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Tristam @trist.am · 07/10/2026

Becoming increasingly apparent that all the actual game developers left Unity a while ago

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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 · 25/09/2026

We can fund to by taxing the dot coms based on revenue…

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Tristam @trist.am · 22/09/2026

I've generally heard it applied to any rotational hand tool as well. Something like a hand-held grinder or a circular saw still has plenty of rotational energy to cause you harm. That said, the hand that's actually gripping the body of the tool is pretty low risk

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Tristam @trist.am · 18/09/2026

They'll never go for that

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Tristam @trist.am · 11/09/2026

Excited for rapidly increasing fuel prices to kick in again

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/09/2026

Sadly nobody makes a mobile keyboard that good anymore 😂

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/09/2026

I tried something like this when the first iPad mini came out, the tech just wasn't quite there at the time. Of course, the current Pro Max iphone has nearly reached the screen dimensions of that OG mini 😅

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/09/2026

The security vendor who blindly installs untrusted packages onto machines with prod credentials is the real WTF here…

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Tristam @trist.am · 10/09/2026

Breaking the whole list down by type of AI use is bonkers

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/09/2026

I feel like it was a ZIRP phenomenon. Obviously the AI booster crowd has some overlap, but the balkanisation of twitter and LLMs helping idea guys self-actualise seems to have moved most of them out of orbits I inhabit 🤷‍♀️

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/09/2026

Genderedness mostly just a reflection of demographics - women techbros certainly existed, just in much fewer numbers

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/09/2026

The image in my mind is the shirt-sleeved idea guy types that were running around Bay Area startups in the 2010s. Mostly not the actual engineers. Very closely related to the investment bros they hung out with

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Tristam @trist.am · 02/09/2026

100% an ad, even if portions of it may be factual. This whole "it takes an AI to stop an AI" thing is classic security firm grift

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Tristam @trist.am · 02/09/2026

There's probably at least a wood-fired range in the kitchen? Traditional to all huddle around the one fireplace all winter. Joists don't look too bad compared to equivalent rooves I've seen here in Spain 😅

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Tristam @trist.am · 31/08/2026

The downside, of course, is finding out you haven't maintained a large group of gaming friends with compatible schedules as an adult 🔥

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Tristam @trist.am · 31/08/2026

We're in a transition phase where the only online games worth playing are the ones where you play with a group of actual friends, with no way for randoms to chat with you. And a whole genre of games like Peak and Big Walk have sprung up around this…

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Tristam @trist.am · 31/08/2026

Despite watching way too much vertical scroll, I know maybe 3 of these. I have a feeling there is a generational/curational cliff that causes the platforms not to feed me most of these

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Tristam @trist.am · 28/08/2026

I had assumed this was just a side effect of all those monochrome monitors that only displayed blue-on-yellow

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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 · 22/08/2026

One either was a Haskell dev before one found rust, or one becomes a Haskell dev eventually…

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Tristam @trist.am · 20/08/2026

The same thing they do. Phone it in

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Tristam @trist.am · 17/08/2026

Closest actual English word (albeit obscure) is probably 'yttric'?

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Tristam @trist.am · 17/08/2026

The same as std::iter_swap 😂

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Tristam @trist.am · 16/08/2026

Marching squares with an ascii table?

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Tristam @trist.am · 15/08/2026

season 3's decision to cast an antagonist twice Alan Richardson's size added some spice to the formula

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Tristam @trist.am · 14/08/2026

The gap I always wonder about in this sort of analysis, is what is the exponential growth supposed to be accomplishing? The existing economy can already equip everyone on the planet with a smartphone… how much space for growth is actually there

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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 · 10/08/2026

Is this a general "meat is murder" position, or do you specifically care about bears?

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Tristam @trist.am · 09/08/2026

Most nonstick pans only really nonstick at sufficiently high temperatures, with plenty of oil…

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

I've had this idea in the back of my head for a long time, to procgen the actual game mechanics themselves, so that no two players can play in exactly the same way, and everyone has to learn their ruleset by experimentation…

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

ah yeah, visas will get you. I managed to make my last jump right before the Brexit deadline hit, and hence was able to take care of all the paperwork after the fact 😅

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

I tend to think the flip side of this is that a lot of people who could, research themselves out of it. Sheer gumption is a pretty effective way to live an interesting life

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

1 year anniversary of opening the cafe

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

Ok, but black bear pastrami sounds amazing

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Tristam @trist.am · 08/08/2026

Damn, with all your recent work this is really capturing the feel of an actual city to me

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Tristam @trist.am · 07/08/2026

This is exactly how I got my tiny rural village in Spain connected to fibre. Just kept accepting fibre offers from the sales people, and about the 5th installer who showed up finally had enough juice to get the big truck rolling out…

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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 · 05/08/2026

It's such an unforced error by all the firms who over index on the US market and only want to make pickup trucks…

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Tristam @trist.am · 05/08/2026

Goddamn, I had no idea they were hitting that kind of range in the real world

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Tristam @trist.am · 04/08/2026

It's kind of wild that 2 decades later, we still can't make an off-the-shelf engine to look like mirror's edge without an expert

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Tristam @trist.am · 03/08/2026

The wildcard in the room on that front still seems to be deepseek, if the recent post-trained flash update is anything to go by

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Tristam @trist.am · 03/08/2026

Doesn't seem like Anthropic and OpenAI have much of a moat left here. What do you think happens next?

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Tristam @trist.am · 02/08/2026

I don't really understand how neither has been the death knell for Ubisoft…

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Tristam @trist.am · 30/07/2026

Whenever I read a critique of LLM output, there's this little voice in the back of my mind going "if I put this on the Accenture letterhead…"

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Tristam @trist.am · 29/07/2026

I have a certain fondness for the Pierce Brosnan version of the Thomas Crown Affair, I imagine folks older than me prefer the Steve McQueen

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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 · 26/07/2026

I wonder how insulated EU market are in case of a US financial crash. Historically they are more tightly linked than one might like

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Tristam @trist.am · 25/07/2026

Can you borrow/rent a router? Takes all the corners off a solid wood desk in a couple of minutes

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