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Mattias Ljungström
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game dev, current freelance @ messhof. spacesofplay.com. berlin.
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spacesofplay.com
pico-8 demoscene demo
PICO-8 Cartridge
hellfire.untergrund.net
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
spacesofplay.com
"My kid spends too much time playing computer games. What can I do to make them play less?" (idk, spend more time with them?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
mixedlinguist.bsky.social Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 2d
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
spacesofplay.com
The worst part of web apps on the desktop is this constant need to sign-in. I already sign in to win11, my drive is using bitlock, I'm ok with my music player storing my credentials forever on disk.
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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annesh.no
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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alexmak.net
There is an extended version of it
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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djlink.bsky.social
Xbox made the certification documents public (this is it takes to ship/pass the checklist/QA to launch a game on Xbox) for everyone; and Nintendo/PS should consider the same. There are a lot of things that if were common knowledge would save hours/money to everyone. developer.microsoft.... #gamedev
Unlocking Access to Game Publishing Documentation for All Developers
We’re removing barriers to learning and making it easier for teams of all sizes to understand what it takes to ship a game on Xbox.
developer.microsoft.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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philiplebutt.bsky.social
Digitalisierung in der Justiz, Symbolverfügung 🫠
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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maxkriegervg.bsky.social
Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”) a smiling harry kim at the precise moment of being wasted by a phaser
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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innes.bsky.social
two scottish wild cat kittens facing the camera and the one on the right is YELLING
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
thinking about how like 99% of pop game design discourse is just this tweet: it's something that SEEMS really smart to say, and then once you think about it for more than about ten seconds, you realize it's not even correct.
screencap from an old tweet that says: "Mario games teach us that even if something is essentially the same, psychologically it can be completely different. This example is very easy to understand." the provided example is two different screencaps from the ending area of a level in Super Mario Bros, one from 8-1 and the other from 8-3. in the one from 8-1, there is a tower of blocks with gaps in between each row that go all the way down to the bottom. in the one from 8-3, only the top blocks exist and everything else is just empty space.
May 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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cscheid.net
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads: Abstract A " 'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings. This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one. CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind. Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming ACM Reference Format: Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3759429.3762631 1 A Way of Knowing From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves. I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I? What kind of person? What kind of mind?
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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mmalex.bsky.social
still messin' with this thing. so many yaks to shave when you start from scratch. autocomplete, filter dsp, sample loading, even json parsing. an eternal pile of todos, but each one small enough I'm making slow but continual forward progress...
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ratqueen.bsky.social
Gegen #Chatkontrolle mitzeichnen!

weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...
Chatkontrolle stoppen!
Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...
weact.campact.de
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Oct 5
When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.
essencesimmone.blacksky.app essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · Oct 3
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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netzpolitik.org
In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben.

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...
Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt
In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...
netzpolitik.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
Well don't I feel stupid
A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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flantz.bsky.social
We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
store.steampowered.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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kyleor.land
Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment?

If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com.

Please spread the word
September 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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mospadee.bsky.social
small thing i made while trying to use @mrmotarius.bsky.social charset
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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devolverdigital.com
Baby Steps is out now on PlayStation 5 and PC!

Put one foot in front of the other as you stumble and tumble through an expansive world full of unexpected challenges and hilarious inhabitants.
Baby Steps is out now! Put one foot in front of the other on PS5 and PC.
YouTube video by DevolverDigital
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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alixwzl.bsky.social
"Solving the autism problem" oooooh dimmer switches that don't whine?
innes.bsky.social innes @innes.bsky.social · Sep 23
"solving the autism problem" oh you mean cutting the scratchy tags off my shirts?
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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halfrobot.com
One of today's philosophical questions: can a game be a "Bennett-Foddy-style" game if it is actually made by @foddy.net
Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes) News By Andy Chalk published 2 hours ago The new Bennett Foddy-style flailing simulator is "infuriating," "frustrating," "stupid," and most people seem to love it.
September 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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tieguytravis.bsky.social
I reviewed Baby Steps (@babystepsgame.bsky.social), an intentionally infuriating walking simulator, and it has inexplicably become one of my favorite games of 2025. Check out my review, where I do my best to…explicastrate, via @ign.com:

bit.ly/3IBbut3
Baby Steps Review - IGN
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM