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mmalex

@mmalex.bsky.social

synth tinkerer (plinky); nvidia research (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)

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Made low-poly goldfish #256fes
256 polygons, 150 vertices each

08.02.2026 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school

28.02.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 711    πŸ” 178    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boing Boing

boing.greg.technology

30.11.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

fun mac-os footgun: if you add a folder to your sidebar (as a favourite/bookmark), and then rename the folder, the sidebar's name does not update. so in my case, bookmark 'plinky', in cli, rename it to plinky_old, recreate plinky folder - WAIT WHY IS NOTHING UPDATING IN FINDER -> it still * to old 😭

27.02.2026 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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the good life (sound on)

27.02.2026 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Once Knew, by Jagā from the album ECH001 - Inter Alios/We Once Knew

mood echotrainer.bandcamp.com/track/we-onc...

27.02.2026 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it'll be funny if labour lose the seat to the greens but in the uk we vote to punish other people, not to better ourselves, so i am not getting my hopes up for anything but continued misery here on shit island

26.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ah yea of course! they kinda departed from it later didnt they... maybe its because the idea sucks a bit lol.

26.02.2026 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ooh! cant check on my phone ('content not available in your country'?!) but will check tomorrow! thanks

25.02.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
should have said liquid 'was' shane and eamon, not 'is' - RIP Eamonβ™₯️♾️
YouTube video by DJ Zinc should have said liquid 'was' shane and eamon, not 'is' - RIP Eamonβ™₯️♾️

feel your pain! as a counterpoint ive been enjoying dj zinc's remeniscing shorts... eg youtube.com/shorts/iTnVS...

25.02.2026 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing

25.02.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

looks amzing! i always wanted to make a 4k game that doesnt scroll but has like 16x16 sprites so you have to sit right up against it. or a topdown game like micromachines except it doesnt scroll... just teeny cars

25.02.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

oh doh yeah ok so every path to leaf is a new object. awesome!

25.02.2026 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wait so how do you handle transforms for nodes with multiple parents?
i was fantasizing the other day that workbench could take up the mantle of clarisse, in the sense of an always fast, always pathtraced, ridiculously scalable scene-maker / kit basher

25.02.2026 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

tis a great interview, full of hard won wisdom :)

23.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.

Some people really have a way with words. Me not have way here Dean with. gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

23.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 228    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 13
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The most user-recommended render farm for Blender/Cycles/V-Ray and Modo Next generation online render farm for 3D projects. Currently supporting Blender 3D, Modo and V-Ray. Simple pricing, friendly interface, knowledgeable support, high success rate, cloud-enabled.

random bit of positivity: decided to try out a cloud renderfarm, on a smol blender project; had a poor experience with a couple but render.st was slick & worked 1st time - except i'd used a non standard plugin. support solved it within 5m (sunday night!). super impressed by the product & support.

22.02.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Why Tape Still Matters: Kerri Chandler Tours RTM
YouTube video by Resident Advisor Why Tape Still Matters: Kerri Chandler Tours RTM

Chicago House DJ Kerri Chandler, noted for his tour de force mixes using four reel-to-reel tape players, gets to visit the manufacturing plant of his favorite brand of tape:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vmo...

He recently recorded a reel-to-reel mix for Boiler Room:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Xi...

22.02.2026 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

not enough resistors
followed by
not enough resistance

22.02.2026 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Making Our Tiniest Game Console with Alex Evans
YouTube video by Wookash Podcast Making Our Tiniest Game Console with Alex Evans

i recorded a whistlestop tour thru designing a small ... thing... with kicad on the @gameengineering.bsky.social podcast youtu.be/85aBFYMy6O4?...

21.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sprite sheet export is now a launch feature for #picoCAD2 ☺️

#gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart

20.02.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 778    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

10 years ago we had phil, reggie, and layden, now we smoke that reggie til we have our phil and have to layden πŸ˜”πŸ˜”

20.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 337    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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partial flip

20.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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maximum flip

20.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

we call that a cuddle flip! how can you not stroke a cuddle flipped cat

20.02.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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yeah we need to normalise cats at work! tho this is how i end up feeling most of the time

20.02.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

we debate often in this household how many hours before they'd eat our lifeless corpses if we (the humans) somehow keeled over in the house. for one of them, it's definitely a low number of minutes.

20.02.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is the life

20.02.2026 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

phew!

19.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah i meant on the m8 end

19.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0