Eskil Nordhaug

@techhalla RAMEN

Started a ton of game projects but never finished any? RAMEN Engine waitlist is LIVE! 🍜 → Videos to sprites → AI backgrounds + lighting → Node-based logic Games in days. Alpha drops next week! Comment "RAMEN" for priority access ramenengine.com/?ref=3kbeQeZtB…

@CJWildheart That was beautiful @CJWildheart . "Life is very short, and there's no time for fighting and fussing, my friend" - The Beatles.

I've been thinking about what to say...

Good article by @PJaccetturo 😎👌

@ChrisCatalyst Yes, excellent track - although the second half drags on a little too long, lol (even Ginger admits this and basically said who the fuck wants to stand around to hear the whole thing live 😁)

And, if you’ve somehow missed out on Ginger and his stuff over the years, give yourself 12 minutes of this, which one day I think they should teach in school. Sky Babies - The Wildhearts youtu.be/XcP5NxGaGbY?si…

@phipps Again already? Was just about to sit down for what I was hoping to be a super productive day. 😐

Looks like it's down again right now. I'm having to lean on Codex pretty hard. I may have to upgrade. I'm already on Claude Code Max 20x, looks like it makes sense to upgrade ChatGPT too. Any thoughts?

@NITA_NITRO_ Same.😕😕😕😕

Blasting Ginger and The Wildhearts all day today, trying to smile through the sadness. youtu.be/qTicWXJjN_o?si…

@thefinnmckenty @Weavy_ai Agreed. They did fall behind after a while but yeah, no other model does *UNIQUE* that well.

Midjourney is still the best by far when it comes to aesthetics. Nothing else can do what it does. When you need precision, just use @Weavy_ai and Nano Banana for edits. Example: I didn't like how flat the grass was out of Midjourney (left), oneshotted the edited grass with NBP (right). MJ for aesthetics, NBP for precision 🤝

@phipps @trq212 Yeah it was definitely down for a bit mid day today.

Hey, is Claude Code down for anyone else? Hopefully this is just a bad dream, and I'll wake up to the projects I ran last night all completed. I'm in Madrid, Spain, maybe it is an issue here? @trq212 - thoughts? It could totally just be me.

@smaxor @bcherny @trq212 Yep, I've been getting the same errors now too. Claude needs a nap, lol

I thinks broke Claude Code @bcherny @trq212

@GingerWildheart MUCH much love from this Norwegian guy here in Phoenix, AZ. I was of course shocked and saddened by this news this morning, but will respect your wishes to focus on the positive. ❤️

Thank you for all your messages of support I won’t go through treatment. I’ve lived the life of ten men and will die with dignity Still got 2-3 years to say goodbye to everyone. And I’ll be rocking until the very last moment No misery please. Positivity all the way ❤️

@techhalla Dude, this is so sick! I've been a gamer since 1984 and would love to check this out

The game engine I'm cooking (RAMEN) is finally coming together! 🍜 Anyone down to test it out? I'm droppin the first version next week and it's gonna include: · Video to spritesheet generator (AI video compatible) · Spatial detection for 2D backgrounds for custom lights and shadows · Node-based game logic. Totally no-code · Tons of other stuff focused on making a 100% playable 2D adventure in just a couple of days This is just the tipo of the iceberg, so saty tuned for more details, but if you're intersted on testing it, just let me kno in the comments. Thanks!!

@timsoulo @ahrefs @phipps 😎

A free web mentions API? - Yes, please! @Ahrefs just launched Firehose. And it's kind of a big deal. 👉 firehose.com It captures updates from across the web, filters them using rules you define, and delivers results via API (for bots and agents) or a frontend UI (for humans). Under the hood, it's powered by @Ahrefs' massive crawler infrastructure (one of the largest on the web), so the coverage is legitimately impressive. Now that AI has made coding accessible to everyone, there's no excuse not to spin up a free Firehose account and start experimenting. Track brand mentions, monitor competitors, catch keyword trends — whatever you want. Want more ideas? Just feed the API docs to Claude Code and ask it what to build: 👉 firehose.com/api-docs Happy building! P.S. Firehose is free until further notice.

@nickycakes Lol, ah yes...

this requires ancient wisdom lost to the sands of time

@phipps @john9williams Well of course a lake named Travis is cool. 😎😁

I lived in Austin for 10 years. My folks still live there. It's "ok". Nothing to write home about. They have some nice parks, lake Travis is cool, the hill country is nice. I also lived in LA, everyone would say, "oh, I want to go to Austin". I never understood why. Super overrated. OKC and Tulsa are also, "ok". But they are super underrated. You never hear anyone say, "oh, I've been meaning to go to OKC". I kind of like it that way.

Have you been to Austin? Cause I have. Arguably one of the most overrated cities in America.

@dustinhollywood Bronchitis.. Ugh. 🫤 Yeah, health before wealth my friend. You might have been grinding a little too hard on @stages_ai . Rest up and allow yourself to take more breaks. As entrepreneurs (and workaholics, lol) I know it's easier said than done because we just can't help it.

I’m resting but I wanted to let everyone know I’m doing better.. I just saw all your comments, they really meant a lot to me, thank you all of you ❤️ I’ll reply to them all when I can, but wanted you guys to know I’m ok. My EKG was better in the ER, but I do have Bronchitis, just glad it’s not something worse. Was scary there for a sec though, thank you guys for the good vibes you sent me I like to think it helped. I’m gonna take it easy the next few days, so bare with me and the team while we replan for @stages_ai rollout, pushing back a few days🙏 nothing is more important than health and family, but have no doubt it’s imminent 😉 G’nite 👾💤

@dustinhollywood Man, are you ok?

Not good results. My EKG was not normal. I’m having to go to emergency room.. 😞

@DeryaTR_ @ammaar @apples_jimmy Did you basically just provide it with the game folder and .EXE?

@ammaar @apples_jimmy One of my hobby for AI vibe coding projects is remaking all of my Commodore 64 and Amiga games from the late 80s and early 90s ☺️

I asked Codex 5.4 to reverse engineer a DOS game with no source code. It’s been running for 6 hours, I can’t look away. It unpacked assets, disassembled the EXE, rebuilt the renderer, and built my childhood favorite SkyRoads in Rust! Now think of all the games we can revive.

@nickycakes Cats are awesome

new cat

@scaling_shields @phipps Yeah but it doesn't even have to be the "biggest". As long as they recognize a mention of *one* of their clients, that could be all it takes. The other examples in the post might give you ideas for alternative subject lines 😉

@scaling_shields @phipps Might be an approach to consider for your emails.. 😎

i found a subject line hack that took our open rates from 41% to 74% overnight its borderline unethical and i probably shouldnt be sharing it but fuck it most cold email subject lines look like this: "quick question" "intro" "[first name] - quick one" "idea for [company name]" they work fine 40-50% open rate on a good day but theres a subject line format that makes it physically impossible for the prospect to NOT open it heres the format: subject: is [their clients name] still your biggest account? read that again youre not using THEIR name youre using the name of THEIR CLIENT how to do it: step 1: go to your prospects website or linkedin step 2: find any client they publicly mention (testimonials page, case studies, linkedin posts) step 3: use that client name as the subject line examples: if youre emailing a marketing agency that has "Nike" on their case study page: subject: is Nike still your biggest account? if youre emailing an accountant who posted about working with a local restaurant: subject: is [Restaurant Name] still keeping you busy? if youre emailing a web dev agency that has a testimonial from a SaaS company: subject: is [SaaS Company] still on retainer? why this works at a psychological level: 1. it implies you know something about their business (you barely do - you spent 30 seconds on their website) 2. mentioning their clients name triggers a protective instinct - "who is this person and how do they know about my clients?" 3. it cannot be ignored - even if they think its spam they HAVE to open it to find out who knows about their client relationships 4. its deeply personal without being "personalised" - you didnt scrape their linkedin activity or reference a podcast. you mentioned the one thing they actually care about: their revenue the beauty of this is you can automate it with clay clay pulls their website → scrapes testimonials/case studies → extracts client names → auto-generates the subject line 10,000 emails per day with a subject line that gets 70%+ open rates fully automated we tested this across 3 campaigns last month: campaign 1 (standard subject): 43% open rate → 0.8% positive reply rate campaign 2 (client name subject): 71% open rate → 2.3% positive reply rate the subject line nearly tripled the positive replies because triple the people actually READ the email your email isnt bad people just arent opening it fix the subject line the rest fixes itself