Tess Snider
@malkyne.com
Fairy codemother. Free-range veteran game programmer and underground programming teacher. Co-owner of indie game studio Hidden Achievement.
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Tess Snider
@malkyne.com
· Apr 3
Never attribute to artificial incompetence that which is adequately explained by natural incompetence.
A friend's wife makes my shampoo, actually. It's quite good. If you've been thinking about a bar shampoo, I can recommend it. Also, as a developer, I have no problems with AI disclosures.
www.etsy.com/listing/1660...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A friend's wife makes my shampoo, actually. It's quite good. If you've been thinking about a bar shampoo, I can recommend it. Also, as a developer, I have no problems with AI disclosures.
www.etsy.com/listing/1660...
www.etsy.com/listing/1660...
I joke about it a lot, but it's really hard to express just how maddening it is to see billions of dollars flushed down the toilet on one overhyped and underdelivering technology, while watching underfunded small companies in other sectors languish.
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I joke about it a lot, but it's really hard to express just how maddening it is to see billions of dollars flushed down the toilet on one overhyped and underdelivering technology, while watching underfunded small companies in other sectors languish.
One year when I was a kid, Mom was making soup from the remains of our Thanksgiving turkey, and she had to step away. She asked me to put the rice in, while she was gone. I didn’t know how much rice to use, so I poured in the whole bag. We were eating turkey-rice for days.
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
One year when I was a kid, Mom was making soup from the remains of our Thanksgiving turkey, and she had to step away. She asked me to put the rice in, while she was gone. I didn’t know how much rice to use, so I poured in the whole bag. We were eating turkey-rice for days.
“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.
Well, that was an inauspicious start. Cranberry bag exploded cranberries all over the kitchen. Good thing I don’t need much sauce!
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Well, that was an inauspicious start. Cranberry bag exploded cranberries all over the kitchen. Good thing I don’t need much sauce!
The CLT is a poorly named test, and this illustration is not helping it beat that rap at all.
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The CLT is a poorly named test, and this illustration is not helping it beat that rap at all.
I assure you, I can lose money much less expensively.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I assure you, I can lose money much less expensively.
Not me, lying in bed thinking of a more efficient way to do some vector math, instead of sleeping.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Not me, lying in bed thinking of a more efficient way to do some vector math, instead of sleeping.
A lot of pro-tradwife content is built on lies. The silliest one is that feminism is the primary obstacle to a single-income household. I’ve known plenty of women — feminists included — who would have loved to stay home with their kids, but simply couldn’t afford it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A lot of pro-tradwife content is built on lies. The silliest one is that feminism is the primary obstacle to a single-income household. I’ve known plenty of women — feminists included — who would have loved to stay home with their kids, but simply couldn’t afford it.
Interesting move from Steam. It might help with some types of review-bombing, but It's going to miss other sorts of review-bombing. If they're doing this for every language, then it might also help buyers see when an otherwise well-loved game phoned it in on their localization.
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Interesting move from Steam. It might help with some types of review-bombing, but It's going to miss other sorts of review-bombing. If they're doing this for every language, then it might also help buyers see when an otherwise well-loved game phoned it in on their localization.
Queens Daily Eagle delivers the best headline of the day.
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Queens Daily Eagle delivers the best headline of the day.
This study is the most cyberpunk thing that has ever existed.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This study is the most cyberpunk thing that has ever existed.
I don't think it should be called "vibe coding." I think it should be called "Leeroy Jenkins coding."
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I don't think it should be called "vibe coding." I think it should be called "Leeroy Jenkins coding."
I was just thinking the other day about how much of my life has been wasted proactively spelling my last name, to desperately try to head off the inevitable misspelling, and now I've just seen that Todd Snider has passed, and I lament the time he inevitably spent doing this, as well.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I was just thinking the other day about how much of my life has been wasted proactively spelling my last name, to desperately try to head off the inevitable misspelling, and now I've just seen that Todd Snider has passed, and I lament the time he inevitably spent doing this, as well.
Is he talking about LLMs? Because anybody who claims that LLMs can already reason like a human needs to be challenged to explain why they blithely cheer people on through their own self destruction, and why any of us should tolerate this outrageous behavior.
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Is he talking about LLMs? Because anybody who claims that LLMs can already reason like a human needs to be challenged to explain why they blithely cheer people on through their own self destruction, and why any of us should tolerate this outrageous behavior.
Posting is the shallowest form of activism, if you can even call it that. Plenty of us materially support causes, without yapping about it here. Don’t make assumptions.
PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it?
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Posting is the shallowest form of activism, if you can even call it that. Plenty of us materially support causes, without yapping about it here. Don’t make assumptions.
I sure do look forward to the day people stop blaming academic declines on pandemic restrictions. The decline was already in-progress before the pandemic hit.
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I sure do look forward to the day people stop blaming academic declines on pandemic restrictions. The decline was already in-progress before the pandemic hit.
Well, this was thoroughly predictable: gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Well, this was thoroughly predictable: gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
Depending on what part of the country you live in, you may also be able to get fresh Ocean Spray cranberries.
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Depending on what part of the country you live in, you may also be able to get fresh Ocean Spray cranberries.
The text spacing in this ad is as unsettling as the missing comma.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The text spacing in this ad is as unsettling as the missing comma.
Does anyone else have nausea problems with low ceilings in videogames? I've had this issue for years, both in first person and third person, and it's really weird.
Like, in Minecraft, if a room is two-blocks high, it makes me abjectly miserable, but I'm fine if it's three blocks.
Like, in Minecraft, if a room is two-blocks high, it makes me abjectly miserable, but I'm fine if it's three blocks.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Does anyone else have nausea problems with low ceilings in videogames? I've had this issue for years, both in first person and third person, and it's really weird.
Like, in Minecraft, if a room is two-blocks high, it makes me abjectly miserable, but I'm fine if it's three blocks.
Like, in Minecraft, if a room is two-blocks high, it makes me abjectly miserable, but I'm fine if it's three blocks.
There was also the time that Orpheus and Eurydice were potato people. And the time that I made a piece of artwork with pink hominy grits.
In 9th grade bio, I had a class project where I was supposed to make a "3D cell model." I totally forgot about the project until the morning it was due, so I did what I usually do when I was short on time for a project: I headed to the kitchen.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
There was also the time that Orpheus and Eurydice were potato people. And the time that I made a piece of artwork with pink hominy grits.
In 9th grade bio, I had a class project where I was supposed to make a "3D cell model." I totally forgot about the project until the morning it was due, so I did what I usually do when I was short on time for a project: I headed to the kitchen.
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In 9th grade bio, I had a class project where I was supposed to make a "3D cell model." I totally forgot about the project until the morning it was due, so I did what I usually do when I was short on time for a project: I headed to the kitchen.
I was just imagining running a miniatures game, and making a series of increasingly ludicrous jello salad kaijus for everyone to fight, like the angels in Evangelion, and then everyone could eat them at the end of the session, if they dare.
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I was just imagining running a miniatures game, and making a series of increasingly ludicrous jello salad kaijus for everyone to fight, like the angels in Evangelion, and then everyone could eat them at the end of the session, if they dare.