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Erica Lee 🧸 @ericalee.cc · 28/09/2026

Steam capsule art and logo I made a few months ago for @alexene.dev, a solo developer working on a cozy and warm dwarven colony builder! It’s currently in playtesting! store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiegame #gamedev #illustration #keyart

Landscape illustration of three dwarves wielding an axe, a pickaxe, and a hammer, standing on top of a grassy fjord with ore, plants, and berries growing around them.

A landscape illustration of a night time campfire scene of two dwarves warming themselves by the fire, the third dwarf asleep behind a snoozing cat.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 21/09/2026

I just published the first balance pass. Overworked all workshops, balanced the food supply, balanced the attacking goblins and elves. You can try these things now in the play-test: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/...

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Dwarf Things on Steam

Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin…

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 15/09/2026

Dwarf things update. Alpha 0.2.3.1 Hotfix - Fix dwarves spawning with no clothes on at the start of a new game - Fix dwarves freezing when they are supposed to idle inside a cave. Try out the new build here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiedev #gamedev

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Dwarf Things on Steam

Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin…

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 01/08/2026

I have added an elf invasion! They come and steal everything: your gold, food, iron. Nothing is safe from these little pests! Wishlist Dwarf Things here (or try to defend against these thieves): store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 22/07/2026

I got a lot (>6) comments online about how I should consider exploring the topic of elves settlement. Bit strange as my game is called Dwarf Things Anyway, here's a WIP of elves Thieves that come in winter and just steal stuff Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiegames

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

While everything becomes more shit, don’t forget about the things that remain important in your life.

Anime screenshots of a person petting a white cat and saying “take care of what you love” “before it becomes a memory”

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 20/07/2026

This weekend I've added mills to my game. You'll be able to make flower there that is then used for bread later on. Bread, as we all know, is the main ingredient for dwarven cake! Wishlist and join the playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiegames #colonysim

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 05/07/2026

Alpha 0.1.6 is out. I added perks: Sun blessed, Moon blessed, Big belly, Sleepy head, Iron Skin, Allergic to water. - Added a new game screen where you can roll different dwarves (with random perks). Wishlist and join playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiedev #gamedev

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Dwarf Things on Steam

Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin att...

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 02/07/2026

Alpha 0.1.5! - Dwarves can get perks now. For now all for now "Allergic to water". They get damaged by rain and don't need to drink water. - Dwarves who die in their sleep would keep snoring forever. Try it here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 29/06/2026

Today is a big day! We're shipping two major and highly requested updates to Superluminal: support for agentic profiling and the Linux open beta. Heck, there's even a new website! Read on... 👇

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 27/06/2026

Alpha 0.1.4 is out! - Added winter variants for terrain cells - Brick walls now modify terrain cells so you can built things on top of them. - Destroying walls them will turn them back to Stone / Clay Checkout the playtest on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 21/06/2026

At 19:30 BST I'll stream some work on Dwarf Things. You can follow along on: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/alex0x11 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AlexStreams... Or you can just try the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/...

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 18/06/2026

Proud of this evolution from where I started years ago. You can join the alpha playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/Dwarf_Things/ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 17/06/2026

New blog post! In "Zigzag decoding with AVX-512", we look at two different ways to possibly (caveat emptor) speed up various forms of zigzag decoding with AVX-512 functionality that isn't just "wider registers"! zeux.io/2026/06/17/z...

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Zigzag decoding with AVX-512

I’ve been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to writ...

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 07/06/2026

Alpha 0.0.10 was just published. This introduces a bunch of new items (sawmill, walls), UI cleanup, bugfixes (such as dead dwarves resurecting after loading a saved game). You can join the playtest, wishlist or see the patch notes: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #indiegames #indie #gamedev

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 06/06/2026

Something's off with these adwares, but not sure exactly what

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 02/06/2026

store.steampowered.com/news/app/468... A small update for the playtest (including time controls and some extra descriptions for rocks, etc.). It should also rain from time to time #indiedev #indiegame

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Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.9 - Steam News

* Added time controls * Added log level command line option. * Rocks and piles of dirt now have descriptions.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 31/05/2026

A bunch of fixes and QoL improvements, included but not limited to: * Fixing cows not giving milk due to missing body parts. * Fixed dwarves refusing to equip weapons * Lots of descriptions added to items. store.steampowered.com/news/app/468...

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Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.8 - Steam News

Release notes Moved tasks into the regular SelectedEntityInfo panel (need to rename that one at some point). Fixed a bug with dwarves refusing to equip weapons due to missing body parts. Fixed a bug ...

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 31/05/2026

Has a WIP blog post for a while on this theme. Instead of finishing it, I’m linking to this post where another Alex has expressed things in a much nicer way.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 17/05/2026

I am published a new build: Alpha 0.0.7. If you can crash the game when saving/loading you're getting your portrait in the hall of fame. You just need to send me the bugged save. Details below: store.steampowered.com/news/app/468...

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Dwarf Things Playtest - Alpha 0.0.7 - Steam News

If you can break the game while saving and loading you're getting your portrait in the hall of fame!

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Myka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

lol. lmao even.

A screenshot of a reddit post decrying the price increase of GitHub Copilot which switches to usage based billing. The post shows a screenshot of this users current billing, 39$. Next to it, it shows a preview of their billing going forward: 1063$.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 14/05/2026

What are these? NEW Trees! Where can you see them? In my game! An early alpha is available on steam (free ofc!) and you can experience all the hand crafted glitches, bugs and dwarves and things!!! Alpha 0.0.6 is out. Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... #gamedev #indiegames

Pixelated dwarves near a fire between pine and apple trees

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nrc @ncameron.org · 12/05/2026

I love to help people learn #RustLang and get better at Rust programming! I have well over a decade of experience with Rust (including extensive work on Rust from before 1.0, core team membership, and other leadership work), and have helped numerous people learn it and teams successfully adopt it.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 08/05/2026

After work, I put all my spare time in making a game. If you want to keep up with progress, give early feedback, break it, there's a playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/4000460/... It's nowhere near done. I'll keep improving it. It's more fun to do this together. #indiegames #gamedev

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Dwarf Things on Steam

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 03/05/2026

Product manager desperate to improve AI adoption metrics

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Badger Punch Games @badgerpunch.com · 05/04/2026

Slow Sunday vibes ☕️ You enter a quiet dungeon room… torches flicker, something stirs in the shadows. We’ve been heads-down working on the Steam version of Roguecraft DX, and it’s starting to feel special. Can’t wait to share more!✨ Wishlist: thalamus.link/roguecraft #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike

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Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma @rovarma.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New article! A user is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit. But we also dove into the kernel...again, this time fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it: rovarma.com/articles/a-t...

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A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma

A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

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Former Pingu Child Actor (BANISHED) @cursedpingu.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

r/analytics
• IOh
We just found out our AI has been making up
analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna
throw up.
Support
So we've been using an Al agent since November to
answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed
amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations,
everyone loved it.
I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this
entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on
data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a
deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing
plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me
to double check something. I started digging, and
holy shit, it's bad.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 15/02/2026

I expect we will get some ways to opt out from having your work in AI/LLM training data. I just don't understand how we got where where by virtue of putting something out there somehow it's automatically allowing 3-4 companies to profit from someone's work under with no way to opt-out.

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 12/02/2026

Upcoming Niagara stream! This *Sunday* (Feb 15), at 11 AM PST (7 PM GMT), we will embark on a journey to replace all descriptor uses within the renderer with descriptor heaps. www.youtube.com/live/VXN4Gew...

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niagara: Descriptor heaps

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 12/02/2026

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior

here: https://crabby-

rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-

website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story

Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 08/02/2026

Tried opencode. Asked how i can change the image above my login bar in the linux setup i have. Consumed 23GB of RAM. Not once, but 25% of time it just randomly leaks huge amount of memory Turns out both opencode and claude code are incredibly convoluted ways of drawing some terminal UI with React

Opencode consuming 23GB ram and 25% of my CPU

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Brian Karis @briankaris.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

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Nanite Tessellation

Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 29/01/2026

Guys, don't pile on it's not nice. Everyone is more or less an idiot at 23 :)

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Morten Vassvik @vassvik.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Short conclusion of this Weekend project using Claude Code: It currently feels like it's going to be more like this for the majority of people for at least the nearest future, butchering the lovely graphic from @mjwhansen.com:

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 21/01/2026

Added some light emitters on workbenches. #rust #wgpu-rs

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Alex Ene 🦀 @alexene.dev · 14/01/2026

This is probably the best articulation I've seen on what you can do with new tools. Not just blindly create more code faster, but aim for better quality than you could do by yourself before. It also frames it exceptionally well as a tool that you now have in your arsenal.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 22/12/2025

One more thing! A few weeks ago I wrote a post that aggregates various articles I have written on meshoptimizer over the years: zeux.io/2025/12/09/m... If you’re looking for some reading to do over the break, consider revisiting these.

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meshoptimizer 1.0 released

A short post today. If you’re following me on any of the vast array of social accounts then you’re probably aware, but if you’re reading this blog through the ancient technology otherwise known as RSS...

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