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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am an avid DIYer- often I see people with problems, receive advice to DIY their solution. My general feeling is that if someone asks for advice and the response is DIY, the advising person is a jackass. People who like to DIY will find their own way, and it doesn't help the rest.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How do I share my family photos to a broad extended family group (ie, not very practical to require password or auth) without also feeding them all into the all seeing AI behemoths?

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Anyone else feel like the iOS keyboard is not only shitty, but shittier than it’s ever been before? I can barely type on this thing these days, sky high mistake rate.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The game industry has been more committed than ever to abusing its employees. The way the executives talk about it is corporate-speak mockery of the same people whose lives they’re upending. aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

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You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath

People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Today's Formula 1 race, the British Grand Prix, is absolutely a race I would show someone if I wanted to convince them that F1 is a stupid waste of time. And I don't just mean the ending.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I like that MacOSX managed to copy Windows' behavior of media keys, where it's permanently unclear and entirely inconsistent which program will respond to Play/Pause/Forward/Backward.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I am so fucking tired of the word "agentic"

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Did you know it costs nothing to wishlist up and coming indie games? It builds those creators up, then dashes their hopes most expertly when no one converts 😶

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

AI made nearly every part of a good PC too expensive to afford, but now you can make up the difference in quality from all the hardware you're excluded from using a shitty slop filter

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I’m still using DuckDuckGo but I don’t know why, I fucking hate this thing. I really need to try, I don’t know, Brave search or anything else.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I like apps that are continually asking me to enable their push notifications. Sure I didn’t do it the first hundred times, but maybe if we push the banner now it’ll work!

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

As much as CMake absolutely infuriates me in a hundred different ways, I have to concede it is at least a real functional build system that is fairly complete. This is unlike MSBuild, which is like a parody of a build system meant to mock those foolish enough to depend on it.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Honestly, my life in startup land is proving to be much more stable than most of my friends working at large established companies that can supposedly afford to think long term.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Fuck generative AI and all the game developers using it, btw

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I finally traded in my iPhone 12, haven’t felt compelled to upgrade at any point but the carrier promotion was solid and I was tired of Lightning cables. Five generations seems to be a nice sweet spot for feeling like a worthwhile upgrade.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

“I see one is missing a rear wing, did they make contact into T1? I’m concerned the papaya rules were not respected by their previous drivers.”

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

As I'm coming up on 1000 hours on Hitman World of Assassination, I could really use a new game with the same general vibe. Meaning it's not overly dependent on precision or reaction times, more planning oriented. But not an outright puzzle game. Accepting suggestions.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Well. Parenthood is quite the new adventure I’ve inflicted upon myself.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I am currently fascinated by how every single light in this hospital room (5 by my count) brings its own unique flavor of unpleasant depression.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Dude what is happening with Deus Ex, i am so out of this loop

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’m probably going to buy a new iPhone soon, but I hate that I’m doing it. IMO Apple has made nearly everything about the platform and OS worse to use, and fallen far behind Android’s other capabilities. But I see no way to get an Android without welding my data to Google and I just won’t do it.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Awesome to see GN get over this bullshit abuse by the entirely ethics-free assholes at @bloomberg.com

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

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Ten Years of D3D12

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I wasn’t planning on becoming an Orange fanboy, but this cab is thunder. Kinda makes a mockery of my Marshall 1960 actually. It’s the PPC 212 V, which is loaded with a pair of Celestion *Neo* Creambacks and a very relaxed 44 lbs of total weight.

An EVH 5150 III EL34 50W guitar tube amp sitting on top of the black Orange cabinet described in the post.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

Me driving a white Caterham Seven race car, going wheel-to-wheel with another Caterham on the track.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

OneDrive is such a fucking piece of shit my god

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

“there was no ADHD in my generation” his generation:

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The slow realization that Pokémon is much, much bigger today than it ever was in my childhood is absolutely baffling. We considered a phenomenon 20 years ago. I like it, but how strange.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Happy to see that the new game from @mattnava.bsky.social, Sword of the Sea, is finally out today! youtu.be/BE-BD1OKk8k

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Sword of the Sea - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Good news @tomforsyth.bsky.social, looks like you'd considered a financial genius

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I can’t believe how much I love this cute little Orange guitar amp. Just have it sitting on top of this cheap 1x12 with a Celestion V-Type and it sounds amazing.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Man, the Broadway version of Aladdin is SO much better than either movie, and I feel like nobody knows this. It's one of my favorite musicals, one of only a couple shows I've been to more than once. youtu.be/FpT94oylSaU

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Cast of Broadway's 'Aladdin' Perform 'Friend Like Me' Live on 'GMA'

YouTube video by Good Morning America

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Sometimes I reflect on confusing stuff that happened in the past, and it’s years later I realized OH! People who don’t like you will lie about you to authority figures to try and get you in trouble, even when the lies are stupid and easily disproven.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Every 2-3 months, Windows gets an update that retriggers OOBE, which is the startup thing that hassles you to use Edge and OneDrive. I'm already using both of those things fully configured, but it asks me to configure them anyway and then errors out. How fucking stupid are these people.

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Lars Thießen @larstofus.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p... #gamedev #Trackmania

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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I reeeally don't want to use Google Search, because fuck Google. But I've been using DuckDuckGo which used to be an okay unremarkable search engine and has slowly degraded into a complete fucking garbage search engine. I've gotta start looking into options.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Finally got out to watch the F1 Movie yesterday. Overall, pretty good, had fun. Well produced, you absolutely believe these guys are driving F1 cars on the real grid with the other real drivers. The story is cheesy and cliched, the writing is mid, and the character tropes are lazy. Doesn't ruin it.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Let's see how things are going ... ah. I'm sure that's perfectly normal for a healthy functional company.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I do not understand people’s fascination with Andor. It is so hard to give a shit about anything happening to any of these people. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a single character’s arc or personality.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It’s Headless Multiscale Guitars O’Clock! 2 o’clock: Aristides H/06r trem, Fluence Abasi 4 o’clock: Kiesel Zeus, ash with BKP Juggernauts 8 o’clock: Hils HZ7, SD JB/Jazz rails later this week 10 o’clock: Kiesel CL7, Beryllium pickups

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’m constantly boggled at how bad and stupid iOS autocorrect is. I started typing and “glow in the dark” and it immediately changed glow to flow. Why the fuck would it do that?

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I went to an all-British car show hosted by the local Triumph club. It was not well attended. No Rovers or Minis showed up, and I’m told the Mini club has beef with the Triumph club 🙄 Oh well. I had the newest car there, only a handful of 21st century cars generally.

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This idea has been bouncing around my head for weeks and I finally got around to making it.

Michael/Janet Good Place cactus meme, but about cars.
"I have a cool car!"
"[sighs] Are you sure it's actually a cool car, or is it a tuned BMW?"
"I'm sure, I have a cool car."
"Alright, show me your car."
"Tuned BMW"

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Promit⚡Roy @promit.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think any game that has more than three types of in-game "currency" has completely lost the plot on its design brief, and I'm being generous allowing three. Currency includes anything you earn and then spend, and is a general number rather than a discrete inventory item. MW5 Clans is a mess here.

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