Ricky Romero

Needy Programs We used to use software; now software started to use us

Needy Programs https://tonsky.me/blog/needy-programs/

YouTube video by Valve Steam Hardware Announcement

Excited to replace my CPU-bottlenecked HTPC with the new Steam Machine next year. (Loving the product shots in the announcement video too - no 3D renders here!) youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE

going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now

A SKLETON SCROLLEN THERE NOTIFICATIONS AND IT SAYS " DONT FORGET TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR PHONE OR THE CORPORATIONS MIGHT GET MAD" - YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EXISTANCE IS BEING PINGED BUZZED AND BEEPED AWAY THOUSANDS OF TIMES EVERY DAY , IF HAVIN TO WORK ALL THE DAMB TIME AINT ENOUGH, YOUR MENTAL SPACE MUST BE OCCUPIED AT ALL TIMES BY FAR AWAY COMPUTERS, YOUR WRIST CLICKS, YOUR POCKET BUZZES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THE RED DOT!!!! DO NOT PUT THIS SHIT ON MY TELEPHONE!!! IM PROBLY HALFWAY DONE WITH MY LIFE AND I SEE THAT CLOCK TICKIN CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT WITH EVERY DAY I WAKE UP ALIVE AND THE COMPUTER HAS THE GALL TO TELL ME I MISSED A BUNCH OF SHIT! I WOULDENT SAY I "MISSED IT" MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

:( - dashare.zone ADMIN

@108minuscontext.bsky.social

The keyboard on iOS, with Safari’s search/address bar above. Inside the text field it says “consider using different icons ➡️” and the arrow emoji is pointing to two round X buttons that do different things.

free tip for the ios design team

Search results for “Packers panthers 4k” showing nothing but spam

Google made 100 billion this past quarter

emoji of two simple pares of legs facing eachother with big butts

the emoji of two people hugging over the emoji of the legs. It makes the people hugging look like they have giant bottoms

hi i made this for discord if you want it it only works on pc and android

I collected all the Warioctober drawings from 2023 and you can look at them here in honor of Halloween's birthday tomorrow. Remember 2023? It was ten years ago. nedroid.com/blog_page.ph...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

App Store Clashes With EU

App Store Clashes With Epic Games

App Store Clashes With The UK

App Store Clashes With China

I wonder how many “App Store Clashes With [Entity]” images @macrumors.bsky.social has on standby

TikTok quietly changed its policies to make it easier to share user data with government and regulatory authorities, and weakened promises to inform users (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)

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The PS2 truly is the best console ever because it is constantly becoming more powerful. Each time we say something "looks like a PS2 game" we're talking about a game of a higher fidelity than the last. What the PS2 is capable of in 2025 is so far beyond what it was capable of in 2003. That's amazing

Sorry about Amazon’s worldwide cloud-based server infrastructure, everyone. I unplugged it to charge my phone. I’m almost up to 80% so it’ll just be a few minutes.

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Also I appreciated the little exercise for the viewer at the end :)

It was satisfying that aside from a couple of mistakes, Rockstar was meticulous about things that most players will never pay any attention to. When you talked about the warm and cool lighting being a real historical artifact I shared it. Just learning about the fractal of details was fascinating

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

CleanupBuddy The silly app that helps you clean your Mac's keyboard and trackpad.

A little utility I use whenever I have to wipe down my Mac is CleanupBuddy by @inside.bsky.social. Locks your keyboard and trackpad so there’s no accidental input :)

two screenshots from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, during the snowball fight battle tutorial when the hero picks a name. someone tells the hero, "You can't be the 'new kid' forever!" the player is typing "New kid" for their name.

YouTube video by The Living Tombstone The Living Tombstone - "Everything Is Fine (Remix)"

We made a remix of @qbombband.bsky.social 's song "Everything is Fine" and it is out 🔥NOW🔥
youtu.be/JxgqPk1RCCU?...

Aaron Rupar should just change his Bluesky pfp to white text on a red background that says “READ THIS QUOTE POST FOR A FREE BLOOD PRESSURE SPIKE”

Chunkster by timromero A game about being a chunky lil guy

timromero.itch.io/chunkster i took a week off to make this little #FallingBlockJam game! Should be beatable in around 30 minutes and is playable in the browser including on phones.

App Store keeping everyone safe from scams 🥰

YouTube video by LemonDemmon Garry's Mod Ragdoll Sound

sound effect for react re-rendering on every frame youtu.be/_GGfz-o5khc

tahoe isn't quite, uh, finished yet

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

The keyboard on iOS, with Safari’s search/address bar above. Inside the text field it says “consider using different icons ➡️” and the arrow emoji is pointing to two round X buttons that do different things.

free tip for the ios design team