The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.
“[Amazon] said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterised by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ among other factors … Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes”
www.ft.com/content/7cab...
Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.
This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
Is there an existing license or clause you’re considering? I’d love to have one to use and point people to.
Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
If there’s one thing I learned from Juicero, it’s that you could absolutely get millions in funding for an AI ice cream scoop startup.
I'm cleaning up my drives and I was looking at file sizes, this was kind of amusing:
1 install of UE4: 41.2 GB
6 versions of Unity: 48.7 GB
22 versions of Godot: 2.4 GB (5 GB with export templates)
new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...
Rogue waves were once the stuff of nautical legend. Tales of giant lone waves were considered sailors' tall tales, until an oil rig in the North Sea was hit by a 25.6-meter wave on 1 January 1995.
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25993
vgmtogether is standing in solidarity with our community in Minnesota and all other areas affected by ICE. We are organizing a fundraising stream on the weekend of February 6th-8th to raise money for The Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Relief Fund.
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
A special treat this year was being able to attend a post-MAG concert with the absolutely incomparable @discocactus.bsky.social! Incredible musicians with technical chops and artistic flair, a phenomenal sense of ensemble, unafraid to challenge themselves and have fun doing it.
Also of note, @geeknights.frontrowcrew.com’s metacontextualism talk, building on last year’s stellar postmodernism talk. I would take this college course in a heartbeat.
Many highlights this year, including some great games in the indie showcase, artists in the marketplace, and the community orchestra (a 350-strong orchestra from everywhere get a concert together in two days in the middle of a con! always blows my mind)
I always feel extra inspired after attending MAGFest. Just a really wonderful event with a lot of great, creative, curious, welcoming humans.
What you're doing is the equivalent of asking a StarWars addled 10 year old for design ideas on your scifi game
I'm not joking that's literally how these models work
Can you argue him off StarWars? Sure. But do you know enough Extended Universe lore to catch when he sneaks back into it? You don't.
In the nutcracker, I have to play the chime that the grandfather clock makes when it strikes midnight. It's not in the part, so I had to make a mark to help me remember
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
🚀 Excited to announce SharpIDE - A Modern, Cross-Platform IDE for .NET!
I'm thrilled to share my latest open-source project, just in time for .NET 10: SharpIDE, a brand new IDE for .NET, built with .NET and Godot! 🎉
🔗 Check it out on GitHub: github.com/MattParkerDe...
...
I’m being rickrolled by the car dealership’s easy-listening playlist.
Looks like they're up on the Internet Archive: web.archive.org/web/20201030...
Hope the move went reasonably smoothly! Look forward to seeing you around again when things settle down :-)
