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Ok Programmer, Shitty Pianist, Total Prat. Head of software engineering @kraken.tech ex @Thoughtworks techlloyd.com

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As an old flash dev, what’s your workflow? Using an old version of flash or are you using Haxe or similar?

11.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below πŸ‘‡ #threejs #webgpu

09.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 5

I think Manchester has deployed boosterism well over the last decade, but it has tended to work because it delivered things at the same time. Boosterism without delivery is just words and there’s some risk the city starts to rely too much on narrative for its momentum

04.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

date: can you take off your work gloves

Jim Henson: they have names

01.05.2023 12:01 πŸ‘ 5535 πŸ” 1242 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 20

Radiohead - House of Cards came out 18 years ago. I remember they open sourced the 3d scanning data used for the video. It was cool to muddle around with it and render it out in 3d.

24.02.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to see @jeffgerstmann.com take on Phil Spencer retiring…

24.02.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This one hits hard.

21.02.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 35641 πŸ” 10551 πŸ’¬ 779 πŸ“Œ 591
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Broken Sword: Reforged, besides looking absolutely gorgeous, plays unexpectedly well on the tiny screen of my phone. The interface works great, everything is readable and visible, and I don't even need my glasses.

This is how the Monkey Island remakes should have been treated...

22.02.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching Game of Thrones again, and I forgot about Deus ex Benjen

20.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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15.02.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Unique Dating App Girl (Official Music Video)
Unique Dating App Girl (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Tom Cardy

all-time tom cardy banger just dropped

14.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Microsoft posts 32% YOY down on hardware sales last week. This week Lisa Su talks about next Xbox consoles on track for 2027.

10.02.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m convinced that Warren Spectre’s one city block could be convincingly created now.

09.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve just realised my Apple Watch can have a db volume meter as a complication. So now I can pretend I’m in mission impossible and say toast at increasingly louder volumes.

05.02.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks awesome, is the team behind this on bsky?

05.02.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

reading this essay with The Tyranny of Structurelessness echoing in my ears www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

02.02.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

" they expect one of us to be in the wreckage, brother"

01.02.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 461 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering:

"How does software X deal with that?"

And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

31.01.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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31.01.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 11199 πŸ” 2735 πŸ’¬ 111 πŸ“Œ 269

Huh, the Apple silicon decision to have unified memory means you can run LLMs with crazy memory requirements pretty easy… *goes off to look up Mac Studio pricing*

21.01.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve found it useful in researching about the latest advancements in Huntingtons disease. It was able to find formula relating to my specific question and interpret the data relating to my scenarios and give sources for everything for me to check. YMMV but I’ve been fairly impressed w/ latest models

17.01.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stick it in to research mode, it will do exactly that. I agree that previous versions were plagued with inaccuracies. In research mode it gathers its context from web sources with references rather than relying on prediction.

17.01.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

14.01.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 3603 πŸ” 668 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 8
Preview
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily β€œWhy do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

This is truly brilliant!πŸ‘πŸ‘βœ¨
I wondered why I disliked Trump so muchβ€¦β€¦πŸ€­

londondaily.com/british-writ...

10.01.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 146 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 14

+1 I’ve the same and it’s on its last legs now. Sucks to find out they don’t make them anymore

08.01.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So for the first time in 6 years my cpu is the minimum spec… maybe it’s time for an upgrade this year.

06.01.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quite literally the best cocktail I’ve ever made, it’s clean, smooth, doesn’t cloy on the tongue, it’s well balanced and moreish. It’s crazy good.

01.01.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

30ml Vodka
20ml Liquor 43
15ml Passoa
15ml Butterscotch liqueur
10ml lime
2 dashes of orange bitters
3 drops of tonka bean
6 drops of 10% saline

Shake over ice.
Serve in a lowball glass.

01.01.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist LΓ‘szlΓ³ Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

01.01.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 783 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.

26.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 693 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7