⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.

Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.

If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

This is important to sign and share. I archive Dutch language educational games (yeah very niche, that's why they require archiving) and I have to deal with lost media a lot. Don't let games disappear, please.

stopkillinggames.com

oh look, a new luxe dev log!

dev log #15 - try luxe now!

As we continue to wrap up our goals for a wider release we're happy to note that you can try luxe already!

Read all about it in dev log #15!

https://luxeengine.com/dev-log-15/

#gamedev #createwithluxe #luxeengine

It's Sunday.

Today let's remember that good people still exist. You're probably one of them.

Don't let your anger take your focus off of the people around you or the community that you belong to. Remember, no matter what anyone does, they can not change who you love and care for.

Practice kindness whenever possible.

Give to your community.

Lend assistance when needed.

Just because the world around you seems to be on fire, doesn't mean you can't be a little oasis of peace.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

I don't want to outsource my thinking to a machine.

I don't want "art" averaged from some aggregation of actual artists' work.

I can write my own fucking emails.

I can write my own fucking code and design my own fucking games.

And I want art that comes from the brains of human artists. Who feel and whose soul goes into their work.

All this stuff is clever and I am sure there are uses for it but the things that are actually valuable in life can't be reduced to a fucking prompt.

FFS. 🦬

Just discovered:

Teleios

Ancient Greek for "perfection"

A massive spherical bubble, 11, 46, or 157 light-years across (they aren't sure yet)

Could be from a white dwarf slurping up a companion star, exceeding a mass limit, and exploding

In our Milky Way, not an ORCS (Odd Radio Circles at intergalactic distances)

Discovered by Miroslav Filipović and team of Western Sydney University using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysteriously-perfect-sphere-spotted-in-space-by-astronomers

#Australia #Space