Goes without saying that people’s energy bills have been hurting for a long time, and should ultimately be the main focus of any changes.

I’m glad DESNZ is finally considering this, but as always it’s never that simple. The excess the renewables make from the match to gas generation funds more renewable infra build, will this reduce the amount of renewables coming online and therefore longer term bill savings?

Personal photo of an aurora (northern lights) occurring in north England. Against a star backdrop, a strong band of green with pillars, and a purple haze typical of a stronger aurora sighting.

Friday night’s aurora!

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Beyond proud to see Heatly as a case study in the Warm Homes Plan, especially our AR Room Scanner which I worked on! 🎉

You can find us on page 141 amongst some other great companies pushing forward the transition 🍃

No ban on gas boilers in UK warm homes plan but heat pumps get £2.7bn push Government opts against phasing out new boilers by 2035 in effort to cut energy bills by as much as £1,000 a year

The press release for the Warm Homes Plan - the long-awaited Warm Homes Plan! - is out

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Delighted to publish this personal essay by me and John: Getting Britain out of the hole.

We wanted to write something quite readable that covers the big picture of the UK’s economic struggles. Hopefully we’ve managed at least one of those!
@johnspringford.bsky.social

getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

The UK’s first National Emergency Briefing on the #Climate & Nature crisis was held on the 27th November.

Sign an open letter to Keir Starmer on the climate crisis.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Government set to expand scheme to include air conditioning heat pumps Government expands heat pump scheme to include heat batteries and 'air-to-air devices' that can cool homes in summer, despite speculation over budget cuts

Heat pumps news! DESNZ is expanding the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to cover air to air heat pumps and heat batteries.
Both will be eligible for a £2,500 grant if it fully replaces a gas or oil boiler…

www.businessgreen.com/news/4521952...

I know it's not the coolest thing to bring up and not many people seem to care, but my website is hosted in a local datacenter powered entirely by wind energy and certified under ISO-14001. So my #gameassets are a good choice if you care about the environment 🌲

gs_Shelter by andybak on Icosa Gallery Check out "gs_Shelter" and more work by andybak on Icosa Gallery

We sneaked out support for Gaussian Splats using the very groovy three.js plugin Spark: icosa.gallery/view/ZTLkNjE...

The Steam Frame is here: 'a new way to play your entire Steam library' Wireless connectivity, improved optics, new controllers and a chip all of its own, the Steam Frame looks to be worth the wait.

Wow, @openbrush.app name dropped by @valvesoftware.com in this interview as already working with Steam Frame! 🥳 Please still send us dev kits… www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-...

@unity.com finally time to get OpenXR Linux support working?

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

A picture of Quentin Willson standing in a sunny flied near his home

It is with shock and genuine sadness that I learn of the passing of my good friend, long time colleage and just a really kind man, Quentin Willson. He will be sorely missed by many who knew and worked with him.

@ianhamilton.net give this a shot, no promises. It's not a direct APK link, you'll need to unzip first nightly.link/icosa-founda...

For additional context, our Android build is designed to fall back to a viewer mode on generic Android, which is what you’re seeing here. We would have loved to have an Android XR devkit but were ghosted after initial talks and being UK based can’t get one ourselves…

Exclusively OpenXR for Android/PCVR by mikeskydev · Pull Request #798 · icosa-foundation/open-brush This PR implements the early stages of https://github.com/mikeskydev/unity-openxr-extensions, moving away from vendor specific XR SDKs towards using OpenXR for as many features as possible. TODO: ...

github.com/icosa-founda... I’ll see if I can kick off another build for you as the current ones expired, but I’m about to go on holiday. I’m not working in XR at the moment and honestly Meta’s dark patterns in the dev cycle has really worn me down on wanting to support the medium…

Hi Ian, our current build has been limited to the Quest OpenXR loader because of the pain of getting Passthrough working on anything else 😅 I have a long-open PR that moves us to the proper cross-platform version of OpenXR, but was held up because of Logitech not helping us port MX Ink.

Two Ideas At Once Can we manage to hold them both?

Further exploration of some topics I pondered in the recent Almost Breaking News episode.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/two-ideas-...

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | Igalia Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine.

www.igalia.com/2025/10/09/I...

Evolution (abridged)

KA-KAWWW! In case you missed out on our booth at PAX West, our company has taken up bird watching... kinda. Peep Birdseed, a cozy nature-focused VR game where your goal is to snap the rarest birds in the most majestic (or wacky) poses. Learn more about Birdseed ➡️ buff.ly/VDJqFxG

#gamedev #indiedev

Thank you so much!! This is exactly what I wanted from the main OpenXR package, it will greatly speed up extension impl without needing to define types and functions. Looking forward to converting my package to use this when it reaches main release!

Announcement! I've been working on Unity support for the new OpenXR Spatial Entities extensions, and today we shipped a public native API in OpenXR Plug-in 1.16.0-pre.1: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com...

This API is a pure C# port of the OpenXR spec, currently limited to spatial entities.

Yes, I finally got all the software I need to be a VR developer!

I did a bigger write-up on linked-in but I can finally go public with what I've been working on for the past 3 or so months.

OpenXR 1.1.49 adds the much awaited spatial entities extension. Thanks to funding from Khronos, Godot will support this API "today".

github.com/godotengine/...

OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Released for Developer Feedback The Khronos® OpenXR™ Working Group has released a groundbreaking set of OpenXR extensions that establish the first open standard for spatial computing, enabling consistent cross-platform support for p...

I can finally talk about this in the open, HURRAY! OpenXR 1.1.49 dropped today and one of the two big things I've had a small hand in is Spatial Entities support. Watch this space for more news soon!

www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-...

Poster of Kiki's Delivery Service but Kiki has been replaced with Bouba from the Kiki/Bouba linguistics study. The text reads "Bouba's Delivery Service."