Diko Ko

@dikoko.bsky.social

An engineer and producer. An ex-game dev / An aspiring indie game creator. Blog: https://www.invisiblefriends.net

55 Followers | 74 Following | 180 Posts | Joined: 08.01.2025 | 1.8502

Latest posts by dikoko.bsky.social on Bluesky

Time and Again Our last Salle's book club pick was Time and Again by Jack Finney. We picked it because in the afterword of 11/22/63, Stephen King called it a great time-travel novel—even saying he wanted to dedicate...

www.invisiblefriends.net/time-and-aga...

03.11.2025 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The End of the 2025 Season Now, officially, the baseball season is over. The result wasn’t what I NEVER wanted — the Dodgers won the World Series two years in a row. As a Giants fan, I was really frustrated watching yesterday’...

www.invisiblefriends.net/the-end-of-t...

03.11.2025 06:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fleet Week SF 2025 Fleet Week has always been a yearly ritual for my family — though, honestly, not always a smooth one. In 2022, I learned the name of San Francisco’s true nemesis: Karl the Fog. 2023 was a little bette...

www.invisiblefriends.net/fleet-week-s...

26.10.2025 06:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NEW: Seventeen World Tour in U.S. Speaking of LAFC — I actually visited their home, BMO Stadium, last Friday. But this time, it wasn’t for a soccer match. It was for the K-pop boy band Seventeen's concert. My daughter had declared th...

www.invisiblefriends.net/new-seventee...

22.10.2025 06:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Earthquakes vs LAFC On a Saturday last month (precisely September 13, 2025), my family headed to Levi’s Stadium — not for a 49ers game or a concert, but for something completely different: an MLS match featuring the San ...

www.invisiblefriends.net/earthquakes-...

20.10.2025 06:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speaking at K-PAI: A 30,000-Foot View of the Online Advertising Ecosystem I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the K-PAI event, sharing an architectural overview of the online advertising ecosystem — from publishers and SSPs to exchanges, DSPs, and advertisers — and h...

Spoke at K-PAI on the architecture of the online advertising ecosystem — how AI/ML now power every layer, from publishers to advertisers. www.invisiblefriends.net/speaking-at-...

#AdTech

17.10.2025 05:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SF Giants 2025 Today marks the saddest day of the year: the final game of the Giants’ season. Once again, October baseball slips away, and the journey ends here. Last year, I shared how much I enjoyed the $1,000 Fl...

www.invisiblefriends.net/sf-giants-20...

29.09.2025 05:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Expedition 33 Let me just say it straight. "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" is the best game I’ve played since "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." When the game was first announced, it caught attention not jus...

www.invisiblefriends.net/expedition-33/

28.09.2025 04:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vintage Computer Festival 2025 As I mentioned in my previous post about Ultima IV, my first personal computer was an Apple II+ (replica). The Apple IIe and II GS were my dream machines growing up — the ones I never got to own. So, ...

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15.09.2025 06:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LA 2025 Last month, we took a summer family trip to Los Angeles. The highlight was a two-day visit to Universal Studios — but we packed a few other stops along the way too. Right before we headed to the stay...

www.invisiblefriends.net/la-2025/

30.08.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

토스 피플: 50살, 엔지니어로 살아남는 법 90년대 게임 개발자로 시작해, 글로벌 회사와 창업을 거쳐 Toss USA에 합류하신 Diko님의 이야기를 들려드려요.

My story (sorry, only in Korean) toss.tech/article/toss...

28.08.2025 05:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

11/22/63 I just realized I I realized I forgot to update my last Salle’s Book Club read: “11/22/63.” Many Americans probably recognize the date right away — it’s the day President Kennedy was assassinated. The...

www.invisiblefriends.net/11-22-63/

04.08.2025 05:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ado Hibana World Tour 2025 While Huntrix and the Saja Boys might rule the world music charts, my personal favorite is Ado — a Japanese singer who’s built a reputation not just for her songs, but for her mystery. Known as a “fac...

www.invisiblefriends.net/ado-hibana-w...

23.07.2025 05:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Proud Daddy Moment I’ve got a backlog of posts piling up, but this one couldn’t wait. Last week, I visited Washington D.C. for the first time — not for tech, not for work, but for something far more special: my daughte...

www.invisiblefriends.net/a-proud-dadd...

16.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Start It’s been over a month since my last post, and I’ve had a busy start at my new role with Viva Republica. You might recognize the company better by its flagship service, Toss—South Korea’s leading fint...

www.invisiblefriends.net/new-start/

14.06.2025 06:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Proud daddy moment.

12.06.2025 03:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

08.06.2025 02:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

08.06.2025 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Catch on the field 2025.

08.06.2025 02:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saturday. Could be my last Korean president election.

24.05.2025 23:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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22.05.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yep, I’m back. This is the Bay Area.

17.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A family trip with my parents. Happy to see we still have days.

17.05.2025 02:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Saturday.

03.05.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

May day. An early morning movie.

01.05.2025 00:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wish a sound and safe flight… but it delays as usual..

29.04.2025 18:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday morning. On a business.

29.04.2025 14:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

8 Years Eight years. To be precise, it was seven years and ten months that I spent at Moloco. Last Friday marked my final day there. It became the longest tenure of my career—longer even than the time I spent...

www.invisiblefriends.net/8-years/

29.04.2025 03:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unemployed. Day 1.

29.04.2025 00:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No.3 / 2025.

27.04.2025 23:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@dikoko is following 20 prominent accounts

Mark Hamill
@markhamillofficial

Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜 I IGNORE ALL DMs!

W4 Games
@w4games.com

Company of veteran @godotengine.org contributors providing commercial OSS products and services. #GodotEngine

isa
@isadora.codes

debugger queen ✨ working on Neverway and my own engine! co-founder at @coldbloodinc.studio WISHLIST NEVERWAY ✨ http://steam.neverway.co and more ✨ http://isadora.codes

Nat Loh
@natloh

🌱Sustainable Leadership in Games🎮 🗺️Helping Designers Navigate their Careers💻 📭Available for Design Consultation📜 https://www.linkedin.com/in/natloh/ https://www.natlohdesign.com/

Jakub
@koobazaur

Founder & Creative Director at Unbound Creations. We make games about fake news and crows. Making "Table Tactics", a physics-based tabletop strategy game! Past: Just Crow Things, Rain on Your Parade, Headliner http://unboundcreations.com

Monica Fan =>GDC 2025
@designermonicat

Game Designer by day, k-pop and cat lover by night Current: @Pipeworks @SavePointGathering Cofounder: IGDA Neurodivergent in Game Dev SIG, @HimboHunter Bubble Tea is my religion. My opinions are my own.

Joey Ziolkowski
@joeyz.io

Hey there! 👋 I try to connect people and spread joy by making games. Citizen of Toontown | Senior Designer at Schell Games | he / him

CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan
@cheesetalk

Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018 Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights” Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/ Personal website: https://fakecheese.me

Neverway - WISHLIST ON STEAM! 👁️
@coldbloodinc.studio

Follow here for the latest announcements! 🩸 ☆ Discord: https://tinyurl.com/neverway ☆ Wishlist: http://steam.neverway.co Acc managed by Heidy Motta 🇨🇦 🇧🇷

511 SF Bay
@511.org

511 is your free one-stop phone and web source for up-to-the minute Bay Area traffic, transit, carpool & vanpool, and bicycling information.

Jason
@jasonfest

Post things I find in my garden, in nature & in my head. 🏳️‍🌈

에스텔 뉴스계정
@transborder

@estel.bsky.social https://open.kakao.com/o/so9jxR4g

Discover Japan
@discoveryjapan

Salle Hayden
@sallehayden

Educator, author, editor, friend, wife, mother, lover of life

wizmusa
@wizmusa

Data & AI platform engineer. 인공지능은 내 친구, 내 친구 인공지능

Bookshelfie
@bookshelfie

The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site) Accepting book submissions now! https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/

한슬 Hansel
@hihansel

스코틀랜드에서 고양이 둘과 개발하고 집을 고치고 사진을 찍습니다. www.hanseul.com

플루토(Heejung Kim)
@plluto

Game Designer/Scenario Writer, D&D Master, Mom of a girl and a boy 데못죽/내스급 홀릭 중. 파판14 모그리섭. 트위터:@plluto / 마스터돈: twingyeo.kr/@plluto RPG용 포스타입 : https://plluto-rpg.postype.com

환율봇
@currencies-krw-bot

현재의 환율(KEB하나은행 매매기준율)을 일정 시간마다 게시합니다. 관리자 @azyu.bsky.social

Azyu
@azyu

Backend Engineer, Gamer | 평범한 개인 계정으로 소속된 회사와 아무런 관계가 없습니다.