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I've written up my thoughts around dependencies in software engineering: medium.com/thg-tech-blo... I've become very opinionated over this topic over the last 10 years or so (as my long-suffering colleagues will attest to)
Dependencies: addicted to quick wins
if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants — Sir Isaac Newton
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I've written up my thoughts around dependencies in software engineering: medium.com/thg-tech-blo... I've become very opinionated over this topic over the last 10 years or so (as my long-suffering colleagues will attest to)
An absolutely wonderful video from a game dev at Insomniac - but it starts with an Amiga 500 demo so it's even better!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfr...
Eon: An Amiga 500 Demo - Andreas Fredriksson
YouTube video by Handmade Cities
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October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
An absolutely wonderful video from a game dev at Insomniac - but it starts with an Amiga 500 demo so it's even better!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfr...
I finally finished Baldurs Gate 3 this week. It's a masterpiece. I'm not sure I will enjoy other fantasy crpgs the same now. It took me 3 consecutive summer vaccinations to complete as it is one of the few games that work on my Mac.
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I finally finished Baldurs Gate 3 this week. It's a masterpiece. I'm not sure I will enjoy other fantasy crpgs the same now. It took me 3 consecutive summer vaccinations to complete as it is one of the few games that work on my Mac.
Caves of Qud win a hugo!! www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th... very deserved, oh and it's now available on the switch.
The deeply simulated roguelike strangeness of Caves of Qud won this year's Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work
See, we were right to put it in our Top 100.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Caves of Qud win a hugo!! www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th... very deserved, oh and it's now available on the switch.
I wrote about IRQ handling and optimisation for high throughput packet processing: medium.com/p/1bec500e8666
Beyond Default IRQ Handling: High-Performance Packet Processing
In our current project, we’ve engineered a system to handle packet processing on dedicated “hot path” threads — the critical execution…
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June 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I wrote about IRQ handling and optimisation for high throughput packet processing: medium.com/p/1bec500e8666
Really in depth look at high quality text rendering: osor.io/text
Rendering Crispy Text On The GPU
Rubén Osorio’s blog
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June 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Really in depth look at high quality text rendering: osor.io/text
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/bu... ffs Microsoft continue to be utter clowns
This Microsoft-backed AI startup just collapsed after faking its AI services with 700 real engineers
In a story that sounds like it's out of a sitcom, "AI" startup Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and publicly backed by Microsoft, has just collapsed after it was discovered its AI was actually ...
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June 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/bu... ffs Microsoft continue to be utter clowns
Absolute alien technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2... - starts with a call out to GOAL from naught dog and then just becomes wilder and wilder. It feels like lispmachine type behaviour (bug -> call stack rewind -> fix but -> continue) but also much more than that.
Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo
YouTube video by retrogameinternals
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June 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Absolute alien technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2... - starts with a call out to GOAL from naught dog and then just becomes wilder and wilder. It feels like lispmachine type behaviour (bug -> call stack rewind -> fix but -> continue) but also much more than that.
This video sums up what is so good about the Trails series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cD6... - thanks to @gigaboots.com for introducing me to the *best* jrpgs ever created.
Why Trails Fans Are So Obsessed
YouTube video by Just the Gems
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June 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This video sums up what is so good about the Trails series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cD6... - thanks to @gigaboots.com for introducing me to the *best* jrpgs ever created.
I completed Star Wars Outlaws. There's a good game struggling to get out of some typical Ubisoft nonsense here. Yeah the creep up behind a stormtrooper and punch them unconscious is silly but I don't mind that. The checkpoints/autosave was bad and TAA mess (worst on the first planet) are issues.
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I completed Star Wars Outlaws. There's a good game struggling to get out of some typical Ubisoft nonsense here. Yeah the creep up behind a stormtrooper and punch them unconscious is silly but I don't mind that. The checkpoints/autosave was bad and TAA mess (worst on the first planet) are issues.
This is damning: x.com/4nt1r34l/sta... makes a really good case that Bungie flat-out plagiarised their work. @gigaboots.com
N² on X: "the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @Bungie @josephacross https://t.co/0Csbo48Jgb" / X
the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @Bungie @josephacross https://t.co/0Csbo48Jgb
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May 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is damning: x.com/4nt1r34l/sta... makes a really good case that Bungie flat-out plagiarised their work. @gigaboots.com
I've been musing about AI and the impact on software engineering: medium.com/@kev.jackson...
Two months of an AI partnership
At the start of the year it became increasingly clear that AD2025 is the year when software engineers have to consider what it means to…
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May 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I've been musing about AI and the impact on software engineering: medium.com/@kev.jackson...
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/... hahahahahahaha $379 for a series S - wtf? @gigaboots.com
Here's how much a new Xbox will cost you after Microsoft bumps prices
Microsoft confirmed to us today that it is increasing the price of Xbox consoles, accessories, and later this year, games as well. Here's what you need to know.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/... hahahahahahaha $379 for a series S - wtf? @gigaboots.com
Apple found to be anti competitive @gigaboots.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Apple found to be anti competitive @gigaboots.com
Just finished up Trails through Daybreak. What a great game!! Excellent music, fantastic story, great voice acting, a good turn based battle system. Just a fantastic package overall.
April 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Just finished up Trails through Daybreak. What a great game!! Excellent music, fantastic story, great voice acting, a good turn based battle system. Just a fantastic package overall.
How the gameboy was cost engineered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm4...
The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy
YouTube video by Real Engineering
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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How the gameboy was cost engineered: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm4...
Reposted
A few years ago when I was troublingly deep into Elite Dangerous (flight stick, throttle, the lot) I used an EQ to make it sound like Spotify was playing in my ship's cockpit, and had this moment where a song perfectly synced up with a hyperspace jump.
April 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A few years ago when I was troublingly deep into Elite Dangerous (flight stick, throttle, the lot) I used an EQ to make it sound like Spotify was playing in my ship's cockpit, and had this moment where a song perfectly synced up with a hyperspace jump.
Another great game dev video, this time from Sucker Punch: gdcvault.com/play/1027352...
Samurai Landscapes: Building and Rendering Tsushima Island on PS4
Sucker Punch Productions' Ghost of Tsushima is by far the largest game world the studio has ever built. Vegetation density and draw distance requirements meant authoring millions of object instances a...
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April 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Another great game dev video, this time from Sucker Punch: gdcvault.com/play/1027352...
South of midnight seems eminently gamepass fodder then. Is this going to be in the streaming or flop swap plans @gigaboots.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
South of midnight seems eminently gamepass fodder then. Is this going to be in the streaming or flop swap plans @gigaboots.com
This looks great: aurascope.net includes online leaderboards... @gigaboots.com
Aurascope
An indie 2D action-adventure collectathon platformer with light puzzle and RPG elements developed by Nick Oztok.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This looks great: aurascope.net includes online leaderboards... @gigaboots.com
Just a little something I wrote last year: medium.com/@kev.jackson...
Birth
It was dark here.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just a little something I wrote last year: medium.com/@kev.jackson...
The making of kkrieger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1w... - an amazing programming accomplishment
kkrieger: Making an Impossible FPS | Nostalgia Nerd
YouTube video by Nostalgia Nerd
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March 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The making of kkrieger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1w... - an amazing programming accomplishment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRn... Thunderful AB seems to be on last legs or may be even a corpse. @gigaboots.com
The CEO Said 'Trust Us', Now Multiple Studios Are Dead
YouTube video by Bellular News
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March 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRn... Thunderful AB seems to be on last legs or may be even a corpse. @gigaboots.com
I will continue to post amazing videos of game dev topics here. Today one of the greatest games of all time: Dwarf Fortress get's the Noclip treatment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV2...
The Origins of Dwarf Fortress - Dwarf Fortress Series (Episode One)
YouTube video by Noclip
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March 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I will continue to post amazing videos of game dev topics here. Today one of the greatest games of all time: Dwarf Fortress get's the Noclip treatment - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV2...
I wrote an article about BGP a while back, finally had the go ahead to publish: medium.com/thg-tech-blo...
Speaking of BGP
Our current project involves interacting with network hardware (NICs, and routers primarily). Communicating to a NIC has involved ioctl or…
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March 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I wrote an article about BGP a while back, finally had the go ahead to publish: medium.com/thg-tech-blo...