Smiling Kenshi

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Developer Bloghttps://krishna.github.io

✨ Playtest now available! ✨

🕹️You can now play the first level of Project Timbre🕹️

I first started posting about the game here, and cannot thank you all enough for the support and encouragement you've given me throughout the game's development.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4088740/Project_Timbre/

Appreciate any feedback / RTs 💜

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #godot #gaming

Sweeeet Mooootion *Sung like Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion*

#screenshotsaturday #godot #indiegame #gamedev

I dont know who needs to hear this (a lie: I know exactly who needs to hear it): if you sell a food tracking app, its pretty important to make the flow of getting into your app, logging the food and then GTFO as frictionless as possible.

If you are feeling discouraged about a failed endeavour, a setback or spending time on a dead end, remember:

Failure is part of the game.

🚨 #Xcode 26.4 has been released! 🚨

It is identical to the Release Candidate, so if you have that, you're all set!

Specific details are here: https://techhub.social/@xcodereleases/116251634196450728

As always, the https://xcodereleases.com website, API, and RSS feed have been updated with the latest information. Support this project at https://opencollective.com/xcodereleases!

Xcode Releases (@[email protected])

🚨 #Xcode 26.4 RC 1 is out! 🚨 The SDKs in #Xcode 26.4 RC 1 (build 17E192, requires macOS 26.2+) are: macOS 26.4 (25E236) iOS 26.4 (23E237) watchOS 26.4 (23T238) tvOS 26.4 (23L236) visionOS 26.4 (23O238) Clang 21.0.0 (2100.0.123.102) Swift 6.3 (6.3.0.123.5) The https://xcodereleases.com website, API, and RSS feed have been updated with the latest information. Support this project at https://opencollective.com/xcodereleases!

TechHub
Announcing AppScript: an interpreted Objective-C subset with no pointers or primitive C types. We finally got Objective-C without the C. https://codeberg.org/leeg/appscript
appscript

AppScript is a scripting language that simplifies working with Cocoa frameworks.

Codeberg.org

Today I learnt about the CLU programming language by Barbara Liskov.

Talk about being ahead of its time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language)

CLU (programming language) - Wikipedia

✨ Video of my talk is now available! ✨

Come watch me nervously attempt to explain the why and how of making games with SwiftUI, at iOS Conf SG 2026. We have inside baseball jokes, dancing monkeys, and Garlic Boy 🫨

#GameDev #SwiftLang #SwiftUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVjJ2pBsTEw

Game Development in SwiftUI

YouTube

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Gadget Review

Food for thought: "...the negative factors do not net out; they compound."

The context of this quote was economics, but I think it could apply to a lot of things.