Casey Brant

One (1) week until PiCoSteveMo Four (4) begins! Join us to have a chill, fun time making a PICO-8 game inspired by Stephen King! itch.io/jam/picostev...

PiCoSteveMo 4 (the spookiest number!) starts in just 10 days! Join us for a fun, friendly, low-pressure game jam and make a PICO-8 game inspired by Stephen King during November! #pico-8 itch.io/jam/picostev...

Hello! PiCoSteveMo is coming up soon. It's a friendly, noncompetitive game jam we do over the month of November, making PICO-8 games inspired by Stephen King. We'd love to have you join us! itch.io/jam/picostev...

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists.

I love food youtube videos with titles like "This Immigrant-Owned <regional American cuisine> Shop Sells Out Every Day!" and the interview with the chef is always like "yeah we took <regional American cuisine> and tried adding any spices, people went wild for it".

Modern executives do not want to be in whatever industry their company inhabits. Instead, they just want to run financial tricks and fuck around with the company's stock searching for infinite money glitches. The idea of focusing on a company's primary product is antiquated by today's standards.

Been rewatching some old Rich Hickey talks recently and my god, it's so bracing to watch someone describe a process of thinking a lot and then writing a small amount of high-leverage code.

If you have a system that produces bad results, you can either fix/replace the system so that it produces good results OR you can chuck another half-baked workaround on to an ever-growing pile of hacks. It's very not fun being a fix-the-system kind of person in a stack-the-hacks kind of environment!

Anyone have Dropbox replacement you really like? - I specifically don’t want to self-host - It needs to have seamless macOS integration - It needs to work for small teams - I need automated full backup to our Synology NAS Please only recommend anything you personally use and like.

Lord please save me from embarking on creating a Pinboard alternative.

You know, I used to be a skeptic, but with these latest models, AI has really accelerated* my software dev workflow! *shifted an enormous burden of invisible work onto the tiny population of colleagues who still give a shit about quality

I refuse to put max width or any line spacing on my website’s body text so you have to trust my technical expertise.

Learning about microdramas and considering becoming a full on reactionary.

“That ship has sailed“ is such a funny phrase to mean “this thing came to pass and it’s like that forever now.” Lotta things can happen to ships that sailed, including coming right back to where they started.

YUP YUP YUP 🧵

Oh hey, I've been dragging my feet on replacing 1Password and Dropbox, looks like I finally got the kick in the pants I needed to do it! omarchy.org/patrons/

the constant small changes in user interfaces, like font changes, the spacing of elements, the slight shift of color palettes, etc. reinforces the fact that a platform allows you to use it, but is not for your benefit. cultivate rather than ignore this sentiment

We should’ve bought all these bozos copies of Dwarf Fortress before it was too late.

So many apps I use have devs w/ Fiddlers Disease now. Stuff randomly changes, then ope, we changed it back next release, or to a new third thing. Indie devs! You're not a megacorp full of Product Guys striving to get promoted, so there's no reason for this! You sell software to users! Get a grip!

Seeing posts from people running the beta that macOS 27 makes it impossible to turn off Apple Intelligence, which, if that's true, is *bananas*.

Genuinely interested how it has happened that very famous/public people don't seem to be embarrassed to say out loud how much they have started outsourcing thinking to flatterybots

It's wild to me that Windows 11 could ship a right-click menu with visible loading times and that didn't result in everyone at all levels at Microsoft permanently resigning from the industry in embarrassment.

Come on, Debian, you were supposed to be the frustratingly slow and conservative distro.

I've been a Let's Play enjoyer since they were text and screenshots in forums threads, but something I have never learned to enjoy is watching someone operate the custom character creator. I'm sorry! I know you are doing your riffs, and I am happy for you, but I have skipped ahead to the gameplay.

Bill Gates talk to one regular person before saying shit. Not me though, please don't try to talk to me.

The Coward's Toggle

I'm not gonna make any claims about having called it because this feeling was based 100% on vibes and no hard info, but...I did get this vibe from neovim pretty much right away circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117...

Very happy to have all my personal stuff hosted on SourceHut sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08...

Hijacker: Everyone stop talking. I am armed and I am taking control of this plane. Guy from the Netherlands: Wow, in Netherlands we just purchase a plane if we want one. But typically we will bike somewhere Guy who has been to Japan once: In Japan planes are rarely hijacked. It's a cultural taboo

yup yup yup 🧵

React is a framework that challenges you to conceptualize your UI as a function of state and then brutally punishes you for attempting to build a UI that is a function of state.

Looking forward to #pico1k jam starting Sept 1st, so made this invite #postcart to warm up (src in reply). Make tiny 1k #pico8 / #picotron carts! 🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...

It's because every time someone says a generated asset was intended to be a placeholder, they were lying.

Dang, I sandbagged on playing The Witcher 3 for so long, they made it again!

In this thought experiment we consider the unthinkable: what if an insurance claim was denied?

An underdiscussed enjoyable thing about being an Emacs user is that Emacs screencasts are always like maximum 420p recorded off somebody's insane custom linux setup running on a box they assembled out of parts smuggled out of their former employer which was a local ISP that shut down in 1997.

Damn if omarchy can get $8 million, my dotfiles repo has to be worth at least like $600k minimum. I should start a Foundation.

I'm sorry but almost every dark mode looks like total shit. There are exceptions, and I'm pretty sure what they all have in common is that dark mode was *first*. It seems like taking a light mode design and creating a dark mode version of it is almost impossible. Better to just start from scratch.

I do not wish to view the AI burrito.

I am always asking people—often after they are many hours of work into building a solution!—what problem they are trying to solve, and I am *always* getting dog-hearing-an-unfamiliar-noise face back.

sorry but “sky marchini” is what the jawas from star wars say, that’s not a real guy