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Mark Mandel

@neurotic.bsky.social
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Staff Developer Advocate for Games at @Discord.com. Founder on Agones and Quilkin OSS projects for multiplayer games. Was at Google Cloud for a long time. Occasional YT & Twitch. he/him.

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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We just did our regular quarterly review of everything that's happened on the developer platform for the past month. Check it out to get up to date on all the things. There may even be a sneak peek at some new stuff in there 🥰
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/recap - Discord Developer Platform Updates Recap | Q3 2026
In this quarterly recap episode, the Discord DevRel team reviews the latest updates, features, and changes across the Discord developer platform! Key highlights covered in this stream: - Interactions & Components: Mobile fixes, multi-line string support, fuzzy autocomplete, file type filtering, an
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been playing a lot of Star Wars Outlaws lately and really enjoying it. But what I'd ✨really✨ love is this game mushed together with Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield: a huge open world, lots of storylines and interesting things to find, and a tone as gritty and dark as Andor. I'd adore that.
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
🎥 I realised I hadn't been posting here about all the content I've been producing lately! If you are into Discord + Moderation - check out the interview I recently did with George Ng, Founder and CEO at GGWP, with Devreller Anthony Tešija!
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Discord Moderation with GGWP
We are joined by George Ng, Co-Founder, President, and CTO of GGWP, to discuss the critical importance of content moderation in gaming and online communities. The conversation explored the role of GGWP in the moderation space, detailing their suite of tools including moderation bots and Social SDK
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Second season in row! 💥
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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 · 28/08/2026
I was at Gamescom. Ow.
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm back baby!
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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 · 30/06/2026
If you want a quick recap of everything that's happened in the past quarter on the Discord developer platform, this is the video for you!
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/recap - Discord Developer Platform Updates Recap | Q2 2026
Join developer advocates Colin, Anthony, and Mark for the Q2 2026 recap and Q&A session. We cover the latest platform updates, social SDK enhancements, and a sneak peek at what's coming next for Discord developers. Learn about new community invite features, updated gamedev guides, and upcoming comp
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Our integration is a web hook - so almost anything will work 👍🏻
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📺 The other week the recording of the session I did with Jameka March came out -- covering how to integrate your text chat moderation solutions with the chat provided by the Discord Social SDK. Check it out! Also it has an amazing thumbnail!
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Discord Developers Live: Server Side Moderation with the Discord Social SDK
Recorded live during a Discord Developers Server event, Staff Developer Advocate Mark Mandal and Developer Advocate Jamaica "Meka" March provide a technical deep dive into building moderation systems for in-game chat. Important Note: This session focuses exclusively on moderating text chat inside
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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 · 13/05/2026
I KEEP TELLING YOU WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME 🐧
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YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
it might be the year of the linux desktop
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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 · 24/04/2026
Check out this recording to hear about all the awesome stuff we released at GDC this year -- from improvements to the Social SDK, Commerce integration, Claiming your Game, new Quest Ads stuff and more!
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How to Build a Winning Discord Strategy for Your Game | GDC 2026
Explore how the Discord team is turning social energy into a growth engine for games. In this GDC 2026 session, learn why the conversation between friends on Discord is the most critical moment of a game's life cycle and how the developer platform helps you build for it. [What You’ll Learn] - The P
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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
Coming hot on the heels of our repository migration - here's the official @cncf.io announcement of Agones moving to sandbox. Delighted to be joined by friends from Ubisoft on this one with our upcoming keynote!
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Agones Moves to the CNCF: A New Era for Open Source Multiplayer Game Infrastructure
The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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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.
Dog looking disappointed
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Guy 'Yug' Blomberg @ New York Games Week @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
ahahahahahaha..... _wipes tear from eye_
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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 · 09/02/2026
My old stuff IS still there. My blog died a long time around though.
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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
By emotional support I mean she's standing on whatever I need most.
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The emotional support I get from this dog while constructing new furniture...
Juniper standing on desk frame
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Need more boxes
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
That's the floor 😆
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Omg. I did it. If those Kickstarters and preorders go through though, I'm in trouble.
All the games on the shelf!
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
All on one shelf might have been optimistic. Anyone got a spare TARDIS? Don't need the trying travel bit, just the inside being bigger than the outside bit.
More gamesNot enough space for the games.
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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
I think this is the answer
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Mark Mandel @neurotic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I think you mean "person in Devrelll" ☺️
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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...
Getting started with webhooks
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