Declan K.

I can't with this game's hype 😬

My reply to someone considering starting a video game company: The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back. If you do go for it, some bits of advice: Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions. Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect. Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.

@discord The forced update fiasco does make using it non-Flatpak on CachyOS a little awkward. But for the most part I guess it works well.

is it the year of the linux desktop?

"Not a happy marriage." @jsnover on why .NET and Windows have never gotten along. This clip has Bill Gates' obsession, the Longhorn disaster, Dave Cutler's backup tapes, and the day Notepad ballooned from 15KB to 15MB.

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Pretty much matches my own sentiment of switching away from Windows 11

Why is the web UI of ChatGPT still so horrendous.

Resident Evil 2 original will always be one of my favourite games of all time.

It's crazy to think that something like the IBM 2250 display would be worth $2-3 million to purchase in today's money.

I ported Mac OS X to run natively on the Nintendo Wii - an idea I had over 10 years ago that I finally pursued last year. Here’s how I pulled it off: bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/por…

Interestingly the JVM leverages SIGSEGV for handling NullPointerException(s) rather than checking the value/branching in the HotSpot JIT - shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-qu…

Excited to announce a new open-source, free-to-use memory tool I have been developing with my good friend @MillaJovovich. The project is called MemPalace and it is an agentic memory tool that scored 100% on LongMemEval - the industry standard benchmark for memory… this is higher on than any other published results - free or paid - and it is available now on GitHub. You can check out Milla’s video about it on her Instagram. I’ll also put some links in the comments below - please try it out, critique it, fork it, contribute to it - and join our discord.

Interesting benchmark comparing AST-edit format with others geometricagi.github.io/2026/04/02/ast…

I often wonder what Driveclub looks like without the rain filter

NVIDIA nearly got me with this one CUDA Tile Programming Now Available for BASIC! | NVIDIA Technical Blog developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-tile…

State of the classic JavaScript benchmarks, comparing @ladybirdbrowser to the 3 major browsers (no JIT) Summary: SunSpider is kinda too fast to matter, we're smoking everyone at Kraken, but Octane needs more love 🤓🚀

I honestly believe that Vim Motions don't actually make you faster at using a text editor, and a well implemented multiple-cursor system + typical modifier keys are actually much faster in practice. Evidence: watch me program on streams with Sublime Text and judge for yourself.

Apple approved ColumnLens for the Mac App Store. It's built with Dear ImGui and C++. Pretty sure it's one of the first ImGui apps on the store. Wrote up what the process looked like: marchildmann.com/blog/imgui-mac… #imgui #dearimgui #cpp #macOS #indiedev #buildinpublic

#rendering @idSoftware moved to #Deferred rendering for Id Tech 8 as it proved more performant than their #Forward+ solution. About 26% faster opaque pass #gdc #gamesev

That's the work of a demoscener going through a midlife crisis.