Avin Zarlez

📢 Some exciting news! 🎉 Our upcoming next-generation runtime, GMRT, will be free for commercial use and source avaliable for all non-console platforms! READ MORE gamemaker.io/en/blog/gmrt...

God damn. It just never ends.

Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses are up for grabs. 🕶️ What will your team build? Join Arm and Meta engineers in San Francisco, October 17–18, to bring an on-device AI idea to life with ExecuTorch and Arm-powered hardware. https://okt.to/eCZa8Y

I haven't even finished the last part of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's fantastic new book "Hollywood, Ending" yet, and it has already made me cry twice. Would recommend. #NoSpoilers

Stoked to join Michael Gamble + @zarlez.com from Arm, and Paul Gaboury (Maxon) for a live webinar where we chat about the Windows on Arm ecosystem and porting apps to run natively on WoA. Drop by to watch and have your questions answered. developer.arm.com/laptops-and-... @armdeveloper.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to the winners of the Arm Create AI Optimization Challenge! So many submissions pushed AI performance forward with creativity and technical skill. Check out the winners and their projects here: developer.arm.com/community/ar... #arm #AI #Optimization

The M8, a hardware tracker I've made 3 albums with and that kicks major ass, has always been available headless. You can run the firmware on a microcomputer for "free" anytime you want. Now it's available for iOS devices: apps.apple.com/app/id680672... Pretty neato burrito

"Don't dream it, be it" -Dr. Frank-N-Furter

The quote I'll pick: "If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have been a drag queen." -Dolly Parton I'd highly recommend @lindsayellis.bsky.social's excellent video on Dolly Parton, which was posted on YouTube today: youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Code take home interview as malware! This is a great reminder to be vigilant. I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation citizendot.github.io/articles/fak...

Some good guidance when writing tests: Ten ways a check passes while the thing it checks is broken phronesis.world/papers/ways-...

I’m at #DevRelCon today and tomorrow in New York City! If you are around ping me, I’d like to meet up and talk.

Dependabot updates now wait three days before making pull requests. This is a good fix that balances quickly getting patches out there, but also making sure if an update breaks something or was compromised has some time to pull it back before wide adoption. github.blog/changelog/20...

This is great news, makes me consider switching back to Android honestly: Google will allow third-party app stores on Android next week www.engadget.com/2215452/goog...

everything is gender

finally finished this and i can easily say i was on the edge of my seat for the entire 5 hours. noone is better than baume at imbuing his meticulously researched nonfiction with narrative and emotional pathos and this is far and away his magnum opus

I feel like this policy is a really good balance. Stop no human involved agents making PRs and forcing maintainers to act as promoters in reviews. Force a human to take accountability for every PR, and nourish that relationship. But also allow agentic code when it is tailored, useful, & disclosed.

I appreciate this math! "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?" www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfec...

I am "only" 2 hours into this masterpiece of a YouTube essay, and I already can highly recommend it. Think of this as a documentary mini series, learn some queer history. It's worth your time youtu.be/m4F2ozwvybw?...

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt: lr0.org/blog/p/arabi... This was just linked on @tomscott.com's newsletter, and it's a really neat, though frustrating, experience

This documentary from People Make Games is so inspiring. What a beautiful hobby and process turned into an incredibly unique piece of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

Ran across this nice explainer on the different ways you can ignore files in git: nelson.cloud/.gitignore-i...

I am really interested in learning more about the new Lore version control system made by Epic Games. I like a lot that it is fully open sourced and backed by a major player. Anyone I know have a chance to play around with it? lore.org

“Humans are awesome! Get yourself a proper fixation, it’s fun.” - @techconnectify.bsky.social youtu.be/_KWdCqpXB7A?...

I actually want one of these: The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home www.engadget.com/2192393/the-...

This seems like a fun project: Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

The first Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are available now www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws...

OneDrive data now has an expiry date

Reminder: macOS 27 won't work on Intel Macs

Arm's new developer challenge is live! arm-ai-optimization-challenge.devpost.com I’m judging and can’t wait to see what you build. This round is all about AI optimization. Show us how you can get more performance, we won't be judging just by a single metric. Get nerdy in the details!

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375. I had hoped to build a new PC this year, I’m hoping the parts will be available by Black Friday 😬

A third of the entire video game industry was laid off in the last two years. Based on my the experiences I have seen this matches completely. This isn’t exaggerating. That is A LOT of people.

I like these kinds of questions, which often come down to how different people implement different standards: Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? 30fps.net/pages/255-vs...

Don’t miss this hands-on workshop for practical guidance on automating Arm-based applications running on Amazon EKS. Learn how to provision Kubernetes environments with Infrastructure as Code, configure Octopus Deploy, and automate CI/CD workflows. 👀➡️ www.youtube.com/live/3YJLV_2...

Node.js 26.0.0 is now live nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

Listen I don't want to see NSFW content on my feed and also I want people to be able to post, discuss, celebrate, and support NSFW content without their whole account being shadowbanned by puritanical tech bros trying to kick us back a century or two. These two positions are entirely compatible.

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

A good read about HEVC licensing, and why video playback is not as universal as one would hope: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

This is kind of neat, apparently you can get a free domain based on your city and state? As someone who owns multiple domain names I am not sure I'd want to go through the trouble though. fredchan.org/blog/localit...

v1.0.0 of @icons, my icon library for #Godot developers, is now OUT! 🎉 🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ; 🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ; ⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license) i hope they'll be useful to you! :) github.com/Voxybuns/at-...

Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis after a car drove directly into a flooded road

Mike's series of essays on game theory and politics are all incredible, but the latest installment I think is particularly important for this moment: "Gerrymandering is the red button–blue button test. " mikeselinker.medium.com/gerrymanderi...

In 2022 when Christian Henson of Spitfire Audio came out in support of JK Rowling and Glinner, I did a video on how that hurt the trans community and beyond. Now it's 2026 and I felt the need to revisit it, because apathy keeps winning, and it sucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlS...

End of an era, the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to close Wikinews en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimed...

This is so incredibly cool, as someone who played Zork as a kid it is so neat to be able to peer into the code as you explore the game. eblong.com/infocom/visi/