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Programmer, data miner, creator of @steamdb.info 🌍 https://xpaw.me
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submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Sony appears to be removing regional restrictions on their Steam/PC games God of War Ragnarok steamdb.info/sub/833972/h... The Last of Us Part II Remastered steamdb.info/sub/1219787/... Spider-Man 2 steamdb.info/sub/1219797/... Helldivers 2 steamdb.info/sub/137730/h...

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

poorly implemented and poorly performing liquid glass coming soon to a website near you

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

I ratholed into a bizzare issue where creating a file with emoji in it would crash Windows 11's explorer, and it's fixed by disabling the "UTF-8 support" in region settings. This started out as a bug where I couldn't close an untitled file in VS Code that emojis written...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

steamdb calculator now matches your steam profile a little bit more

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

New Source 2 Viewer release! I've spent a lot of time reverse engineering Valve's shader system to clean up our existing code, and created a better GUI for viewing the shader variants github.com/ValveResourc...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

Are we back to obscure rules of being "notable" exactly like Twitter had? Is @steamdb.info notable for example or do they give check marks to accounts the bluesky people know or follow personally?

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Steam is working on a new store menu

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio. You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

Majority of Visual Studio (and Code) changelogs are now all AI stuff, could Microsoft apply some of that Copilot to actually fix bugs in VS and optimize it?

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Pasting decompiled code from IDA into Claude produces surprisingly readable code. It does hallucinate the variable names in places, but it's much easier to gather what's happening in it. IDA free version works well btw.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

If I can vibe code a git diff viewer that is just a dumb pipe from git to html and will render the full diff in infinitely less time than github (because github will just throw errors and refuse to load), why can't github? <1s for a naive streaming implementation for hundreds of thousands of lines

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

After 8 years of development, the creators of the highly anticipated mod, decided to cancel Classic Offensive after receiving a Cease and Desist letter from Valve...

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

What is Discord trying to accomplish by adding clan tags? First it was only available for some clan servers for a year, then they removed them and brought them back, again exclusively for some bigger servers, which is just acting as ads to boost member count of the few servers that have them.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

You can now organize your @steamdb.info watchlist into collections (with colors!)

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

we've lost the technology to render 2000 lines of text

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

xkcd.com/1782/

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Valve is working on making Steam store game pages wider to 1200px

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Oblivion remaster is off to a strong start steamdb.info/developer/Be...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

New Source 2 Viewer release, now with dark mode! @dot.net 9 added experimental support for winforms dark mode, and it's mostly fine. github.com/ValveResourc...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment