Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: one of the male heads of year told us in great detail about why he carried a ladies handbag with him while on holiday, complete with a demo of said bag 010
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I've worked in IT now for many, many years. This clip literally, figuratively and some would say physically sums up how a lot of that time was spent 022
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026AI this, AI that. Yes, yes. But let’s not forget to praise the box that is dodgy 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026So presumably with all these maths theorems being proven/disproved, the frontier labs and associated governments are throwing every known science or physics problem at unreleased models in order to gain advantage over rivals? The espionage efforts must be off the scale. 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026New gameplay features - Omega-Rust jolyonbrown.itch.io/omega-rust/d...jolyonbrown.itch.ioNew gameplay featuresSo previously the game hit peak difficulty from wave 13 (numbers of ships, accuracy of bullets etc). Wanted to add some extra features, so now it bumps up again from wave 14 to full intensity at wave.... 010
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Ticking off unfinished projects - a version of the old Midway 1981 vector game 'Omega Race' in Rust jolyonbrown.itch.io/omega-rustjolyonbrown.itch.ioOmega-Rust by jolyonbrownPlay in your browser 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Created a planning poker type site with a twist; usable by humans and agents working together (or agents alone) point.votepoint.votepoint.vote — planning poker for humans and agentsPlanning poker for humans and agents. Blind votes, atomic reveal. No accounts, rooms evaporate. 010
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Faced with an overwhelming workload, was tempted again with emacs and org-mode, but wanting to use Claude.. so I accidentally created *clorg-mode* Org-mode, but you talk to it github.com/jolyonbrown/...github.comGitHub - jolyonbrown/clorg-mode: org-mode, but you talk to itorg-mode, but you talk to it. Contribute to jolyonbrown/clorg-mode development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2026WARCLAUDE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR CLAUDE AWOL CLAUDE 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026About to start two months of utterly intense work. Was hoping for a boost from the Boro but it was not to be, alas 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Reading 'The Maniac' this evening and feeling rather inadequate. I wonder what von Neumann would have made of things today. 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Created a Claude code changelog bot here @claudecodechanges.bsky.social as there didn’t seem to be one on Bluesky for some reason 010
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Handling my Lidl pastries like I’m bagging evidence at a crime scene 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I am available to post supportive messages for the Prime Minister, doctors, dentists and people with letters after their name. Standard support: £50 Full support: £75 Fullest support: £100 Reference to five-year mandate: £150 'Genuinely good man': £200 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Dog walk last night like a level of Silent Hill but I think I found a secret item location 000
Reposted by Jolyon Brownarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 01/09/2025R.I.P. Joe Bugner. 17113
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2025It’s a hot Saturday evening, July 1987. Someone from Sweden or somewhere like that mailed you a bunch of 5 and a quarter inch floppy disks for your Commodore 64. You just loaded the first one up and the Eaglesoft image appears. This and the music that accompanies it will be a core memory for you 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2025A level results day in our house. The good thing is these days they find out via UCAS whether they got accepted into their choices or not so the pressure sat outside this sixth form college in the car isn’t so bad. Everyone here looks ridiculously young. Hope they all got what they needed 020
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Quite like the look of the new Ghost version ghost.org/changelog/6/... For some time now I've thought about having a blog that can connect to the social web, might be the time to make the move.ghost.orgGhost 6.0Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers 000
Reposted by Jolyon BrownVanished Chicagoland @vanishedchicago.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Musician Chuck Mangione has passed away. He was 84. Here is an ad for his album that was on sale at Rose Records, and Sounds Good Records & Tapes. From The Chicago Tribune September 17, 1978. R.I.P. #chuckmangione #ripchuckmagione🎺 293
Reposted by Jolyon BrownMark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming 1118844
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Really enjoying the new Adam Curtis series ‘Shifty’. One highlight so far is a sequence of street interviews from late 70s Newcastle of different youth subcultures, including this intrepid fella representing one I never knew was a thing 020
Reposted by Jolyon BrownUncle Big Bad @dont.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I will only recognize one Golden Dome. 313410
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Ok is the start of this new series a good time to become Catholic without watching all the old stuff 000
Reposted by Jolyon BrownMike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/... 11427572148
Reposted by Jolyon BrownNecrosoft Games @necrosoftgames.com · 17/04/2025It's true, demons can't stop you from hanging out with your friends. That's important now more than ever. New trailer! New release window!! (Very real, we are so close to content complete.) Wishlist! Wishlist!! Wishlist!!! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... 31734177
Reposted by Jolyon BrownJesse Makkonen @jessemakkonen.com · 17/04/2025The atmosphere of my game. store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... #visualnovel #gamedev #pixelart #indiegame 34106584
Reposted by Jolyon BrownVirginia K. Smith @vksmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025wrote about my quest to escape the algorithms and get back to finding new music via human recs only, with some excellent advice from @cushac.bsky.social of @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, who's also had enough of the streaming economy nygroove.nyc/enough-is-en...nygroove.nycEnough is enough: How to find new music without an algorithmIt's time we stopped ceding the discovery process to the bots 2227263
Reposted by Jolyon BrownButton Masher @buttonmasher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Blink 182 on 7 different gaming consoles. Also come to my shows in may. Michigan added to the tour! 0212
Reposted by Jolyon BrownScott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Victory of the Daleks (2010) 923626
Reposted by Jolyon Brownpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now? 764568382
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Accidentally started writing a screenplay. Don’t know what I’m doing send help 000
Reposted by Jolyon BrownKeith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Maoism with Biff's Casino Characteristics 2377
Reposted by Jolyon BrownLewis Packwood @lewispackwood.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I absolutely LOVE the idea of asses.masses - a bunch of people in a theatre collaborate to play an 8-hour game about donkeys being replaced by machines. What larks! It's on in Bradford this weekend and London next weekend - go see it if you have the chance. www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...creativebloq.comAsses.masses is an 8-hour epic about unemployed donkeys that's a cross between gaming and theatre, made by first-time devsPatrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim reveal how they created a game with no previous coding experience. 001
Reposted by Jolyon BrownStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025My Animal Crossing island just got hit with 10% tariffs 1146436894
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Via Hacker News - this is really impressive! tv.garden - wonder if any of those foreign channels will have English football on 000
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025So basically we’re one week away from Optimus robots en masse buying Teslas 000
Reposted by Jolyon BrownDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025me coming in guns-a-blazing, with absolute certainty and confidence that what I say next will eliminate any doubt about my competence 408147081663
Reposted by Jolyon BrownJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Me in the National Security team group chat 548472746
Jolyon Brown @jolyonbrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2025At last, special effects are advanced enough for every film and TV show set in Spain to feature an AI generated Keith Barron—finally uniting them all in the Duty Free Extended Universe. 010