discussion (but good discussion). Win! For everyone else......I *like* the discussion. Overall a good thing though 😅