@joehocking.bsky.social
I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action! website: www.newarteest.com
no more AI summaries!
...for like 10 minutes, and then they came back. boo
hahaha it actually works
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
18.02.2026 16:03 β π 20277 π 6503 π¬ 459 π 450bsky.app/profile/zhug...
18.02.2026 21:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's really great that an industry that can't figure out how to make substantial revenue, let alone make a profit, is ruining literally everything else.
17.02.2026 18:41 β π 1523 π 95 π¬ 4 π 2I will always love the JUST DO IT green screen speech, but man does he have a lot of baggage.
17.02.2026 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Then why even have this product? What IS it intended for?
17.02.2026 12:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0man and I just saw this other story a bit ago bsky.app/profile/did:...
16.02.2026 17:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0man that and this bsky.app/profile/did:...
16.02.2026 17:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"We had a meeting to discuss how we are having too many meetings."
16.02.2026 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0jesus this story about an ai agent running a smear campaign
16.02.2026 16:20 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2This also reminds me that the "no woke games" studio listed Bioshock amongst their favorites. They also listed Disco Elysium wtf bsky.app/profile/joeh...
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zelda totk game programming flex tweet
15.02.2026 14:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Remember when game devs were in awe of the bit in TofK where Link made a rope bridge, and normies didn't understand why that was impressive?
15.02.2026 14:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0oh look! bsky.app/profile/anng...
15.02.2026 14:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is closely related to the astonishment whenever I have to explain that light and shadow in games is something we have to create on purpose, not just some natural phenomena.
15.02.2026 14:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0the fact that Tetris isn't renamed *chef's kiss*
15.02.2026 12:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0yes, but bsky.app/profile/cata...
14.02.2026 14:16 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0When you first mentioned VC in an earlier post I was like "huh? they took venture capital?" but this post makes me realize "oh right, version control" lol
14.02.2026 13:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0lol what should we call this archetype?
13.02.2026 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it's always "this younger generation is killing an industry" instead of "this industry is killing itself by pricing out the younger generation"
13.02.2026 20:38 β π 288 π 47 π¬ 5 π 1man I just realized I would be in danger of becoming one of those insufferable people who take pictures of everything they order
13.02.2026 22:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If only they thought the second amendment somehow applies to drones.
13.02.2026 20:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I will never tire of reading overwrought tributes to food.
...do I have to be a chef to be a food blogger?
what in the mental imbalance just happened?
13.02.2026 13:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0pfft I used to draw in SmartSketch before Macromedia bought it to turn into Flash.
13.02.2026 13:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reading through the responses, they are nearly all advice to use more AI to fix the AI slop. That's everybody's instinct now. It seems we just have to accept that ten years from now, nothing will work anymore. All software everywhere will have become unmaintainable and slowly fall apart. That's it.
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