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Tristam @trist.am · 30/09/2026

You can no longer disable slackbot from showing up in the right-hand navigation bar #enshittification

A screenshot of Slack’s navigation preferences panel, showing that the checkbox for hiding the Slackbot is now greyed-out and innacesible

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Tristam @trist.am · 26/08/2026

The 90's called, and they'd like their benchmark back

Up to 2.3x faster spreadsheet calculations in Microsoft Excel when compared to Mac mini with M1, and up to 1.5x faster than M4.

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/08/2026

Gmail's little LLM-powered writing suggestions are the bane of my existence, and I can't find a setting that reliably disables them. Let me be overly-wordy in peace, goddamnit

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

1 year anniversary of opening the cafe

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I voiced Scoutmaster Myers in the trailer for Peak's final update!! Can't wait for folks to get their hands on this one. :)

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Tristam @trist.am · 29/07/2026

It's interesting to be the age where movies coming out are remakes of the remakes you watched as a kid

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Tristam @trist.am · 13/07/2026

From the day job: VLMs struggle to interpret surgical video (which is presumably not well-represented in the training data). Even after fine-tuning, it seems that smaller, specialised computer vision models still outperform

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Tristam @trist.am · 25/06/2026

You know, we could also just do 3D cerca 2016, which I seem to recall looked pretty damn good 🤷‍♀️

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Tristam @trist.am · 20/06/2026

I guess I must be somewhat inured to the idea of LLM slop, because I used to work at firms that paid 10s of millions for Deloitte/Accenture/etc to produce sycophantic buzzword-filled slide decks and bug-ridden software…

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Tristam @trist.am · 21/05/2026

That's the classic #WaveFunctionCollapse in a good place. Now to investigate if the state of the art on global constraints has progressed in the last few years…

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Tristam @trist.am · 15/05/2026

Back on my bullshit - dusting off an old wavefrontcollapse tile map project

A 3d render of a small island cluster with cliff arches, surrounded by ocean. The terrain is flat-shaded with minimal lighting, there are soft shadows and the coast is surrounded by flat sea foam

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Tristam @trist.am · 15/05/2026

Really loving this new iteration of iOS, whether the weather app can apparently eat my whole battery in just 3 minutes…

Screenshot of the iOS battery screen. The battery is down to 41%, and the built-in weather app is the #1 offender, with 32% impact on just 1 minute of active use, and 2 minutes of background activity

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Tristam @trist.am · 22/04/2026

People who name their vscode themes 'High Contrast', but the text is 4 different shades of medium grey...

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Tristam @trist.am · 18/04/2026

As much fun as it is to dunk on bsky reliability, the alternatives have their own challenges…

The mastodon.social status page, showing 43% uptime

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

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Tristam @trist.am · 15/03/2026

Despite having a degree of nostalgia for Firefly, I can’t help thinking that the Expanse already did everything I would have wanted from a Firefly expansion, and for the most part did it better

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Tristam @trist.am · 13/03/2026

Really curious why this random Amazon vendor decided to vacuum-pack my usb cables

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/03/2026

Every now and then I find my account is following bsky staff accounts that I have definitely never followed, and I’m just curious what’s up with that

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Tristam @trist.am · 19/02/2026

Every time Synty sends me a survey (I picked up a few of their asset packs long ago for prototyping), I've been writing in a request for Godot-compatible asset packs, and I guess they are starting to do that now

syntystore.com

Godot Asset Packs | Official Synty Store

Browse all of Synty Studio's game dev asset packs available for the Godot engine. Shop now.

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Tristam @trist.am · 18/01/2026

Apple UX designers please stop overloading swipe gestures challenge (difficulty: impossible)

Annotated iOS 26 screen shot showing the 5 different vertical swipe gestures in mobile Safari

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/01/2026

It's funny to me that they looked at the gritty world of the Expanse as seen on TV, and decided the video game crew should look like they came out of a made-for-CW teen drama

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn promotional poster, with a painted glamour shot of the young and attractive crew members posed in front of a giant helmet

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 19/12/2025

This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Jesus Christ, this age verification thing is going to be the most useless and annoying thing we’ve ever done to undermine privacy and democracy in the history of the world. I vote that all in favor are banned from the internet.

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Tristam @trist.am · 03/12/2025

I was today years old when I learned that scallops are (highly!) mobile. Always assumed they were stationary, like mussels clinging to rocks...

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Tristam @trist.am · 24/11/2025

Always fascinating to me when video games have really weighty physics interaction in the cutscenes/QTEs, and then the actual combat has no weight whatsoever, and all the weapon strikes just pass straight through their targets...

youtube.com

Zoopunk - Official Extended Gameplay Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview Fall 2025

YouTube video by GameTrailers

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Tristam @trist.am · 02/10/2025

I actually don’t think this is entirely unworkable? Hexagon is just a 2D projection of a cube, it decomposes into 3 squares quite nicely. Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid

Sketch of a hexagon divided into 3 parts, which is the same as a 2D drawing of a cube

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Tristam @trist.am · 26/09/2025

This is very playable for an early access release. Some rough edges of course, but I had a good time with the first few runs - worth a look if you are into FTL/roguelite/deckbuilders

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Tristam @trist.am · 25/09/2025

You know, I've had this blasted theme song stuck in my head for about the last 20 years, and it finally dawned on me that it's probably meant to be a heavily-synthed version of the Soviet national anthem

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Tristam @trist.am · 23/09/2025

It’s wine making season once more. My neighbours make wine by the many 1,000 litres, but I’ll content myself with this one damajuana…

A 16-litre glass demijohn of red wine, with airlock valve mounted

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/09/2025

I see Slack has decided to add yet another mutually-incompatible way to organise messages

Screenshot of the Slack user interface showing the new "Starred" section. The subtitle says "Drag and drop your most important conversations here"

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Tristam @trist.am · 29/08/2025

Man, why don’t my dev tools work like this? I really have to find some time to sink into live coding IDEs…

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Tristam @trist.am · 16/08/2025

After a macOS update, apparently I'm being protected from my own previously-installed system extensions. I feel... safer?

To enable system extensions, you need to modify your security settings in the Recovery environment.
To do this, shut down your system, then press and hold the Touch ID or power button to launch Startup Security Utility.
In Startup Security Utility, enable kernel extensions from the Security Policy button.

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Tristam @trist.am · 27/07/2025

I think Game of Thrones fails every single one of those? And yet HBO+ subscriptions are still purchasable by credit card. Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge

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Tristam @trist.am · 16/07/2025

Oh hey, looks like we’re headed back to the early 2000’s, when the credit card companies used to explicitly enumerate the acts you could/not show in a porno…

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Tristam @trist.am · 11/07/2025

Has the strange Chinese logistics platform become self-aware?

"Xiao 7 is desperately trying to search, Please wait for a moment..."

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Tristam @trist.am · 27/06/2025

Let chains might be the single biggest item on my wish list since… non lexical lifetimes? It’s going to let me clean up a whole lot of code

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Tristam @trist.am · 05/06/2025

Things I didn't miss about working in mobile/VR: justifying the import value of hardware prototypes to customs officials

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Tristam @trist.am · 03/05/2025

The number of developers on here asserting that AI saves them a lot of typing, makes me think we ought to resurrect Mavis Beacon

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Tristam @trist.am · 29/04/2025

A very happy 13th-largest-power-cut-in-history-according-to-Wikipedia to all of us on the Iberian peninsula

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Tristam @trist.am · 16/04/2025

Woke up to learn they defunded MITRE (the non-profit that runs the CVE reporting process). That's going to make our HIPAA/SOC2 compliance process even more a barrel of laughs than it already is...

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Tristam @trist.am · 07/04/2025

I've been in something of a creative rut lately, so I whipped up a quick entry for this weekend's #ludumdare. Ended up more style than substance, but it's nice to finish something quick for once - swiftcoder.github.io/fathom

swiftcoder.github.io

Fathom

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/03/2025

We can't save the world with games, but we can be part of why it is worth saving. We can't save the world with art, but we can brighten it. We can't save the world with play, but we can be a reminder of our humanity. We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight.

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/03/2025

As someone who has never previously been tempted to work in the defence industry, with everything going on I find myself wondering whether us tech/engineering folks in the EU shouldn't be redirecting some of our efforts into domestic weapons development programs

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Tristam @trist.am · 19/02/2025

Hey, Apple, whatcha protecting me from this time...

Malware Blocked "com.docker.vmnetd" was not opened because it contains malware. This action did not harm your Mac.

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/02/2025

Maybe a decade ago, there was this really glossy website with a designer's re-imagining of MacOS, where they'd made the whole thing a set of interactive blocks that could be mix-and-matched with data flowing between them. Does anyone remember the designer/website?

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Tristam @trist.am · 05/02/2025

here's a fun one: my ISP seems to be blocking cdn.bsky.app. I can load images just fine over 4G, but on my local network although I can resolve the DNS name, I can't actually ping the CDN, and the traceroute terminates in an IP block belonging to TELEFONICA DE ESPANA...

cdn.bsky.app

Hey, I'm imgproxy!

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/01/2025

Every now and then I encounter horrors beyond my comprehension on GitHub

See banksy to integrate horsey into woofmark

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