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Good News! First UK geothermal plant, able to power 10,000 homes goes live this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've been asking claude to help with UI layout, and its just jaw-droppingly, staggeringly, unimaginably good. People are VASTLY under-estimating what AI can do. AI is not coming for your job. Its already rendered you irrelevant. Its just the paperwork isn't filled out yet. I am absolutely amazed.

Progress update (with pics!) of the solar-powered borehole my company is funding in Cameroon: www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2... #solarpower #cleanwater

Government ups grants for businesses and households installing EV chargers. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526083...

Really do think its under-discussed how much the popular position in Europe and the UK isn't just becoming anti-American but actively pro-China by extension.

Bold choice of outfit for Trumps state of the union.

Tell me again why every UK energy bill has a nuclear levy on it now to subsidize this economic train wreck which will be DOUBLE current prices, whereas my solar farm received not one single penny in subsidy, guarantee or grant from anybody. Nuclear is a fucking economic disaster.

Progress update (with pics!) of the solar-powered borehole my company is funding in Cameroon: www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2... #solarpower #cleanwater

Unity stock down 58% in 3 months. A loss-making company that sells gamedev software has run straight into the oncoming train of Claude Code. Unless you 100% absolutely need to use unity, for so many devs, writing your own engine, royalty free, full source code, tweaked for you... is now so easy.

In other register of interests news, Nigel Farage got nearly £28,000 making a speech to a US organisation which wants to scrap inheritance tax, reduce eligibility to medical care and social security, and opposes action on climate change.

A test post that links to my site www.positech.co.uk Because my site now has the opengraph tags on it, to select the correct image. Claude wrote the code for me in 5 seconds :D

If you think AI is a bubble, or is slowing down, you need this chart.

Found some old pictures of me. Very old.

The #1 issue facing mankind is climate change. The #2 issue is that a nuclear superpower that constantly threatens war against random countries is run by a dementia-addled narcissistic moron who is being blackmailed by putin over god-knows-what, and could well start WW3, or accelerate problem #1.

These warnings, coming at a time when the fascist king of the USA is more focused on starting wars to distract from his Epstein links, and is blatantly and deliberating trying to PREVENT anybody fighting climate change, is just horrendous. The US is the ENEMY of the rest of the world. Fuck them.

The amount of so-called 'investors' who have no idea that it is even possible to buy shares traded on a stock market that is not in your home country always amazes me. Its especially true of Americans, but I see brits with the same attitude. Its called 'home-country-bias' and its really bad.

Booked a one day pass for Develop In Brighton this July. I feel like a confused old man at these events nowadays, but I'm going anyway. I may even have a game in Early Access when I go this time. Not that it makes much difference, but I'll feel less out of place maybe :D.

February has been depressingly wet, but good to see a few days where we generate over 1,000 kwh. March should be better, and hopefully a lot drier! drizzle is very frustrating for solar... #solarfarm

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

I cannot stress enough to people outside the US how dangerous coming to this country is right now. There is still time to cancel your GDC trip. Stay safe, and do not come.

Still wondering when non-insane Americans are going to wake up. You are fucking *delusional* if you think there will be mid-term elections that are free and fair. You live in a fascist dictatorship now. Stop kidding yourselves. Stop thinking some angry lawn signs will remove your fascist king.

Classic.

Fixed TWO big annoying things today. Firstly fixed a particle-system related bug if running the game at 10x speed (for balancing tests), and secondly worked out where the big memory leak is. Not an elegant fix yet (I scrap and re-init the particle system between battles), but huge progress.

It's now clear Donald Trump is trying to bully the government into letting the US use UK bases like Diego Garcia to pursue unilateral military action. Keir Starmer needs to stand strong and give Parliament a vote on the use of UK bases by US forces.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Interesting. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/s... If only the USA was an actual democracy that took attempted insurrections seriously... The contrast in responses is staggering. The USA is a fascist kingdom now. Any pretence at being a functioning democracy is a joke.

If you are dismissive of the potential of AI, and you are young, there is a great book called BooHoo, about the huge ridiculous failure of boo.com, a very early dotcom start-up. Reading it, you would assume this internet thingy was doomed as hell. Huge tech shifts bring about a lot of hype...

I just donated to the support fund for these people. The key sentence: "Once inside, the six dismantled Israeli weapons, including the same model of quadcopter drones used by the Israeli military to mimic the sounds of women and children crying, to lure Palestinians and kill them. " Fucking Hell.

People who describe covid as 'flu-with-a-marketing-campaign' should be locked in a room with 100 people who lost wives, husbands, children, parents to covid, so they can have the reality explained to them. Preferably with baseball bats. Who the hell pays to read this fucking drivel?

This is good news, and long overdue. Europe is way too dependent on the USA. We have to now assume they are a rogue state, and potential adversary. Their attitudes to us are clear. We need a European payments system, and European tech stack ASAP. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I feel increasingly de-coupled from so many people I talk to. It feels like unless people can see what is happening with both Climate Change and AI/AGI, I really have no way of communicating with them that does not feel like pointless wittering about the weather.

Just posting this here as a reminder to people that the US vice president flew all the way to Europe just to berate an entire continent because apparently we don't have freedom of speech here, unlike the USA... Really? Fuck ICE. You are all fascist Goons. You all belong in cells. Come get me.

Proscribing Palestine Action was the act of a dictatorship that shames Starmer’s Britain The proscription of Palestine Action was never about national security and always a political act. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/proscri...

Handy chart for your friends who say they cannot switch to an EV because they have cold weather where they live etc...

I only found out today you can directly embed video into wordpress. So... get lost youtube, I do not need you for posts like this any more. Yay! The less I rely on using Silicon Valley techbro services the better. Anyway... short blog post to celebrate this :D. www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2...

I find using Claude to help in gamedev to be so astonishing. I know a lot of devs who don't use real AI think its just chatgpt from years ago, but I can paste a screenshot into Claude and ask it to suggest ways to improve the look of something...and it just does it. Really well, and on demand :D.

Yay! I am quite happy with this for now. I may have put a little too much effort into a mere 'select your race' screen this time. Oh well... This is #RidiculousSpaceBattles by the way, and you can read about it on my website here: www.positech.co.uk/ridiculoussp...

Progress! Text not final. And I need a nice blurred effect on the previous and next race selection. But quite pleased with this for today! #RidiculousSpaceBattles

By refusing to even consider a customs union, Keir Starmer himself is the biggest block to closer ties with Europe. Unless he changes that stance, this is all just meaningless blather

Trump is a total moron. The only scam is the one he’s pulling.

Buckle up for a hilarious tale of poetic justice, if you care about EVs and the environment. Its awesome. There is a big 'contract' car plant in Graz, in Austria. In the past it was making the jaguar i-pace, cars for US EV hopefuls 'Fisker' and was going to make another vehicle as well...

I am rewatching Queens Gambit and it is GOOD.

I think this is worth a read, unless you are so anti-AI you refuse to even hear about what is happening: shumer.dev/something-bi...

Sigh. Depressing that people in 2026 spread FUD about this but NO, you can't have your charging cable stolen or pulled out when you charge your EV. FFS do you really think nobody thought about this stuff? They are locked at both end by bolts. You would need a death-wish AND a chainsaw.

The end of the rainbow marks the wind farm :) 😀

Financial reporting quality at its finest.

The end of the rainbow marks the wind farm :) 😀

95% of my phone notifications look like this...

The USA is going to end up where companies dump all their Hybrid cars that nobody else wants, as the civilised world moves fully to EVs. There will still be angry rants about range anxiety in the US, but it will be about as relevant as the Amish people's opinions on smart phones.