Daniel

idea i had

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

tricorder install emoji

Peter Falk as Columbo, looking quizzically at someone off camera.

"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."

cartoon bear opening a laptop captions read let's focus ON THE WRONG THING

current vibe

Me getting the new updates on WhatsApp and also Windows (yeah 365 copilot you too!)

A collage of pictures of 4 different Uwe Rosenberg games (Patchwork, Atiwa, Agricola, Nusfjord) in a 2x2 grid. On top is a card from the Agricola L-Deck depicting Uwe as a Bean Farmer and a banner saying "Happy Birthday".

Happy Birthday to our favorite Bean Farmer, Uwe Rosenberg!

🥂 Cheers to many playful years to come! 🥂

phone

Naming 16e the successor to SE is exactly what I would expect Siri to suggest

We already have a winner 😂

Screenshot from a comment in a Discord server, the text reads “It’s so sad hardly anyone is making good point and click adventure games anymore. The Dig, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, these are all etched into my soul.

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

I watch the Italian music festival mostly for the tweets, the toots and the memès

modern tech is so wobbly that I have to authenticate myself to my computer 35 times a day (yeah, I get why, but it's stupid)

Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality

I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.

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Today the algorithmic timeline of Twitter kept showing many versions of the same dry news about David Lynch passing away.
I found it annoying.
Tonight it’s all about the people, sharing memories, anecdotes and tributes for him, and it’s beautiful.

very much

This trip to Italy is heavily reigniting my passion for comic books, which is both wonderful and problematic (because I want to buy tons of different things)

fists with your toes

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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I'm doing some tidying up and set up another starter pack of British Isles illustrators working in the wider design community beyond children's books ( go.bsky.app/NAP6mya ) very early days for this - I'll be adding names gradually.

clearly before it was cool

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #56,812, Daniel ‪@piger.bsky.social‬, joined on May 3, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #56,812!

Last night I finally finished writing my Alien: Isolation book. Turns out writing 70,000 words about a single game, even one you really love, is hard work. If anyone's into the game, horror games in general, or Ridley Scott's Alien, you might dig it. You can pre-order a hardback copy here.

The sad thing about that fight is that even if you beat it, it won’t be long until the next frustrating one

I'm gonna be honest if bluesky fails I'm not joining mouthable or giggl or whatever comes next I'm moving to the woods and writing letters from a cabin without electricity

muting people like

with hindsight, we really weren’t ready

Dial-up networking setup from Windows 95

Hello internet