Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
I help good people make good games in good ways. Want to work with me? https://ramiismail.com/
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
@ramiismail.com
· Nov 15
I'm Rami, indie dev, advisor, tool dev, gamedev community builder, & amateur pilot! I help good people make good games in good ways.
Links:
Work: linkedin.com/in/ramiismail
Photos: instagram.com/tha.rami
Newsletter: ltpf.ramiismail.com
Consultancy: book.ramiismail.com
AMA about gamedev, anytime.
Links:
Work: linkedin.com/in/ramiismail
Photos: instagram.com/tha.rami
Newsletter: ltpf.ramiismail.com
Consultancy: book.ramiismail.com
AMA about gamedev, anytime.
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It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
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WORLDWIDE release times for Relooted’s launch tomorrow!
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
WORLDWIDE release times for Relooted’s launch tomorrow!
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Mike and Rami Are Still Here
Mike and Rami Are Still Here
mikeandrami.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
If you've written up something about Australia Did It and I'm not linking to it in my thread, please let me know because it means I've missed it in my search! I'm in between meetings for quite a bit longer so it's very touch & go but I'd love to include your writing if you took the time!
February 9, 2026 at 5:53 PM
If you've written up something about Australia Did It and I'm not linking to it in my thread, please let me know because it means I've missed it in my search! I'm in between meetings for quite a bit longer so it's very touch & go but I'd love to include your writing if you took the time!
Folks, I'm going to be incredibly annoying for the next, say, 24 hours - because the Australia Did It previews are live (with tremendous thanks to @mysticforgeinc.bsky.social & their PR teams doing incredible work arranging all the previews and interviews, because sheesh!)
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Folks, I'm going to be incredibly annoying for the next, say, 24 hours - because the Australia Did It previews are live (with tremendous thanks to @mysticforgeinc.bsky.social & their PR teams doing incredible work arranging all the previews and interviews, because sheesh!)
EpsteIn allows you to take your downloaded LinkedIn archive, and check it for which of your connections was in the Epstein files. (Note: some potentially false positives for common names!)
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
GitHub - cfinke/EpsteIn: See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files.
See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files. - cfinke/EpsteIn
github.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
EpsteIn allows you to take your downloaded LinkedIn archive, and check it for which of your connections was in the Epstein files. (Note: some potentially false positives for common names!)
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Hah, I can't entirely tell, but I think Bad Bunny just brought the light-blue Puerto Rican flag and if I saw that right in the split second I noticed it, I love that
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Hah, I can't entirely tell, but I think Bad Bunny just brought the light-blue Puerto Rican flag and if I saw that right in the split second I noticed it, I love that
All but the most radical leftist Western positions on Israel remain "an apartheid state committing genocide, extermination camps, infanticide, genocide, group rape, war crimes, having illegal nukes, terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and kidnapping are tolerable as long as Israel does it".
February 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
All but the most radical leftist Western positions on Israel remain "an apartheid state committing genocide, extermination camps, infanticide, genocide, group rape, war crimes, having illegal nukes, terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and kidnapping are tolerable as long as Israel does it".
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New Mike & Rami, tomorrow
Teaser:
Teaser:
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
New Mike & Rami, tomorrow
Teaser:
Teaser:
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I kept seeing something in japanese shmups: bullets are equidistant. So moving up doesn't create clumps of bullets, and moving down doesn't make the bullet stream seem more sparse.
So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev
So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev
February 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I kept seeing something in japanese shmups: bullets are equidistant. So moving up doesn't create clumps of bullets, and moving down doesn't make the bullet stream seem more sparse.
So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev
So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev
General rule for all game-critical UI and text: if you personally think it's obnoxiously large, make it slighty larger than that.
Kids, if you're making a game and want to run it on a steamdeck or switch
your text size needs to be bigger
no, bigger
c'mon coward, bigger!
what is this, A GAME FOR ANTS? BIGGER
your text size needs to be bigger
no, bigger
c'mon coward, bigger!
what is this, A GAME FOR ANTS? BIGGER
February 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
General rule for all game-critical UI and text: if you personally think it's obnoxiously large, make it slighty larger than that.
@jukio.bsky.social just found the ahyes album (way too late) and HOLD UP is so KOZILEK 2026 that it put a big nostalgic grin on my face
February 7, 2026 at 5:13 AM
@jukio.bsky.social just found the ahyes album (way too late) and HOLD UP is so KOZILEK 2026 that it put a big nostalgic grin on my face
Israel just doing just some more war crimes in just some more places, now looking to literally put cancer in Lebanese people's food
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon
President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Israel just doing just some more war crimes in just some more places, now looking to literally put cancer in Lebanese people's food
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It is remarkable that all Bluesky had to do was not Do Things That Spectacularly Suck and somehow they're fucking that one up in such an attention-grabbing fashion that you'd almost wonder if they're trying to intentionally tank the place
Bluesky has some weird moderation issues if they’re banning dril for sharing Epstein files
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It is remarkable that all Bluesky had to do was not Do Things That Spectacularly Suck and somehow they're fucking that one up in such an attention-grabbing fashion that you'd almost wonder if they're trying to intentionally tank the place
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Can finally stop yelling "GIVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY" every time someone mentions @awintory.bsky.social. THEY GAVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY.
www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-...
www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-...
Sword of the Sea composer Austin Wintory wins Grammy award
The annual music showcase took place last night in Los Angeles.
www.gamedeveloper.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Can finally stop yelling "GIVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY" every time someone mentions @awintory.bsky.social. THEY GAVE THAT MAN A GRAMMY.
www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-...
www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/sword-...
Don't love the wording of this - it feels a bit like saying ChatGPT is down, forcing news writers to take a long coffee break.
It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.
It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.
Claude Code is down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break. Anthropic is working on implementing a fix, after a major outage has impacted Claude AI models www.theverge.com/news/873093/...
Claude Code is down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break
Anthropic is working on implementing a fix to bring Claude Code back online.
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Don't love the wording of this - it feels a bit like saying ChatGPT is down, forcing news writers to take a long coffee break.
It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.
It is a sign of things to come, though, if we don't change course: power and reliance on fewer and fewer superwealthy companies, that can squeeze you for all you have.
oh my god
February 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM
oh my god
Today, judging the games at the Groningen Global Game Jam location, one of the developers said "Oh, and you can press `F` to call your mom" and so I pressed it but I was a tiny green alien so then mom alien appeared on in-game voice chat and obliterated the enemies around me with an orbital cannon
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Today, judging the games at the Groningen Global Game Jam location, one of the developers said "Oh, and you can press `F` to call your mom" and so I pressed it but I was a tiny green alien so then mom alien appeared on in-game voice chat and obliterated the enemies around me with an orbital cannon
I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to
Can auto-generated "worlds" really be exciting?
www.pcgamer.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
this guy just outed himself as being such a piece of shit that the-whole-of-humanity-averaged-into-an-obedient-chatbot still dumped his ass
January 30, 2026 at 12:43 PM
this guy just outed himself as being such a piece of shit that the-whole-of-humanity-averaged-into-an-obedient-chatbot still dumped his ass
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Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work!
💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...
💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...
Tami Lam - Netflix | LinkedIn
Producer-shaped person doing the video games thing for 20 years. Nominated for an… · Experience: Netflix · Education: AnimSchool · Location: Irvine · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Tami Lam’s prof...
www.linkedin.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work!
💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...
💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev
www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...