Archagon
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Archagon
@archagon.net
Software feller.

I’m also on mastodon.social/@archagon.
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And finally, a huge shoutout to the players and fans who were waiting for us like it wasn't 10 years since launch. <3

Now go play the game, it's pretty fun: store.steampowered.com/app/242680/N...
Save 50% on Nuclear Throne on Steam
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apoc...
store.steampowered.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy anniversary to one of the greatest games of all time!
It took a while, but Nuclear Throne Update 100 is out now! (and 50% off on Steam) store.steampowered.com/app/242680/N...
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
@allanjude.com Hello! I'm getting up to speed on ZFS dedupe — thank you for your work in this area. I was wondering, can the DDT cache spillover from ARC into L2ARC if it runs out of RAM, and if so, does this happen automatically or require some sort of configuration change?
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
@pcd1193182.bsky.social Really enjoyed your recent talk on AnyRAID! Can't wait for it to land. Am I correct to infer that with this architecture, you will be able to have a 2-way mirror vdev backed by 3+ drive AnyRAID? (Or whatever the right phrasing is -- 2-way mirror AnyRAID vdev with 3+ drives?)
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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BIG NEWS:

We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:

The Secret Lives of Games

AND ALSO:

We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!

secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Morsels is out now!
Capture creatures. Stack upgrades. Take down the feline regime.
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Somewhat regularly, I run into weird indie games with, like, ten thousand reviews and an Overwhelmingly Positive rating that no publication has written a word about. How do I find out about these things?!?
STRAFTAT on Steam
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 300 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
store.steampowered.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Lizard loses lawsuit:
must bob his head.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A fun NYC quirk from my most recent visit was when one of the lettered subway lines would randomly swap places with a seemingly unrelated one, making all the signage obsolete and forcing me to run around the entire Times Square station desperately looking for my connection!
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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i'm not trying to make this about me, this time, but among many other incredible and charismatic qualities, mamdani is the first political candidate in history that seems like maybe, just maybe, he's played firewatch or untitled goose game
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Apple influencers in my feeds: it’s super fucked up how Apple is enabling right wing authoritarianism

Same influencers, one post later: wow, check out this super cool new Apple tech!

Dude, pick a lane.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Been reading up on ZFS over the last few weeks, and only noticed today that what I thought was "reslivering" is actually "reSILVERing" — in reference to the silver layer on a traditional reflective mirror.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's strangely difficult to mount a .dmg imaged from a drive containing encrypted APFS volumes, but I think I finally figured it out:

1) hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Image.dmg
2) diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk5s1 -passphrase password

Something about the encryption gets macOS really confused.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures in their vibrant, whimsical outfits by Indonesian artist Nengiren? [kottke.org]
Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman
How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures by Indonesian artist Irene Saputra, aka Nengiren. She explained to Colossal what the figures signify: Nona Kecil’s evolution mirrors my own jour
kottke.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
An interview with █████████████ of "Titanic" fame as part of the Titan investigation!
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Thinking about ray tracing again...
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why does reading programming forums these days (HN, etc.) make me never want to work in the industry again, but visiting the Computer History Museum leave me energized?

How do I get back that wonder for computing in my work?
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Great article on the history of the Manhattan Project. I’ve always wondered what the overall shape of the work actually looked like. www.construction-physics.com/p/an-enginee...
An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico. But the Manhattan Project was far more than just a science project: building the bombs required an enormous industrial effort of unprecedented scale and complexity. Enormous factory complexes were built using hundreds of millions of dollars worth of never-before-constructed equipment. Scores of new machines, analytical techniques, and methods of working with completely novel substances had to be invented. Materials which had never been produced at all, or only produced in tiny amounts, suddenly had to be manufactured in vast quantities.
www.construction-physics.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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lol
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Beat Silksong to ~100% in about 60h. What an absolutely incredible game. Improves on Hollow Knight in practically every way and the difficulty feels spot on for me. The world is brimming with micro-interactions that make it feel more alive than any AAA game I've played. Top 5 and maybe even GOAT.
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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a work of art is a creature that wants to destroy you and replace you with something else. it is in your interest that you allow this to happen, sometimes
counterpoint: it is good and correct to view engaging with a piece of art as an act of consumption. you just have it backwards. *you* are the thing being consumed
Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.

Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM