what no-code people don’t get is that writing code is the easiest part of programming

If you train a generative model on nothing but cave paintings, all it'll ever give you will be cave paintings. It takes humans to get from there to the Sistene Chapel. I spoke to BBC Newsbeat about AI in games: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I declare today to be Hug A SysAdmin Day. They're having a rough time of it. theguardian.com/technology/art…

Congratulating #CrowdStrike for reaching its carbon neutrality targets six years early through its disruption of global air traffic today!

Woop, I'm going to be speaking at Game Dev Local GDLX on 9th August as part of the programming fireside chat! There'll also be an expo full of indie games. They've given me a discount code you can use for £15 off tickets: GDLX15 See you there! eventbrite.com/e/gdl-indie-ga…

After a couple of months of doing assessment work, today I actually wrote some code and fixed a bug in Hexahedra. That felt good 😄

Great Britain scores perfect 10, wins Olympics

My laptop is sad. Microsoft recently released a Windows update that changes how Secure Boot works with an explicit claim that it wouldn't affect dual-boot machines. Would you like to guess why my laptop is sad?

I don't pay much attention to the info on the Windows lock screen, but I've noticed that while the Olympics medal table appeared this year, there's nothing for the Paralympics. Microsoft Windows, it's a small thing, but why not give Paralympians equal prominence?

For 1/35th of the price of a PS5 Pro you can get a copy of Hexahedra on Steam right now. Hexahedra lets you use lasers to read the state of cubes in your factory, so unlike Sony I'm throwing in the optical drive for free. store.steampowered.com/app/1248420/He…

Loving JetBrains Rider's extremely normal grammar suggestions.

Hexahedra, my game of programming, cubes, and tiny octopuses, has gone on sale for the first time as part of the Ada Lovelace Day sale on Steam - it's currently 20% off! Grab a copy here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1248420/He…

New UK LAN event Enclave launching Thursday at 6pm BST! All will be revealed including the location, and you will be able to buy tickets then too! Can you guess where it might be happening? 👀 enclavelan.com/countdown

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