Alex Ene 🦀

Alpha 0.0.10 was just published. This introduces a bunch of new items (sawmill, walls), UI cleanup, bugfixes (such as dead dwarves resurecting after loading a saved game). Join the playtest, wishlist or see the patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/46820… #indiegames #indie #gamedev

There is no demand for huge quantities of slop. More commits / LOC / PRs does not equate to more valuable productivity. Users want fewer, but better, programs.

@wookash_podcast This explains it all

@wookash_podcast youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDU…

I can't get over the fact that Luke has seen his parents like this

@typecraft_dev 2 weeks on the job and this happens

I'm looking rough, should start moisturizing or something

@thdxr I dunno about the big tech angle. If that was true and it doesn’t matter, why do big corps fire like 10-20% of their engineers recently instead of letting them experiment with whatever in the hope of creating new revenue streams?

a lot of programmers work in the tech a lot more of them work outside of tech tech makes a lot of revenue per employee - if they had to pay 2x per programmer it probably wouldn't matter very different for everyone else worth thinking about in terms of coding agent spend

I am published a new build: Alpha 0.0.7. If you can crash the game when saving/loading you're getting your portrait in the hall of fame. You just need to send me the bugged save. Details below: store.steampowered.com/news/app/46820…

What are these? NEW Trees! Where can you see them? In my game! An early alpha is available on steam (free ofc!) and you can experience all the hand crafted glitches, bugs and dwarves and other things!!! Alpha 0.0.6 is out. store.steampowered.com/app/4000460 #gamedev #indiegames

@wookash_podcast What's INumber?!

I just learned that this style of OO programming is still taught in 2026 that's 200k views, 2months ago, "Rebuilding Pokemon with Object Oriented Programming"

@vkrajacic @wookash_podcast @thomasklemenc Sysinternals 2.0

@wookash_podcast @thomasklemenc Drop "for Windows". It's cleaner.

Just found out an active File Pilot community member @thomasklemenc made a task manager inspired by it! Handmade from scratch, C++, win32, D3D custom renderer, 1.55 MB. More of this in my feed, less AI slopware.

@its_bvisness This one from @ferristweetsnow is also a must-see: youtube.com/watch?v=p9Obe-… He has also various breakdowns and overall good content. I miss the twitch streamers from ages ago :D

If you have ever built a nodes-and-wires type of UI (e.g. Blueprints or the Blender compositor) then you should be taking notes from the demoscene 26 years ago: youtu.be/PgBILOwzT-I?si…

I don’t know if i believe this “I am not blocked by typing speed” discourse. If you cared about that you’d be in neovim but here you are chugging along in vscode

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

This is what it looks like when the folks who build the thing also use it themselves.

@its_bvisness @rsms As someone who shipped and maintains probably the biggest wasm app deployment in terms of device count and diversity (outside the browser) i feel like wasm is slowly trending towards the usual web standards of feature creep.

@its_bvisness @rsms As far as i could tell last time overhead of calling into components from other modules is still higher than what wasi model had

We at Mozilla feel that WebAssembly has been a second-class citizen on the web for long enough. You shouldn't have to go through JS to do everything. This is probably a lot of what I will be focusing on for work in 2026! hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making…

LINUX DOESNT EVEN HAVE ACCOUNTS?!?

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

@olson_dan Yeah i mean individual crate publishers have no contract with their users wither so same applies. I think most gave up and just keep rustc updated 😅