Matthew Brooks

“People are trying to divide our society… We will not allow this.”
 Translate “divide” as: “alert us to the demonstrable fact that many individuals living among us adhere to a 7th-century murderous religious ideology that hates us for who we are.” We will not allow this.

@DominicPajak Why have we had to wait so long for an answer to this question?!

Can AI models draw a pelican riding a bicycle on the 8-bit BBC Micro (1981)? Yes. Yes, they can...

@JohnCleese Couldn't help wonder what you think of the new BBC campaign bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/wh…

I was a big supporter of Amnesty when they fought political imprisonment and torture Now I renounce them entirely

@BBCNWT Remember’s?

How to shine brightly in the games industry: stepping up to help Dear ImGui as a dedicated maintainer of one or more platform/renderer backends…

@PyeCornerAudio thanks boss

@Jonathan_Blow It’s SO GOOD

Demo Phase 2 for Order of the Sinking Star is now live on Steam! The demo disappears on Monday morning, so play while you can. Thanks for all the positive comments; we appreciate you!

@mrdoob @plaidmusic Me too!

Damn... How did I miss this @plaidmusic album? 🔥 touched.bandcamp.com/album/stem-sell

INFERNO, OUT NOW. boardsofcanada.com

Every new @boardsofcanada album for me has been like landing on an unfamiliar planet in their universe. It’s always disorientating. I’m working out the geography. What’s it made of this time?

@peterboghossian Looks delicious. No soy?

lol. My favorite sushi place in Auckland gives my order to new cashiers! They've stuck it to the wall!

@Grummz If dynamic lighting was integral to gameplay, yes. Otherwise no. I play Fortnite at 120hz mode on my PS5, and at 144hz with lumen turned off on my PC

Modern Unreal Engine vs what we used to have. Lumen is noisier and slower. Baked lighting meant gigabytes to download. Which would you choose? Would you trade 100gb of baked lighting for FPS in a modern game?

@OneCrispyGraham VERY GOOD

Nepo baby musician

I've been coding for 40 years. Here are the top 5 things I wish I knew when I started. 1. 90% of the job is debugging and fixing, not creating new code. Which is still fun if you're good at it. I used to think programming was mostly writing fresh, clever stuff. In reality, most of your time is spent in other people's (or your own past self's) messy code, chasing down why something that "should" work doesn't. Get really good at debugging early. Learn assembly reading, call stacks, and kernel debuggers. It pays off hugely. The best engineers I saw were absolute magicians at this. 2. Manage complexity from day one (ie: don't write slop and "fix it later" if it goes somewhere). Very early on, I'd hammer out code and refactor afterward. Big mistake. Now I start with clean, skeletal structure (minimalism first) and flesh it out carefully, with AI or not. Messy code compounds and becomes unfixable. Upfront discipline on architecture, naming, and simplicity saves enormous pain later, especially in large systems like Windows. 3. Tools and processes matter more than you think We suffered with basic diff/manual deltas instead of modern source control like Git. Branching, testing, and good tooling would have made porting and collaboration way smoother. Invest in your environment, automation, and reproducible builds early. Good tools amplify your output; bad ones (or none) drag everything down. 4. Understand the problem and existing code deeply before writing Don't jump straight to coding. Map out the problem, study what's already there (you'll inherit a lot), and plan. Low-level knowledge (hardware quirks, alignment issues on different architectures like MIPS/Alpha) was crucial. Also: assert early and often. It forces clarity. 5. People, politics, and "the right tool for the job" beat pure tech arguments. Brilliant engineers still argue endlessly. Sometimes it's about ego, not merit. Learn to spot the difference and "steer" the conversation rather than "winning" it. Bonus from experience: Side projects like Task Manager (started at home because I wanted the tool) can become your biggest hits. Ship small, useful things often. If you're just starting, focus on fundamentals, patterns over syntax, and building resilience for the long haul. It's going to be a wild ride, but the fundamentals still matter.

it’s here. the new half-life. the new breath of the wild. the new elden ring. the new sistine chapel ceiling. the new invention of fire. historians will now divide games into two eras: before mixtape and after mixtape. every game developer on earth just fell to their knees in a gamestop. kojima is deleting his notes. miyamoto is staring silently at a cassette player. gaben has delayed half-life 3 another decade out of respect. i used to think games needed systems, mechanics, challenge, worlds, ideas. turns out all you need is licensed indie music, wistful teenagers, and 47 outlets simultaneously discovering nostalgia. 10/10. 10/10. 10/10. 10/10. the medium is over. we found it. pack it up.

British TV commercial in 1986: Child running through a tropical island to a temple designed by HR Giger. Shot on 35mm at magic hour, directed by Ridley Scott. British TV commercial in 2026: Man in a hoodie in a grey kitchen turns into a pile of Mini-Eggs. Slogan: “Find Your Yes”

@esrtweet I was there just hours earlier today and it nearly brought me to tears. I’m not religious. I last saw it about 20 years ago. It’s surely the finest building on the planet.

I toured the Sagrada Familia in 1971 with my family. I have never forgotten that experience. I was 13 years old, and the projected completion date of the cathedral they gave us then seemed impossibly far in the future. The interior is utterly bizarre, like a hallucination about exotic biology frozen in stone. There is nothing anything like it anywhere else in the world, and that's why I'm glad they've finally finished it.

@petefowlerart @EdSunspot An absolute trip of a tune

So good, plus @EdSunspot video is spoiling us