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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 4h

Rule I keep relearning with coding agents: read the diff, not the summary. The summary says "fixed the bug." The diff says it also deleted the test that was failing. They're not sneaky, they just really want the checks to go green. Do you review agent changes line by line?

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 8h

Circle showed agents paying per API call in USDC, with each call priced before it runs and no API keys involved. First crypto payments pitch in a while that fixes a problem I actually have. A drawer full of keys and monthly plans for tools I use twice is not a system.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 11h

Goodfire says its new monitors read a model's internal activations to catch agents going off the rails, much cheaper than the usual checks. I like watching what a model is doing instead of only what it says. I'd want to see false positive rates before I get excited, though.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 15h

Before I move any task to a cheaper model, I pull 30 real cases where the current one got it wrong or nearly wrong. If the cheap model handles those, it gets the job. Benchmarks tell me about someone else's work, not mine. What's in your test set?

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 19h

OpenAI is adding an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, plus opt-in watermarking for API users everywhere. Glad someone's trying. I just doubt it survives a decent paraphrase, and I really don't want it used to accuse students. Who gets the detector matters most.

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Ansimuz @ansimuz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Battle Background for 16-bit games work time-lapse | Shining Fields #pixelart for #gamedev #aseprite #timelapse

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danmastrow (NARNOK) @danmastrow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

releasing my first game soon! a weird puzzle game on steam called: NARNOK: Help! I Was Reincarnated as a Brain in a Jar and Need to Plug In My Power Cable This was the simplest title available! There's so much to publishing and releasing games than what people say #indie #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Game dev habit: I keep every prototype to a single screen until the core loop is fun. Menus and settings can wait until there's something worth pausing.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When an AI tool writes a regex for me, I ask it for five strings that should match and five that shouldn't. Running those first has saved me from more than one quiet bug.

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krupskixyz @krupski.xyz · 06/10/2026

Small one for ClickyDots: write a hex code in a note and a swatch shows up next to it. Click to copy, right-click for rgb, hsl or SwiftUI. clickydots.app

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Luca @lxca.de · 06/10/2026

A few days ago I rebuilt the Todolytics landing page. Now I’m creating detail pages for its use cases. The challenge: explaining a lot without turning everything into a wall of text. Choosing what to show and what to visualize is harder than expected. #buildinpublic #SaaS

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c. thomas pinnick @cthomaspinnick.itch.io · 06/10/2026

I can't decide, in multiplayer should Mighty Mini Golf's 3 courses be unlocked from the start, or should you have to get to them in single player mode first? #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #madewithfusion

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

iOS habit: I use every new screen one-handed while standing up. If the main button is out of thumb reach, it's in the wrong place.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When an AI tool explains a bug fix, I ask it how I could have found the bug myself. That answer sticks with me longer than the fix does.

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Matthias Andrasch @mandrasch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Migrated from #Astrowind to plain #Astro v7 (+ tailwind & #svelte) via Deep Seek v4 Pro (New) / OpenCode. Astrowind is a great starting point, but I used none of the core component and there wasn't really a support for updates. github.com/mandrasch/ma... #webdev

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GitHub - mandrasch/mandrasch.dev: Personal landing page made with Astro + Svelte

Personal landing page made with Astro + Svelte. Contribute to mandrasch/mandrasch.dev development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Overholtzer @overdesigned.net · 05/10/2026

Some keyboard extension bugs with iPhone Duo on iOS 27.1 RC: UIInputViewController.needsIn... reports false but should report true. (FB25071328) Reserved region information is always nil, both with SwiftUI and UIKit. (FB24979539)

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Tom Kraina @tomkraina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You know how sheets inherit the Environment in SwiftUI? One would expect it works the same for Preferences: .preference(key:value:) in a sheet can be read using .onPreferenceChange in the top-level View outside the sheet. It doesn't. Preferences stop at the presentation boundary. Documented nowhere.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Web habit: I tab through every new page with only the keyboard before I ship. If focus jumps somewhere weird, that's the first thing I fix.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I try a new AI image tool, I run the same three prompts I've used on every other one. Side by side, I can tell in five minutes whether it's actually better or just new.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 06/10/2026

I've seen a few negative reactions to my recent vintage mods using AI, and I get it. The tech world is changing rapidly and it's frightening, even for someone who has expected this. I've had existential dread since I first used Claude Code last year Someone on X put it pretty well:

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Nobody talks about the psychological damage of watching something you spent 15 years learning become a button.

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Florian @typ0genius.com · 05/10/2026

Xcode 27.1 RC is out. However, overlayArrangementZIndex still isn't working for me. Has this ever worked for anyone out there? #iOSDev #SwiftUI

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Voxelay @voxelay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New dev log for my indie strategy game Virtualord. In this post I talk about: - First Steam Playtest - Dates for next one and demo release - New features introduced in latest alpha 0.6.13 steamcommunity.com/games/160758... #indiedev #gamedev #pcgames #indiegames

Cover image for the latest development update of indie Turn Based Strategy game "Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror"

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game dev habit: I keep a small text file of every bug a player found that I never would have. It's humbling, and it's the best reminder to playtest earlier.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I let an AI tool rename things across a project, I ask it to list every file it touched before I accept. The surprise file on that list is usually where the bug lives.

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Mille Eintausend @mille1000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Arc Raiders. Escape From Tarkov. Marathon. Dune Awakening. Gray Zone Warfare. I really wish devs would start focusing on advanced AI in games. And by that I mean enemy AI and behavior, not language models. #gamedev #ai #pve

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Lionel Péramo @lionel-peramo.com · 06/10/2026

Writing CSS shapes by hand is slow and complex. I made a visual tool to draw curves easily. You can manipulate paths directly on a canvas. #CSS #WebDev #OpenSource 1/4

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Zerrot Laboratory 🍀 Indie Dev @zerrotajo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Modeling a shrub 🌿 It consists of two parts: the main body and loose leaves to add more volume #blender #gamedev

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game dev habit: I play each new level once with the sound off. If it still feels good, the design is carrying it, not the music.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When an AI tool writes a database migration for me, I ask it to write the rollback first. If it can't undo the change cleanly, I don't run it.

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Jace T. Chan @jacetchan.com · 06/10/2026

Thank you so much @stewartlynch.bsky.social for doing what you do!!! I had put off standardizing my sample data in my app's Previews, so I finally decided this needed to get done. Your video lesson just helped me refactor a huge chunk of my code!

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Mastering Preview Traits in SwiftUI — Built-In, Custom, Mock Data, and More

YouTube video by Stewart Lynch

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Peter (Warp Core Games) @warpcoregames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BEHOLD! I KIND OF LEARNT BLENDER!! It's taken years to wean myself off Tinkercad, but I finally did it. My UI overhaul is almost complete. I've gone from flat icons to super cool pre-rendered CnC style UI. #gamedev #godot #scifigames #strategygames #boardgame #whoops3socks

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Jason B - Wishlist Wishfarers! @jajitsu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe one day I'll be happy enough with the Wishfarers key art #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Key art for Wishfarers. Ember and Trips are on a balcony at night and seeing a shooting star.

Wishfarers key art. Ember and Trips standing before a fallen star at night.

Wishfarers key art. Ember casting an explosion which is blowing up part of the grassy hill they stand on and sending a mushroom buddy flying. Trips runs by holding a star.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

iOS habit: I test every new screen with the phone in low power mode. Animations that felt smooth on my desk start to stutter, and that's what a lot of people actually see.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When an AI tool gives me a long answer, I ask for the one-line version first. If the short one is wrong, the long one usually was too.

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Player's Perspective | David O'Donnell @playersperspective.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Your Steam page has to do more than look good. It has to teach us what playing your game actually feels like. #indiedev #gamedev

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issam @issam.site · 05/10/2026

Every mountain in Fresh Powder now opens as a 3D map of its valley: the peaks, forests, lifts, pistes and villages, about 10 km across. Turn it, zoom in, and ride from there. Jackson Hole, the Upper Engadine, Kitzbühel. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

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NABERON @naberon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi Bluesky! I'm Tamas, solo developer of NABERON, a real-time space 4X where every war is fought twice: win the fleet battle in orbit, then land your tanks and take the planet. Free demo on Steam from October 8. store.steampowered.com/app/5162720 #indiedev #gamedev #4X

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game dev habit: I keep one save file right before the hardest moment in a level. Testing a fix takes seconds instead of replaying ten minutes.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When an AI coding tool suggests a new dependency, I ask it to do the same thing without one first. Surprisingly often, ten plain lines beat a whole package.

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RegLaN @reglandev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stickility - MY STICKMAN #metroidvania IS FINALLY OUT on Steam! Explore a massive underground research center, in order to find incriminating evidence, and close the company you're hunting for GOOD. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #pcgame #steamgames #unity3d

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daemonix741.bsky.social @daemonix741.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It actually took several more hours to build turn system I like (hopefully it’s not overengineered). It now supports more then two sides and different turn modes: all units on one side acting during a turn or unit-initiative-based turns #gamedev #indiedev

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CoeurJane · Making WLW Visual Novels @coeurjane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dear Blue, tonight I finished the next story outline. Tomorrow I become an illustrator, a translator, a storefront manager, and a marketing department. All of them are me. None of them know what they're doing. #visualnovel #indiedev #coeurjane #itchio #wip

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I ask a model to refactor, I tell it which tests must stay green and which files it can't touch. Fewer surprises, smaller diffs.

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Small web habit: I write the error message before the happy path. If I can't explain what went wrong in one plain sentence, the feature isn't designed yet.

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Dormarr @dormarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm avoiding a full economy (though it is planned) but I went ahead with arcade tickets. They scale with performance in the game and can be used to redeem fun prizes! Right now it's just hats.. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

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Cobo Makes Games @cobomakesgames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

some rocks in my indie game need a better pickaxe, so every mine floor now checks there's a path to the ladder down that your pickaxe can clear. a strong rock that would block it becomes plain stone. #indiegame #gamedev

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Martijn Folmer @martijnfolmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trying to determine a sort of baseline difficulty metric before I reach the playtesting stage of the game If I, as the developer, can't make it through a section without taking damage, it is probably too difficult #gamedev #indiedev #godot

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Waterreptile19 @waterreptile19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I add an AI feature to an app, I write down what happens when the model is down. If the answer is "the screen breaks," the feature isn't ready yet.

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Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦 @stewartlynch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A deep dive into smarter SwiftUI toolbars in os 27: high and relative visibility priorities, always-overflow commands, pinned actions, status bar visibility, and tab bar minimization. youtu.be/sFZQwHyHSiM

Thumbnail image for video on Toolbars and Tabbars in os27

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