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Alma Stone @kinaliworks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today we’re announcing Kinali Works, a new, remote game studio dedicated to building fresh yet nostalgic RPGs. #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Simultaneously addicted to "AI" Soul covers of songs from other genres and terrified for the future of music being highly personalised, stale retreads based purely on what's come before, without any creative spark.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This. Why on earth would you willingly expose all your online usage to a company that within the last six months has made chats users thought were private publicly searchable never mind the PI risks?

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Modern nurseries keeping you updated with your child's day via app updates is mostly awesome, but damn do I get jealous of my son literally every day when I see the message "<name> had a nap of 2 hrs 43 minutes".

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Using Swarm for code reviews more than I have in ages and returning to my overriding thought about it that it's my least favourite code review tool.. Not even the best code review tool I recall using for Perforce and the other one was over 15 years ago.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This genuinely might be my favorite NIN album and as someone that's been a fan for most of my adult life that's saying something.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Does anyone else love their kid's nursery but have a fundamental mistrust of literally anything they say, purely because of the food they claim your child eats lots of that they won't touch a morsel of ANYWHERE ELSE? Liars! Lovely, lovely liars!

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Such a mild example of "Adult money", but incredibly excited at having just ordered the first 21 of the Discworld series from World of Books for only around £75 (pre-loved books ftw!). I gave most of my books to charity when I moved to London about 8 years ago, and finally have the space 🎉.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New hill to die on: - We need a Tron film every 15 years or so to deliver an absolute banger of a soundtrack Less fussed about actually watching the film this time, (Jared Leto? Really?). But damn am I enjoying the soundtrack.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

@MorePerfectUS
U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years.

Most of that wealth hasn’t been taxed and won’t be taxed under our current system — per
@4TaxFairness
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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Amazing how happy I am doing literally anything with code as long as I have a reliable form of source control. Realised yesterday that not having it gives me low-grade anxiety that I usually don't notice is because of not having backups.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Pet hate: - Retail websites who's filters don't actually work Genuinely one of the many things that have gotten worse on the internet over time and that LLMs are really good at replacing 🤦‍♂️

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Dreading the impact of the UK's online safety act and how likely it is to enable: - Long-term censorship, - Detailed tracking of what people have viewed, - A raft of identity scams caused by inadequate data protection or legit appearing ID requests All in all, fuck the UK MPs that voted for it

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Looting at Thames Water Net assets in 1990, £1,329m; 2024, £1,301m; 2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets NO shareholder investment since privatisation? Dividends £10.4bn. Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation. Water Commission didn't spot looting,

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened

The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 04/06/2025

Epic confirms the upgrades coming to Fortnite on Switch 2, including 60fps performance, support for GameChat, and mouse controls (!) Plus, you get a free emote for logging in before March 31st next year: www.fortnite.com/news/fortnit...

A screenshot of an Epic Games blog post that reads:

Fortnite comes to Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5. In some places, that’s TODAY. In other places, it’s just one more sleep!

Let’s get right into what you want to know:

60 FPS!

Higher resolution (2176x1224 docked, 1600x900 undocked)

Greater view distances (See more things in the distance!)

Higher-quality textures, higher-quality shadows, and higher-quality water rendering (nice water)

Clothing physics enabled

The Replay system is here — relive your best Battle Royale matches from another perspective!

Capture video clips using the Capture button

GameChat* supported — stream your Fortnite gameplay with up to three other friends

For the hardcore tech folks: full “desktop” renderer, high-detail geometry, distance field ambient occlusion in docked mode, shadow casting point lights, high-quality effects

Mouse controls supported with Joy-Con 2 (Starting June 7)

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The new General Physics systems are well worth a look, they really bring a whole new way for players to interact with UEFN games.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Tl;dr: Labour are unpopular with the people who might vote for them, and have failed to attract any of the people who would never vote for them. Not so very complex really.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 02/05/2025

I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Just wrote a small essay of recommendations and tips for my team that are visiting London next week. Nice reminder for me that after 7ish years and living in multiple areas I do really love London and know it reasonably well.

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Says so much about the usefulness of the feature that after 6 months of having this laptop I've only just found out it's a touchscreen. Still can't think of a genuine use for that, it's a standard form factor not a fancy bendy one that can double as a tablet.

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Dan Thomas @heydanthomas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is TODAY! Join us at 5pm (UK time) for a very lovely chat with lovely #IndieDev founders who've... 👀seen some things👀 discord.gg/nKR8W4tq?eve...

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Video game marketing & discoverability, sales & promotions, and behind-the-scenes business chats! | 872 members

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 01/05/2025

It's been a week since I posted The Vulnerability Nightmare Thread and I feel more myself than I have done in TWO YEARS It's crazy what folding yourself up into little pretzel shapes to conform to others' expectations does to you.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 01/05/2025

jesus christ

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Office-based today, so I'm getting some great focused work in. Only downside, I keep desk dancing at my standing desk and then getting super conscious that plenty of other people are unfortunately (for them) able to see that 😅

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Been experimenting with "not Google" search engines lately, just had a really good trial with Kagi Search (would recommend if willing to pay $30pm or can expense), are there any other options folk would recommend? Loved the clean "no ads" results. DuckDuckGo I assume? Planning on trying that next.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

summarize: One, after trial, the Court found that Apple's 30 percent commission
"allowed it to reap supracompetitive operating margins" and was not tied to the value of its intellectual property, and thus, was anticompetitive. Apple's response: charge a 27 percent commission (again tied to nothing) on off-app purchases, where it had previously charged nothing, and extend the commission for a period of seven days after the consumer linked-out of the app.
Apple's goal: maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. Two, the Court had prohibited Apple
from denying developers the ability to communicate with, and direct consumers to, other
purchasing mechanisms. Apple's response: impose new barriers and new requirements to increase friction and increase breakage rates with full page "scare" screens, static URLs, and generic statements. Apple's goal: to dissuade customer usage of alternative purchase opportunities and maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. In the end, Apple sought to maintain a revenue
stream worth billions in direct defiance of this Court's Injunction.
In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option. To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his
finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter
to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether
criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is o…

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Went away for the weekend & barely touched email, have 115 unread emails in my personal account.....wtf? Time for some unsubscriptions!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

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Jeff Tanton - Wishlist OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY 📸👻🪣 @jefftanton.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Reposting because this cannot be overstated.

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Tuba Zef 🐟fishpersonshooter.com🐟 @tubazef.com · 12/04/2025

#UNREAL #GAMEDEV PRO-TIP: Even if you intend to make your entire game in Blueprints, without ever touching C++, create your project as a C++ Project cause you never know what you might need tomorrow

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is the ‘disruption’ playbook. I have really bad news for anyone stupid enough to be building reliance on generative AI into their processes. It’s so cheap!

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Random moan to the universe, nothing is ever easy or straightforward 😅

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A nice thing about working at a company where we have lots of internally developed cool tools is being able to directly feedback when something's awesome and make someone's day better. In this case an upgrade makes a huge difference in my day to day and it took seconds to say thanks in Slack.

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Steve Streeting @sinbad3d.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Friends, I've been posting pictures of our (my wife & I's) little co-op wizard mining game for a while now, and I figure it's time we told you what it's called. Say hello to: Minermancers! #gamedev #indiegame Coming...not soon, but coming! 🙂

Four wizards going mining together. They're dressed in red, hot pink, blue and green with different hats, robe designs and beards. They're surrounded by half-mined walls with some ore lumps lying around

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Can tell what kind of day I'm trying to have by the fact I'm on my 3rd different "Focus" playlist already. Synthwave is the winner! Thanks @sinbad3d.bsky.social, pretty sure this is one of yours you shared on twitter ages ago. It's great!

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Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI @liambme.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Gameplay Programmer Wanted! 🚨 For short-term work on; TANUKI: Pon's Summer 🦝Exp Unity and C#. 🦝Exp gameplay/UX programming. 🦝Exp Unity UI (uGUI). 🦝Exp shipping at least one title. 🦝Optional: asynchronous programming in C#/Unity (UniTask). contact AT denkiworks DOT games

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Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I'm on the lookout for new contract opportunities! I'm a game coder and designer with 15 years professional experience in web, mobile and PC, playable stage shows and alternative controllers. I love bringing playfulness into spaces beyond traditional games 🧡 Portfolio: www.alistairaitcheson.com

Alistair photographed with Shredward, a modified paper shredder used in a game about exploring grief through creativity

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Was a bit unsure about the Switch 2 pricing, despite understanding why those prices are arrived at and broadly being in favour of pricing actually rising finally......but they seem to be doing a really good job of backwards compatibility and providing info on how compatible Switch games.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 02/04/2025

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

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Dan Thomas @heydanthomas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Last year we organised a banger of an indie games biz focused micro-conference and expo in Bristol. We sold it out. It was awesome. So, we're doing it again! 👇

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Kieran Nee @kierannee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Signs you should definitely be calling in sick #1249214 - Takes you 20 minutes to call in sick with email, slack, calendar etc because you have so much trouble focusing

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