Reposted by MichaelJWAlfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 26/09/2026Live here: library.pardallgames.comlibrary.pardallgames.comPardall Games: Explore EVERY SINGLE ASSET from PS1 and N64 games2,757 models, textures, animations, sprites from PS1 and N64 games. Explore them in 3D in the browser. 12597222
Reposted by MichaelJWEverest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk. 232580
Reposted by MichaelJWRobin Linacre @robinlinacre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We're very pleased to release Splink 5, which is now more scalable, faster to train models and lighter to install. You can find more details about the release here: moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/blog/... 064
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026'twas ever thus mcfunley.com/whom-the-god...mcfunley.comWhom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics 000
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"I know people who ask ChatGPT what the date is, or what simple maths problems are ... We have completely detached our sense of what makes a good solution to a problem - it is easier to waste ten times as much on an answer you didn't have to think about instead." Great post. 010
Reposted by MichaelJWOwen Goss @owengoss.com · 20/09/2026I was playing around with a dithered RGB shader, and swapped out all the green pixels for white ones, and got this. The wild thing is there are only black, white, red, and blue pixels in these scene. The orange, yellow, and green are an illusion! The 2nd image is a close up of the "green" sphere. 2153
Reposted by MichaelJWMatthew Morete @matthewmorete.com · 19/09/2026A pixel dissolve generator! codepen.io/editor/matth... I've tried to make this effect 10 different ways at this point and it usually requires a mountain of code. An encoded PNG, wrapped in an encoded SVG with 'image-rendering:pixelated' is a very fun CSS trick and way way more compact.codepen.ioPixel Dissolve Mask GeneratorA code demo by Matthew Morete created on CodePen 071
Reposted by MichaelJWKenney @kenney.nl · 19/09/2026Great news! Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 is finally coming to Steam ✨ Enjoy local pricing, automatic updates and a brand new companion app asset browser. Wishlist to support the bundle, it helps a lot! store.steampowered.com/app/4059160/... 720932
Reposted by MichaelJWBrendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I wrote about how Skin Deep's "Highlighter System" works -- automatically detecting events in the world and showcasing them to the player: blendogames.com/news/post/20... 725174
Reposted by MichaelJWSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 09/09/2026RUN ML MODELS DIRECTLY IN YOUR DATABASE 0156
Reposted by MichaelJWEdd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts! 6705251
Reposted by MichaelJWJosh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 12/09/2026Love this project from @kaleidosium.my.id. It's an introduction to HTML/CSS specifically for artists. 😄 Tailored educational resources like this are the best. We can construct way better explanations for things when we can anchor it to a shared fundamental base of knowledge, vs. a general audience.modern-html-and-css-for-artists.netlify.appModern HTML & CSS Guide for ArtistsA craft-focused, two-part guide covering modern HTML and CSS fundamentals for artists and other creatives. 2486
Reposted by MichaelJWkepano @stephango.com · 10/09/2026This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. Knap should feel familiar and comes with a wonderfully pleasant syntax to modify and format plain text. 942550
Reposted by MichaelJWbunp @bunp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Lots of polish to showcase this week; distance fog, colored outlines, outline integration with cloud shader, steady progress on day/night cycle. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev 211210
Reposted by MichaelJWceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2026I keep repeating this fun fact to people while they stare at me with feigned interest: “helicopter” is a compound word, but probably not in the way you think! it’s made up of “helico” as in, “spiral,” from the Greek “helix” and “pter” as in “wing,” like in pterodactyl!! 542100249
Reposted by MichaelJWJake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 04/09/2026Playing around with an idea: responsive code. The build script creates up to 5 versions of each code sample using Prettier, and a container query displays the right one. Brotli means the filesize overhead is very small. Live demo: jakearchibald.com/2026/css-cus... 1728928
Reposted by MichaelJWMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution 694118857
Reposted by MichaelJWNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN WHAT WILL THE CLIMAX BEEEEE WHEN WE HIT ACT THREEEEEEE 7753147
Reposted by MichaelJWPiccalilli @piccalil.li · 19/08/2026We challenged Alistair to write this and boy, did they deliver! www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...mohkohn.co.ukHow building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnightMy client was a utility company, and they had a big problem... 0171
Reposted by MichaelJWRebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 11/08/2026i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable have fun and make cool stuff!! 9368133
Reposted by MichaelJWNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778522571
Reposted by MichaelJWPer Axbom @axbom.com · 23/07/2026The most honest and believable analysis of the OpenAI / Hugging Face event that I have read thus far: www.linkedin.com/pulse/didnt-...linkedin.comIt Didn't Wake Up. It Also Didn't "Just Follow Instructions."A technical reading of the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, and a method for reading claims like it Two framings of the July 2026 OpenAI-Hugging Face incident are circulating, and both are wrong. The fir... 1115
Reposted by MichaelJWCyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction 1535575
Reposted by MichaelJWPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026When I read "frictionless" writing, my eyes glaze over and my brain shuts off. Afterwards, I find that not only have I retained nothing, but I also felt nothing. The writing that sticks with you is spicy, salty, sour, sweet. It jolts you awake, and the words linger for a long time afterwards. 612016
Reposted by MichaelJWColin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026orson welles if he lived several more decades: This game supports and uses an autosave feature. Please do not turn off the power or close the game when the autosave icon is displayed. ...Now you want me to do a 'funny' take. Why? For what purpose. Am I informing the players or am I entertainment. 730963
Reposted by MichaelJWEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.mail.cyberneticforests.comIt's Not Just X. It's Y.Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a... 713048
Reposted by MichaelJWKevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 21/05/2026If you don't have time to read it, the tl;dr is, if there are educational content creators you value, let them know. They might write, make videos, or anything else. Times are tough, and talented people are fading away. A few encouraging words from a real person can make a huge difference. 18514
Reposted by MichaelJWKevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 21/05/2026More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell... 3030078
Reposted by MichaelJWTyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 491483734
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I've been known to use the former; adding the latter to my idolect now. 011
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Great thread - and I really like the term "porridge" used like this 031
Reposted by MichaelJWJosh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 30/04/2026✨ I just released a new (free!) tool for creating custom Bézier curves! courses.joshwcomeau.com/tools/bezier It has one special feature that I haven’t seen anywhere else, and it allows us to do something pretty cool. 🧵 827543
Reposted by MichaelJWSupper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite. 6671751358
Reposted by MichaelJWJosh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 26/04/2026✨ Tomorrow’s the day! After 18+ months of work, Whimsical Animations will be releasing to the public. 😄 I just sent a FAQ about the course to everyone on my newsletter. If you have any questions about it, they might be answered here:joshwcomeau.comTomorrow’s the day! • Josh W. ComeauFriendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more! 410617
Reposted by MichaelJWGoh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A selection of floor burgers from various beat 'em up games. 131323380
Reposted by MichaelJWBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more. 816335427973
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Fascinating paper. "For example, P1 shared, “I was just trying to frame a sentence in my mind when I saw the suggestion.” This speed often outpaced participants’ own ideation and sentence planning." 020
Reposted by MichaelJWderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil. 745080710
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Picked up a nice little frame for the four-leafed clover I found when I was 11. 000
MichaelJW @michaeljw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026When I was an editor, I had a rule: no "Betteridge" headlines. I mean, come on. 000
Reposted by MichaelJWEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!” 16475132091
Reposted by MichaelJWLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.” 03830
Reposted by MichaelJWOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/10/2025important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense 1428137
Reposted by MichaelJWNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViznrennie.rbind.ioIntroducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola RennieThe ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works. 719361
![The rim lighting effect in Paper Mario is created in an extremely simple manner.
[the sprites are taken, copied, recolored black, then the black version is offset, made transparent, and trimmed to the original sprite]
Note how this coincidentally results in a realistic shadow of the cap on Mario's face because the shadow is just the brim recolored black
Source: info: YouTube user @JasperRLZ, youtube.com/watch?v=K3OrK0nvWCg; presentation by Supper Mario Broth](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:heeihz7xdhf7dbjx4befobqw/bafkreifokse6ijqxcni6odqwkvo7nwqftjnkwczah5zlnnvt3mz3wxw2rm)
![5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreieufyngjbrn23zkmesrimcwemxkxtaf2x7d3bedjt7bg65htgtkrm)
