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Matt @mavon.ie · 07/07/2026

This is the most difficult part about explaining AI to someone. Also people using AI to "debunk" stuff. "Is this video AI generated" is already preloaded and it will tell you what you want to hear. The only way to go is its literally all made up there is no in between. Dont trust it

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Eoin Marron @eoinmarron.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So can everyone who purports to be left-leaning and anti-fascist - yet still actively uses X - start explaining themselves? Not that there's any valid excuses left, but I genuinely don't understand what it's going to take for people to move on.

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Matt @mavon.ie · 15/06/2026

Something completely unrelated to my usual dev content. I learnt how to drop in on a skateboard!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBl... #skateboarding #skateboard

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Glenn Fiedler @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Put up a cheeeezy website for my space game yesterday "We're building the future of multiplayer games. Join us in massive 1000 player real-time space battles with fighters, bombers and capital ships around derelict megastructures". spacegame.dev

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Matt @mavon.ie · 19/05/2026

For the first time in my career @github.com is actually blocking us from doing work by just having different services being offline or unavailable. Retry the action & the cache is offline. Retry again and cant pull docker images because registry timed out. This is insane. #dev #github #devops

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Matt @mavon.ie · 16/05/2026

Seeing this in VR is amazing. Need ragdoll in your #threejs game? Check it out: github.com/mattvb91/rap... #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #node #typescript #screenshotsaturday

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/05/2026

In a functioning, stable and flourishing economy, every part of the industry flourishes. In a bubble, infrastructure bulks up, funded by debt, and explodes once the demand fails to arrive. And AI demand barely exists outside of two companies. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ais-circular-psychosis/

I realize I’ve taken some very big swings recently, but every bit of research I’ve done has reaffirmed my position that AI demand is bordering on non-existent when you remove OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and NVIDIA’s endless backstops, which should be completely illegal but are now a readily-accepted part of the markets.

Those who might disagree should think very deeply about why almost every neocloud is funded by NVIDIA, backstopped by NVIDIA, uses NVIDIA’s contracts to raise debt to buy GPUs from NVIDIA, and has the majority of its revenues propped up by either NVIDIA, Microsoft, or Meta.

While AI boosters would argue that this is “the necessary infrastructure investment to build the future of the tech industry,” I see no real proof that that future exists.

Then there’s the nasty two-pronged fuckery that both the AI infrastructure providers and their clients are horribly unprofitable. OpenAI cannot afford to exist, and neither can Anthropic. Perplexity? Horribly unprofitable, barely alive, and desperately trying to flog an OpenClaw clone. I wish I had more examples here of companies that actually pay for AI compute, but the lack of concrete examples of massive demand from specific entities suggests that it doesn’t exist.

What deeply worries me is the amount of real money that’s chasing this illusory industry. The RAM and memory crisis is a function of dumb money funded by debt building data centers that take 18-24 months to turn on with no guarantees that the power exists, and even if it does, I can find little evidence that the customers exist to pay that debt back.

In a functioning, stable and flourishing economy, every part of the industry flourishes.

In a bubble, infrastructure bulks up, funded by debt, and explodes once the demand fails to arrive.

In the end, OpenAI and Anthropic are the only companies that have any use for the massive amounts of compute being built, and their demand for said compute is entirely manufactured by Google, Amazon and Microsoft, all three of which could’ve demanded they were more efficient or in any way sustainable.

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Matt @mavon.ie · 05/05/2026

Would appreciate a vote on here if you liked it threejs-journey.com/challenges/0... #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #node #typescript #threejs @bruno-simon.bsky.social

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Matt @mavon.ie · 03/05/2026

Finally fixed the mesh issues on this: github.com/mattvb91/rap... Ragdolls in threejs with blender mesh (blender file included) #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #node #typescript #threejs @bruno-simon.bsky.social

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Matt @mavon.ie · 30/04/2026

I somehow managed to make one of the clouds look like a turd... ooops #art #krita #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #drawing

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Matt @mavon.ie · 26/04/2026

Thanks for the MavonEngine shoutout!

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Matt @mavon.ie · 14/04/2026

Just released a new version which fixes some windows issues! mavonengine.com #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript #threejs

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Matt @mavon.ie · 05/04/2026

Updated the multiplayer demo on the homepage to the latest version! mavonengine.com #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript #threejs #screenshotsaturday

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Matt @mavon.ie · 03/04/2026

Just dropped some fixes for the multiplayer template go check it out. Would love some feedback: npx @mavonengine/create-bootstrap #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript #threejs

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

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Matt @mavon.ie · 01/04/2026

Just released v0.0.7 of the editor which fixes it loading in dev mode now by pressing `.` github.com/MavonEngine/... #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript #threejs

threejs game engine, threejs level editor, threejs multiplayer

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Matt @mavon.ie · 11/03/2026

Lmao this shit is crazy. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379... Page 4 How do they still have this page up? www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

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Matt @mavon.ie · 05/03/2026

Added some more prefab samples to the homepage: mavonengine.com Just drag & drop community prefabs directly into your #threejs games. #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript

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Matt @mavon.ie · 04/03/2026

Now with prefabs ready to be pulled in. Going to make this so you can create prefabs and register them easily so you can browse a list of ready to go prefabs built by others mavonengine.com #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript

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Matt @mavon.ie · 26/02/2026

The editor gets dynamically loaded into the same canvas instance that your game is running on. Up next: Previewing assets such as models / animations / sounds / textures. mavonengine.com #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney #nodejs #typescript

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Matt @mavon.ie · 25/02/2026

I have been busy!! 😬 I've managed to abstract parts to reuse in other games for single or multiplayer (With authoritative Server). Im aiming to have an initial preview release out by end of march. mavonengine.com #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney #nodejs

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Matt @mavon.ie · 11/02/2026

Implemented the water shader from #threejsJourney with culling under the terrain and 3 levels of LOD. Works pretty good so far. Check it out here: strainzero.com/play #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs

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Matt @mavon.ie · 03/02/2026

Not sure if I enjoy reading it or just hatereading it to confirm my own suspicions. Definitely recommend if you also feel everything is going to shit online (and offline)

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Matt @mavon.ie · 27/12/2025

Huge improvement in getting rid of the jank feeling by transition between animation states. Also using the push down state machine from @stuffwithstuff.com book for players and zombies. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 25/12/2025

Playing around with some ideas like tilt shift as a main effect. This is too much but a subtle version could be interesting. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs

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Matt @mavon.ie · 23/12/2025

Zombies will now affect your health when they attack and kill you and other players! strainzero.com/play #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 21/12/2025

You can now kill other players & zombies with grenades. Also the proof of concept of networked synchronized lootable "pickups" now works too! strainzero.com/play #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 07/09/2025

First time playing around with menu music. 2 separate layers to give a nice transition when you enter the game by turning off the drum track and then slowly fading out the synths #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Matt @mavon.ie · 29/08/2025

Got a rough structure down for whats to come! Happy Friday everyone!

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Matt @mavon.ie · 27/08/2025

Implemented @threejs.org PositionalAudio last night and wow does it make a huge difference even with such a simple change. strainzero.com/play #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 25/08/2025

PVP NOW WORKS!!! strainzero.com/play Next up will be taking damage instead of instant death. Most important part was the death mechanic itself and the respawn. #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 23/08/2025

Will be posting another performance optimization #devlog in future focusing on larger draw distances. strainzero.com/play #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturaday

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Matt @mavon.ie · 19/08/2025

Started working on a looting mechanic for cars last night. Started with hinge points / rotation constraints in blender and then brought it into threejs as animations. Will make a #devlog to cover the setup of this too! #threejs #threejsjourney #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Matt @mavon.ie · 14/08/2025

Starting on the new game UI elements strainzero.com/play #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs

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Matt @mavon.ie · 13/08/2025

Second #devlog incoming. This time doing some first optimizations to improve things further down the line: youtu.be/cGi7Nhxc9R8 #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Devlog #2 - Strain Zero - Performance Optimization

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Matt @mavon.ie · 10/08/2025

Just rolled out the first in a few major performance updates. Should be noticeably smoother on laptop/desktop devices. Mobile performance still to come. Will be covering the main points in the next #devlog strainzero.com/play #indiegamedev #threejs #gamedev

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Matt @mavon.ie · 06/08/2025

First attempt at a #devlog. Definitely gonna take some time to get used to talking to the camera. Sorry about the 'uuhm`s' and 'eems' the nerves got to me 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5d... #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Devlog #1 - Strain Zero - Months 0 - 8

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Matt @mavon.ie · 03/08/2025

Biggest update to date out now! Procedural terrain / vegetation generation across networked clients & shadow map updates correctly now with the player moving. Also fixed some movement bugs. strainzero.com/play #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 01/08/2025

Managed to make progress last night on the first proof of concept of loot (items to pickup) along with the GUI indicators to go with it strainzero.com/play #threejs #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejsjourney

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Matt @mavon.ie · 31/07/2025

First pass at vegetation (trees) spawner, starting to come together strainzero.com/play #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #threejsjourney

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