Martin Tlaskal
@martintlaskal.bsky.social
Aussie in London. FilmLight Director, Baselight developer and LFC fan
www.filmlight.ltd.uk
www.filmlight.ltd.uk
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omfg how did I forget it's TODAY, I somehow thought it is Feb 16 and I totally forgot my first baby's birthday, which is TODAY!
Firewatch is 10 years old *today*
Firewatch is 10 years old *today*
Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
omfg how did I forget it's TODAY, I somehow thought it is Feb 16 and I totally forgot my first baby's birthday, which is TODAY!
Firewatch is 10 years old *today*
Firewatch is 10 years old *today*
Only way we’re getting back in the CL is if we win it.
February 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Only way we’re getting back in the CL is if we win it.
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Alisson, who also lost his father too young, running across the full pitch to hug a crying Ibrahima Konaté after his goal. Hard to find words.
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Alisson, who also lost his father too young, running across the full pitch to hug a crying Ibrahima Konaté after his goal. Hard to find words.
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good god my laptop just updated to the new ios and... <must be positive must be positive> I'm really looking forward to that new head of design guy who apparently knows what he's doing absolutely sandblasting away AT LEAST the last 2 versions of ios + osx because ... fucking hell.
January 23, 2026 at 10:35 PM
good god my laptop just updated to the new ios and... <must be positive must be positive> I'm really looking forward to that new head of design guy who apparently knows what he's doing absolutely sandblasting away AT LEAST the last 2 versions of ios + osx because ... fucking hell.
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Interesting framing of “centaurs” vs. “reverse centaurs” in this essay about AI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Interesting framing of “centaurs” vs. “reverse centaurs” in this essay about AI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Genuinely a bit shocked about how flagrant and disgusting this all is. A baseless, illegal invasion.
January 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Genuinely a bit shocked about how flagrant and disgusting this all is. A baseless, illegal invasion.
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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".
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".
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...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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".
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".
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… couldn’t be happier for him. A bona fide legend, for club and country, and, quite clearly, a wonderful human being. Have a bevvy lad and go tear it up in Disneyland.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
… couldn’t be happier for him. A bona fide legend, for club and country, and, quite clearly, a wonderful human being. Have a bevvy lad and go tear it up in Disneyland.
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An animated loop basd on the games of the ZX Spectrum 8 bit micro from the 1980s
This was made in photoshop and Blender and just a fun little tribute to my all time favourite home computer
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
This was made in photoshop and Blender and just a fun little tribute to my all time favourite home computer
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
An animated loop basd on the games of the ZX Spectrum 8 bit micro from the 1980s
This was made in photoshop and Blender and just a fun little tribute to my all time favourite home computer
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
This was made in photoshop and Blender and just a fun little tribute to my all time favourite home computer
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
I'll be doing a couple of presentations at IBC2025 on Sat the 13th and Sun the 14th. Come along if you're interested in the latest developments in Baselight. luma.com/o0e1cbet
Baselight Exclusives · Luma
Meet us at the Hotel nhow Amsterdam RAI, close to the Convention Centre
Saturday 13th – Sunday 14th September
We’ll be hosting public demonstrations of…
luma.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'll be doing a couple of presentations at IBC2025 on Sat the 13th and Sun the 14th. Come along if you're interested in the latest developments in Baselight. luma.com/o0e1cbet
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my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru
July 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru
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It’s absolutely the right thing for Apple Vision Pro to support hand controllers, but they need to ship in the box before any game developers will bother to support them.
June 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It’s absolutely the right thing for Apple Vision Pro to support hand controllers, but they need to ship in the box before any game developers will bother to support them.
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I really, really, really dislike year-based software version numbers.
May 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I really, really, really dislike year-based software version numbers.
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I’m excited to announce (belatedly) that @videovillage.com has released a Linux port of their plugin manager, built with SwiftCrossUI and Swift Bundler!
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’m excited to announce (belatedly) that @videovillage.com has released a Linux port of their plugin manager, built with SwiftCrossUI and Swift Bundler!
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Very wholesome to see a bunch of kids at the cup final buzzing off that palace opener
May 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Very wholesome to see a bunch of kids at the cup final buzzing off that palace opener
New Q&A video outlining what’s unique about Nara, FilmLight’s new media management product. nara.stream/news/questio...
QUESTIONS with Nara – Nara
nara.stream
May 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New Q&A video outlining what’s unique about Nara, FilmLight’s new media management product. nara.stream/news/questio...
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Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏
We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch
If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️
Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch
If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️
Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏
We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch
If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️
Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch
If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️
Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
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Not gonna lie, seeing the items available for auction from the Technicolor Culver City office is very sad.
There are SO many.
www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...
There are SO many.
www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...
April 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Not gonna lie, seeing the items available for auction from the Technicolor Culver City office is very sad.
There are SO many.
www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...
There are SO many.
www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...
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Can’t hate Trent. He did his bit.
We’ll be alright.
We’ll be alright.
March 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Can’t hate Trent. He did his bit.
We’ll be alright.
We’ll be alright.
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Conclave is profoundly, exultantly, my bag. I’d have watched a 10 hour version of that.
March 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Conclave is profoundly, exultantly, my bag. I’d have watched a 10 hour version of that.
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ALISSON RAMSES BECKER YOU GORGEOUS DEMI-GOD OF A MAN #LFC
a soccer player wearing a yellow jersey is giving a thumbs up .
ALT: a soccer player wearing a yellow jersey is giving a thumbs up .
media.tenor.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
ALISSON RAMSES BECKER YOU GORGEOUS DEMI-GOD OF A MAN #LFC
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I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)!
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
GitHub - NVIDIA-RTX/RTXNTC: NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression SDK
NVIDIA Neural Texture Compression SDK. Contribute to NVIDIA-RTX/RTXNTC development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)!
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R...
NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.
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Pro-tip - when reading stories about "AI" always change it to "AI share price". Then they make a lot more more sense. If not in a happy way.
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Pro-tip - when reading stories about "AI" always change it to "AI share price". Then they make a lot more more sense. If not in a happy way.