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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 27/09/2026

The girls Are not fighting But they are Very close I worry about This situation Developing #CatsOfBluesky #cat

Two cats, one a fluffy white Angora and the other a tabby tuxedo cross, are lying on a bed, slightly apart, with their paws touching

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 18/09/2026

Lol, they made the "historically accurate" Odyssey over on X Dot Com the Everything App and it's exactly as good as you might expect (it's very bad) www.vice.com/en/article/t...

A screenshot of the winning entry. It shows a cheap looking yet extremely muscular posoidon (I guess) rearing out of the sea or possibly from behind the horizon, raising a fist to hulk smash Odysseus' ship

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 16/09/2026

Please appreciate this very polite (at the moment) girl #CatsOfBluesky #Cat

A tuxedo/tabby cross cat lays on a bed with her cute forepaws in front of her, staring at the camera. She has classic tabby markings but with white mittens, bib and chin.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 16/09/2026

I too know how a cat plays videogames

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/09/2026

Just released v1.3 of my #UE5 SDF generator plugin for UE5.8 support Also now has some material functions to make procedural, irregular, self-intersecting, n-sided polygons. A thing that probably no one will ever need for their video games github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 04/09/2026

I swear, the people who send out cold calling business comms are completely incapable of being normal I have absolutely no idea who this is, what their company is or does or what I'm being pitched here Possibly it's a phishing scam, but I don't think so. This is pretty typical

Screenshot of an email, sent to me:

Richard, not sure if this is in your wheelhouse.

We have increased intake to the tech cohort (kickoff September 7).

If your main priority is to move from heads down to scaled distribution, without chasing investors, it could be a fit.

Want the details sent over? If it's a no, reply and I'll erase your record, no worries either way.

Regards,
[name redacted]
HQ Orlando, FL

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 01/09/2026

Rare moment of these girls cuddling together #CatsOfBluesky #Cat

A fluffy white angora cat is curled up on a bed, with a tabby tuxedo lying next to her

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 31/08/2026

Your periodic reminder that it's important to comment your code

A Code comment that says
"TODO - this suck

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 30/08/2026

Each year, I track the the health of the games industry by the one true objective metric available: how big is the Gamescom tractor? I'm afraid it's bad news this year After a notable increase from '24 to '25 (see quotes), the 2026 tractor is back to 2024 sizes, indicating an industry in decline

An image of the Farming Simulator booth at gamescom 2026. There is a large red tractor with tracks. It's big, but not *that* big

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/08/2026

She just reached out to touch my arm 😭

A fluffy white Angora cat is seemingly asleep with a foreleg stretched out and pressed against a human aem

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 04/08/2026

Cool cool, updated Jetbrains Rider and they've forcefully reenabled their "AI Language Model" autocomplete which , surprise surprise, immediately starts suggesting plausible-looking nonsense (the suggestion here will never return a negative for the sign, even if the input is negative)

Code snipped that reads

const double angularSpeed = FMath::Abs(AngularVelocity);
const double angularSign =FMath::Sign

The suggestion is FMath::Sign(angularSpeed)

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 25/07/2026

My weather app, entirely unprompted: yeah, 3am is probably a good time to go for a run

Screen cap of a weather app with a rainy background that shows emoji for when it's good to run. With 1am, 2am showing a red frowny face, and 3am showing a green smiley face

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 21/07/2026

Well no, the claim that you came here to refute was that sections of the tech economy were disappearing because of AI-related layoffs. And before you do some bullshit about "well its not ai", companies shifting investment to AI are shitting down games studios and laying off all staff

An image of the exact moment Matt came to peddle his bullshit, user "cartoon dog gf" posted

"it's a mystery!" that entire sections of the tech economy are DISAPPEARING because of ai-related layoffs

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 16/07/2026

Loppan fell asleep waiting for her drink 😩 She has such a big voice, she could just yell when she wants a drink but generally she just sits there quietly and it's on me to notice. Sometimes she does paw at the plug like she's ringing a bell to summon her servant

A fluffy white Angora cat is sleeping awkwardly on the back of a bathroom sink, her head rested against the tap in a way that seems uncomfortable but apparently is fine

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/07/2026

Shout out to this girl who thinks it's too warm for walking about so we're just hanging out on a bench, watching birds #CatsOfBluesky

A fluffy white Angora cat lies on her side, leggies all sprawled put, staring intently at seagulls off camera

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 09/07/2026

Is itt good if your company with a supposed potential addressable market of 28 trillion dollars is down 8% in the month after the IPO?

Chart of SpaceX stock. Starts around 165, rises to 220 vet quickly then has been trending downwards for th e lay month and now sits at 148

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/07/2026

Look at this baby* *barely even a kitten anymore, but still a baby

A tabby cat is poking her head and one little white paw out from under a beige blanket

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 03/07/2026

Wow, I wonder why Tim Sweeney, the man who'd recently laid off 1000 people, in part to cover losses from his vanity lawsuits, didn't want to comment on bad leadership reducing profits?

Passage from the article

Interestingly, Sweeney neglected to reply to the article's other stated reason that Destiny failed, which claims that Destiny's period of profitability led to cash being "immediately misused by leadership at the time."

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 29/06/2026

Bad news Meg, I think this is it. Worse even than when Obama wore a beige suit even

New York post article pointing out the Zohran Mamdani violated dress codes by jumping into a swimming pool wearing a suit. There's 3 photos and he looks like he's having so much fun in all of them

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 28/06/2026

One thing did not expect was how much condensation was gonna come out of this thing. I think this is a 22l tub that's nearly filled up since this morning

A close up a plastic tub sitting on the balcony, with a pipe leading in, approximately 3/4 full of water

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 28/06/2026

My thoughts on the AC discourse are that I bought an AC unit 2 weeks ago, completely unaware of the incoming heatwave, and ho boy has this thing paid off this weekend My apartment is all south-facing with an enclosed balcony (aka a greenhouse) attached. Would've probably been almost 40°c yesterday

Photo of a portable a unit next to a balcony door. The display reads "21"

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 26/06/2026

For what it's worth, this is one of the art pieces that inspired me as a child

An illustration of 40k eldar Exodites. I the foreground d is a warrior with a lance standing next to a velociraptor-esque creature. Behind them is a triceratops with a laser cannon turret a dipolodocus-ish creature with a big structure on its back and some kind of giant organic structure or tree, with flying dinosaurs soaring around

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 26/06/2026

Yeah! Here's one with a sniper rifle. The tl;dr is that some aeldari separated from their society to live simpler lives in nature, created dinotopia with lasers and for some reason it's taken 30 years to see that concept in-game

Another aeldari Exodite on a dino. This one is looking down the sights of a sci-fi sniper rifle and his mount is dutifully watching the target too and keeping things stable

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 26/06/2026

Holy shit Games Workshop is finally releasing some Exodite models for Warhammer 40k (technically Kill Team) These had a small passage in the 2nd Ed codex and 11 year old me desperately wanted "magic hi-tech space elves riding dinosaurs" to be a thing www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

A photo of a Warhammer miniature, it's an aeldari warrior (think space elf) riding on the back of a velociraptor shaped dinosaur with a more pointy snout. The warrior has a sci-fi lance thing going on

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 22/06/2026

Lol. Lmao even. What an incredibly 2020s era cavalcade of bullshit tech to be aggressively excited about

Screenshot of a notification :

[redacted] has added you to the "Hates People Who Use AI Crypto Smart-glasses NFTs Bitcoin or VR " moderation list

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 21/06/2026

Walking a cat very often involves a lot of standing around watching the world go by, more than actually walking anywhere

A fluffy white Angora cat is sitting in the nook between 2 tree trunks

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 21/06/2026

She's so sleepy but doesn't wanna stop playing with her toys 😴

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 17/06/2026

Just watched They Will Kill You. Bills itself as a "horror action comedy" and it absolutely understands the assignment. Very over the top and gory to the point of being silly, but still has heart and catharsis to it

Poster art for the movie. Zazie Beetz is covered in blood, holding a machete in front of her face with other cSt members' faces on it. She looks angy

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 15/06/2026

There's a moth loose in the bedroom and the cats are after it. Unfortunately right now they are deceived by a chip in the paintwork that they both believe to be the moth

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/06/2026

This guy. You wanna listen to this guys predictions?

A tweet from Elon on 19th March 2020 claiming there would be close to zero new cases of covid 19 by the end of april

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

It's explicitly called out twice in the info graphic and twice in the linked article as a ratio of deleted to added lines, so it's absolutely, definitely, not "loads more code added"

Code churn, the ratio of linesdeleted to likes added for merged code

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

Code churn is NOT code added! It represents more deletions. And I didn't say the code wasn't useful, just that whether code churn is good or bad depends on *why* it's churning

Code Churn
Lines deleted to lines added per quarter, for merged code

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 25/05/2026

Seems like a cosy spot for perching #CatsOfBluesky

A fluffy white Angora cat is lying on top of an Ikea Kalla shelf, surrounded by plants. Her little front paws are dangling over the edge

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 23/05/2026

This is so fucking funny "Last quarter we spent 9 billion, to generate a little over half of that in revenues, but what if we were instead making 28 TRILLION dollars? That'd be something, right?" Wild that this will probably even work out for him as well

The filing describes SpaceX as using “Business Models that Are Incredibly Difficult to Replicate.”

Those business models are also struggling to produce a profit as the filing reveals SpaceX’s most recent full-year revenue (FY 2025) was $18.674 billion, which produced a $4.9 billion loss. The first quarter of FY 2026 saw the company lose $4.3 billion on $4.7 billion of revenue.

As with all such documents, SpaceX’s IPO filing spells out risks the company faces – including many admissions its ideas may not work or take longer to realize than hoped. The company has proven that many times after Elon Musk promised exciting new products and technologies are imminent, then delivered them years later than his initial deadline.

But the overall tone of the filing is extreme optimism as SpaceX claims it has a total addressable market (TAM) of $28.5 trillion – not far short of the USA’s gross national product.

The filing breaks down that TAM into “$370 billion in Space from space-enabled solutions; $1.6 trillion in Connectivity across $870 billion in Starlink Broadband and $740 billion in Starlink Mobile as well as additional opportunities in enterprise and government; $26.5 trillion in AI across $2.4 trillion in AI infrastructure, $760 billion in consumer subscriptions, $600 billion in digital advertising, and $22.7 trillion in enterprise applications.”

That last figure is vastly larger than the entire IT business today.

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 28/04/2026

Can someone remind me, is that little dash before the final number good or bad for growth?

Screenshot of calculator screen

((112−3)×5)−((44−9)×20)
= -155

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 19/04/2026

Breaking! Very Small Moth Discovered on Ceiling!

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 15/04/2026

Went to look and and saw "this section needs to be updated" and got sad like it was maybe unsourced or whatwver, but no! It needs to be updated because there's EVEN MORE FRAUD!

This section needs to be updated, The reason given is: to reflect the latest outcomes of pending criminal proceedings against people named in this section, as well as expand the list of 30 under 30 honorees implicated in major controversy.
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
(November 2025)

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/04/2026

It's a little bit unwieldy as Unreal materials don't support arrays of input parameters, so you kind of have to create a material for N Sides and build it vert by vert, but that's probably good enough for a lot of cases and it should be possible for that material to handle < N sides as well

A screenshot of the material graph to build a polygon. It shows the same image as before with a chain of nodes:
1x "Irregular Polygon SDF 2D - Start"
3x "Irregular Polygon SDF 2D - Edge"
1x "Irregular Polygon SDF 2d - End"

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 14/04/2026

New in main in the SDF plugin: Procedural irregular polygons with any number of sides github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

An image of an irregular quad as an SDF, with distance field lines in orange and purple around it

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/04/2026

Minya (the tabby kitten) *adores* Loppan (the white Angora), but she a real hard time understanding how to approach Loppan, so this moment of her just placing one little paw on her idol is very, very cute

A fluffy white Angora cat lies sleeping, with a tabby kitten lying next to her, with one white-socked forepaw resting on the white cat

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/04/2026

Also, side note that "hit record highs in 2024" is technically true, but is seemingly trying hard to imply a kind of boom that is not reflected by the "not statistically different" change over the previous 5 years

Median household income was
$83,730 in 2024, which was not
statistically different from the
2023 estimate of $82,690 (Figure
1 and Table A-1). The 2024 median
household income was also not
statistically different from the
2019 median household income
of $83,260. Household income in
2019 was the highest since 1967

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 06/04/2026

Merged the preview into main and uploaded the precompiled release as zips for for #unrealengine 5.4-5.7 Also added a couple new examples to the interactive examples browser, including vertex shader shenanigans to expand your SDF glows outside of the widget geometry :) github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

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