Pascal Pixel

i’m honoured, though certainly not surprised, that @producthunt awarded me, jack black, as maker of the year

@michaelmicasso this is the sexiest thing i ever seen in ma life

reject layout, return to 1.0 tetris 🐒

@Ekaeoq …are you high?

I don’t think I want my building sculptured by a robot. When you get off the metro in Cologne and see the cathedral that took over 600 years to build, you don’t think about how robots could’ve done it faster and cheaper. You’re reminded of the indomitable and relentless human spirit. Yesterday I learned that there are many companies trying to solve cheap sculpturing, and while it is absolutely impressive, I just don’t care about it. I can’t imagine caring about a building that was “cnc-ed”. I will still very much like the end result, and I prefer a future where robots carve marble compared to a future where everything is just glass and concrete, but I don’t think that’s the point of craftsmanship.

@yacineMTB But if you’re a smelly insufferable know-it-all with no people skills what else are you supposed to be good for?!

Maybe programming is a low intelligence task and a total god awful waste of human time

We hit 100% byte closure on Golden Sun decompilation!

@tommyvedvik @petergyang All good now I threw my computer out a window 😄

@PascalPixel @petergyang this is also not healthy 😅

I think AI psychosis (trying to make sure your agents are working all the time) is probably a worse addiction than social media.

@TomDavenport Probably my favorite it was an entire open world and 80hr of gameplay in a handheld

@PascalPixel The game it advance game?! My first emulation experience, this was a FANTASTIC rpg

My clean-room decompilation of Golden Sun built entirely by AI is producing image assets now 🏞️ github.com/PascalPixel/al…

☀️ Golden Sun Decompilation progressing well! It's so fun to see how hilariously 90s the pre-rendered (cc @PRBG_Aesthetics) are because on a tiny Gameboy Advance screen these looked stunning as hell. github.com/PascalPixel/al…

@Ekaeoq Robotssss are commijnngg

We will absolutely never build like this again. Developers can't even justify the cost of slightly better materials, or genuinely sustainable layout designs to make a building more sufficient and for it to remain more functional over a longer period of time (this usually means less units per floor). What makes you think that, approving millions upon millions of dollars for for skilled artisans to create sculptures that used to take literal centuries to finish? Just imagine walking into a board meeting and saying you want to spend bazillion cash extra on sculptors, stone carvers and craftsmen so that the facade is "oh so beautiful" It will never happen again.

@dillon_mulroy This is literally Microsoft’s business model in the 90s and 00s

actually an insane thing for openai’s head of strategy to publicly say

@GamerRinoa Shiva is my childhood crush 🌸

What's everybody's favorite GF.... Me personally I think I like Shiva's design the best

@conundrumer Can you do a good one? 🌸

i need yall to familiarize yourself with synth slop bc my brain is yelling "these sounds are vibecoded", it's like the audio equivalent of purple gradients and "not X but Y"

It had extracted the djinn battle sprites so I stitched them together for the README.md 📄

@ds_melon "To meet my expectations, it'd have to shed all the AI code." welp, there go the tokens!

Vibecoded a Vulkan graphics driver for Nintendo DS emulator @ds_melon so it runs in high res on macOS 🪩 github.com/melonDS-emu/me…

@alexgroberman I can’t rank browser.horse for the life of me, you told me once I was a few good pages away from traffic and hundreds of pages and attempts later… I can’t do it!

Now that they're adding Fable 5 to Claude's normal subscriptions, it's worth remembering something important about it: Buried inside thousands of lines is one of the clearest explanations we've seen of how Claude decides which websites to search, open, cite and recommend. It also explains why some businesses repeatedly appear in Claude while others don't. Let’s go through it. To see whether Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and Grok are recommending your business right now, start here. It’s free: seo-stuff.com/free-audit So just for clarity, Anthropic did not publish this as an official Claude ranking guide. The prompt was extracted and published by a public system-prompt archive, so while I would not treat every instruction as a permanent ranking factor, the search process is specific enough to reveal how Claude discovers and evaluates sources. The first major revelation is fairly straightforward: when Claude searches the web, its search tool returns 10 highly ranked results. That is the initial pool Claude receives for that individual search. The prompt does not say these are specifically Google’s top 10 results, and Claude can run multiple searches using different queries. But it does confirm that ranked search visibility plays a major role in determining which websites Claude encounters. Claude essentially starts with a small group of pages that a search engine has already ranked highly. So if your page never enters those groups, Claude may never open, evaluate or cite it for that question. This is why traditional search visibility still matters so much for AI search. seo-stuff.com Claude then applies another layer. The prompt tells it to begin with short, broad searches, generally between one and six words, before narrowing the query when necessary. That could mean searches like: Best payroll software Dental marketing agency Business insurance companies CRM for contractors Claude may take one detailed customer question and investigate it through several shorter searches. Your website therefore needs to make it extremely obvious: What your company does Which category it belongs to Who it serves What problems it solves Which products or services it should be compared against You need pages that map to the different ways buyers describe your category, use case, problem and desired outcome. The prompt also instructs Claude to search the live web when a question involves current information, newer products, specific versions, unfamiliar companies or recommendations that may have changed. That means businesses cannot depend entirely on what Claude learned during training. Your current pricing, product information, case studies, comparisons, reviews and third-party mentions all matter. Freshness is especially important for: Prices Product releases Company information Regulations Rankings Current recommendations Basically, a company missing from Claude’s existing knowledge can still become one of the sources it discovers today. This is where SEO Stuff’s done-for-you package becomes relevant: seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack… It combines 10 AI search optimized pieces of content with three DR50+ contextual PR backlinks. The content gives Claude more category, use-case and comparison pages to discover. The backlinks help those pages compete inside the ranked search layer Claude uses to build its source pool. But ranking is only the first step. Claude’s prompt says search snippets are often insufficient. After identifying a potentially useful result, Claude is instructed to open the page and retrieve its full content. The page still has to provide usable evidence. That means: Question-based headings Direct answers Specific definitions Comparison tables Dates Named products Clear authorship Original research Transparent sourcing Pages filled with vague marketing language give Claude very little to work with, whereas pages organized around specific questions and factual answers give it passages that can actually support a response. The system prompt also tells Claude to favor original sources. Examples include: Company websites Official documentation Government sources Peer-reviewed research Primary reports That means your own website can absolutely become the source Claude cites, but it needs to contain original information worth citing. That could include: Actual pricing Product specifications Original research Industry data Customer results Detailed methodologies Company policies Case studies Expert explanations Documentation A generic article repeating information already published across dozens of competing sites gives Claude very little reason to choose your page. Originality becomes even more valuable when Claude is researching an open-ended recommendation. A simple factual question may require one search. A recommendation or comparison can trigger several searches across different categories, products and sources. A connected group of relevant pages gives Claude several ways to encounter your business during the same research process. Claude uses ranked search results for discovery, but it does not automatically trust every commercial page it finds. Also, this probably goes without saying, but a page claiming that your company is the best option is not enough. Your website can explain what you offer, who you serve and why the product is different. Trusted third-party sources help verify those claims. That is why external authority still matters. Relevant press coverage, industry mentions, expert quotes, reviews, podcasts and backlinks can all create additional evidence around the brand. The practical goal is to become visible inside the ranked systems Claude searches while building enough third-party corroboration to make your claims credible. The prompt also says Claude must cite specific claims drawn from web searches. This has major implications for how content should be written. Claude needs passages that answer individual questions, such as: When was the product launched? How much does it cost? Who is it designed for? What feature makes it different? What measurable result did a customer achieve? What evidence supports the company’s claim? The easier those answers are to locate, the easier it becomes for Claude to cite the page. I think of these as claim-sized content blocks. The structure is simple: One clear question. One direct answer. One supporting fact. One source or piece of evidence. That is far more useful to Claude than 1,500 words of general brand copy. Also, Claude can personalize recommendations using information it knows about the user, including their preferences and interests. The company it recommends may change depending on: Industry Company size Location Budget Use case Technical requirements Previous preferences This is why targeting a broad phrase like “best software” or “best agency” is rarely enough. You need pages that clearly explain who the offering is best for. For example: Best accounting software for agencies Best insurance provider for multi-location businesses Best CRM for home service companies The more clearly your pages connect the offering to a specific buyer, the easier it becomes for Claude to justify recommending it to that person. All of this is the system SEO Stuff was built around: seo-stuff.com And to see whether your business is already being recommended across Claude, ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and Grok, check here: seo-stuff.com/free-audit

@peer_rich I did, it’s great coming back!

you can skip a full year of AI and be fine skills harness loops graphs whatever AI skills you acquire will be outdated in 12 months

The beauty we threw away in the name of progress

@michaelmicasso Pam pom, pam pom pim pam pom pam pam

@PascalPixel Made me want to replay Golden Sun LA again

@PascalPixel We can talk about that after you filed my taxes.

I have had the craziest 6 weeks of productivity in my life. AI did everything. Including my taxes. I am so going to jail. 🥺