I just caught on the episode of The Besties with @jacobgeller.com and now i can't get this image out of my head:

Now this is knowing your audience (aging):

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

The Five Best Switch Games To Play While Prepping For Your Colonoscopy:

That Jacobin review of The Odyssey is shockingly bad.

is there any accounts or histories written down about how divergent GPU programming has become from CPU-centric programming? My time in HLSL has me re-reeling from all the shader-specific lingo.

(1/12) A short thread based our (@copperkeerthi.bsky.social and me) base on our talk for #GenerationAnalog2026 GREEN "Performing the Dungeon"

Bruce Beef

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 4w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last mo.

Democrats became great by fighting the far left—and today’s party can learn crucial lessons from those battles, David Brooks argues:

Very excited to say @jmalazita.bsky.social and I have a chapter in this. Really fun to both work the research in context of the book and collaborate with Jim. Excited to finally share it with folks!

Paolo Ruffino@paoloruffino.bsky.social · last mo.

Very pleased to announce the publication of Game Engine Culture(s) by Mimesis International, a collection I have co-edited with my friends and colleagues Matteo Bittanti and Valentino Catricalà milanmachinimafestival.org/game-engine-...

*Bright Flash Warning* Lightning in the Heat Dome 2026:

ImGui is a truly incredible piece of software:

So I finally got to play around with Reflection in C++26. It's very cool tech and huge congrats to all the folks who worked on it. That said, I now get why people complain about C++ templates; they really just killed all of the fun of programming for me. Just the worst stack traced I've ever seen.

Wildly disagree with this, I’m sorry. Console makers subsidize hardware so they can extract rent. An open computer is different because it can be used for anything and if they started taking that on the chin they would get people just trying to buy a computer. The Mac Mini is a good example here.

Affidavit Bowie@affidavitbowie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If they wanted open systems to flourish they SHOULD subsidize the hardware for the open system they’re selling, making it harder for closed systems to compete in the market. Instead they just shrugged and came up with a BS excuse.

in love with my mini adaptation of an italian communist designed bookshelf:

I really dislike C++ sometimes:

unfortunately i've found out i can play Brogue on my phone:

my doctor realized I'm over 30:

Every time I see benchmarks published by LLM companies about a newly released model

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not to brag but i scored 88% on a benchmark i made up while my friends scored far less, again, on this benchmark i made up

Today I'm releasing Spark for Unity, a Unity package that brings the Spark texture codecs to the Unity engine and it's free for projects with lifetime revenue under $100K. t.co/RaUwMH90rK #unity #spark

in praise of stable UIs: for _reasons_ i have recently gotten back into using Ableton and Emacs after a 10 year hiatus. its only taken about a week to catch up/relearn how to use them because those apps have such a stable user interface.

My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

NYC: the city of everything - regardless of price - somehow being $20.

I, for research, was poking my head back into Lisps and am so sad to see what's happened in the Racket community since I was programming in it back in 2017. Really love group of folks that are structurally bound to a really awful central figure/language creator.

This is musicology.

MrCheeze@mrcheeze.github.io · last yr.

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Some notes after spending the week getting back into emacs: - package management has gotten really good. - lisp is still good (though elisp is questionable) - my pinky is already back to being claw-like

Ethan Plaut@ethanplaut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Brigador Killers demo is out on Steam (and shortly GoG), please enjoy after a decade of waiting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0mQ... #BrigadorKillers #Brigador #gamedev

Brigador Killers — Official Demo Trailer

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Currently prototyping a Mavis Beacon wizard game.

Between having to mention that students I teach are nostalgic for the xbox360 at a conference and learning that one of my favorite video game reviewers is retiring because of carpal tunnel has made me feel suddenly very old.

I think Titanium Court (by @apthomson.bsky.social) is going to be an example in most game dev classes I teach moving forward. Great example for mechanical design, art, economy of reuse, and what unique writing does for/to a game. Also thank you @plante.bsky.social for putting it on my radar.

The Old Games Zine makes a triumphant return in 2026, thanks to Hannah Chafe and the folks at the Syd Bolton Collection! 🧹This year's zine is 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, and provides a simple step-by-step guide for cleaning your retro videogame cartridges.

Old Games Zine 2026 by Michael Iantorno

A zine about cleaning video game cartridges

michaeliantorno.itch.io