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%
Avin Zarlez
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Mother, Advocate, Staff Developer Evangelist at Arm Pronouns: She/They https://www.avinzarlez.com/
Code take home interview as malware! This is a great reminder to be vigilant. I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation citizendot.github.io/articles/fak...
Appaji - Software Engineer
Appaji, a Computer Science graduate from IIT Patna and former intern at Arista Networks, is a Software Engineer at Infinite Reality. Passionate about building innovative web experiences, with a…
citizendot.github.io
Some good guidance when writing tests: Ten ways a check passes while the thing it checks is broken phronesis.world/papers/ways-...
Ways of Checking · Phronesis
Ten ways a check stays green while wrong, and the moves that actually found things.
phronesis.world
I’m at #DevRelCon today and tomorrow in New York City! If you are around ping me, I’d like to meet up and talk.
Dependabot updates now wait three days before making pull requests. This is a good fix that balances quickly getting patches out there, but also making sure if an update breaks something or was compromised has some time to pull it back before wide adoption. github.blog/changelog/20...
Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown - GitHub Changelog
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…
github.blog
This is great news, makes me consider switching back to Android honestly: Google will allow third-party app stores on Android next week www.engadget.com/2215452/goog...
Google will allow third-party app stores on Android next week - Engadget
Third-party app stores are coming to Android on July 22.
engadget.com
finally finished this and i can easily say i was on the edge of my seat for the entire 5 hours. noone is better than baume at imbuing his meticulously researched nonfiction with narrative and emotional pathos and this is far and away his magnum opus
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈@mattbaume.bsky.social · last mo.Did you know that it's possible for this country to actually do something ... GOOD? I give you the scoop:
I feel like this policy is a really good balance. Stop no human involved agents making PRs and forcing maintainers to act as promoters in reviews. Force a human to take accountability for every PR, and nourish that relationship. But also allow agentic code when it is tailored, useful, & disclosed.
Godot Engine@godotengine.org · last mo.For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...
I appreciate this math! "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?" www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfec...
Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones? | Quanta Magazine
A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that…
quantamagazine.org
I am "only" 2 hours into this masterpiece of a YouTube essay, and I already can highly recommend it. Think of this as a documentary mini series, learn some queer history. It's worth your time youtu.be/m4F2ozwvybw?...
Inside the Marriage Wars
YouTube video by Matt Baume
youtu.be
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈@mattbaume.bsky.social · last mo.Need something to listen to while you tackle a big project? Allow me to keep you company with five hours of twists and turns in my latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4F2...
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt: lr0.org/blog/p/arabi... This was just linked on @tomscott.com's newsletter, and it's a really neat, though frustrating, experience
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
This post was discussed in Lobsters and HackerNews
lr0.org
This documentary from People Make Games is so inspiring. What a beautiful hobby and process turned into an incredibly unique piece of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...
He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place
The remarkable story of Jerry Gretzinger and the map he's dedicated his life to making. | Watch our exclusive companion video by joining Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/peoplemakegames Patreon:…
youtube.com
Ran across this nice explainer on the different ways you can ignore files in git: nelson.cloud/.gitignore-i...
.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git
You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore
nelson.cloud
I am really interested in learning more about the new Lore version control system made by Epic Games. I like a lot that it is fully open sourced and backed by a major player. Anyone I know have a chance to play around with it? lore.org
Learn about Lore: next-generation open source version control
Maintained by Epic Games, Lore is designed for unprecedented scalability of both data and teams. It’s optimized for projects that combine code with large binary assets.
lore.org
“Humans are awesome! Get yourself a proper fixation, it’s fun.” - @techconnectify.bsky.social youtu.be/_KWdCqpXB7A?...
Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up
YouTube video by Technology Connections
youtu.be
I actually want one of these: The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home www.engadget.com/2192393/the-...
The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home - Engadget
The Philips Skylight recreates natural daylight indoors, but we may not be able to buy it in the US.
engadget.com
This seems like a fun project: Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-BIOS from scratch – Chris.Dev.Blog
In 1994 I got my first computer: an Intel i486 DX2-66 with 4 MB RAM and a 512MB harddisk. The software was IBMs OS/2 and Microsofts Windows 3.11. In the next four years I was upgrading this machine…
chrisdevblog.com
The first Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are available now www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws...
AWS Graviton5 is now generally available, delivering purpose-built performance for the agentic AI era
The most powerful and efficient CPU Amazon has ever built is now available to all customers, with up to 25% better performance.
aboutamazon.com
Arm's new developer challenge is live! arm-ai-optimization-challenge.devpost.com I’m judging and can’t wait to see what you build. This round is all about AI optimization. Show us how you can get more performance, we won't be judging just by a single metric. Get nerdy in the details!
Arm Create: AI Optimization Challenge
One challenge. Three frontiers of AI. All powered by Arm.
arm-ai-optimization-challenge.devpost.com
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375. I had hoped to build a new PC this year, I’m hoping the parts will be available by Black Friday 😬
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
Lower-priced kits are disappearing by the day
tomshardware.com
A third of the entire video game industry was laid off in the last two years. Based on my the experiences I have seen this matches completely. This isn’t exaggerating. That is A LOT of people.
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals
One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off over the past two years, according to GDC.
variety.com
I like these kinds of questions, which often come down to how different people implement different standards: Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? 30fps.net/pages/255-vs...
Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
30fps.net
Don’t miss this hands-on workshop for practical guidance on automating Arm-based applications running on Amazon EKS. Learn how to provision Kubernetes environments with Infrastructure as Code, configure Octopus Deploy, and automate CI/CD workflows. 👀➡️ www.youtube.com/live/3YJLV_2...
US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero
US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero
As it becomes more clear how bad an idea it is to burn gas, some want to level the field by... eliminating gas taxes and overcharging EVs.
electrek.co
Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.