Dan Jacobsen
@coffee-anon.bsky.social
Roguelikes, chatbots, collaboration tools, experimental games, and upcycling "mostly dead" machines.
Chief Vibe Officer
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Chief Vibe Officer
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Looking for new opportunities !
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Looking for new opportunities !
I wanted so desperately to turn on this switch, but I couldn't tell whether up was "on".
April 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I wanted so desperately to turn on this switch, but I couldn't tell whether up was "on".
New game idea: a resource management game where the resources are things like rusted cars and collapsed buildings, and you just, like, build trees and rivers and stuff.
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
New game idea: a resource management game where the resources are things like rusted cars and collapsed buildings, and you just, like, build trees and rivers and stuff.
It has been 0 days since my last workplace Alpha Centuari quote.
April 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It has been 0 days since my last workplace Alpha Centuari quote.
The look of a software engineer about to make a change to a live system without an easy way to test or revert the change.
March 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The look of a software engineer about to make a change to a live system without an easy way to test or revert the change.
We can all agree that this is Jagermeister, right?
March 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We can all agree that this is Jagermeister, right?
I'm a firm believer in bad photos, where someone is looking away or there's a photo of something random that you accidentally hit the shutter button.
Don't get me wrong, I love good photos too, but the bad ones fill in all this missing texture that describe how things *really* were.
Don't get me wrong, I love good photos too, but the bad ones fill in all this missing texture that describe how things *really* were.
January 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm a firm believer in bad photos, where someone is looking away or there's a photo of something random that you accidentally hit the shutter button.
Don't get me wrong, I love good photos too, but the bad ones fill in all this missing texture that describe how things *really* were.
Don't get me wrong, I love good photos too, but the bad ones fill in all this missing texture that describe how things *really* were.
I'm very disappointed to read that there's a cleaning robot with a robotic arm and the company that makes it is not called Zorg Industries
January 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm very disappointed to read that there's a cleaning robot with a robotic arm and the company that makes it is not called Zorg Industries
Every christmas, one of my cats tries to come up with a scheme to steal her favorite ornament from the christmas tree: a felt octopus.
...or at least it was an octopus. as of this year it's more of a pentapus.
...or at least it was an octopus. as of this year it's more of a pentapus.
December 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Every christmas, one of my cats tries to come up with a scheme to steal her favorite ornament from the christmas tree: a felt octopus.
...or at least it was an octopus. as of this year it's more of a pentapus.
...or at least it was an octopus. as of this year it's more of a pentapus.
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Technology was a mistake.
December 24, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Technology was a mistake.
I'm very sad to hear about the Hothead studio closure today. That studio has been a pillar of the dev community in Vancouver for years.
December 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
I'm very sad to hear about the Hothead studio closure today. That studio has been a pillar of the dev community in Vancouver for years.
This might be the best thing reddit has ever produced:
www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
November 9, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This might be the best thing reddit has ever produced:
www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
In the spirit of inter-generational communication, we should really make legends in our bios to explain what we each think emojis mean.
October 10, 2024 at 3:47 PM
In the spirit of inter-generational communication, we should really make legends in our bios to explain what we each think emojis mean.
Bolognese must feel the same way about American lasagna the way I do, having grown up in Texas, about "chili" with beans in it.
Both still great, but not the same thing.
Both still great, but not the same thing.
October 8, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Bolognese must feel the same way about American lasagna the way I do, having grown up in Texas, about "chili" with beans in it.
Both still great, but not the same thing.
Both still great, but not the same thing.
Death Stranding is a genius game.
It may be the only game I've ever played where (typically nonsense) systems like fighting the same respawning enemies, looting, managing inventory, and building actually deeply make sense within the context of the setting.
It may be the only game I've ever played where (typically nonsense) systems like fighting the same respawning enemies, looting, managing inventory, and building actually deeply make sense within the context of the setting.
October 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Death Stranding is a genius game.
It may be the only game I've ever played where (typically nonsense) systems like fighting the same respawning enemies, looting, managing inventory, and building actually deeply make sense within the context of the setting.
It may be the only game I've ever played where (typically nonsense) systems like fighting the same respawning enemies, looting, managing inventory, and building actually deeply make sense within the context of the setting.
So climate change is terrible, I think we can all agree.
But, silver lining here, maybe before humans go extinct or become subterranean or whatever we'll get some awesome new megafauna b/c of hotter temperatures.
Dinosaurs?
But, silver lining here, maybe before humans go extinct or become subterranean or whatever we'll get some awesome new megafauna b/c of hotter temperatures.
Dinosaurs?
September 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
So climate change is terrible, I think we can all agree.
But, silver lining here, maybe before humans go extinct or become subterranean or whatever we'll get some awesome new megafauna b/c of hotter temperatures.
Dinosaurs?
But, silver lining here, maybe before humans go extinct or become subterranean or whatever we'll get some awesome new megafauna b/c of hotter temperatures.
Dinosaurs?
F2P Game feature idea:
1. make the game pay2win
2. track RMT totals
3. apply a permanent particle effect to players based on the amount of real money they have spent
1. make the game pay2win
2. track RMT totals
3. apply a permanent particle effect to players based on the amount of real money they have spent
July 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
F2P Game feature idea:
1. make the game pay2win
2. track RMT totals
3. apply a permanent particle effect to players based on the amount of real money they have spent
1. make the game pay2win
2. track RMT totals
3. apply a permanent particle effect to players based on the amount of real money they have spent
The energy (and therefore environmental) costs of training LLMs are starting to freak me out.
It's like bitcoin all over again, only this time it's not dudes trying to get rich with garage GPUs. It's huge tech companies.
It's like bitcoin all over again, only this time it's not dudes trying to get rich with garage GPUs. It's huge tech companies.
July 7, 2024 at 4:59 PM
The energy (and therefore environmental) costs of training LLMs are starting to freak me out.
It's like bitcoin all over again, only this time it's not dudes trying to get rich with garage GPUs. It's huge tech companies.
It's like bitcoin all over again, only this time it's not dudes trying to get rich with garage GPUs. It's huge tech companies.
Learning web dev after starting as a game programmer is mind-bending. It was already weird enough that a "server" is actually several (or many) different services in a maze of networking crap.
Now I'm struggling with the bizarre limitations (and inconsistencies) of browser-based clients.
Now I'm struggling with the bizarre limitations (and inconsistencies) of browser-based clients.
April 10, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Learning web dev after starting as a game programmer is mind-bending. It was already weird enough that a "server" is actually several (or many) different services in a maze of networking crap.
Now I'm struggling with the bizarre limitations (and inconsistencies) of browser-based clients.
Now I'm struggling with the bizarre limitations (and inconsistencies) of browser-based clients.
Every time someone mentions recursion i think of Wayne's World.
April 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Every time someone mentions recursion i think of Wayne's World.
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My latest game, Millennia, is now out! I've been working on this the past 4 years and I'm really excited for people to get to play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1268590/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1268590/...
March 26, 2024 at 5:18 PM
My latest game, Millennia, is now out! I've been working on this the past 4 years and I'm really excited for people to get to play it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1268590/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1268590/...
I'm coming to terms with the idea that my hobby is writing 70% of a game, website, or software tool, and carefully documenting its unfinished state in detail.
March 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
I'm coming to terms with the idea that my hobby is writing 70% of a game, website, or software tool, and carefully documenting its unfinished state in detail.
Me, trying to figure out how the hell some code works
that has no documentation
that I wrote 3 years ago.
that has no documentation
that I wrote 3 years ago.
March 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Me, trying to figure out how the hell some code works
that has no documentation
that I wrote 3 years ago.
that has no documentation
that I wrote 3 years ago.
I need a word for the mix of sadness, anger, disappointment and frustration you feel when you find out someone is a bigoted asshole.
March 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I need a word for the mix of sadness, anger, disappointment and frustration you feel when you find out someone is a bigoted asshole.