Javier Arevalo
@thejare.bsky.social
Demoscene, Games, Game development, Software Engineering, Sci Fi and movies. That sort of stuff.
Sure, the taskbar can't stick to the sides of the display, but it is going to be intelligent instead www.theverge.com/news/821948/...
Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
AI agents are coming to the Windows taskbar.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sure, the taskbar can't stick to the sides of the display, but it is going to be intelligent instead www.theverge.com/news/821948/...
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
I'm a bit late to the party, but wow Devil Blade Reboot is fantastic, and surprisingly accessible for my ageing fingers and reflexes store.steampowered.com/app/2882440/...
Save 25% on DEVIL BLADE REBOOT on Steam
An immersive pseudo-3D shoot 'em up experience that pushes the limits of pixel art. Push your score higher with the innovative Berserk System: the closer they are, the more points you get!
store.steampowered.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I'm a bit late to the party, but wow Devil Blade Reboot is fantastic, and surprisingly accessible for my ageing fingers and reflexes store.steampowered.com/app/2882440/...
Ahhh finally, the secret is out!
www.linkedin.com/posts/lingok...
I rarely post about my job, but I'll break the wall because we've been working for months towards this day, and it's finally here! What an incredible team making it happen.
#Lingokid #Playlearning
www.linkedin.com/posts/lingok...
I rarely post about my job, but I'll break the wall because we've been working for months towards this day, and it's finally here! What an incredible team making it happen.
#Lingokid #Playlearning
#disney #lingokids #playlearning #kidsentertainment #learningthroughplay #edtech #innovation #familymedia | Lingokids | 14 comments
It’s official! For the first time ever, The Walt Disney Company’s timeless storytelling joins our award-winning interactive platform for kids.
Families can now play brand-new Disney Mickey & Friends,...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ahhh finally, the secret is out!
www.linkedin.com/posts/lingok...
I rarely post about my job, but I'll break the wall because we've been working for months towards this day, and it's finally here! What an incredible team making it happen.
#Lingokid #Playlearning
www.linkedin.com/posts/lingok...
I rarely post about my job, but I'll break the wall because we've been working for months towards this day, and it's finally here! What an incredible team making it happen.
#Lingokid #Playlearning
After a few weeks bouncing around the metaphorical walls at work firefighting, gluing and greasing where needed, today I got to do some actual development on one of our new games and that felt good. I think the LoC tally was like +600 -1500, yay. Nothing particularly awesome, just clean progress.
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
After a few weeks bouncing around the metaphorical walls at work firefighting, gluing and greasing where needed, today I got to do some actual development on one of our new games and that felt good. I think the LoC tally was like +600 -1500, yay. Nothing particularly awesome, just clean progress.
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Humans adapt to change at human rates. Not technological rates. Not economic rates.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Humans adapt to change at human rates. Not technological rates. Not economic rates.
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If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests
Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.
doublepulsar.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
Ok despues de casi 10 años sin dar una charla (que se me han hecho largos como 100), mañana nos veremos en la #TRGx! Estoy mas oxidao que el Titanic pero con un poco de suerte lo disfrutaremos desde ambos lados del powerpoint.
Ojo al CHARLONIO DE PLUTONIO de @thejare.bsky.social en la #TRGx: diferencias en el proceso de desarrollo de software empresarial y videojuegos, y que puede aprender el uno del otro 🤯
Una charla nada habitual y, menos aun, impartida por alguien con experiencia de DECADAS en cada sector.
Una charla nada habitual y, menos aun, impartida por alguien con experiencia de DECADAS en cada sector.
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ok despues de casi 10 años sin dar una charla (que se me han hecho largos como 100), mañana nos veremos en la #TRGx! Estoy mas oxidao que el Titanic pero con un poco de suerte lo disfrutaremos desde ambos lados del powerpoint.
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A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that.
If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened.
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened.
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a successful career as a software developer. Spanning six companies and thirty-seven years I’ve had the opportunity to work on Elastic Reality, Xbox, Windows, Ste…
randomascii.wordpress.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that.
If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened.
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened.
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...
“We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.”
No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.
No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.”
No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.
No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.
I'm very happy in bsky but I'm not a zealot, I kept my twitter account alive and every few weeks I drop by to check out how the site is doing.
I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.
I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm very happy in bsky but I'm not a zealot, I kept my twitter account alive and every few weeks I drop by to check out how the site is doing.
I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.
I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.
Define “perfect ending”
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Define “perfect ending”
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Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%
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Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
Lots of great things and also some shitty things are happening all around us, but tonight The Diplomat is back and that's going to be how my own day ends well. That show is a perfect blend of tones and themes, backed by a cast that's fully into it.
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Lots of great things and also some shitty things are happening all around us, but tonight The Diplomat is back and that's going to be how my own day ends well. That show is a perfect blend of tones and themes, backed by a cast that's fully into it.
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Jupiter Ascending (2015): Titus Abrasax clipper, art by George Hull
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Jupiter Ascending (2015): Titus Abrasax clipper, art by George Hull
Why don't you just
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Why don't you just
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My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!
youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...
youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...
Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke
YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!
youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...
youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...
If you think AI hallucinating stuff when generating code or graphics is bad, let me tell you about this nightmare I had last night where AI was doing producer work.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
If you think AI hallucinating stuff when generating code or graphics is bad, let me tell you about this nightmare I had last night where AI was doing producer work.
I know I know, with all the shit that's going on everywhere, being stressed about a CVE is a bit dumb, but hey emotions are like that.
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I know I know, with all the shit that's going on everywhere, being stressed about a CVE is a bit dumb, but hey emotions are like that.
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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
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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SMART RING: [rapidly constricting bone and cutting off blood supply] bleep bloop i’m detecting your heart rate is raised, can i suggest listening to a relaxing playlist? you can upgrade to AI playlists for just $19.99 extra a month,
September 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
SMART RING: [rapidly constricting bone and cutting off blood supply] bleep bloop i’m detecting your heart rate is raised, can i suggest listening to a relaxing playlist? you can upgrade to AI playlists for just $19.99 extra a month,
I think I'm going to mass download all the talks available on Youtube before it's too late.
The vision deck for the new GDC is confounding. I don't know who any of this is for, but it's certainly not game developers eager to learn.
ubm.ent.box.com/v/GDC26-FoG-...
ubm.ent.box.com/v/GDC26-FoG-...
September 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think I'm going to mass download all the talks available on Youtube before it's too late.