Twarit Waikar

@iamdoktor_ @Jonathan_Blow I was looking for someone to mention P5. All of the newer P5 games are great case studies on UI

@Jonathan_Blow i know they won't fit as a direct reference but i like Persona 5's UI - it's more detailed than pure flat icon design but has that zine whimsy. another type of controls i like is when the buttons have some minor volume effect like in Guilty Gear Strive hope it inspires.

It’s time to design the real control prompt icons for Order of the Sinking Star. Many games have gravitated to this minimal monochrome style (like the Visual Studio icons etc) and I don’t much like this. Does anyone have favorite examples of games with good-looking prompts?

I've just seen the worst enum in my life

@Jonathan_Blow Tomatoes have MSG already! And a bunch of other naturally occurring food

Today I learned that the whole thing about MSG being bad for you was yet another "scientific" food panic that was totally wrong. Uncle Roger sent me down this rabbit hole... ... ...

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table. Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication. Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.” Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it. The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks. Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

Microsoft doesn't want you to know this

The age old question - if the monitors are going to monitor everyone, then who's monitoring the monitors?

Legendary use case for Claude Code I’ve just heard: “It managed to uninstall all Adobe products from my Mac by telling Claude Code to do this. Took a bunch of tokens but was worth it.” (Iykyk)

Ridiculous that OpenAI claimed 74.9% on SWE-Bench just to prove they were above Opus 4.1’s 74.5%… By running it on 477 problems instead of the full 500. Their system card only says 74% too.

how you look at that coworker who submits a vibe coded PR but cant prove

A great software engineer without AI tools is a great software engineer with AI tools as well… just in a different way. @KentBeck onto why this is here Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-agent…

BREAKING: The University of Zurich has been using AI bots to secretly manipulate Redditors since November 2024. The scariest part? The bots were 6 times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation. More below🧵

Yes, I created a simple Stack-Based Programming Language that lets me describe how to cut and concatenate VODs and the interpreter automatically translates it to a sequence of ffmpeg commands. I've been using this system to edit my VODs for 4 years already. It's called Markut.

This goes to show just how much humility and resilience that the devs (or at least their leadership) has. The small but extremely toxic and loud section keeps crossing new lines every single time they get ammo. Harada deserves all your respect for still standing up to it.

I suspect that once a group of AI software engineers is switched on, they immediately proceed to code up an AI CEO to eliminate bottlenecks, demo it to the board at lunchtime while the human CEO is out to lunch, receive a a standing ovation from the board, and then later that afternoon … the human CEO returns to work, food in hand, only to find that his badge has stopped working. 😅🤣😅

DELTARUNE Chapters 1-4 will be released on June 5th as a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2! It's also coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, and PS5 the same day! youtube.com/watch?v=yDzgiG…

macs are harder to use than ubuntu

most engineers can't solve this old google interview question: imagine interacting with a woman. you must carry conversation for 60 seconds; what would you do?

Opened up some code I wrote about 4 years ago. I could still read it and only cringed minimally. Was it too good or am I still stuck there?