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Freelance dev‘n‘oops, mostly working on factorio.com, also webrecorder.org and vnznz.itch.io
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vinzenz.bsky.social
TIL you can use `pymongo.operations.UpdateOne` with bulk_write(), bulk_write(), bulk_write() and bulk_write().
Screenshot from the pymongo docs with this text: class pymongo.operations.UpdateOne(filter, update, upsert=None, collation=None, array_filters=None, hint=None, namespace=None, sort=None) Represents an update_one operation. For use with bulk_write(), bulk_write(), bulk_write() and bulk_write().
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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gereonas.bsky.social
Ich schüttel jetzt einfach mal mit dem Kopf. #Klöckner
larswienand.bsky.social Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · Aug 17
Julia Klöckner sieht die Frage der Meinungsfreiheit als das nächste bestimmende Thema nach Flüchtlingskrise und Corona.
Sie sag, taz und Nius unterschieden sich “in Methodik nicht so sehr” (was ich für falsch halte), in der Demokratie sei es Pflicht, beide zu ertragen.
Juli Klöckner und Frank Gotthardt, Finanzier von Nius, schütteln Hände. Julio Kläcknrr spricht
August 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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vuvuuinc.bsky.social
A Thing of Beauty! 🥔
#indiedev #videogames #gamedev #pixelart
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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ramiismail.com
This trailer is incredible.

youtu.be/efMgfRTalT8
Low-Budget Repairs Trailer
YouTube video by gray2rgb
youtu.be
August 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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jwaaaap.com
when you ask for feedback and get feedback but what you really wanted was encouragement
marxologist.bsky.social Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · Aug 2
Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
Here is the column I wrote on the theme "What I Would have liked to Know About Germany Earlier," along with the additional reflections I provided at Zeit Magazin's request. -A society governed by regulations, yet lacking individual moral judgement, is more dangerous than one with none at all. -A society that values obedience without questioning authority is destined to become corrupt. -A society that admits to error but refuses to reflect on its origins possesses a mind as stubborn and dull as granite. -Here, at a deserted street, people stop dutifully at a red light. Not a car in sight. This, I once thought, is the mark of a highly evolved society. -At the heart of bureaucracy lies a collective endorsement of power's legitimacy, and therefore, individuals surrender their moral judgement–or perhaps never developed one. They abandon challenge. They relinquish dispute. -When conversation becomes avoidance, when topics must not be mentioned, we are already living under the quiet logic of authoritarianism. -When the majority believe they live in a free society, it is often a sign that the society is not free. Freedom is not a gift; it must be wrestled from the hands of banality and the quiet complicity with power. -When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society's very foundations of justice. -When public events of great consequence–such as the Nord Stream Pipeline bombing–are met with silence from both government and media, the silence itself becomes more terrifying than any atomic bomb. -Facts are acknowledged partially, forgotten deliberately, or swallowed by collective silence. And so we repeat catastrophe–against and again, in cycles. -When the media becomes a servant of public opinion, or avoids conflict to maintain favour with existing powers, it becomes an accomplice to authority. What we call lies are not always distortions of fact. -Political leaders make decisions steeped in fallacy & failure. This reflects the broader political condition of a society in which most people have surrendered their awareness & even their basic agency–allowing such leaders to enact their mistakes on their behalf -When a society uses linguistic difference or cultural misunderstanding as excuses for exclusion, it has crossed into a more insidious form of racism. This is not a political opinion–it is an attitude, a stain in blood, passed down like genes -Bureaucracy is not merely sluggish. It is a cultural scorn. It rejects the possibility of dialogue. It insists that ignorance, codified into policy, no matter how wrong & inhumane it is, remains the best resistance against social mobility, against moral motion. In such a society, hope is not misplaced. It is extinguished -In the surrounding atmosphere, one sees not culture, but self-congratulation; not art, but insularity & collective reverence for power. What is missing is sincerity–honesty of emotion & of intention. In such an environment, art that grapples with true human feeling or moral reckoning is nearly impossible to produce. -A place that routinely discards self-awareness & erases individual agency is one that lives under iron walls of authoritarianism -I have no family, no fatherland, never known what it is to belong. I belong only to myself. In the best of circumstances, that self should belong to everyone. I still do not know what art is. I only hope that what I make might touch its edges while it seems unrelated to anything. & in truth, in the best of circumstances it is unrelated to me, for the "I" already melts into everything -Those things found in galleries, museums, & collectors' living room–are they art? Who has declared them so? On what basis? Why do I always feel suspicion in their presence? -Works that evade reality, that shy away from argument, from controversy, from debate–be they text, painting, or performance–are worthless. -I understand now: people crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. at times, even like catastrophe. -Under most circumstances, society selects the most selfish, least idealistic among us to take on the work we call "art" because that choice makes everyone feel safe. Additional reflections -In Berlin, I encounter the ever-present Schweinshaxe and Schnitzel, and I can hardly believe that such a highly developed, industrialised country offers such a monotonous selection of ingredients. Even more baffling is the sudden proliferation of Chinese restaurants–most of them noodle-based, and operating at a culinary level that any Chinese person could easily achieve at home. The variety of food and cooking methods is so limited here that people form all over the world feel compelled to open restaurants: Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish–you name it. -But the truly horrifying part? The sheer number of Chinese restaurants. I can only assume they believe that no matter what ends up on the plate, German customers will come running. In front of some of these establishments, there are even long queues–yet the food they serve bears little resemblance to anything recognisably Chinese. My favourite food in Germany is the bread and sausage–you simply can't find ones with such distinctive character anywhere else. -I'm puzzled by why so many people would willingly cram themselves into a small bar just to have a long conversation. Since I don't speak the language, I can only imagine that the young people coming to Berlin would talk about clubbing. This sort of thing was all the rage in the U.S. back in the '70s and '80s. -The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humour. This could be the result of their deep reverence for rationality. Just look at Berlin Airport or the advertisements for Mercedes-Benz cars–you start to feel that their lack of humour has become a kind of immense humour in itself
August 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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mode7games.bsky.social
Wrote about doing things in the right order when designing a game - open.substack.com/pub/modecoll...
Order of Operations
What is the right sequence when it comes to designing a game?
open.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
it’s an artillery golem kind of day
June 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
vinzenz.bsky.social
My #godot prototype is coming together, I think I have the basic tech figured out now. Now I „just“ need to find fun gameplay 😬
June 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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septimusbrown.com
Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign
June 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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layn75.bsky.social
Hooray! Oddsparks is now also out on PC! 🥳
The culmination of roughly 3 years of work! I'm really so proud of the team. We've made such a big and complex, yet approachable and adorable game

store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/...

store.epicgames.com/p/oddsparks-...

www.gog.com/game/oddspar...
Save 34% on Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure on Steam
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the p...
store.steampowered.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
On my way to Berlin for #amaze2025 🎉🦩🍉
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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adriaan.games
Rift Riff (out now!) was proudly made in Godot!! It started as a “small game to see if Godot is ready for commercial games” and 1,5 years later & with a 5-person team all working in the editor I can give you a resounding YES, IT’S READY.

store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

#godotengine #gamedev
Save 15% on Rift Riff on Steam
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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adriaan.games
emotional day for me. managed to lead my team & release Rift Riff being caretaker of my wife (long covid, hasn’t been out of bed this year) and our 2yo son. i’m exhausted. proud. anxious.

it would make my day if u can repost, buy, enjoy, review🙏🏼

Rift Riff: store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...
my son (face hidden behind an emoji) and I on the release day of rift riff
May 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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adriaan.games
Rift Riff is OUT NOW!!

Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world.

store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Buy it
Try it
Review it
Repost the heck outa’ this!!1!

… and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game!
youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0
Rift Riff - Feature Trailer
YouTube video by Adriaan de Jongh
youtu.be
May 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
Playing around with Godot physics
May 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
vinzenz.bsky.social
Cosplaying a carpenter today, assembling some LEGO for adults
A opened IKEA package on a wooden floor, with more packages in the background
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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mikerose.bsky.social
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/...
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
Switch 2 devkit finally arrived, love the small size, screen is a bit underwhelming though
Electronic toy console with a Tetris styled screen
April 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
vinzenz.bsky.social
Look I found a nice stick in the forest
Good looking man holding a gun shaped wooden stick in the forest
April 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ramiismail.com
I have had a lifelong phobia of needles, and when I was a young teenager it could cause issues with vaccinations. My doctor, bless him, learned to find ways to distract me - puzzles, questions, riddles.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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webrecorder.net
Today we’re introducing Public Collections on Browsertrix, a new feature that lets you personalize, curate, and showcase your archives with the world. Read more on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...

#WebArchiving #Browsertrix
Introducing Public Collections in Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog
Now you can curate, personalize, and share all your your crawls in one place.
webrecorder.net
March 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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godotengine.org
#GodotEngine 4.4 is finally here! 🚀

Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes, and more!

godotengine.org/releases/4.4/
Godot 4.4, a unified experience – Godot Engine
Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes - spotting all the optimizations that have been applied in...
godotengine.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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kappische.bsky.social
15 more seconds of our indie game #indiegame
February 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM