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Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

So I got myself one these IKEA Lagergång Lamps that sits on top of your screen.

It's nice for me and was by far the cheapest on the market, but it's light cone is too wide and it doesn't use a diffusor for the led strip, which leads to my partner getting blinded by the light.

I'll try to fix […]

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January 18, 2026 at 8:23 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

I started playing around a bit with Codecks and it might just be the first project management tool that I like to use.
I will have to investigate further though.

January 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM

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Eugen Rochko

@gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

I will be opting my account out of the #bluesky bridge next week. If you follow me from Bluesky (I think there are about 3.9K of you) and want to continue seeing my posts you will need to get an account on the fediverse. Cheers.

January 17, 2026 at 11:21 PM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Finally found a usecase for the stencil buffer other than outlines.
Nice :D

#godot

January 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM

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Rami Ismail (رامي)

@ramiismail.com

In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.

January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM

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Cassandra is only carbon now

@xgranade.com

Anyway, please enjoy this section of Do's README.md.

License and AI Policy

This project is licensed under the MIT license. This license does not preclude you from using Do with AI-encumbered or AI-vulnerable projects, but you do not have the author's consent to do so. This may seem like a contradiction, but copyright is a blunt tool that does not in general have the humanistic nuance to describe something like "you can legally do this thing, but if you do, you're an asshole."

Any AI-generated contributions will result in an immediate block. Don't be that guy.

January 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM

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Chris Bratt

@chrisbratt.bsky.social

We'll be publishing our full report from the hearing tomorrow afternoon (UK time), but needless to say, there's an awful lot of additional context to understand about what happened here.

This is a really tough outcome for the union's members, especially those who were in the UK on work visas.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: A UK judge has *denied* interim pay to the 31 employees fired by Rockstar Games last year, saying she "was unable to conclude that it appears likely that the tribunal will find that the principal reason for the claimants’ dismissal" was union organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fired Rockstar Employees Denied Pay by UK Judge

The 31 staffers argued they were dismissed for unionizing. Rockstar said they were fired for leaking information in an online chat group.

www.bloomberg.com

January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

I made Laugenbröchen ("Pretzel Roll" according to deepL) myself for the fist time today!
Easier to do, than I thought and very tasty!!

A bunch of pretzel rolls on a baking sheet

January 11, 2026 at 10:16 AM

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Jess👾

@jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

To all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.

January 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

omg I finally found a way to synchronize my bookmarks without getting a separate firefox account, hell yeah

January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Beach Bunny dropped a whole Album in 2025 and I didn't notice it 😭

January 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM

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Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong:

@privateger.plasmatrap.com.ap.brid.gy

A side-by-side comparison meme showing the concept of survivorship bias applied to fantasy video game armor. On the left is a diagram of a human figure with red dots marking wounds on the arms and legs, representing where survivors were hit. On the right is a female character in revealing fantasy armor that only covers the arms and legs, leaving the torso and head exposed.

The image includes a tweet by Leonard Ritter (@leonard_ritter) that reads: "our dwarven engineers came up with a new armor design protecting against the typical injuries sustained by warriors returning from battles in the netherworld."

Below the tweet, a Tumblr comment by uniquecrash5 says: "Ah yes, the ol 'B-17 survivorship bias' lesson. Okay but this is a hilarious explanation."

January 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM

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Rami Ismail (رامي)

@ramiismail.com

Unionize.

Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected

The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.

www.gamesindustry.biz

January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Yung Gravy is voicing a character in dispatch?

January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM

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historic drystone sheep dyke

@hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy

This is how we should be controlling our computers in 2025

An hp spaceball. It’s like a big loose ball in a little half pipe with eight numbered buttons. I have no idea how it works

December 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Is there an alternative app to the offical nextcloud app for syncing files on android that actually DOES sync the files?

December 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

So @julan42.bsky.social and I participated in a Game-Jam recently.

The theme was a picture of a door, so we did what everyone despises: implement a bunch of different doors!
We had 19 door Ideas in total, but only got around to making 9. Julian very […]

[Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A door with a purple light above it. There is a prompt next to it, telling you to press "e" to open.

A very big hall that feels like a liminal space. The walls a made of concrete and there a four big pillars leading to the roof which has holes. At the end of the room is a door with a purple light above it.

A small concrete room with lightstrips on the right and left side. Half of the ceiling is slanted. At the end of the room is a door with a purple light above it.

A series of open doorways leading to concrete rooms. The room in front of us has floodlights pointed to the ceiling close to the wall. The camera operator is seemingly holding a crowbar in their right hand.

December 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

So @julan42.bsky.social and I participated in a Game-Jam recently.

The theme was a picture of a door, so we did what everyone despises: implement a bunch of different doors!
We had 19 door Ideas in total, but only got around to making 9. Julian very […]

[Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

December 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Went to the tram museum in Stuttgart yesterday to indoctrinate my sisters daughter. /j
Great Success! (Also the trams were very cool).

A historical tram in a museum. It has the number 912. On it's window is a line number, which reads "1312".

December 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

Setting up a new phone is pain :(

December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM

Jan

@jan0h4ck.itch.io

@FediTree 🌲

December 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Craig G

@derbadian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?

Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers […]

[Original post on mas.to]