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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Morning press review and a moment later I regret I did it - why the hell, on Sunday morning, at my own request, crash into such hopelessness. It is fascinating and terrifying at the same time - people who rule don’t elect themselves…

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Bart Bonte @bartbonte.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apple's Game of the Day today in South Korea 🎉👋 apps.apple.com/story/id1890...

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Bart Bonte @bartbonte.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're emailing me about the puzzle game you vibe coded I'm pretty sure my gameblog readers won't be interested in it. If you can't be bothered to take the time to make the thing, why should anyone bother to take the time to play the thing.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ok, Kent Beck has always been a guarantee of quality for me - I stumbled on this video today by accident... Kent doesn't disappoint... I recommend it to anyone interested in software engineering. youtu.be/F8fBgDCf2Y4?...

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Kent Beck: Software Engineering in the Age of AI | Prodacity 2026

YouTube video by Rise8

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Evening thought: One of the questions I can't find a clear answer to is: are the creator and his work one whole, or can they be judged as separate beings. Just like I like Uncle Bob's books, from his past, I don't know what to do with Him himself ;-) Just a reflection...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After 2 years I had a look at X last week. It reminded me why I disappeared from there. The fight between bizarre factions, over views and more often over the lack of them, and all of it garnished with aggression, in a way that mocks even the most basic rules of decency, is staggering.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

prosoche.co/2026/the-pau... For anyone interested, I've written a few more (just a few) words about my journey this year: losing weight and trying to be healthier. #health #mindfulness #weight

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The Pause Is the Practice

ProsoPlate’s pre-meal questions look like data collection. They are the intervention - and there is a trial that measured it.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, the weekend is over - and it was a special one. I dropped my "little boy", who stopped being one a long time ago, off at Uni. My coming home and his empty room - somehow it feels sad. My son has gone out into the world!

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh, why not... - my "little" success... slowly, slowly, I've crossed the magic 100kg line. prosoche.co/prosoplate/ #mindfulleating #intermittentfasting #weightloss #health #prosoche

Two screenshots from Health.app, combined.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A holiday experiment. The most interesting thing I learned in 7 evenings with AI had nothing to do with the code. It was watching my own mental laziness arrive.. #indiedev #iOS #swift #AIMakesMeStupid smagabakery.com/2026/the-ign...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My short holiday this year is coming to an end. Cornwall is beautiful, and surprisingly - given it was the end of August - the weather was almost perfect. Poor mobile network coverage is also a blessing - sometimes it’s good to simply be forced into a digital detox. #cornwall #contemplation

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Since I’m on vacation, I only watched Wednesday’s episode of *Ted Lasso* today… oh yeah… it was great! ❤️ #tedlasso #appletv

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sunday evening so time for something wise and thought-provoking. Worth those less than 20 minutes of your life. youtu.be/yZUuKzDQSsI?...

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You’ll stop using ChatGPT after listening to this | Jonathan Pageau [ARC 2026]

YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How time flies. I published the first version of the app in Dec 2024. It was meant to be an experiment - and it was. I was exploring how far an app can blend with real meditation. apps.apple.com/app/id667045... #meditation #stoicism #buddhism #indiedev #mindfulness

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay, I’m tired today, so my judgment might be distorted. But… is anything else actually happening on LinkedIn besides AI? It’s just one big bubble and everyone’s talking about the same thing… God, it’s so boring! I’m going to bed!

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Last night, a glass of wine, and by complete accident I reached for 'Widow's Bay'. The first episode brought back memories of Carpenter's brilliant 'The Fog'. Episode 2 - Scooby Doo... 😀 Yes, it was good entertainment for an evening 🍿. Only one digression came to mind...🤔 #appletv

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I watched yesterday. The second episode, and It’s still good. I love it♥️ #tedlasso

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More and more often I catch myself on how hard it is to just stay alone with a book. Letting yourself slowly savour the content, absorbing it sentence by sentence, word by word. That damned learned impatience - learned from everything that surrounds Us, really. #book #reflection #evening

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sunday!!! Somehow this video slipped past me - if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. Although maybe "recommend" isn't quite the right word here... it certainly gives you (or should give you) something to think about, a certain perspective to build. youtu.be/_g4l7YkDQwA?...

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ChatGPT Offered Me $2m To Keep Quiet: No One Is Ready For What's Coming!

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Maestro, as always, irreplaceable. Perfect for an evening moment of retrospection, reflection - a moment of being with yourself and your own thoughts... #mindfulness #reflection music.apple.com/gb/album/end...

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Endless Summer - EP by Ludovico Einaudi on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 4 Songs

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ah, that feeling... 9 a.m. and the only thing I dream of is lying down and falling asleep... Oh well, SOMEBODY was up before 4 to drive his son to the airport - his first solo trip - destination -> Italy... #parenting

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Maybe it's just the mood I'm in today, but Ted Lasso, first episode of season 4. Yeah... they got me. ❤️ #tedlasso

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nice to see the young generation actually wants to do things - and even nicer that they're my kids. 😀 #IndieDev #IndieMusic

mqkszo.itch.io

BRK-Flow by Mqks

Speed-focused rooftop platformer.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Still exploring the whole business of losing the extra weight - reshaping my relationship with food and my eating habits. And another update just got approved by Apple. #IndieDev #iOSApp #MindfulEating #Mindfulness

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I absolutely have no idea what's going on, absolutely. Something came over me - being a father myself - to treat me and my nearest and dearest, for Father's Day, to a screening of `Project Hail Mary`. And what on earth was this even supposed to be, I ask?

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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 10/05/2026

The human cost of a few nerds getting to use a buggy autocomplete. Don't look away if you're an LLM booster youtu.be/aooiDA-AsNo

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I Tracked Down the Hidden Workers Secretly Powering ChatGPT

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

After a long pause, I rebuilt my old app. I needed to start running again, and to do something about my own weight. ProsoStride v2.0 is on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/id647558... Niko-Niko (smile-pace) cadence coach for walking and slow jogging. #nikoniko #slowjogging #indiedev #iosdev

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Interesting, isn't it. youtube.com/shorts/fUy6E... His book is also very good: "The Digital Delusion". And all these are also very SAD. If we throw AI into the mix - it's safe to assume the next generation will see an even bigger decline. Parents!!! Wake up!!!

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Protect This Man At All Costs.

YouTube video by GROWTH™

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"Bless you, great people, you are wonderful and you have a beautiful civilisation. Anyway, I'm going to destroy it tonight at 8. Nothing personal." Well. Being an idiot certainly doesn't hurt the idiot - it hurts those who have to deal with him.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

When you ask AI to prepare a short clip that's supposed to illustrate your own determination to lose a few kilos, using your own app.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Ahh, if only it were all that simple. Democracy lets us choose leaders, the leaders are idiots, therefore the voters must be idiots too. How much easier it would be to come to terms with some human choices. But the truth is never that tidy...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Over the weekend I pushed another update of my little app which - I was skeptical but curious - actually works!!! Since January 1st, I've managed to drop just over 4kg already. Still a long journey ahead, another 20 to go, but... It's going well... so far... #MindfulEating #IndieDev

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 04/03/2026

Every time I see someone suggest "we could use an LLM for this", I hear "I don't care about this being done at a high quality". That's fine, just be honest about it. When I see people suggesting using LLMs to answer support tickets it shows me they don't give a shit about their customers.

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Maciej Rutkowski @macbirdie.net · 01/03/2026

Norway is pushing back on enshittification. 🫡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-D...

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Norweigan Government comes out swinging on enshittification

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I've finally cracked the code on team performance. 8 techniques, up to 10x velocity boost. smagabakery.com/2026/How-to-...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Just found a texture atlas from my old game Country Driver (2009 – where does the time go?! 😅). That bear character still makes me smile 🐻 16 years of gamedev memories on a single sprite sheet. #gamedev #indiedev #nostalgia #iOS

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

In 2020, life was rough. Then the pandemic hit. So I built a puzzle game and called it FULG - F****** Useless Logic Game 😄 5 years later, it's still on the App Store with a fresh update. Not bad for something "useless". 🎬 youtu.be/CrjZOfB1EFk 🧩 apps.apple.com/us/app/fulg/... #IndieDev #iOS #Puzzle

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FULG

YouTube video by Bart Smaga

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

8% from critics vs 99% from audiences. If this isn't manipulation, I only have two explanations: either only the faithful are watching (and there's no saving them), or... is it really THAT bad across the pond? 🍿

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Apple's removing my game for not updating it. Thought it'd be a quick recompile... then I found a bug (the chain-linked blocks mechanic). Now I need to decode 3-year-old me's code. Wish me luck! 😅 #indiedev #iOS #Swift #game #programming

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Evening thoughts on tests and the thinking we skip. smagabakery.com/2026/writing...

https://smagabakery.com/2026/writing_tests_is_thinking/

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/01/2026

Get as many people as possible to unsubscribe from OpenAI, from ChatGPT.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Strange are the fates of mankind. "Dark ages": rulers by divine right could be idiots, common people had no say. 21st century: quality at the top hasn't improved. The shock? Now they're actually elected.

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

ProsoPlate Jan update was approved • Emotional Weather: 18 research-based emotions • Hourglass tiles: time between meals • Awareness Timeline: craving, hunger, promise vs reality prosoche.co/2026/prosopl...

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Bart Smaga @bartsmg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Lazy Sunday, an absolutely small thought, just a spark of electricity… “The Good Dinosaur” - what a pity that damn meteorite didn’t miss our planet after all.

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