Barry Carlyon | The Grumbling Archipelago of Pragmatic Code

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Digital Foundry, the most trusted name in game console analysis, is going independent IGN sold it back to its founder.

Digital Foundry is no longer controlled by IGN, as they're going independent! Exciting day for the @digitalfoundry.bsky.social crew. My colleague @seanhollister.bsky.social spoke to the DF folks about going independent 👇 www.theverge.com/games/743535...

oh the memories :-P

Though I was as scriptaculous lad back then…

Oh geez. I remember….

There's nothing in Mafia: The Old Country you haven't seen elsewhere. And worse yet, probably done better. For all the great prequels out there, The Old Country is proof that going backwards isn't always an interesting way forward.

Our review: gameinformer.com/review/mafia...

Happy BF6 Beta day to those that celebrate

Switched to halo that is infinite

BarryCarlyon - Twitch [DarkMode / Head Tracking] Plippering the relics | !elitetrack | Testing: !1440

Late night Plipper schnanigans www.twitch.tv/barrycarlyon

Meeting two done

They were very happy

One down one togo

Meeting one of the day

GraphQL is pain…

oh

also

on production…

And now to write some javascript and condense it to one line

Coz fuck formatting…

In practicality this is nothing.

Since most examples either use IRC _or_ the secure connections anyway…

Decommission of non-secure WebSocket connections to Twitch IRC servers Today we are announcing the decommission of non-secure WebSocket connections to Twitch IRC servers. Given the minimal use of non-secure WebSocket connections we observe in modern third-party tools, di...

I doubt it'll catch anyone out but....

Twitch is planning to kill non secure websockect connections to check which is basically no traffic anyway…

discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/decommissi...

An adult osprey flies to the nest with a fish, where two chicks wait. An orange traffic cone sits in the middle of the nest.

A pair of osprey have been nesting atop the Rehoboth Beach Fire Department siren for several years. The Fire Department placed an orange cone on the siren to deter them, but the osprey just built the nest around it.
Here is one of the adults bringing food to the almost-grown chicks.

#birds 🪶

Calling all Soulslike streamers! Do you stream any of the Dark Souls games or Elden Ring, are free in February 2026 and would like to support @specialeffect.org.uk?

Reply and I'll add you to my list! Also plz tag friends you think might be interested 💙

An unopened box of Gundam Card Game: Newtype Rising booster packs on a grey and black mat, in front of a Blastoise keyboard

Guess I have something to open.

good morning bunny eating the flowers at the drive-thru morning

The Naked Gun Review

It’s nothing new, but it takes tremendous cleverness to be as hilariously stupid as The Naked Gun.

I nitpick encoding quality for a living. I obsess over every pixel. I LOVE me a good 4K BluRay. But 480p media also looks *totally fine* (when encoded properly) on my 4K OLED TV at a normal couch distance.

A ginger cat with a market stall set up, selling toy fish lined up in two rows.

The fish isn't spicy but the seller is.

TC39 Advances 11 Proposals for Math Precision, Binary APIs, ... TC39 advances 11 JavaScript proposals, with two moving to Stage 4, bringing better math, binary APIs, and more features one step closer to the ECMAScr...

TC39 just advanced 11 #JavaScript proposals, including Math.sumPrecise, base64/hex for Uint8Array, iterator chaining, and more.

2 proposals reached Stage 4 and are heading into the spec.

Read the breakdown: socket.dev/blog/tc39-ad... @tc39.es

The order of science:

1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns

GITHUB IS HAVING ISSUES WE'RE FREE

nah that can't be right...

a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this . Alt: a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

The Archery Puzzle on Kaizen *notlikthis*

store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/...

Pondering Pondering My Orb GIF Alt: Pondering Pondering My Orb GIF

ORB

(failed) net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ORB

always my favourite error