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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · 12d

Engineering is closer to science than most think — and the gap is closing fast.

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Vantage on management: Engineering is science is engineering

I'll demonstrate that engineering and science are conceptually close and increasingly converging, meaning they can borrow practices from each other.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · 25d

Tags are the real source of power in Feeds Fun. They allow you to rank, filter, and sort news how you want, saving your time and energy. However, tagging is not as simple as it seems.

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Why Feeds Fun normalizes tags — and how

How Feeds Fun normalizes tags and why it is important.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Sep 25

We should pivot the basic concepts of management towards managing creative teams and, based on this new basis, form conceptually new sets of practices.

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Vantage on management: No instructions for engineering

Engineers create novelty, so their work cannot be regulated by detailed instructions. What does this imply for managing engineering teams?

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Aug 30

An example of the right use of generative graphics in game development: generating map images from ASCII graphics in roguelikes. blog.jeffschomay.com/rendering-a-...

Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Aug 28

Second major OpenAI release in a row, I haven't been able to switch to their new models, and it's frustrating

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#ChatGPT #OpenAI

From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: Second major OpenAI release in a row, I haven't been able to switch to their new models, and it's frustrating

Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Aug 26

Review of the nine top-rated management books I read for the last year.

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Vantage on management: What to read, when, and why

Review of top management books with commentary: what to read, when to read it, and why.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Aug 8

When everything is going well and you make another breakthrough, you don't cheat with the pictures.

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Summary of GPT-5 presentation without marketing pixie dust

Summary of GPT-5 presentation without marketing pixie dust — progress is slowing down.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 28

Payment processors cancel games. Gamedev must unite and strike back.

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Payment processors cancel games

Monopolists in the electronic payments market are canceling games they "don't like", and the top game stores fall in line without putting up a fight.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 26

Let's delve deeper into one specific stage of the feedback loop — hypothesis synthesis — which often gets unjustifiably little attention.

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Vantage on management: Hypothesis testing loop

Optimally steer a product with the hypothesis testing cycle.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 16

Let's follow a logical chain through increasingly holistic system-level viewpoints on the product and its management.

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Vantage on management: Points of view on a product

We'll look at the product as a lasting entity, a chaotic system, an evolving organism.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 15

Feeds Fun just crossed 200 ⭐ on GitHub! 🎉

An LLM-powered news reader with smart tag-based rules—built for myself, now shared with everyone. It slashes my news intake by about 90 %: from 1 000 + articles a day to 50-100 that truly matter.

Check it out ➜ github.com/Tiendil/feed...

GitHub - Tiendil/feeds.fun: News reader with tags, scoring, and AI

News reader with tags, scoring, and AI. Contribute to Tiendil/feeds.fun development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 11

My wife published her first paper — right in Nature Computational Science!

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Privacy-preserving multicenter differential protein abundance analysis with FedProt - Nature Computational Science

In this Resource, the authors present FedProt, a tool that enables privacy-preserving, federated differential protein abundance analysis across multiple institutions. Its results match the results of ...

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jul 2

I briefly summarize the ideas from the scientific paper "On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems" for myself and, of course, for you.

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On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems

A simplified summary of the article "On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems"

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jun 26

Finally, I’ve compiled my reading plans into a single Notion table and tagged each book.

Here it is: helpful-gourd-356.notion.site/Tiendil-s-bo...

Check it out if you’re hunting for fresh reads on gamedev, software development, complexity, or similar topics.

Tiendil’s books “to read” | Notion

Here is my list of books to read somewhere in the future. Or not to read — it is obviously bigger than my time capacity.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jun 19

My friends and readers know that I often take sabbaticals.

They periodically ask me why I spend time on these adventures, what I do during them, where I get the money from, and so on.

Let's talk about it.

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My sabbaticals

I discuss my personal experience of taking sabbaticals.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jun 10

I prepared a roadmap for Feeds Fun: github.com/users/Tiendi...

I would greatly appreciate feedback on it. The dashboard is a GitHub project, so you can react to the tasks:

- Like to increase the priority of the task.
- Comment to help better understand your needs.

Feeds Fun long-term plans • Tiendil

Here, you'll find all significant features and improvements that we plan to implement in Feeds Fun.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Jun 2

The creative director of Moon Studios (developer of Ori) shared on X (Twitter) some "sad" statistics about the revenue from a successful debut game by unnamed developers that sold two million copies.

This sparked a lot of thoughts.

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The harsh reality of gamedev — the real profit of a successful project

My comments on the income and expenses breakdown of a game sold 2 million copies.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · May 31

Since Feeds Fun has been in production for a long time and provides some value to users, I decided to run a test ad campaign to gauge how viable monetization is in the project’s current form.

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Feeds Fun: marketing test — or how I blew 650 euros

I ran a marketing test for Feeds Fun. Here are the results and conclusions.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · May 27

Thinking through writing is the practice of translating one's own thoughts into written form to uncover gaps in reasoning and construct a clearer picture of the world.

It’s what I mostly do here on this blog — and, to the best of my ability, at work.

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Thinking through writing

Thinking through writing is the practice of translating thoughts into written form to uncover gaps in reasoning and construct a clearer model of the world.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · May 6

Saw this prompt:

```
Act as my personal strategic advisor with the following context:

- You have an IQ of 180...
```

Humanity doesn't know how a strategic advisor with an IQ of 180 thinks.

=> LLMs are biased towards the fictional behaviour.

=> The advices will be cool but inapplicable.

Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Apr 21

This is a translation of my post from 2013 about quest generation for the now-stopped game "The Tale". I think it is still relevant, interesting, and could inspire other developers.

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#gamedev #proceduralcontentgeneration #questgeneration

Generation of non-linear quests

Explained the generation of non-linear quests for the text multiplayer role-playing game "The Tale".

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Apr 7

Last month, the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, in coordination with the European Commission, released interesting guidelines on the implementation of in-game currencies.

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#gamedev #monetization #freetoplay #europe

Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU

Review of guidelines for using in-game currencies in the European Union.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Mar 5

A lot of people come to my post about dungeon generation when looking for a lesson on designing a dungeon, not programming it. For a DnD session, for example.

To ensure no one feels left out, here are some recommendations on the topic.

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How to design a dungeon

Recommendations for creating game dungeons: how to look at a dungeon from a player's perspective, what to pay attention to when developing.

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Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Feb 28

Updated the Feeds Fun design

This is my AI-powered news reader with tags and smart sorting.

If the old interface looked like a blast from the ’90s, it’s now more or less up to date and should be significantly more convenient.

You can test the service for free here: feeds.fun

Aliaksei Yaletski <Tiendil> @tiendil.bsky.social · Feb 23

There’s a possibility that Musk has forbidden his chatbot Grok from mentioning himself or Trump in a negative light.

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P.S. This is why I’m creating feeds.fun — it’s crucial to have a transparent network of news and opinion sources.

#Musk #Grok #Censorship