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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Introducing Spotr, a free Street-View-based photography game! Whoever takes the best picture wins. Please give it a try :-) spotr.openguessr.com

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just received my first review for Bluelife, feels exciting! ...I hope the game can find an audience, even if it's very niche.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

App Store: apps.apple.com/at/app/bluel... Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

apps.apple.com

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've released a new mobile game, Bluelife! It's a fast-paced diving adventure title that has been 7 years in the making :-) It's made with #Construct3, which got me into game development!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've written an optimistic-by-default WebSocket-based synchronization library that I'm using for fast game development (OpenGuessr runs on it). Spent the last few days making a page for it, if you're interested: therealpaulplay.github.io/PlaySocketJS/

therealpaulplay.github.io

PlaySocket

PlaySocket is a WebSocket synchronization library that handles optimistic updates for you.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You guys are always cooking

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Prototype #2 for the ROOT Observer (my privacy-first security camera project) is done 😄

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

👏 loving Tally so far

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

That‘s tough.. I mean they did kill 30+ thousand protesters, so the war could be seen as a necessity from a humanitarian perspective. But I agree that it‘s mostly unprovoked, and probably a breach of international law. But let‘s not kid ourselves here, Iran‘s regime is awfully brutal

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Working on dark mode for ROOT, my privacy-first smart security camera project. ... a quick check to ensure your home is safe before going to bed shouldn't strain your eyes🦉

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Always watching, never spying... more progress on the ROOT Observer security camera.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If their claims are all real they not only have killer engineers but also exceptional marketers 😂

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It‘s genuinely nice to work in a code base where you feel that the developers weren’t in a rush and spent a lot of time architecting, refactoring, refining and making things as concise and readable as possible. No leftovers of the exploration process, only a clear final design.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Copilot probably wrote 90% of it

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I've written a guide on how you can build your own, privacy-preserving, home security camera! It has a bunch of smart features, like on-device AI-vision, and is easy to set up. rootprivacy.com/blog/buildin...

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Kagiroo is underappreciated

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Love to see text rendering performance improvements! Cordova 8.x seems to be great as well.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Doesn‘t look like much yet, but I‘ve started connecting some parts for building a private home security camera.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Digital ID is horrible for online privacy😓 We need transparent & European Social Medias, not an ID system that locks teenagers out of participating in the online world. This is awful!!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Banning algorithms makes no sense, they are fundental to how the internet works, but we need transparency in how they work 💯

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Can‘t say we are "on track" if the goal gets changed every couple years. Also, what about Chat Control?

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

New bugspot.dev design. Over 500 bugs for OpenGuessr have been handled autonomously by the platform already!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The (Re-)Pebble watch is in!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Has anyone benchmarked / compared WebGPU performance on iOS 26 to WebGL yet?

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Not sure which one is worse tbh

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Tried to achieve a 3D-ish "bubble text" look... Didn't take much css!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Found this a couple of months ago but can‘t gatekeep it for longer😂 If you ever need an interactive vector map, free, yes, free – check this out: openfreemap.org It‘s so good🤩

openfreemap.org

OpenFreeMap

OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I was looking for a good feedback board and the ones I found (Canny, Nolt, Fider, Usersnap..) either had mediocre UX or where super pricy. Then I discovered userjot.com 🤩 Will use it for my next side project – together with bugspot.dev for bug reporting of course. @shayy.org really COOKED!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

System APIs for PWAs (notifications, widgets, purchases..) would be a game changer

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That‘s awesome! Have never had issues with a corrupted project myself, but I imagine this is super useful for people that have run into this. Really appreciate that you go above and beyond to build stuff like this!

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

They absolutely do, yeah.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If it means more expensive games, less online & live service games (that people want more of), then yes, it is the customer‘s problem as well.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Companies won‘t start going through all these insane hurdles. That‘s what I‘m saying. Maybe the 'buy' button will say 'license' in the future or something. I think while this whole idea of preserving games sounds decent on paper, it just doesn’t work.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

And there are some games where this is just not going to be possible. How do you distribute it? How do you obfuscate it if it‘s written in an interpreted language? What about IPs and so on. The ideal scenario for this would be that it‘ll become more clearly labelled when you buy or license a game.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Unmaintained software will become harder and harder to run and you can't 'maintain' binary files. Many servers for games rely on proprietary, oftentimes licensed software – who‘s going to pay for that? And what about patented parts of it? Not to mention, companies would have to provide docs etc.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Companies that sell limited licenses to their games should not be forced to maintain them or make them work offline. As a consumer, you can buy games that fully work offline and may avoid games that don‘t🤷‍♂️ But, I‘m against passing legislation that limits the ways that studios can create games.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hate the leader, not the people

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I have been seeing a lot a about this conflict (and of course, Gaza), and it‘s absolutely horrible and inexcusable. With Iran, it‘s important to not only look at what happened in the last week, but the last 40+ years to understand what‘s going on here.

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Paul @paulplay.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Source? Iran literally states that they want to destroy Israel in their constitution. I‘m not a fan of any autocrat – by no means am I defending Netanyahu – but I think it‘s safe to say that Iran is the aggressor here.

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