David Whitney
@davidwhitney.co.uk
Director of Architecture @ fintech
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
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Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
🔗https://davidwhitney.co.uk/now - Other Socials
@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
I started playing to check out Lumen in UE when they prototyped it in Fortnite and was hooked on the constant freshness.
Happened to drop exactly as Sea of Thieves was going flat / slow so my crew just switched.
Happened to drop exactly as Sea of Thieves was going flat / slow so my crew just switched.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I started playing to check out Lumen in UE when they prototyped it in Fortnite and was hooked on the constant freshness.
Happened to drop exactly as Sea of Thieves was going flat / slow so my crew just switched.
Happened to drop exactly as Sea of Thieves was going flat / slow so my crew just switched.
The thing Fortnite does really really well is constant fresh-ness - it changes weekly, maps evolve, there just a lot of "game" in there.
I take breaks to play other things as they release but it's just such a solid backbone of a game.
I take breaks to play other things as they release but it's just such a solid backbone of a game.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The thing Fortnite does really really well is constant fresh-ness - it changes weekly, maps evolve, there just a lot of "game" in there.
I take breaks to play other things as they release but it's just such a solid backbone of a game.
I take breaks to play other things as they release but it's just such a solid backbone of a game.
Ha, hard disagree. Most straight up competent shooter on the market - it's the Unreal Tournament team after all.
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ha, hard disagree. Most straight up competent shooter on the market - it's the Unreal Tournament team after all.
(for bonus points, those are two different products with two different feature sets that access mutually exclusive sets of data - I love Copilot unironically, but how they took literally the perfect brand name for code auto complete and renamed everything to it is the most Microsoft naming ever)
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
(for bonus points, those are two different products with two different feature sets that access mutually exclusive sets of data - I love Copilot unironically, but how they took literally the perfect brand name for code auto complete and renamed everything to it is the most Microsoft naming ever)
Is this that thing where that's technically the Office Component Copilot ("M365 Copilot"), and not Copilot, um, Copilot.
Naming is their passion.
Naming is their passion.
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Is this that thing where that's technically the Office Component Copilot ("M365 Copilot"), and not Copilot, um, Copilot.
Naming is their passion.
Naming is their passion.
Still waiting for laserdisk
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Still waiting for laserdisk
Better in every way
Broader, deeper, same setting. Similar tone.
Broader, deeper, same setting. Similar tone.
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Better in every way
Broader, deeper, same setting. Similar tone.
Broader, deeper, same setting. Similar tone.
Thank you so much :)
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thank you so much :)
Not suggesting that they do.
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Not suggesting that they do.
Had an argument on Reddit with someone who was suggesting that maintainers changing licensing was "breaking the social contract", with people consuming the work for free.
Social contracts only work with the complicit.
Social contracts only work with the complicit.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Had an argument on Reddit with someone who was suggesting that maintainers changing licensing was "breaking the social contract", with people consuming the work for free.
Social contracts only work with the complicit.
Social contracts only work with the complicit.
Criticism that focuses on the general concept of those things will always be cheap, ineffective, and inaccurate.
Objective, not method.
Objective, not method.
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Criticism that focuses on the general concept of those things will always be cheap, ineffective, and inaccurate.
Objective, not method.
Objective, not method.