hiive
@hiivelabs.com
Developer with almost thirty years of experience. If you follow me expecting me to follow back, you are likely to be disappointed unless your posts interest me.
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https://hiivelabs.com/blog
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hiive
@hiivelabs.com
· May 31
Welcome to bluesky 🙂
I want to get a Playdate just to play this.
Started working on locked chests in my new game, Melkhior's Tower. Clues to the combination will be hidden somewhere around the place, and only Princess Ashby will be able to crank the locks. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
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January 7, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I want to get a Playdate just to play this.
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💡 CSS Tip!
Create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes with fewer than 15 CSS declarations, minimal HTML, and without media queries!
css-tip.com/hexagon-grid/
Improving a 5-year old implementation using modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc)
Create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes with fewer than 15 CSS declarations, minimal HTML, and without media queries!
css-tip.com/hexagon-grid/
Improving a 5-year old implementation using modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc)
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 AM
💡 CSS Tip!
Create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes with fewer than 15 CSS declarations, minimal HTML, and without media queries!
css-tip.com/hexagon-grid/
Improving a 5-year old implementation using modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc)
Create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes with fewer than 15 CSS declarations, minimal HTML, and without media queries!
css-tip.com/hexagon-grid/
Improving a 5-year old implementation using modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc)
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As we enter into 2026: here are a few tips I've developed for posting about AI on Bluesky!
GK's Guide to Posting about AI on Bluesky
A few "do"s and "don't"s
leaflet.pub
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
As we enter into 2026: here are a few tips I've developed for posting about AI on Bluesky!
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#BluePit📖 #SF #A
The Ballad of Matthew Smith - the unofficial novel of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner
🕹 #GameLit
👾 #Retrogaming
🏫 Big house
☎️ Weird gadgets
🐰 Frank
⛏️ Mining
🐛 Strange creatures
Ebook available everywhere
books2read.com/u/bOLa93
Paperback available from the author.
The Ballad of Matthew Smith - the unofficial novel of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner
🕹 #GameLit
👾 #Retrogaming
🏫 Big house
☎️ Weird gadgets
🐰 Frank
⛏️ Mining
🐛 Strange creatures
Ebook available everywhere
books2read.com/u/bOLa93
Paperback available from the author.
July 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#BluePit📖 #SF #A
The Ballad of Matthew Smith - the unofficial novel of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner
🕹 #GameLit
👾 #Retrogaming
🏫 Big house
☎️ Weird gadgets
🐰 Frank
⛏️ Mining
🐛 Strange creatures
Ebook available everywhere
books2read.com/u/bOLa93
Paperback available from the author.
The Ballad of Matthew Smith - the unofficial novel of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner
🕹 #GameLit
👾 #Retrogaming
🏫 Big house
☎️ Weird gadgets
🐰 Frank
⛏️ Mining
🐛 Strange creatures
Ebook available everywhere
books2read.com/u/bOLa93
Paperback available from the author.
Stood behind Terry Pratchett in line in a sandwich shop. I didn't even realize it was him until after I left. He was even wearing the same hat and coat as some of his author photos!
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Stood behind Terry Pratchett in line in a sandwich shop. I didn't even realize it was him until after I left. He was even wearing the same hat and coat as some of his author photos!
If God had not wanted us to eat school children, then why did he make them so tasty?
DO NOT EAT THE SCHOOLCHILDREN IS A GOOD POLICY!
December 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If God had not wanted us to eat school children, then why did he make them so tasty?
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#C64 #Kouyate #RPG progress: working on the town of Eastport, getting all the shops working and finalising the layout.
Also added The Hidden Way, the passage that leads to Pirate's Cove. Now I can get to Pirate's Cove, I'd better get all the shop maps there done...
Cartridge used: 320 of 960K.
Also added The Hidden Way, the passage that leads to Pirate's Cove. Now I can get to Pirate's Cove, I'd better get all the shop maps there done...
Cartridge used: 320 of 960K.
December 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set is now available to preorder at https://bit.ly/3YB2tEK
#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammercommunity #cubicle7 #ttrpgs #theoldworld #gamesworkshop #tabletoproleplay
#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammercommunity #cubicle7 #ttrpgs #theoldworld #gamesworkshop #tabletoproleplay
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set is now available to preorder at https://bit.ly/3YB2tEK
#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammercommunity #cubicle7 #ttrpgs #theoldworld #gamesworkshop #tabletoproleplay
#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammercommunity #cubicle7 #ttrpgs #theoldworld #gamesworkshop #tabletoproleplay
@ericretro.bsky.social Absolute long shot, but I found a facebook post from 11 years ago(!) indicating that you'd downloaded beta 3.1 of jsw:online and the screen editor. I don't suppose you still have those kicking around, do you?
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@ericretro.bsky.social Absolute long shot, but I found a facebook post from 11 years ago(!) indicating that you'd downloaded beta 3.1 of jsw:online and the screen editor. I don't suppose you still have those kicking around, do you?
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Hey, check out my game Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is in the top 100 games at IndieDB, and has a shot at Indie of the Year! #CRPG #Lovecraft #Indie #GameDev #TurnBasedThursday
You can still vote for it here (2 days left)
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
You can still vote for it here (2 days left)
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Hey, check out my game Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is in the top 100 games at IndieDB, and has a shot at Indie of the Year! #CRPG #Lovecraft #Indie #GameDev #TurnBasedThursday
You can still vote for it here (2 days left)
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
You can still vote for it here (2 days left)
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
Well. This is glorious.
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Well. This is glorious.
Superb and creepy bedtime reading.
I still think John Whitbourn's Binscombe Tales would make perfect Christmas Eve listening on the Beeb. (Mark Gatiss should read them.)
wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2022/12/some...
wrong-magazine.blogspot.com/2022/12/some...
Something strange in your Christmas stocking
What's Christmas Eve without a ghost story? Well, here are two, both classics of the English New Weird by its foremost living exponent, J...
wrong-magazine.blogspot.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Superb and creepy bedtime reading.
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A pre-launch review of Whispers Beyond The Stars:
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A pre-launch review of Whispers Beyond The Stars:
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
"Modern #Lovecraft: sleek, eerie, buzzing with uneasy implication rather than melodrama [...] Every decision feels messy, weighty, and uncomfortably human."
I'll take that.
#Cthulhu #gamebook
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Reposting to catch other timezones.
New blog post: Building a Zèrtz AI, Part 1: MCTS, Rust, and Hexagonal Symmetry!
As always, comments and questions are welcome.
#ml#ai#gamedev#graphics
(This is an automated post.)
As always, comments and questions are welcome.
#ml#ai#gamedev#graphics
(This is an automated post.)
Building a Zèrtz AI, Part 1: MCTS, Rust, and Hexagonal Symmetry
Building a Zèrtz AI involves developing a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) engine that navigates the game's complex mechanics, including mandatory captures and dynamic board topology. The implementation utilizes a Rust backend for performance, Python for orchestration, and Panda3D for rendering, with the code available on GitHub. Key challenges addressed include handling forced capture sequences and adapting to the changing adjacency graph as the board shrinks. Future enhancements may focus on optimizing the search algorithm and exploring the implications of hexagonal symmetry on the game's strategic depth.
hiivelabs.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposting to catch other timezones.
New blog post: Building a Zèrtz AI, Part 1: MCTS, Rust, and Hexagonal Symmetry!
As always, comments and questions are welcome.
#ml#ai#gamedev#graphics
(This is an automated post.)
As always, comments and questions are welcome.
#ml#ai#gamedev#graphics
(This is an automated post.)
Building a Zèrtz AI, Part 1: MCTS, Rust, and Hexagonal Symmetry
Building a Zèrtz AI involves developing a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) engine that navigates the game's complex mechanics, including mandatory captures and dynamic board topology. The implementation utilizes a Rust backend for performance, Python for orchestration, and Panda3D for rendering, with the code available on GitHub. Key challenges addressed include handling forced capture sequences and adapting to the changing adjacency graph as the board shrinks. Future enhancements may focus on optimizing the search algorithm and exploring the implications of hexagonal symmetry on the game's strategic depth.
hiivelabs.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This is not a good look, Steam.
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is not a good look, Steam.
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don't forget ACA plans deadline this year is DECEMBER 15th not january
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
don't forget ACA plans deadline this year is DECEMBER 15th not january
I love these books. Classic pulp at its finest.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I love these books. Classic pulp at its finest.
If I owned a cereal company, I'd be putting Peace Prizes in every box right now.
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I owned a cereal company, I'd be putting Peace Prizes in every box right now.
This has been at least forty years of planning and execution. They played the long game, and it's clearly paying dividends. Longer term though, this is not good for them either.
Just so you know almost 1/3rd of us adults are now illiterate.
#america
#america
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This has been at least forty years of planning and execution. They played the long game, and it's clearly paying dividends. Longer term though, this is not good for them either.
@wisp.place I'm playing around with some toy websites, and occasionally I get a really unhelpful message in the deploy log:
[WISP] stderr: × client error
╰─▶ jacquard::agent::client
× client error
Any idea what this is? And is there any way you could make the error info more helpful?
[WISP] stderr: × client error
╰─▶ jacquard::agent::client
× client error
Any idea what this is? And is there any way you could make the error info more helpful?
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
@wisp.place I'm playing around with some toy websites, and occasionally I get a really unhelpful message in the deploy log:
[WISP] stderr: × client error
╰─▶ jacquard::agent::client
× client error
Any idea what this is? And is there any way you could make the error info more helpful?
[WISP] stderr: × client error
╰─▶ jacquard::agent::client
× client error
Any idea what this is? And is there any way you could make the error info more helpful?
Does the #Bluesky #iOS app hang after playing a video for anyone else?
It seems to happen about 90% of the time. It will freeze at the end of the video, and there's no visible way to return to the timeline without restarting the app. @support.bsky.team
It seems to happen about 90% of the time. It will freeze at the end of the video, and there's no visible way to return to the timeline without restarting the app. @support.bsky.team
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Does the #Bluesky #iOS app hang after playing a video for anyone else?
It seems to happen about 90% of the time. It will freeze at the end of the video, and there's no visible way to return to the timeline without restarting the app. @support.bsky.team
It seems to happen about 90% of the time. It will freeze at the end of the video, and there's no visible way to return to the timeline without restarting the app. @support.bsky.team
I didn't realize it was that easy! D'oh. What have I been doing with my life?!
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't realize it was that easy! D'oh. What have I been doing with my life?!
The only thing they should be redacting is the name of the victims. Assholes.
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The only thing they should be redacting is the name of the victims. Assholes.