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One of the new types of content we're building is live Discord Server reviews for video games! (which will also end up on our YouTube channel). Super excited to hang out with @kittycrawford.com for our inaugural one on the 13th of October!

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New logo on the Agones homepage! Glad to see Snapser in the mix! We'd love more logos -- if you wan to join such exalted company (and also you get an instant +3 charisma bump if your company logo is on our site, that's just science 😊), drop a PR on github.com/agones-de...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

👋🏻 Anthony Tešija and I will be at Gamescom Dev and Gamescom in the next few weeks! Would love to talk to people about Discord - whether it's communities, bots, apps, Social SDK or really anything across the Discord developer platform! Drop us a line! We're super nice I swear.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📷 My DSLR attached to my computer has not done facial tracking for autofocus for YEARS. Because airplane mode was turned off 🤦🏻 I'm so sorry for subjecting you to my blurry face. Or maybe now? I'm sorry because you have to look at my focused face. I'll let you decide.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wasn't happy with the state of Debian packaging for ghostty, so decided to roll my own. Right now - just deb packages for Debian stable and testing, but maybe an apt repo in the future - who knows! First time building and releasing deb packages, so having some fun with it!

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GitHub - markmandel/ghostty-debian: Experimental debian build and/or ppa for ghostty

Experimental debian build and/or ppa for ghostty. Contribute to markmandel/ghostty-debian development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Okay yeah, Lua in Hyprland is pretty slick. I just remade what was a C++ plugin for resizable columned window layout in lua, and now I can also add some extra features I didn't have before. This was a good transition despite the pain of moving everything over.

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dotfiles/provision/ui/files/config/hypr/includes/layouts.lua at main · markmandel/dotfiles

My dotfiles and local machine provisioning. Contribute to markmandel/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Linux Foundation OSS Mentorship program is open until the 19th of May. I'm mentoring with Agones & Headlamp maintainers this session, working on a Headlamp plugin for Agones. Let's visualize game server workloads together! Learn more at: 📃 docs.linuxfoundation... 👀 mentorship.lfx.linux...

CNCF - Kubernetes: Add Agones to Headlamp - Game Server Management UI (2026 Term 2)

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2026 Term 2: Jun-Aug
Agones is a Kubernetes-native platform for hosting, running, and scaling dedicated game servers. This project builds a Headlamp plugin that adds an **Agones** section to Headlamp, surfacing Agones CRDs so operators can **view and manage game servers, fleets, and allocations** from the Headlamp UI. The plugin follows Headlamp UX patterns with list and detail views, links between related resources, and visibility into lifecycle and allocation state.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

...Did any open source maintainers actually get that free 6 months of Claude max plan? I've yet to meet anytime who actually got it 🤔

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We did a recent livestream of all the developer items for games that Discord announced at GDC earlier this year Including: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community 🛄 Claiming Your Game 🔗 Account Linking 🛒 Social Commerce 💻 Instant Play Quests ⬇️ Check it out! ⬇️

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GDC 2026 Recap | Discord Developers

Welcome to our GDC 2026 recap! Join the Discord DevRel team: Colin, Anthony, Mika, and Mark—as we break down everything we released and saw at the "Festival of Gaming" this year. 👾 From our Mission Control-themed booth to the latest Social SDK updates, we’re diving into how developers can bridge th

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Starting in 12 minutes, we'll be doing a recap of all the game developer product announcements we had at GDC 2026, in our Discord Developers Server! Come and join! discord.gg/discord-d...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just in time for Kubecon EU this week, Agones moves it's repository over to CNCF, and we've officially become a sandbox project in the CNCF - which is a HUGE milestone! 🎉 We've still got some pieces to migrate over, and lots of onboarding, but you can now find us at: github.com/agones-de...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Now I'm out from under GDC, I can focus my attention on Kubecon EU coming up next week! Who is going to be around and wants to talk about backends for multiplayer games, Agones, open source or just share pictures of our dogs? Drop me an line!

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Look, I'm excited to be heading back to #GDC again today (and you should definitely come to the Discord booth and talks!), but I had to deal with this look of disappointment leaving the house today, and that was very hard.

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Guy 'Yug' Blomberg @yug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Heading to #GDC next week? A bunch of game industry veterans from the @thegig.bsky.social have contributed to this handy guide feat tips, tricks, and more. Full guide here - thegig.guide/gdc Thanks to @neurotic.bsky.social @tenaciouschi.bsky.social @alykkat.bsky.social for their contributions

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

With Agones moving to @cncf.io, I'm excited to be keynoting Kubecon EU with Jean-François Hubert, Development Director at Ubisoft (albeit for 3 minutes, But it'll be fun I promise! 😆) We're doing a runthrough of how Ubisoft orchestrates multiplayer games with Agones! sched.co/2HgQn

For Ubisoft, delivering seamless multiplayer experiences to a global player base is an infrastructure challenge of massive scale. It requires managing thousands of game servers with a global footprint and absolute resilience.
Join us to see how Ubisoft solves this by leveraging Agones, the open-source game server scaling engine on Kubernetes. We will dive into the real-world use case and production data behind Ubisoft's fleets, demonstrating why they bet on cloud-native tech. Along the way, we’ll trace Agones' evolution from its origins at Google to its current home in the CNCF—showing how a community-driven standard is now powering the biggest names in the industry.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I need a t-shirt that says: "Warning: Will ask for an agenda for a meeting".

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Looking forward to seeing many of you at GDC! Drop me a line if you want to catch up, I'll be around! Doing all the good things, Discord stuff, Agones stuff, open source things, booth talks, GDC talks, lots of fun things. Also here's everything we're doing at Discord 👇🏻 events.discord.com/g...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Ever send a Discord invite and then have to remember to assign roles when they join? What if you could embed the roles directly ✨ in the invite itself? ✨ You can now do that with Community Invites! Come learn how next Tuesday with Anthony Tešija and I 👇🏻 discord.com/invite/d...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Quickshell is great for bashing out quick UI tooling you wish you had for your desktop shell. Building a window overview was disturbingly easy to do. github.com/markmande...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Myself and a few others write this up every year - hope you find it useful, and see you at GDC!

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The emotional support I get from this dog while constructing new furniture...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I think this is progress? Or something? It started so neat. Why do we have so many?

Some games on a shelf. There is still space

More games on the shelves. It's getting messy and there is less space.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Check out agones.dev/site/docs... - you'll notice way more content about Agones from people that use it! Get case studies & tutorials from the likes of Krafton, @playstation.com, Nintendo, @awscloud.bsky.social, Google Cloud & more. As a challenge -- can you find something I missed? 😆

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Third Party Content

Content created by our community

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I may have bought myself a new Secretlab desk as a forcing function to rearrange and clean out my study.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🎉 Big news over the weekend for Agones! The application for Agones to join @cncf.io at the Sandbox level is now live! Now we wait for the CNCF TOC to review and (hopefully 🤞🏻) approve! 🙏🏻 Huge thanks to literally everyone who ever contributed to this project!

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Bought new Nest Wifi pro because the WiFi in the house was being weird and spotty for multiple days. WiFi is now back to normal, because of course it is.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Is it "Devreller" or "Devreler" ? 🤔

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sometimes I wonder if my career in developer relations, is just me preemptively failing at being an improv comic 😆

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Wed 11am US Pacific, I'll be joined by my wonderful teammate Jameka March to talk about about Discord Webhooks! 🕸️🪝 Ever wonder how you get information to your backend about what's happening in Discord (or the Social SDK?) come on down and listen in! discord.gg/discord-d...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📣 Calling all Agones users & contributors! I've proposed moving Agones to the @linuxfoundation.org to gain more collaborators, a formal TSC, and better communication with Google over our test/build infra, addressing recent frustrations. Please comment on the GitHub issue!

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Proposal: Migrate Agones to the Linux Foundation · Issue #4304 · googleforgames/agones

Note: When I write “Linux Foundation” or “LF”, I mean either the Linux Foundation itself, or any of its sub-foundations such as CNCF, O3DE, etc. It’s just easier to type “Linux Foundation”. Also se...

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The Game Club @thegameclub.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

If you are friendly, would like to meet new people, and want to join us in building a community like no other, come find your friends at The Game Club. Beta now open, use the limited time promo code: HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off your subscription! www.thegameclub.com

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

After a decade in the games industry, I'm finally on my way to Tokyo Game Show next week for the first time ever 🛫🗼 Who else will I be seeing there? What should I know before I go?

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This giant head is literally the largest reason I don't contribute more to #opensource software in the evening. So if you are waiting on a review from me on Agones particularly, just know that I may have lost my lap and access to a laptop to a snoring boerboel.

Picture of giant mastiff head next to my laptop

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In our recent @discord.com Developers talk, we were joined by several fantastic product folks to step you through how you remove the development rate limits on the Discord Social SDK. Check out the recording below 👇🏻 youtu.be/AlGrtgnCFc4...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I forgot to post these photos from #devcom a few weeks ago. Just another awesome game server implementation on top of Agones! 🥳 Definitely seeing a bunch of Karpenter combined with Agones these days 🤔🔨

Monster Hunter Wilds
Supporting 1 million concurrent users

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thursday 12pm US PST I'm hosting two of our product team members on the Discord Developers Server to step through the requirements for removing development rate limits for the Social SDK Communication Features. Come join and bring your questions! 👇🏻 discord.gg/discord-d...

Social SDK: Going Live with Communications Features

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I think I'm trapped in Gamescom. Is the game trying to leave? I've left before. I think? Maybe I never left

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It's day 214 at Gamescom. You've become fused to a game controller. Your physical presence is in quantum singularity between the Radisson and the Business Cafe inside the convention centre. All you can say now is "Trade pass?" as you pass through turnstiles for eternity.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Do you need a Discord Duck? Come to my #Devcom talk! bizcommunity.gamesco...

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Need more YouTube content? Want to see my face more? 😆 Today we launched the @discord.com Developers YouTube channel! We've got tutorials for your Discord server, case studies with studios using the Social SDK, and 2025 GDC talks 👇🏻

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Discord Developers - YouTube

Welcome to the official Discord Developers channel! 👾 Learn from dynamic tutorials, epic case studies, and pro tips to grow thriving player communities. Dis...

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