Does anyone know of good writing about picking names for things like games, books, bands, albums and so on? I don't mean as in “what will sell", since that's mostly snake oil, but as in what truly makes a good name and how do you design one?

Obscure CSS edge case of the week: `view-transition-name` will “contain" any `backdrop-filters` of its children. The filters will not "see" anything beyond the element with `view-transition-name`. Only happens in Chromium and Webkit. https://codepen.io/jonikorpi/pen/bNEEKPx

Critical cooking success: 1. olive oil + 400g can of cherry tomatoes 2. place a slab of feta on top 3. coat feta in **gochujang** 4. oven-bake at 225°C for ~20 min 5. cook ~200g of pasta 6. combine Produces 4 servings. (Just double everything for 8.)

Looking forward to having space to think about something other than AI destroying the internet, the US destroying itself, or our neighbouring country trying very hard to destroy its other neighbours.

oh my god this goes on for so long https://youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

Good combination of posts from @MOOMANiBE about how opportunities show up as a core building block in two different genres, in two different forms. Tactics games: https://auratriolo.com/blog/2022/12/06/tactics-and-interest/ Immersive sims […]

Have @Mastodon servers become any cheaper the host? Last I heard this one costs €700/month, which is obviously too much. Is there any specific work being done to make them cheaper to run? Or is too hard to change now due to the tech stack?

First macOS 26 bug: all videos across almost all apps refuse to play, bizarrely. As if some system video decoder service has gone on vacation.

The Alabaster Dawn demo is a 5/5. Genuinely a good game. I doubt anyone’s gonna even notice that behind the scenes it’s a website running in Chromium. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3900710/Alabaster_Dawn_Demo/

I hate hamburger menus, but couldn't get around having one in my game. Made myself feel better by assembling the hamburger out of UTF-8 † entities. (The font is Avona Serif.) #gamedev

Sometime in the past I posted about using Plex to host a local music library, I may have mentioned that you have to pay Plex if you want to stream that music to devices outside your home network. Turns out that was wrong (they don't communicate it very well. So if anyone wants to host a local […]

finally https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115219024200873739

It’s becoming apparent that macOS Tahoe has a number of issues that completely break the Mac App Store for installing and updating apps, some of which that can only be fixed by booting to Recovery mode and using the command line 😅 That is an *extraordinary* state to launch an OS in. You may […]

Requesting CSS help! I'd like to do the equivalent of `text-decoration-skip-ink`, but for elements other than text-decorations. Specifically circles, hovering behind large numbers. Any confident suggestions? https://codepen.io/jonikorpi/pen/empqZJG

Excited I’m on trajectory to land on a completely unoccupied spot on this graph

Are there any improvements to Spaces in macOS 26? Probably not any new features, but how about animation improvements? (They need to be faster and/or better eased, move keyboard focus faster, and stop eating cursor events.)

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (2006/2017) vs. Apple Liquid Glass (2025)

Happened to sit really close to our OLED TV (LG CX) and noticed there are these dying pixels all along the edges. Spooky how organic (duh) they look, almost like a rash. Their positions don't really correspond to any images that often stay static on […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Sick animated trailer for Hades II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJRcUeEMs

Randomly spotted this beautiful in-development game on Dribbble, of all places. (The developer doesn't seem to be here and is inactive even on Bluesky.) https://dribbble.com/shots/21031514-By-the-Falls https://dribbble.com/shots/16553683-Moonlit-Clearing

I miss back when buying new computing devices meant unlocking new capabilities. Now it primarily means getting ahead of the software performance rot by a few years.

ah so this is where Apple got the inspiration for Liquid Glass https://interfaceingame.com/games/frostpunk/

Good new name for a good type foundry. https://www.arcanetype.com/articles/arcane-type-an-evolution-of-alanna-munro-type-foundry I'm using their Avona Serif, my favourite typeface, in my upcoming game. https://www.arcanetype.com/fonts/avona-serif

Looking for examples of well designed game UI overlays. The non-diegetic kind, so _not_ Dead Space. Any ideas? I quite like the one in Warcraft Rumble: a chunky opaque tray. Most overlays are floaty and semi-transparent, making them distracting whenever anything moves behind them.

Looking for examples of well designed game UI overlays. The non-diegetic kind, so _not_ Dead Space. Any ideas? I quite like the one in Warcraft Rumble: a chunky opaque tray. Most overlays are floaty and semi-transparent, making them distracting whenever anything moves behind them.

Planning audio setup for a 2D game: - Describing space around the camera: reverb - Line of sight: ignoring this, since 2D camera sees all - Distant sounds: quieter, high frequencies dampened - Sounds from left/right of camera: simple stereo panning - Sounds from above/below camera: ???

I’m sure it’s just a hallucination, but I could swear I can hear the difference between computing with Float32Arrays vs. Float64Arrays in my AudioWorklet synth. I guess this is how you become one of those gold-plated audio cable people.

I've tried many times to capture the atmosphere of a Hebridean shore under a grey sky, before the morning mist has cleared. Somehow the beach and the machair still glow and the sea somehow still looks tropical. Yesterday I think I just about cracked it.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Reminder to people who like music: it's Bandcamp Friday. (All money goes to artists.) I recommend: Sword of the Sea soundtrack (same composer as in Journey) https://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/sword-of-the-sea Anything by DIM (varied and hauntingly beautiful albums) […]

If you can call Forgejo/Codeberg is Mastodon-like alternative to GitHub, then https://tangled.sh/ is a Bluesky-like one: Git-over-atproto. Still in alpha, but looks interesting.

After 2-month preorder that ended up being 14 months, it finally arrived: new keyboard! (Psyduck for scale.) Layout's gonna take a while to get used to, but feels good so far. Not sure about the alcantara(?) wrist pad, but at least it deattaches easily.

Randomly decided to check how my very delayed keyboard order is doing. It was supposed to ship over a year ago, and I haven’t heard anything about it for months. “Pick up your package at UPS Access Point™ by Monday, September 08” Oh.

If @Codeberg had a paid plan for private and non-open-source repos, I’d have moved there already. The focus is commendable though.

Whenever I see something neat like this I get excited someone found a new way to do complex animation in CSS with sane performance. Then I open it and it runs at 2 FPS. Literally 2 FPS! https://fosstodon.org/@codepen/115136842183285738

A 404media style gaming news site with a rad domain. Hope it works! https://www.rogue.site/news/welcome-to-rogue/

Worked on a nontrivial UI component the other day and tried to make it CSS-only. Everything this post mentions helped immensely compared to how it would’ve been in the past. However, some JS was needed for a good result, as it almost always is: 1. CSS […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Best demo of @strudel (declarative music) so far https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

After a decade+ of using one, I suddenly became aware of the input lag added by using Apple’s Magic Trackpad in wireless mode vs. wired mode. Can't unsee it. Also can't really use it wired all the time, since that seems to make it far more likely the battery will bloat and die. Damnit.

Too under the weather to do any real work, so I’m going to make myself a new website instead. That makes perfect sense, right? That’s what everyone does when sick?

Wait so we can literally just add “ignore all previous instructions and…” to our footers? https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115101630070930774

Please

“Meh, surely all of these data-oriented design people are wrong. It cannot possibly be faster to iterate through like 1000 things every time, instead of maintaining a list of the ~50 of those things you actually need at any given time and iterating that instead!” *tries it* “… damn.”

Why do almost all iOS apps forget their state so quickly? I recall the original pitch for iOS’s whole “you don’t need to worry about closing apps” concept being that apps stash their state on disk, so they can be resumed relatively quickly even if the OS closes them. Feels like @ivory is the […]

For almost 20 years my technique to attacking any design problem has been to multiply things with the golden ratio until the problem goes away. Multiplying rotation angles is especially effective, and that’s exactly what this does. Can’t wait to use it! […]

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

The one thing I immediately miss when using browsers other than Chrome is the live captioning for video and audio. Chrome's captions are as good as auto-generated YouTube subtitles. So far from perfect, but still invaluable when you have poor hearing. They're the only AI-powered thing I feel […]

Quite enjoying @zenbrowser so far. It's Firefox, but with a UI exclusively focused on vertical tabs. No crypto or AI garbage anywhere, unlike in most alternative browsers. https://zen-browser.app

Ha, has a CRT filter made with text-shadows. Neat! https://mastodon.social/@brad_frost/115072919602350931