Niels Bross

So proud to be able to show the game we've been working on for years!

@wookash_podcast @antovsky I need to reread ZAMM, what a fantastic book.

Robert M. Pirsig (ZAMM book) published in 1974 !!! - way ahead of time (My end of the reading assignment deal with @antovsky)

Alexey is mogging everyone with his whiteboard. I am continuously impressed by his work everytime I see it!

@timsoret The "License person" was standard in Denmark for many years. People always complained (paying wasn't technically mandatory). Now that it's through tax nobody cares anymore. We do want to fund public orgs if it makes sense even though we don't necessarily use them.

Surprised BBC licensing isn’t concealed among general taxation: people can’t stand having to pay for what they don’t need. Might be the key to shrink the state: instead of an opaque machine, itemize everything to make all these forced subscriptions visible & taxation repulsive.

Martijn Courteaux showcasing @SilverNodeRAW at @BetterSoftwareC

Folks from BSC are building a video editor that will be available to buy soon! Check it out at blickeditor.com @SanderSkjegstad @Wassimulator

Amazing talk from @Wassimulator at the @BetterSoftwareC

Last year's talk was an incredible deep dive into the history of OOP. Excited for this one!

In a little less than an hour, I will be giving the opening talk at @BetterSoftwareC 2026! It's a spiritual sequel to The Big OOPs. I believe it will be streamed live at: bettersoftwareconference.com

Our sixth and final presentation from the Handmade Network Expo is now up. @struc_ture demoed the second iteration of his live-programming editor for games, where N tiny processes can operate on the same shared state to make iteration easy. youtube.com/watch?v=8kb2Vy…

“The orangutan could talk, but preferred not to- lest he be compelled to labour..”

@EpicCog Even in the AA-AAA space there is so much stuff coming out it's insane.

I just read an article that started with “I know there are fewer game releases than 10-15 years ago” and I stopped right there because this person clearly has zero touch with reality. Between mobile and Steam there are an order of magnitude more games per year

Better Software Conference 2026 is happening! It will be live-streamed on Twitch, starting tomorrow, and will also show up on YouTube once @SanderSkjegstad has worked his magic. P.S: I’ll be giving a talk as well

Remember the plastic straw debate? I was curious how banning straws globally would stack up against @TheOceanCleanup’s current impact. US beach cleanup data suggests straws make up just 0.005% of plastic pollution. The Ocean Cleanup is now stopping 2–5% of global plastic inflow (and growing rapidly) So our current impact is already ~400–1000x what a global straw ban could ever achieve!

@LongFieldRoad59 @Fedeabe Det her var min første tanke. Du er i Italien for fanden!

@Fedeabe Bare det at de brokker sig over at chaufføren ikke kunne engelsk… Du er heller ikke i England. I guder altså hvor er vi et forkælet folkefærd.

Der er ingen grund til at bruge penge på Nolans nye film. Bare tag familien med til udlandet. nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2026-0…

Linus post on AI is perfectly reasonable. But the AI-people eagerly looking for validation seem oblivious to the fact that stating "AI is just a tool" doesn't give anyone a mandate nor an encouragement to naively vibeslop the kernel.

Absolutely beautiful rant about AI in Linux Kernel from Linus yesterday: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it. Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint. But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do. The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side. We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it. And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time. Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either. The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus

@rfleury Agree. You kill a huge part of mental iteration by not doing the hard/boring parts of the process. A writer friend told me exactly this and how it's as important to the process as the final draft. It's obvious.

The other part that few people seem to appreciate is that “manual programming” is a way of evaluating ideas. It provides information that simply looking at an outcome doesn’t. The first intention of an idea is often not good, but it can be navigated towards a good idea.

@SanderSkjegstad @awesomekling Especially because everyone constantly talks about how not writing code is great. It's not the people actually writing code that talk the loudest - they just ship stuff.

@awesomekling No, that's going to be the "I don't enjoy writing code" people saying it makes them better than the "I actually enjoy writing code" people

Feels like “I actually enjoy writing code by hand” is about to become the big 2026 virtue signal for programmers.