Matias Klemola
@matiasklemola.com
Software developer @ the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yleisradio). I mostly write about video games, music and tech. Father of two. 🕹️🚙 Liikennematto - build the roads and the town comes to life! https://yourmagicisworking.itch.io/liikennematto
Now's a good time to play some #Liikennematto! It's better in every way. #gamedev #elmlang yourmagicisworking.itch.io/liikennematt...
Liikennematto alpha 4, the "quality of life" update, out now!
Liikennematto is a tiny town building game for children and grown-ups alike. The gameplay is simple: you only build the roads! Lots, buildings and their residents pop up after. You can play Liikennema...
yourmagicisworking.itch.io
Can’t believe my luck of cosmic proportions. I bought a ’83 Yamaha SG that came with just one of the original pickups. I found a NOS spare part pickup from Yahoo Japan Auctions and turns out it’s from the same year, same month as the other one!! #guitarsky #guitar #yamahasg
Congratulations! I’ve grown to appreciate the stability of Elm and looks like 1.0 will be familiar, only improved.
Evan Czaplicki@acadia.engineering · 2mo agoNew Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-...
Here we go! My game, Neighborhoods - wishlist if you're into some cozy urbanism! Or claymation characters getting pancaked: store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/...
Neighborhoods on Steam
Neighborhoods is a cozy city sim where you shape streets to help people thrive, gather, and develop strong opinions about a particular bench. We're reimagining the city builder as a city fixer.
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I just wrote a new article on the Socket blog: *AI Has Taken Over Open Source* Shocking charts and data to let sink in. Please read socket.dev/blog/ai-has-...
AI Has Taken Over Open Source - Socket
Vibe coding at scale is reshaping how packages are created, contributed, and selected across the software supply chain
socket.dev
vetovoima gameplay, 2026 version. You can play the game in your browser (desktop). Try it! Built with #bevy yourmagicisworking.itch.io/vetovoima
You can now play "vetovoima" in the browser! This little arcade game is pretty unique - you control gravity in a circular world to reach the goal before the time runs out. #gamedev #bevy yourmagicisworking.itch.io/vetovoima/de...
vetovoima alpha 2 released!
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The general brazenness of how LLMs were conceived seems to have influenced the use of LLMs at work. When organizations are pushing use of "AI" heavily, it can lead to reckless sourcing of data. This blurs access control and makes PII usage harder to audit.
It's Bandcamp Friday! While my band's working on new songs, check out our latest release from two years ago! We play slightly angular alternative rock music (or "action rock", like it says on the cover). paimentolaiselama.bandcamp.com/album/konsol...
Konsolisota, by Paimentolaiselämä
2 track album
paimentolaiselama.bandcamp.com
The new @bandcamp.com embeds are a solid excuse to share my best bedroom-producer work. It's worth a listen if you're into dream-pop or shoegaze! butsku.bandcamp.com/album/life-i...
Life Is Bliss / Sway, by Butsku
2 track album
butsku.bandcamp.com
Another honest and inspiring post by @localthunk.com. localthunk.com/blog/bad-gra...
Bad Grades — LocalThunk
Years ago, when I was in what was supposed to be my final year of University, I decided to drop out of engineering. The people were great, my marks were fine. I just didn’t have passion for it and the...
localthunk.com
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
sebastianaaltonen.com
In the next #Liikennematto version: savegames, in the URL! Whenever you build something and the procgen does its thing, your creation is automatically saved. Share it with anyone by simply sending them the link!
Tried this and it worked! One more year of Windows 10 ahead, thank goodness.
Kimmo Lahtinen@gimblll.com · 11mo agoAlso, in EU, another year of extended support is free now, so all of this is a nothingburger here.
The Finnish media has called these machines ”waste” or ”obsolete” despite them running Linux just fine. Because of this I’ve seen people think that the PCs won’t even start after the deadline. 1/2
404 Media@404media.co · 11mo agoThe end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...
Rest In Power. Another great one consumed by cancer 💔 youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...
D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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Staying at home with 1 and 5 years old kids who have a flu, while you are under the weather as well, is taxing to say the least.
2022: Ah, someone forked Liikennematto! 2025: Ah, someone forked Liikennematto and had Jules translate it from Elm to JavaScript 🥴 "A complete and functional JavaScript version of the game" (looks like the 2020 prototype, runs into an infinite loop and crashes after a few secs) #livingwithLLMs
I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date: localthunk.com/blog/im-slow TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done" Please read the blog post for more details
I’m Slow — LocalThunk
Hello people, long time no chat! I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025. I know, I announced that it would, but it has become clear now th...
localthunk.com
In the next version of Liikennematto, it's easier to keep lots when making changes to connected roads. I've added 19 new lot entry tiles to accommodate all possible configurations of nearby roads. You can now, for example, create a cute cul-de-sac! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨
✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.
