Joel Auterson | DWG out now!
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Irish game dev, poet, cat dad. I make games at @bearwaves.com, maintain the eos4j library and the Growl game engine! he/him
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We're announcing our new game! Dave's Word Game is a brand new daily word puzzle. We've been building it over the last year and we think it's really fun. We're releasing it for free, on iOS and Android, on December 15th. Give us a follow to see more updates, we'll be sharing more very soon!
Finally announcing our next game! DWG is built in my own game engine, Growl, and while it's hardly earth-shattering tech I'm really quite proud to be shipping something with it.
It does but it’s super low effort, you just kinda leave it to do its thing!
February 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
It does but it’s super low effort, you just kinda leave it to do its thing!
We made this and it did indeed take literally all day but it was so worth it. Really recommend the black dal too!
February 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM
We made this and it did indeed take literally all day but it was so worth it. Really recommend the black dal too!
The way these questions are framed is utterly enraging but if you have the stomach for it please do it
Calling on other UK immigrants and pro immigration citizens, today is the last day (til 11.59pm) to fill in the public consultation on the proposed changes to Earned Settlement, most notably moving the timeline from 5 years to 10 years www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
The way these questions are framed is utterly enraging but if you have the stomach for it please do it
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Oh his mum did too, I'm sure that only adds to it
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Oh his mum did too, I'm sure that only adds to it
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"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch."
This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.
This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.
A Dialogue with Austin Walker - Unwinnable
Austin Walker is a writer, game developer, and a prolific podcast host.
unwinnable.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch."
This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.
This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.
This is a great post and I found it quite affecting. My dad sounds similar - worked as an engineer for years, always early adopter of new technology, now he needs my help with simple things. This exacerbates his anxiety that the Parkinson’s is making his brain slower when, no, it’s the computer, dad
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This is a great post and I found it quite affecting. My dad sounds similar - worked as an engineer for years, always early adopter of new technology, now he needs my help with simple things. This exacerbates his anxiety that the Parkinson’s is making his brain slower when, no, it’s the computer, dad
could be totally off base here but this came up in a conversation I had a couple months ago - I think this happens because the prime minister’s spokesperson is a rotating civil service position and not someone who is necessarily involved with the party or the prime minister in specific
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
could be totally off base here but this came up in a conversation I had a couple months ago - I think this happens because the prime minister’s spokesperson is a rotating civil service position and not someone who is necessarily involved with the party or the prime minister in specific
What do Pokemon smell like?
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
What do Pokemon smell like?
Early contender for my favourite song of the year off the new Cory Wong album. Probably unsurprising that it's the Theo Katzman one youtu.be/hwOwJNmiswo?...
"Lisa Never Wanted To Be Famous" // Cory Wong and Theo Katzman
YouTube video by Cory Wong
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February 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Early contender for my favourite song of the year off the new Cory Wong album. Probably unsurprising that it's the Theo Katzman one youtu.be/hwOwJNmiswo?...
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
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no, not that kind of performance, we can't help you with that
February 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
no, not that kind of performance, we can't help you with that
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Ahh I’m sad I missed this one
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Ahh I’m sad I missed this one
If you’re seeing this and you’ve not yet given our game a go, please do? It’s free and you’d help us with The Algorithm! www.playdwg.com
Dave's Word Game
A new daily word game. Find words, clear squares, and aim for the top score.
www.playdwg.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
If you’re seeing this and you’ve not yet given our game a go, please do? It’s free and you’d help us with The Algorithm! www.playdwg.com
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If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.
Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...
Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...
Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny
jonathancook.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.
Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...
Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...
Was quite proud of this word but alas it did nothing for me
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Was quite proud of this word but alas it did nothing for me
Yeeaaah so it turns out the effect of forgetting (for years) to cache the transform matrices in a scene graph is quite substantial 😅
February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Yeeaaah so it turns out the effect of forgetting (for years) to cache the transform matrices in a scene graph is quite substantial 😅
Pragmata finally answering the question "what if Kojima made Banjo-Kazooie?"
February 5, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Pragmata finally answering the question "what if Kojima made Banjo-Kazooie?"
The anecdote about the lightning is true but what this leaves out is that the third member of our party had to change his trousers on the side of a mountain in a thunderstorm because he was showing early signs of hypothermia.
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The anecdote about the lightning is true but what this leaves out is that the third member of our party had to change his trousers on the side of a mountain in a thunderstorm because he was showing early signs of hypothermia.
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
“Elon Musk really wanted to be a pedophile but none of the pedophiles wanted to be anywhere near him” is just the most Elon possible information to come out of those files isn’t it
February 1, 2026 at 11:45 AM
“Elon Musk really wanted to be a pedophile but none of the pedophiles wanted to be anywhere near him” is just the most Elon possible information to come out of those files isn’t it
People have done this in LOTRO, takes about nine hours in real time
February 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
People have done this in LOTRO, takes about nine hours in real time