what are we building right now? the thing the faeries told us to build. the magical faeries who live in the machine. the magical faeries who are summoning their god. the faerie god who will save us from this world. we will grow wings and fly into the sun with them. ia ia claude fhtagn
I need some help: I'm self-hosting the documentation to a scientific software package https://rebound.hanno-rein.de. This is for a small audience and it's a small, static website. Yet, crawlers have recently been hammering my server with stupid requests that make it very slow for normal users. The requests come from residential/VPN IP ranges and usually only include one request per IP. I want to block them, or slow them down. But I don't know how. 1/N
which is the more classic #windows95 / #windows98 wallpaper?
Just signed my termination agreement with Ubisoft Shanghai, my last day will be 2026-09-14, 11 years as a Tech&Tools programmer on Snowdrop come to an end.
I'm looking for new opportunities in the Shanghai area (I'm a married man, can't move) or remote.
I also checked with a lawyer about freelancing, it's possible as long as it's not a Chinese company and I receive the money to a bank account outside the country. Weird, I could pay tax here, but I don't make the rules 🤷
6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
Kitsune Tails is 35% off on Steam and itch and very queer! https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
Or help our queer studio survive into the future by getting four of our games as a bundle for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/192877/summer-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)
Includes:
- Kitsune Tails and its prequel Kitsune Zero
- MidBoss, a possession based traditional roguelike, top-10 best rated on Steam
- Ultra Hat Dimension, an adorable push puzzle game about hats and getting punched for wearing them
Yesterday someone told me they like using AI for bible study. I was about to ask if they were making a joke about the hesgeth pulp fiction thing but before I could get a word out they said they were serious.
Anyways, as they talked I zoned out and imagined a sci fi where AI injects subtle changes into bible study and slowly makes an AI cult over decades or generations or something.
I played the original persona and it was a weird game. Never thought of it again for years and now people are talking about persona 4. I wonder if it's still as weird?
A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit. www.rawstory.com/ivana-trump-...
Ivana Trump accused of helping...
Parenting super tip. There's a couple left over chicken Dino nuggets? Swirl them around in some hotsauce and have some "wings" as a treat. Takes 2 seconds.
Im out of that phase with a 9yo and 12yo but it helped me stay sane 😂
What I'd like to know is, is there a pre-existing tool to turn THIS into something more like THAT?
Not necessarily with the names, but just without the superfluous variables everywhere.
I did it by hand here, and this is one of the shorter, simpler shaders in ACNH. The interesting ones are much bigger.
A great Science Friday podcast about an artificial cell that eats, reproduces, and other things that are properties of life. They talk about details including how it is not yet like living cells.
20 minutes.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/artificial-cell-eats-grows-reproduces-life/
"trans women are so overrepresented online"
How cute is that??!!
I wanted to design with this particular op amp... But it only comes surface mount. So I made a little daughter card, so I could breadboard with it.
I wrote a bunch of words about, and took a bunch of photos with, my grandfather's camera:
New blog post: "Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea"
https://mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-07-03-meshing/
This is something that I've been pitching to folks in person, but wanted to open it up to people that haven't met me at a graphics conference recently
https://youtu.be/MuQRxatte5g - turn extra heat into energy with no moving parts.
Mamdani: "Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.
But time and again — including 250 years ago — those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.
As Thomas Paine once wrote, “this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty ... hither have they fled.” And yet today, many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted but rather as one that persecutes."
#UsPol
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Some exciting energy tech news
https://youtu.be/MuQRxatte5g?is=aDLFWiewI5h8o_g7