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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 30/09/2026

Watching Scooby Doo in another language is funny because why did they bother dubbing the monster sounds?

Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 29/09/2026

Reposting my #9games since it's going around again. I could make dozens of lists but that was what I was feeling at the time. Some of my favorite games/series aren't even represented on here, but I also feel like all of the ones here had a large impact on me. Might be fun to do some by platform.

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Frederic Souchu @fsouchu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#picotron port of #doom under way major roadblock lifted today: sprite masking against geometry 😰 a *lot* remains to be done - stay tuned!!

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 25/09/2026

I don’t understand the argument for cost-savings with AI-gen menus. Food is literally something you can photograph, it costs you nothing to do, and presumably you are making the food anyways because you sell it?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 25/09/2026

Was finally cool enough to wear the new NIN x Quake hoodie. Super comfy!

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 22/09/2026

Je viens de commencer à étudier le français. I already hate using the keyboard layout on a US keyboard.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 14/09/2026

I'm assuming what most people do is host them on object storage on CloudFlare etc so they can filter by requests and drill in a little bit, but I don't understand why GitHub doesn't just offer any kind of data points.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 14/09/2026

I wish there was an easy built-in way to track GitHub release analytics because I sometimes have huge surges from out of nowhere and have no clue where or how my CLI is being used outside of people messaging me on socials or issues.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 08/09/2026

Not sure anyone can prove anything definitively right now, but local models are getting better at a faster rate than the duopoly wants you to know and I can see a future very soon where you at least have more control. A lot of effort is going into making things run on older/weaker hardware...

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 05/09/2026

Kicking the tires of BitWarden and I think it's pretty solid but has a few quirks. I still appreciate that you can just swap servers and self-host if you want to without too much effort.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 31/08/2026

Looking for a new 1Password alternative, assuming most folks are using BitWarden?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 23/08/2026

Yeah I can see them using the money to fund that weird Rust-less git fork and that pointless Godot fork that has an angry red robot as their logo.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 20/08/2026

Rust 1.98.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀 This release includes algebraic floating point methods, NumBuffer for integer formatting, substr_range/subslice_range, strip_circumfix, Atomic<T>::from_mut, and more. ✨ Check out the blog post for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/R...

blog.rust-lang.org

Announcing Rust 1.98.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 19/08/2026

I recently cleaned up a bunch of old repos and it felt good. Made me realize I want to do even more, so I made a list. If you want one, it's yours.

massicotte.org

Looking for Maintainers!

I have a whole bunch of open source repos. Would you like one?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 17/08/2026

Another day, another GitHub outage.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 04/08/2026

One feature I wish all languages I worked in had were doctests, I'm surprised they never caught on more.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 03/08/2026

which is never in my experience as a consultant lol

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 02/08/2026

"why pay for this saas when we can just make our it ourselves and own it forever!"

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 31/07/2026

Feels like every tech podcast has become the same talking points since LLMs and I basically don’t really listen to them anymore. Anyone have any recommendations that are still interesting?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 29/07/2026

This title feels very out of touch to me

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 26/07/2026

Since Verse (verselang.github.io/book/) is coming with UE6 I started to revisit it and forgot how strange it looks, and I'm still not sure for what purpose it was created. I think it is cool and interesting to apply some FP concepts to a language made for gameplay programming, but...

verselang.github.io

Book of Verse

Documentation for the Verse programming language

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 24/07/2026

I still find it amusing Leetcode has survived everything that has happened in the last few years and is still the barometer companies use to evaluate candidates.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 23/07/2026

Understanding software development and having deep experience will always give you a significant advantage, though, and I don't think that will change any time soon. We often take for granted things like knowing how to properly test or architect things, but that experience is a key differentiator.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 23/07/2026

In industry, at least from my perspective, almost nobody is actively writing code by hand anymore. Depending on how you define "programming" and what the intentions are, it is possible to successfully create software without understanding how it works using LLMs, and many companies are doing that.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 17/07/2026

The worst is books on eBay usually have the slowest free shipping so you just ignore the space problem until the reality hits you an suddenly you need to figure out what to do...

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 05/07/2026

meanwhile on twitter, people are just posting things

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 04/07/2026

I feel like it’s time to re-watch all of Rich Hickey’s talks again

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 01/07/2026

I [pretty much have to] use it at work everyday...

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 30/06/2026

I think you can dislike the fact that it's not open-source, but there is nothing "insulting" about using MIT-licensed code and creating a commercial product?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 27/06/2026

Amazon keeps recommending me "deals" on storage (microSD cards, NVMEs, etc) that I bought years ago, except they are now somehow double the price on sale...

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 26/06/2026

Honestly if you ever want to do one happy to team up! No need to be nervous, it's just a fun way to try something you might not have done before, and a lot of people are in the same boat. I just enjoy the experience (but it would be cool to win one day :P)

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 26/06/2026

I recommend doing game jams too, I’ve only done a few but they were really fun and valuable learning experiences that I hope to continue doing this year.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 26/06/2026

Nice work, especially since you never touched Godot until recently! Is this for a project you have in mind or just learning?

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 08/06/2026

It’s that time of year to ruin my iPhone for 4 months

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 03/06/2026

Legitimately, who are these books for?

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Every Warhammer fan will have their own story of how John Blanche transformed their game & informed their lives. The man was a giant whose shadow has cloaked the entire hobby, not in grim darkness, but in vibrant, idiosyncratic colour. Rest in peace, Mr Blanche.

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Patrick T Coakley @patricktcoakley.com · 31/05/2026

Really been enjoying Mina The Hollower!

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