Andrew Blance

My Gameboy Color with a new tempered glass screen

Do whatever you need to do to get to Japan. They have donuts that look like a Diglett

behold, my new favourite Quest 3 app. Today I started learning how to make AR experiences on the quest 3 and created this cube

bless the maker and his water xo

before/after optimisations (I promise the dip in image two came from me opening the quest menu to take a screen grab, not my app!)

Holy crap the scrip to David Lynch’s version of Dune Messiah has been found

Ok maybe it is worth $3,500

Does it feel like the web is getting worse? This incredible (and very aesthetic) article from The Verge explains how Google have incentivised the creation of a homogeneous internet. It includes a great demonstration of taking a website and changing (ruining) it to make it perfect in Google’s eyes

Daybreak has some of the most beautiful art I’ve seen used in a board game (it’s also very fun to play)

One thing I didn’t expect about turning 30 was how much I would begin to deeply care about dehumidifiers

Pokémon concierge is ludicrously charming. The stop motion is amazing. It all just makes me want to live in a world with Pokemon in it.

Something interesting from the evidence NYT provided for their lawsuit against Microsoft: you can get ChatGPT to reproduce articles even originally behind a paywall if you ask for them one paragraph at a time

When NYT said that Microsoft/ OpenAI can entirely reproduce their articles, they really meant it

In the metaverse you can experience strange and perculiar things. Wonders you cannot possibly imagine, and terrors to freeze your soul. Today I learned to make a button to create infinite quantities of meat, and how I could eat it as well. Is this how folks who aren’t vegetarian live their lives?

The Old World core boxes for Bretonnia and Khemri look beautiful. Don’t know if my wallet can handle it though given all the 40K Kroot rumours around…

New Doctor Who was excellent - can’t believe we have to wait till May for more Lots of fun bits - “mavity”, goblin rope science, Davina McCall, “Never seen a TARDIS before?”

hwfg

The rise of scammers and “special issues” have meant 10,000 research paper were retracted this year! Last year it was <6000, and before that <4000. In 2017 it was <2000. An enormous rise!

Big day for trains

Was curious to understand why biggie was releasing something new in the year of our lord 2023 and I regret to inform you it is an advert for a web3 blockchain biggie game where you can buy B.I.G NFTs

A small bug I found today. It was boxes. Millions of boxes

Today in my journey to figure out VR I made an Half Life Alyx grab system (It’s hard to represent it as a picture… hopefully Bluesky will be able to handle video soon..)

Every day this month I’ve learned a little more about developing for VR. Today: ladders.

Godzilla Minus One might be my favourite movie of the year. It’s deeply moving and surprisingly emotional. Like the best Godzilla movies, Godzilla feels like an entirely unstoppable force of nature. At times he’s a badass monster, but at others he’s frightening and harrowing. It fucking rocks.

feel a little out the on beeper v apple - I’m always surprised there’s so much demand for iMessage on Android I suspect it’s a location thing - it feels like WhatsApp is almost always the default messenger of choice here in the UK, rather than iMessage and “normal” texting

I’m sure Grimes’ AI toy will be different though…

I’m in two minds with how the Doctor Who regeneration went down… I really like the status quo of having one doctor at a time, but this would be a neat way to introduce a retired doctor who will one day become The Curator.

The Doctor Who specials have (overall) been amazing - excited for seeing more Ncuti doctor. Hope we see the Toymaker again - he made a good anti-doctor, one who loves chaos, winning and spice girls

“Pokémon TCG have this one card that costs $1,000 cause the patterns so wild. I want that one so bad.” kotaku.com/pokemon-tcg-...

I want a game like Gandalf.ai, but where you are trying to convince a genie you are allowed to wish for more wishes

Can you tell when AI is not telling the truth? Here is my (very much in beta) game that will test that

Real 3D me vs Photogrammetry 3D me

Got 3D scanned yesterday, getting myself closer to the goal of having a Warhammer 40K army that is just lots of little models of me and my friends

Little Tomato

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck”

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Wearing a pair of white converse for the first time today and fully expect to be heartbroken for when they get even the tiniest bit dirty

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I’m all in with the 1989 TV clowning. Trying to predict the future with Taylor Swift numerology is my kind of science

Two Factor Authentication may have been acceptable in 2022, but as cyber-attacks become more advanced, you need more. Futureproof your company's cyber security landscape by listening to this week's episode of Brains on the Outside, a podcast about ridiculous business ideas.

I don’t claim to understand the economy and how it works, but today I learned Games Workshop is worth more than Aston Martin and Manchester United and I feel I understand it less now

In our latest newsletter we also talk about robot dogs, a factory in Scotland that can make a house, and how virtual production stages and generative AI are linked. We even have a fun game for you to play (well… its fun if you like thinking about how innovative your workplace is…)

I wasnt ready for the discourse that Oppenheimer has started