Monthly SDL3 bugfix release is out! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

I feel like the hardest part of the GPL3 anti-tivoization clause to explain these days is what “TiVo” is

I love what Amir wrote for DragonRuby Game Toolkit’s seventh birthday. Making something you want to use yourself is so good. Go grab yourself a free copy! dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-g...

Hey, guess what platform SDL3 just merged support for?

Honestly feel seen.

I'm so shit-soaked in AI conversation after the last 24 hours that I will just point out that ChatGPT couldn't even successfully understand the webpage where we told it to fuck off. I'm sure OpenAI-based Copilot understands the nuances of your codebase much better. chatgpt.com/share/69e11b...

Life hack: don't ever do a single thing that will get people on Hacker News to discuss you.

That weird thing where you somehow brew a pot of coffee while deciding if you should go back to sleep.

Also, we're starting to catalog tutorials in other languages on the wiki. Arabic went up today! If you're helping people to learn about SDL in languages other than English, we want to highlight your work! wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/Tutorials

The SDL organization has an official position on LLMs and generative AI now: don't use it. github.com/libsdl-org/S...

SDL 3.4.4 (a bugfix release) is out now: github.com/libsdl-org/S... Also sdl2-compat: github.com/libsdl-org/s... Also sdl12-compat! github.com/libsdl-org/s...

Couple things that have been grating on me forever in Ubuntu, that I'm definitely noticing aren't there to grate on me in a default Fedora install. I have Fedora on a throwaway Chromebook I'm going to use while traveling...kinda considering making the plunge on my main machines now, too.

Man, the stuff people are doing on the Playdate is _amazing_.

Oh man, Cookie Queens won Festival Favorite at SXSW!

This is huge news, and a giant gift to the public good from Eric.

On the way home from SXSW! Had a ton of fun in Austin, and at the Cookie Queens screenings. Got to see First They Came For My College, and it broke my heart in half. Absolutely required viewing for understanding how fascism devours, and who it digests.

Oh man, we’re going into movie theaters. 😳 deadline.com/2026/03/megh...

Definitely not a metaphor.

There needs to be a technical term for the threshold where it becomes more efficient to write and debug a throwaway script and where it's more efficient to just miserably do something manually.

Okay, enough of all this anti-war sentiment, let's talk about Hair.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Getting around to watching the State of the Union. Finally hit the part where it goes off the rails, as you knew it would. People are starting to yell at each other.

Disaster.

Cookie Queens is screening at SXSW! March 13th and 15th. If you're near Austin, come say hi! schedule.sxsw.com/films/2253649

A deck-builder game about suing a shithead billionaire? I didn't even try the demo before pledging the kickstarter. :)

Not only was Firewatch incredible, but the wild marketing done outside the game was honestly brilliant: you could mail order your in-game photos and they would send you printed copies, and one person actually wrote in to order a paperback from the game and _they produced and sent it to him_.

I wonder if there are any 80s kids watching the Olympic opening ceremonies play the Triumphal March from Aida, who just got their shit rocked because they always thought this was the opening theme to The Hobbit on the C-64. youtu.be/l3w4I-KElxQ?... youtu.be/4ZLD0tBuEbA?...

Looking aside all the other awfulness of modern-day Twitter, I'm realizing that all it _ever_ feeds me now is vague shit, so I have to click on the Grok button to explain literally every tweet it shows me. I think this, as much as everything else, drove me away from there.

Online Sundance continues: Big Girls Don’t Cry hits some deeply uncomfortable notes about growing up. I cringed so much during it. That’s not meant as a negative. Everybody to Kenmure Street was so good. Absolute resistance role models.

Wrapping up my first Sundance experience. Time and Water kicked my ass, and Queen of Chess was good but didn’t blow me away. Spent most of our time doing Cookie Queens stuff. Next year, Olive and I might go to Boulder and just stuff our eyeballs with films for a solid week.

Finally got to see a second film at Sundance, and totally made an ass of myself gushing to @lizgarbus.bsky.social about her latest work afterwards. 😬 “Give Me The Ball!” gave me a lot of hope, though. I was grateful the waitlist paid out for me here.

“We all saw the video” is going to be the phrase of the year. I fucking hate it.

More notifications like this, please.

See, this is a popular misunderstanding, William. The doctor is actually named Frankenstein, not the monster.

I gritted my teeth and sat through the last 60 minute of The Substance so I could correct my original review: web.archive.org/web/20250107... It took me days to get through it, avoiding looking at the screen. The last part was easier to watch because it gets so grotesque that it becomes cartoonish.

Eddington is a wildly overrated movie.

Oh wow, someone built a profiler for DragonRuby Game Toolkit: pvande.itch.io/firestarter Super cool! I love the "please don't buy a commercial license until you make money" note, too. But sorry, good sir: it's an instant buy over here even without a specific game in mind. :)

Okay, the memes aside, this was unironically pretty good.

Start the new year with a really big SDL3 release! 3.4.0 finally shipped, before the stroke of midnight! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

The last ten minutes of Hamnet absolutely ground me down to dust. The ushers had to sweep my remains up with the discarded popcorn.

Play a 1050 ELO opponent on Duolingo: "This guy is probably a moron." Play a 750 ELO opponent on chess dot com: "This guy is probably an unstoppable chess assassin."

Everyone is very focused on the idea that Meta is going to make AI-powered glasses, and not the fact that they ate shit on trying to make the "metaverse" happen. Them fumbling this so badly is GREAT NEWS. For you, not them.

I can talk about this publicly now: we're in a movie about Girl Scouts, that's premiering at Sundance! A film crew followed Olive around for cookie season. If you find yourself in Park City, come watch me dance in a cookie costume. :) festival.sundance.org/program/film...

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Jesus Christ, my health insurance is going up by over 700 dollars per month next year! What the fuck?! Who the hell can pay this? Are we all just planning to die if we get sick from now on?

We nuked the half-finished HLSL compiler from MojoShader. I'm a sentimental wuss, so I asked Ethan to pull the trigger for me. Pieces of it live on in the (still pending) SDL shader language work, though. github.com/icculus/mojo...

Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard, you absolute fucking legend.

...and now PhysicsFS and SDL_sound (and more to come) are bridged to the wiki! wiki.icculus.org

Rebecca Heineman passed today. She was a unique talent, to understate things. Anyone could see that in her long list of accomplishments. But we are not just our catalogs of retail products. She was a force of nature, a light in the darkness. This is an unimaginable sadness.

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.