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Tyler Haas

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It's only democracy if I get my way! /s

Never change #sanfrancisco (jk please be better)

S.F. voters closer to weighing in — again — on fate of Great Highway

Sunset Supervisor Alan Wong said he’d back a ballot measure to reopen the city’s westernmost coastal boulevard to cars, closing Sunset Dunes park.

www.sfchronicle.com

December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

I started a #film newsletter where I talk about what I've watched each week. Follow along! #filmsky

Weekly Roundup: Wake Up Dead Man, the Last of Sheila, RIP Rob Reiner

The news about Rob and Michele Reiner is truly horrible and tragic. Between the films he wrote, directed, appeared in, and produced (either personally or via the company he founded), he almost certain...

cinema.tylerhaas.xyz

December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Last month I started making my own game engine using #OpenGL and as few external dependencies as I could. My C++ knowledge was extremely limited.

It's been a rewarding #gamedev exercise.

(But I still need to create a physics system, and animations, and a particle system, and audio, and...)

December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Wikipedia’s year in review is…a little bleak

English Wikipedia's most read articles
When people want to learn about our world, they turn to Wikipedia. The top 5 visited articles on English Wikipedia were:
1. Charlie Kirk
2. Deaths in 2025
3. Ed Gein
4. Donald Trump
5. Pope Leo XIV
Read more in our dedicated blog post.

December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

I messed up come my 3D rotation math and accidentally made a horror game.
#gamedev #opengl

November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

I've been teaching myself graphics programming and somewhere along the line accidentally made a screensaver from the 90s.
#gamedev

November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM

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Brain Lords Podcast

@brainlordspod.bsky.social

Our Halloween episode is out! Special guest @strucci.bsky.social helps us understand why Sonic and Subnautica are just as spooky as Silent Hill in The Scariest Non-Horror Games!

open.spotify.com/episode/6ax9...

October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Me, right before I err

September 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈

@kennedytcooper.bsky.social

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks

September 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Third amendment gang rise up

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · Jun 9

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

bit.ly

June 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Easily one of my top five of all time

[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · May 17

Now playing (03:15 PM PST):
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975)
By Peter Weir
Runtime: 115 min.

May 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

We live in hell

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Apr 14

NEW:

Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan

"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

hellgatenyc.com

April 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

Pour one out for the landlords of SF, the true oppressed class

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Apr 10

We are now getting a comment about how people no longer want to own multifamily because of rent control and how it is causing mental breakdowns. Taxes going up, mom-and-pops getting squeezed out. Constitutional rights are being undermined. Pour one out for Sheets v El Dorado. 34% vacancy repeated

April 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Aftermath

@aftermath.site

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you:

aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Tyler Haas

@tylerhaas.xyz

This insight into how Michael Mann came up with his signature visual style is absolutely incredible. What a great interview

Thief was such a visually arresting film for its era. Was there a lot of visual research you did for it — films, photographs, things like that?

Not affecting the visualization. The visualization of it was: How do I want you to feel about Frank relative to the city he’s operating within, the circumstances of his life? I wanted you to see and feel that city from within his perspective. For Frank, Chicago is not this flat city built on the Great Plains. It’s a three-dimensional matrix. It’s a maze that he has to operate in and also decode and pursue. So, I took advantage of what Chicago looks like when it rains. Because as the black streets get reflective and the lights reflect off them, you feel like you’re driving through a tunnel, not like you’re driving on top of a surface. We wet down the streets at night so they would be reflective, and that became the camera perspective, as well as him having that black ’71 Eldorado and seeing the lights reflected all over the car as he moved through it.

March 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍

@wafoli.bsky.social

Ah yes, obviously those don’t match, uh, everyone can see that

March 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM

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That Mack

@thatmc.bsky.social

Tomorrow is SF Transit Operator Day. I'm calling on everyone in San Francisco to ride Muni tomorrow. There is no better way to show love and appreciation for the workers who move the people of the City than to board our buses, trains, streetcars, and cable cars. www.sftransitoperator.day

sftransitoperator.day

Tuesday, March 18th is SF Transit Operator Day. To celebrate and recognize operators, ride Muni on that day. Say a special "Thank You" and to really make it special, submit a commendation to recognize...

www.sftransitoperator.day

March 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Tyler Haas

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Ghoulish

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · Mar 1

It's all a fucking game to these people.

March 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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surfer slacker stoner spy

@briansantacruz.bsky.social

If you want to know the name of the NIMBY who has been blocking the repairs to the Santa Cruz wharf since 2016, her name is Gillian Greensite and she deserves the blame for what happened today

www.goodtimes.sc/the-wharfs-c...