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Simon | Indie Game Dev 🎮
@zhymon.bsky.social
Senior DevOps @[REDACTED] // Director @agentsofswarm.com

90's kid | #adhd | I'm a multi-disciplined developer with a focus in #gamedev, devops, and web development. I mostly work in #UnrealEngine, JavaScript, Next.js & Rust.

Signal: @zhym0n.42
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To the LGBTQ+, migrant, and BIPOC communities:

my sword, and my help; always and forever will be yours.

Be kind to yourself today get offline if you need too ❤️
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The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.

Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This. Really grateful I've had leads who have really championed this.

Shout out @greatnessinabox.bsky.social
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People think documentation is hard. "Documenting a lot" has legit been career advancing for me

One trick:
If you're writing down an answer to someone in an email or an IM, paste that this into a page

Just do it. Copy-paste. A little cleanup if you're feeling ambitious. Bam, documentation.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡

If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.

Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...

#b3d
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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100+ local wins. 36 red to blue flips. 15 Gen-Zs elected. 23 states represented.
That’s not luck, it’s a movement.
We’re building the future, one ballot at a time → https://bit.ly/3EoNIhs
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1000%
I agree with the sentiment, but if the Steam Hardware family succeeds, it's a bigger problem for the publishers that demand it (and other invasive DRMs).

No video game actually needs un-sandboxed access to your system. On demand file access to save/load/import data, sure, but never full access.
Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
#SteamMachine #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamOS #Gaming
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

blog.kagi.com/slopstop
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I miss Vine. I miss authentic human social media instead of AI slop. Being able to choose who you follow rather than being force fed content by adversarial algorithms. So I built a thing to bring the idea of Vine back.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/j...
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
3 words: Ostrich. Akira. slide.

watch this sh1t post haste.

youtu.be/H7_9m41ZpSo
Perception Check - Goblin Mode
YouTube video by Sinto_J
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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James van Der Beek needing to sell memorabilia to help fund his cancer treatment says so much about the American healthcare system. How fucking grim
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A little random gameplay of our new game Ryn and the Thread of Life

#gamedev #indiedev
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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i am not too old for or above having A Moment because the creator of maybe the single most foundational program of my youth toward becoming a gamedev followed me back

(hello @zsknight.bsky.social thank you for your service 🙇‍♂️)
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Inspired by Chasm: The Rift, Turok and MDK.

VAL'TY is our tiny retro FPS where an alien mom and her daughter must locate and destroy a machine created to "domesticate" their species.

Art by me and @lunaayarts.bsky.social
Music from @elektrobear.bsky.social 80 songs pack
#retroFPS #fps
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Tem sido divertido trabalhar com esse projeto e está se tornando um joguinho igualmente divertido 😀💚
Inspired by Chasm: The Rift, Turok and MDK.

VAL'TY is our tiny retro FPS where an alien mom and her daughter must locate and destroy a machine created to "domesticate" their species.

Art by me and @lunaayarts.bsky.social
Music from @elektrobear.bsky.social 80 songs pack
#retroFPS #fps
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Mark my words: If the new Steam Machines are price competitive in anyway with consoles……it will be a bloodbath sales wise.
While I understand people are skeptical of the Steam Machine as being too wonky to make a dent in PlayStation or Nintendo, I absolutely see a scenario in which it replaces Xbox, which does not seem to be difficult at this point.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Reavers of New Rome is 40% off this week on Steam!

When your ancestors were exiled from New Rome, they left as Senators. Now, 100 years later, you return as a barbarian at the gates in this low-poly 3D Action-Adventure game!

store.steampowered.com/app/1360160/...
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Rabbits will present their projects to an expert jury on the @gamesground.bsky.social:

@ramiismail.com Rami Ismail, Lauren Hunter and Jan Halwe! Don't miss out!

#indiegames #gamedev
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We don't use Ai in our games. Ai isn't and hasn't ever been needed been needed to make a good game and CEOs like this don't know what the fuck they are talking about.

They just want to slowly take humans out of the process thinking they can just hit and button and it'll print money.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
the brazil miku cameo doe....
BANGER ANIMATION 🎨pixelstay
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Hit me with your best shot 🤘😤
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Turn off Autorun Python in your Blender preferences as a precaution
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Oooofffff
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM