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Working @ Google on Android performance. Opinions are my own and not of my employer. Also available on @[email protected]
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Finally got @jacobgeller.com's "How a Game Lives" hardcover and it's such a beautifully designed book with amazing artwork.

There’s a Norwegian version of the idiom “like a fish out of water” that translates to “like a Dane on skis.” And an old Norwegian phrase for someone sneaking out of a party without saying goodbye is “making a Swede of oneself.” Conversely, a Finnish euphemism for vomiting is “speaking Norwegian”

The best part of any history book is the opening, where the historian has to answer "why do we need another book on X?". Which I like to think of as "the Airing of Grievances" or "Why everyone else in my field is doing it wrong"

Repaired one of my MX Master 3S mice which were damaged in a backpack. They're surprisingly repairable - no glue, no solder needed, just some annoying clips. The replacement shell was about 28€, much cheaper than replacing a whole mouse. Note the easily replaceable battery pack.

It's 25 years since Deus Ex was released, so we went & played it. And then we recorded a podcast chatting about the marketing, the pre-launch press coverage, and whether the game's any good in 2025. I’d love it if you gave it a listen. Thanks x o x o

EU should ban the use of phrase "Something went wrong."

Folks of performance inclination, what measures / functions do you use when measuring app memory regressions in your CI/CD pipeline? Max? Min? P95/P99/P50? Some kind of regression detection function? Nothing? :D /cc @p-y.wtf

New hell unlocked. People using LLMs to mass beg humans on GitHub to fix their vibe coded shit. github.com/bananapple1x...

Excited more about the game than the pope to be honest!

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

I.. what?!

10 things or themes I keep returning to (in no particular order): 1. Spiders (natch) 2. Monks 3. Tyranny 4. Communication barriers 5. Crabs

This week on the blog! We're looking at the movie motif of having a whole bunch of archers 'fire' at once and discussing what is volley fire for and both why archers couldn't do it and why they wouldn't do it even if they could! acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...

*sigh* I don't know who's throwing those 10/10 reviews to Expedition 33. The combat is riddled with issues which make it exceedingly tedious.

I would love to be a fly on the wall for the subsequent and inevitable refreshment-free debrief here

These new GPUs have gotten outright massive. Took a lot of work and some chassis bending to get the darn thing into the box.

Ok, I think either AirBnB or Apple have to do something about the way Apple Intelligence parses AirBnB’s emails… This host actually left a very positive review, but the way the email is written completely sidetracks Siri…

Thanks, Google.

Remember when Apple tried to punish EU users for EU regulation by withholding launch of AI? 😂

Thank goodness for the efficency

I think I took a wrong turn somewhere. #scuba #tauchen #diving #underwater #unterwasser #photography

I love flying with the A380... such a smooth ride and comfortable takeoffs/landings.

This kind of lack of care and professionalism now seems to be completely normal in software world. And the incessant lying about fixing issues as well. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250307-00/?p=110946

Strava "AI" nonsense Out of curiosity since I could not find any way to turn it off in the settings I wrote to support and this is where they hid the opt out: Go into an activity Tap “Say More” under the Athlete Intelligence section. Click “Share Feedback” and then “Leave Athlete Intelligence.” 🙄

If people are curious about the demonstrations in Belgrade, here's a post by a friend in Serbia talking through the situation. www.facebook.com/ivan.n.jovan...

I did not expect to see a title like this on HN. But agreed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357739

I imagine this is what gaming with a lobotomy would feel like