Joshua Hodkinson
jbwhodkinson.bsky.social
Joshua Hodkinson
@jbwhodkinson.bsky.social
Software Developer;
Mostly react;
Tinkers with game dev;
He/Him;
Pinned
I quit my job at Atlassian so I could work on my own game projects for a bit. Starting out with incremental flavoured breakout & am now batching sprite drawing size_of(u16) per draw call. #gamedev
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It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.

Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Have been working on UI layout for my engine & game. @nicbarker.com's breakdown of how Clay works (www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9l...) has been super useful for this. Not sure that Odin will let me have quite as nice an API as macros allow Clay's to be & I haven't touched font rendering yet. #gamedev
September 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos

Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done.

We got more than 1000 people.
July 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Texture uploads via a texture array - still need to figure out how I want the asset system to work (and the actual art direction) #gamedev
July 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I quit my job at Atlassian so I could work on my own game projects for a bit. Starting out with incremental flavoured breakout & am now batching sprite drawing size_of(u16) per draw call. #gamedev
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Please think of the Metaverse and NFTs any time someone spruiks the inevitability of generative AI.
The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it
April 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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We can threaten the ruling class every single day
April 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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January 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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There is no such thing as a billionaire philanthropist.

There are no good billionaires.

No one *earns* a billion dollars.

Eat the rich.
January 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c:

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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If you needed an example in picture form of what a class traitor is, here’s an example below:
Unionised cops collectivising to break another form of collective action so that a multibillion dollar company can continue to extract profit.
December 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM