Matt Hero

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he/him, sci-fi nerd, professional supportive husband pfp by https://www.instagram.com/timdelros/

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

“…the airline said in a statement[:] ‘For the foreseeable future, the guest will not be permitted to travel on our flights.’” … “She said she wants to contact an attorney and intends to continue preaching on planes.” www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Preflight sermon gets plane preacher kicked off Alaska Airlines flight

Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn shared clips of her removal on social media and racked up millions of views.

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro and the Steam Machine are canaries for a society wide problem which feels comically unfair because they both would be two of the most interesting pieces of hardware in years at their original price points.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

Workflow changes I've made in the past 12 months, and am very happy with: tmux → zellij vim → neovim git → jujutsu notion → obsidian Of those, #jujutsu is the biggest improvement. If you use `git rebase` or `git stash` regularly, you're probably the kind of person who would love it too.

Said something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but: I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵

I replay DOOM about once a year. After playing the Dark Ages expansion I’m Doom pilled to the max so it’s about time for the annual run. I went with one of my favorite console versions, the PS1 port. Obviously on shoot hardware on a CRT.

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check this shit out motherfucker [I recompile & run my program, it's 5x slower, it's not clear what kind of point I was trying to make]