Karl Schmidt
@karlschmidt.net
Tech Leader, author at DebugBetter, former cofounder of Gasket Games, former Relic Entertainment, DeNA, Mobify engineering leader
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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 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
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 Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
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"Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract"
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract - mootoday.com
When life gives you lemons, build your own lemon stand.
mootoday.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract"
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
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- An hour debugging a shader gamma loss issue that turned out to be an auto-dimmed Xbox that I didn't touch the controller on for a few minutes
- A few days debugging my GUS XM player skipping the first half a second of any tune that turned out to be my speaker wake-up latency after going standby.
- A few days debugging my GUS XM player skipping the first half a second of any tune that turned out to be my speaker wake-up latency after going standby.
- Spends 10 minutes investigating a weird highlighting issue.
- Realizes that there's a pile of stuff sitting over the rarely used game controller stashed somewhere in a drawer, but connected. A button was held pressed.
- Realizes that there's a pile of stuff sitting over the rarely used game controller stashed somewhere in a drawer, but connected. A button was held pressed.
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
- An hour debugging a shader gamma loss issue that turned out to be an auto-dimmed Xbox that I didn't touch the controller on for a few minutes
- A few days debugging my GUS XM player skipping the first half a second of any tune that turned out to be my speaker wake-up latency after going standby.
- A few days debugging my GUS XM player skipping the first half a second of any tune that turned out to be my speaker wake-up latency after going standby.
Automation FTW
Still a few slots open on the Nov 18th workshop - come learn about shipping better games faster through test automation!
(If you’re indie, dm me for a discount)
(If you’re Netflix, dm me for a price increase)
(If you’re indie, dm me for a discount)
(If you’re Netflix, dm me for a price increase)
Game devs!
- want to make big changes closer to launch?
- scared of a buggy launch that might impact discoverability?
- like QA to do more exploratory testing, not repetitive checklists?
Join my virtual workshop on 1st Oct to learn about pragmatic test automation!
andrewfray.dev/workshops.html
- want to make big changes closer to launch?
- scared of a buggy launch that might impact discoverability?
- like QA to do more exploratory testing, not repetitive checklists?
Join my virtual workshop on 1st Oct to learn about pragmatic test automation!
andrewfray.dev/workshops.html
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Automation FTW
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October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Remember inworld.ai ? Website (and business) looks a lot different than a few years ago....
I guess it's hard "to push forward innovations in generative AI that elevate the entire gaming industry"
I guess it's hard "to push forward innovations in generative AI that elevate the entire gaming industry"
AI products for growing applications.
For builders of consumer applications, enabling scaled applications that grow into user needs and organically evolve through experience.
inworld.ai
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Remember inworld.ai ? Website (and business) looks a lot different than a few years ago....
I guess it's hard "to push forward innovations in generative AI that elevate the entire gaming industry"
I guess it's hard "to push forward innovations in generative AI that elevate the entire gaming industry"
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While we're finishing up Dosa Divas, we're still shopping around two smaller new projects. We wanted to let folks know with enough time and severance. Here's a spreadsheet with info on each person and I'm happy to provide any recommendations for any of them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Outerloop Alumni - PUBLIC Contact Info
docs.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
While we're finishing up Dosa Divas, we're still shopping around two smaller new projects. We wanted to let folks know with enough time and severance. Here's a spreadsheet with info on each person and I'm happy to provide any recommendations for any of them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Today I heard the "All models are wrong, but some are useful" quote (from George Box) for the first time.
It was referring to the world of statistics, but was mentioned on a podcast discussing mental models.
It was referring to the world of statistics, but was mentioned on a podcast discussing mental models.
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Today I heard the "All models are wrong, but some are useful" quote (from George Box) for the first time.
It was referring to the world of statistics, but was mentioned on a podcast discussing mental models.
It was referring to the world of statistics, but was mentioned on a podcast discussing mental models.
A friend of mine has some questions about the Azure US Government Marketplace - please reach out if you know about this, or if you know someone who knows! Bonus points if you know about how non-US companies can list on it.. thanks!
October 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A friend of mine has some questions about the Azure US Government Marketplace - please reach out if you know about this, or if you know someone who knows! Bonus points if you know about how non-US companies can list on it.. thanks!
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New blog post:
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/f...
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/f...
Finding a VS Code Memory Leak
In 2021 I found a huge memory leak in VS code, totalling around 64 GB when I first saw it, but with no actual limit on how high it could go. I found this leak despite two obstacles that should have…
randomascii.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
New blog post:
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/f...
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/f...
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I'll be at the Flink Forward in Barcelona next week. Happy to talk about all things data streaming, Flink, Arrow, DataFusion and more. You can also get these cute stickers! 🐿️
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'll be at the Flink Forward in Barcelona next week. Happy to talk about all things data streaming, Flink, Arrow, DataFusion and more. You can also get these cute stickers! 🐿️
Surprise! My wife and I are attending #VIFF as industry for our first film festival. Why? We’re both very interested in film and TV - myself more on the production side.
October 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Surprise! My wife and I are attending #VIFF as industry for our first film festival. Why? We’re both very interested in film and TV - myself more on the production side.
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid
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Introducing Iron Vector: native, columnar, vectorized, high-performance accelerator for Apache Flink SQL and Table API built on top of Rust, Arrow and DataFusion.
Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.
Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Introducing Iron Vector: native, columnar, vectorized, high-performance accelerator for Apache Flink SQL and Table API built on top of Rust, Arrow and DataFusion.
Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.
Reduce your Flink compute cost by up to 2x or handle 2x more data with the same infrastructure.
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Hesitant to share this (since I don't offer hands-on dev anymore), but I built "minesweeper in space" in about a day and a half last week (Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2). Play it in your browser: kschmidt.itch.io/asteroid-miner
September 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hesitant to share this (since I don't offer hands-on dev anymore), but I built "minesweeper in space" in about a day and a half last week (Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2). Play it in your browser: kschmidt.itch.io/asteroid-miner
Same thing when I see genAI images - my brain thinks “lazy”
Interesting observation from an eng manager:
“As soon as I know some text is AI-generated: I lose all interest in reading it.
For performance reviews, I asked people to either not use AI or if they must: just write down the prompt so I don’t need to go thru the generated word salad padding.”
“As soon as I know some text is AI-generated: I lose all interest in reading it.
For performance reviews, I asked people to either not use AI or if they must: just write down the prompt so I don’t need to go thru the generated word salad padding.”
September 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Same thing when I see genAI images - my brain thinks “lazy”
Trying out livestreaming: event.studiobit.io/@8BS8vEy
Live Streaming by Studiobit
Studiobit is a browser-based studio and live streaming platform to easily create and multistream branded and engaging events.
event.studiobit.io
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Trying out livestreaming: event.studiobit.io/@8BS8vEy
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I think I like FPS games
August 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I think I like FPS games
It's #siggraph2025 in Vancouver this week! I picked up my pass on the weekend, celebrated my wedding anniversary yesterday (16 years! ❤️), and am ready to learn from and connect with folks at the conference this week! 🎉
August 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It's #siggraph2025 in Vancouver this week! I picked up my pass on the weekend, celebrated my wedding anniversary yesterday (16 years! ❤️), and am ready to learn from and connect with folks at the conference this week! 🎉
@skaven.bsky.social it’d be great to grab coffee this week, I have time Wednesday afternoon!
August 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@skaven.bsky.social it’d be great to grab coffee this week, I have time Wednesday afternoon!
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Had a choice of 3 ways how to code a minor feature but couldn’t decide. So I unloaded the dishwasher and now I have decided :-)
August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Had a choice of 3 ways how to code a minor feature but couldn’t decide. So I unloaded the dishwasher and now I have decided :-)
Unity (the game engine) was started in 2005. Its goal was to "democratize game development". 20 years later - do you think it achieved that goal?
July 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Unity (the game engine) was started in 2005. Its goal was to "democratize game development". 20 years later - do you think it achieved that goal?