I was at Gamescom. Ow.

I'm back baby!

👋🏻 Anthony Tešija and I will be at Gamescom Dev and Gamescom in the next few weeks! Would love to talk to people about Discord - whether it's communities, bots, apps, Social SDK or really anything across the Discord developer platform! Drop us a line! We're super nice I swear.

📷 My DSLR attached to my computer has not done facial tracking for autofocus for YEARS. Because airplane mode was turned off 🤦🏻 I'm so sorry for subjecting you to my blurry face. Or maybe now? I'm sorry because you have to look at my focused face. I'll let you decide.

Wasn't happy with the state of Debian packaging for ghostty, so decided to roll my own. Right now - just deb packages for Debian stable and testing, but maybe an apt repo in the future - who knows! First time building and releasing deb packages, so having some fun with it!

GitHub - markmandel/ghostty-debian: Experimental debian build and/or ppa for ghostty

Experimental debian build and/or ppa for ghostty. Contribute to markmandel/ghostty-debian development by creating an account on GitHub.

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If you want a quick recap of everything that's happened in the past quarter on the Discord developer platform, this is the video for you!

/recap - Discord Developer Platform Updates Recap | Q2 2026

Join developer advocates Colin, Anthony, and Mark for the Q2 2026 recap and Q&A session. We cover the latest platform updates, social SDK enhancements, and a sneak peek at what's coming next for Discord developers. Learn about new community invite features, updated gamedev guides, and upcoming comp

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📺 The other week the recording of the session I did with Jameka March came out -- covering how to integrate your text chat moderation solutions with the chat provided by the Discord Social SDK. Check it out! Also it has an amazing thumbnail!

Discord Developers Live: Server Side Moderation with the Discord Social SDK

Recorded live during a Discord Developers Server event, Staff Developer Advocate Mark Mandal and Developer Advocate Jamaica "Meka" March provide a technical deep dive into building moderation systems for in-game chat. Important Note: This session focuses exclusively on moderating text chat inside

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Okay yeah, Lua in Hyprland is pretty slick. I just remade what was a C++ plugin for resizable columned window layout in lua, and now I can also add some extra features I didn't have before. This was a good transition despite the pain of moving everything over.

dotfiles/provision/ui/files/config/hypr/includes/layouts.lua at main · markmandel/dotfiles

My dotfiles and local machine provisioning. Contribute to markmandel/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I KEEP TELLING YOU WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME 🐧

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

it might be the year of the linux desktop

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The Linux Foundation OSS Mentorship program is open until the 19th of May. I'm mentoring with Agones & Headlamp maintainers this session, working on a Headlamp plugin for Agones. Let's visualize game server workloads together! Learn more at: 📃 docs.linuxfoundation... 👀 mentorship.lfx.linux...

...Did any open source maintainers actually get that free 6 months of Claude max plan? I've yet to meet anytime who actually got it 🤔

Check out this recording to hear about all the awesome stuff we released at GDC this year -- from improvements to the Social SDK, Commerce integration, Claiming your Game, new Quest Ads stuff and more!

How to Build a Winning Discord Strategy for Your Game | GDC 2026

Explore how the Discord team is turning social energy into a growth engine for games. In this GDC 2026 session, learn why the conversation between friends on Discord is the most critical moment of a game's life cycle and how the developer platform helps you build for it. [What You’ll Learn] - The P

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We did a recent livestream of all the developer items for games that Discord announced at GDC earlier this year Including: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community 🛄 Claiming Your Game 🔗 Account Linking 🛒 Social Commerce 💻 Instant Play Quests ⬇️ Check it out! ⬇️

GDC 2026 Recap | Discord Developers

Welcome to our GDC 2026 recap! Join the Discord DevRel team: Colin, Anthony, Mika, and Mark—as we break down everything we released and saw at the "Festival of Gaming" this year. 👾 From our Mission Control-themed booth to the latest Social SDK updates, we’re diving into how developers can bridge th

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Starting in 12 minutes, we'll be doing a recap of all the game developer product announcements we had at GDC 2026, in our Discord Developers Server! Come and join! discord.gg/discord-d...

Coming hot on the heels of our repository migration - here's the official @cncf.io announcement of Agones moving to sandbox. Delighted to be joined by friends from Ubisoft on this one with our upcoming keynote!

Agones Moves to the CNCF: A New Era for Open Source Multiplayer Game Infrastructure

The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Just in time for Kubecon EU this week, Agones moves it's repository over to CNCF, and we've officially become a sandbox project in the CNCF - which is a HUGE milestone! 🎉 We've still got some pieces to migrate over, and lots of onboarding, but you can now find us at: github.com/agones-de...

Now I'm out from under GDC, I can focus my attention on Kubecon EU coming up next week! Who is going to be around and wants to talk about backends for multiplayer games, Agones, open source or just share pictures of our dogs? Drop me an line!

Look, I'm excited to be heading back to #GDC again today (and you should definitely come to the Discord booth and talks!), but I had to deal with this look of disappointment leaving the house today, and that was very hard.

Heading to #GDC next week? A bunch of game industry veterans from the @thegig.bsky.social have contributed to this handy guide feat tips, tricks, and more. Full guide here - thegig.guide/gdc Thanks to @neurotic.bsky.social @tenaciouschi.bsky.social @alykkat.bsky.social for their contributions

With Agones moving to @cncf.io, I'm excited to be keynoting Kubecon EU with Jean-François Hubert, Development Director at Ubisoft (albeit for 3 minutes, But it'll be fun I promise! 😆) We're doing a runthrough of how Ubisoft orchestrates multiplayer games with Agones! https://sched.co/2HgQn

I need a t-shirt that says: "Warning: Will ask for an agenda for a meeting".

Looking forward to seeing many of you at GDC! Drop me a line if you want to catch up, I'll be around! Doing all the good things, Discord stuff, Agones stuff, open source things, booth talks, GDC talks, lots of fun things. Also here's everything we're doing at Discord 👇🏻 events.discord.com/g...

Ever send a Discord invite and then have to remember to assign roles when they join? What if you could embed the roles directly ✨ in the invite itself? ✨ You can now do that with Community Invites! Come learn how next Tuesday with Anthony Tešija and I 👇🏻 discord.com/invite/d...

Quickshell is great for bashing out quick UI tooling you wish you had for your desktop shell. Building a window overview was disturbingly easy to do. github.com/markmande...

Myself and a few others write this up every year - hope you find it useful, and see you at GDC!

Games Industry Gathering@thegig.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Planning on attending GDC this year? Check out our GIG GDC Guide that features tips, advice, discounts, and recommendations for navigating San Francisco, GDC, and the USA in general! thegig.guide/gdc

The emotional support I get from this dog while constructing new furniture...

I think this is progress? Or something? It started so neat. Why do we have so many?

Check out agones.dev/site/docs... - you'll notice way more content about Agones from people that use it! Get case studies & tutorials from the likes of Krafton, @playstation.com, Nintendo, @awscloud.bsky.social, Google Cloud & more. As a challenge -- can you find something I missed? 😆

I may have bought myself a new Secretlab desk as a forcing function to rearrange and clean out my study.

🎉 Big news over the weekend for Agones! The application for Agones to join @cncf.io at the Sandbox level is now live! Now we wait for the CNCF TOC to review and (hopefully 🤞🏻) approve! 🙏🏻 Huge thanks to literally everyone who ever contributed to this project!