Author holding an electric guitar tenderly.

Today is a #NGD or alternatively a #uuskeppipäivä 🎸🇯🇵

vetovoima gameplay, 2026 version. You can play the game in your browser (desktop). Try it!

Built with #bevy

yourmagicisworking.itch.io/vetovoima

vetovoima alpha 2 released!

You can now play "vetovoima" in the browser! This little arcade game is pretty unique - you control gravity in a circular world to reach the goal before the time runs out.

#gamedev #bevy

yourmagicisworking.itch.io/vetovoima/de...

The general brazenness of how LLMs were conceived seems to have influenced the use of LLMs at work. When organizations are pushing use of "AI" heavily, it can lead to reckless sourcing of data. This blurs access control and makes PII usage harder to audit.

Konsolisota, by Paimentolaiselämä 2 track album

It's Bandcamp Friday! While my band's working on new songs, check out our latest release from two years ago! We play slightly angular alternative rock music (or "action rock", like it says on the cover).

paimentolaiselama.bandcamp.com/album/konsol...

Life Is Bliss / Sway, by Butsku 2 track album

The new @bandcamp.com embeds are a solid excuse to share my best bedroom-producer work. It's worth a listen if you're into dream-pop or shoegaze!

butsku.bandcamp.com/album/life-i...

Bad Grades — LocalThunk Years ago, when I was in what was supposed to be my final year of University, I decided to drop out of engineering. The people were great, my marks were fine. I just didn’t have passion for it and the...

Another honest and inspiring post by @localthunk.com.

localthunk.com/blog/bad-gra...

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

In the next #Liikennematto version: savegames, in the URL!

Whenever you build something and the procgen does its thing, your creation is automatically saved. Share it with anyone by simply sending them the link!

A selfie of the author with Paul McCartney playing piano live on the background (seen from a large screen as well as in person).

That’s Sir Paul McCartney, right there…!! 🥹

Tried this and it worked! One more year of Windows 10 ahead, thank goodness.

TIL! That’s great. I really wouldn’t like to upgrade unless I have to.

Correction to the last step: I meant to say ”turn on secure boot to support UEFI”.

Some PCs like mine require manual steps to qualify for the Windows 11 upgrade:

- convert MBR to GPT
- disable CSM (compatibility support module)
- turn on UEFI

Technical, yes. Difficult, no. I would gladly help a relative or a neighbor if they asked with this.

The Finnish media has called these machines ”waste” or ”obsolete” despite them running Linux just fine. Because of this I’ve seen people think that the PCs won’t even start after the deadline. 1/2

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life (Audio) YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

Rest In Power. Another great one consumed by cancer 💔

youtu.be/MTAnBM0ZdVI?...

Staying at home with 1 and 5 years old kids who have a flu, while you are under the weather as well, is taxing to say the least.

2022: Ah, someone forked Liikennematto!
2025: Ah, someone forked Liikennematto and had Jules translate it from Elm to JavaScript 🥴

"A complete and functional JavaScript version of the game"
(looks like the 2020 prototype, runs into an infinite loop and crashes after a few secs)

#livingwithLLMs

I’m Slow — LocalThunk Hello people, long time no chat! I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025. I know, I announced that it would, but it has become clear now th...

I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date:

localthunk.com/blog/im-slow

TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done"

Please read the blog post for more details

Liikennematto by yourmagicisworking Build the roads and the town comes to life

yourmagicisworking.itch.io/liikennematto

In the next version of Liikennematto, it's easier to keep lots when making changes to connected roads. I've added 19 new lot entry tiles to accommodate all possible configurations of nearby roads. You can now, for example, create a cute cul-de-sac!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨

✨ Big O ✨

Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o.

With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

I’ll add that O(nm) is used for 2D array based functions (e.g. inner loop).

Maybe this is something that warrants a mention, like a footnote (to avoid complicating the meat of the article)?

Right. I’ve seen examples with multiple components, signalling that an algorithm has multiple expensive operations to it (for example, in a gamedev book). In a case of two linear components, there is no clear winner, I guess?

Great post, as expected! 💯

I wonder about the buildList example, though. The time complexity analysis of the function seems to omit the .join() operation, which makes the big O value either O(n^2+n) or O(2n), right?

A portrait of two people smiling in an industrial setting.

Five years married to this wonderful person ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This had a good chance to age like milk with yesterday’s GPT-5 release, alas, it did not. Incremental improvements.

That’s a lot of modern SW dev jargon in a single skeet! Explain this to a programmer from the previous century…