I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

When I first started using Kagi, I thought unpersonalised search would be a problem; but I’ve been a user for over a year and the results are consistently better than google’s Turns out search personalisation might have been of benefits to advertisers, not users, all along?

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Merry Pringles

Shell in the Ghost

Pussy for Algernon

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Never been a better time to dump typescript

Hate to see you Tubby ByeBye But I love to watch you Tubby Walk Away

Sins of the farmer

They don’t let you take more painkillers until the first lot are wearing off… suspicious:?

When a major story beat in Ghost of Yotei was labeled "The Cost of Revenge," I felt relief because I am glad a Playstation game is finally covering this topic. I hope we can get some answers re: revenge, and whether it is a bad thing, and maybe even causes a cycle of violence

Sometimes I feel like every dev should be assigned their own manager, like the guy who sits next to the rally driver reading the map, just to queue work up for them perfectly

The most exhausting thing about game dev is proudly polishing off a feature (for me at inkle usually that’s UI), and then realising that some subtle issue means you have to rebuild or rework it again. For every bloody feature. Like five times each. 😮‍💨

So this crab jumped into our build system and things got out of hand. End result: a brand new, super fast ReScript build system. rescript-lang.org/blog/reforgi...

9. the power of jack off

Miyazaki-san, you’ve done it again!

Boy dinner

More stylish, cooler, and flashier than THIS? Not likely!

It isn’t, btw; it’s bad

Kissing a 35 year old man’s receding hairline and saying “promise you’ll stop? For me?”

- where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors play dungeons and dragons

Add the The, it’s cleaner: The Bluesky

My teeth are getting sharper

Rust linter: Hey I noticed that you're doing `.x().y()`, but it would actually be more idiomatic to do `.z()`, have a nice day! JavaScript linter: Don't use this JavaScript feature. Don't use this TypeScript feature. isNumber does not return true for numbers. FATAL ERROR: Do not use console.log

Ooof, look, we’d all have rather that it looked shit; and it doesn’t look as good as Disco Elysium, but the trailer for No Parades does make it look like it’ll be one of the better games to come out that year

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

This looks dope, looking forward to playing it

Wandered yet again into the trap of watching a mechanical keyboard video, now I am haunted by visions of custom ergonomic orthilinear choc boards

i can’t with this fucking “soft clubbing” thing. why can’t you people just go dance and have a good time without inventing a tiktok-optimized neologism that helps corporations target ads for shoes?

“Hello Gamers! My name is Jeromy Silk-Song, please enjoy my bounty this evening” - Jeromy Silk-Song

The amount of daily activity you have to do to simply attain the level of fitness for “not feeling rubbish all the time” is so much higher than I thought it was

The Labubu Within

In some ways, the real Walking Dead was the zombies

Shit, at this point can we call OUR game a Disco Elysium Spiritual Successor?

Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of watching the beautiful raytraced bounce lighting coalesce from static as I pan the viewport around

Yeah baby, I love da computer #blender #GameDev #IndieDev

Man, I’m certainly not saying that they are; but if LLMs do turn out to be sentient, a lot of people are going to look like real cunts

The Short King Over The Water

shit goes hard open.spotify.com/track/01ryrV...

Ate too much pizza now my tits hurt

First as Tragedy Then as Farce Then as Romcom Then as Workplace Drama Then as Upbeat Musical

Took too long away from game dev, and now the codebase feels insurmountable, unintelligable, horrifc, eldritch

Not complaining though! I'll take any promotion I can get. You can put me in any category. Put me in the worst games imaginable category, I'll still take it.

Grant me the serenity to Edge. The courage to Goon. And the wisdom to know the difference.

girl would you love YOURSELF if u were a worm