Rupert Rawnsley

@rawnsley
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CSO at Avantis Education building ClassVR and Eduverse
Rupert Rawnsley1d ago
RecRoom is closing! Very sad news for what was the greatest social VR platform. I’ve spent thousands of hours in there playing paintball and going round and round the incredible quests. https://blog.recroom.com/posts/schools-out-for-rec-room
School’s Out for Rec Room — ‎

Rec Room will be closing down on June 1st 2026 at noon Pacific time. Over the past decade, Rec Room grew into something amazing, reaching over 150 million players and creators along the way. Players made over half a billion friends on the platform. In total, people all around the world spent a cumu

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Show threadRupert RawnsleyMar 13
@rakhim same for me, but it’s only high bandwidth transfers that seem to kill the Bluetooth. Most of the legacy devices are only using it for low bandwidth telemetry (air conditioners, power meters, etc…)
Show threadRupert RawnsleyMar 13
@rakhim the only times I’ve seen the mouse cursor stutter you mention is when there high bandwidth transfers over WiFi on devices near the mouse. I’ve not seen it much in recent years because I moved everything I could to 5GHz to free up spectrum for Bluetooth and Zigbee
Rupert RawnsleyFeb 24
https://lucasfcosta.com/blog/design-docs I could not agree more and that was before AI changed the game by making code so much cheaper to write.
Design docs considered harmful

Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.

Lucas F. Costa
Show threadRupert RawnsleyFeb 21
@BenHouston3D @zeux @donmccurdy perhaps version 1.0 has issues that will need to be resolved with time, but I’m grateful that we have something we didn’t have before: a pure JS version of a useful library. The more rigorous the testing and evaluating the better, but how it was created is incidental.
Show threadRupert RawnsleyFeb 14
@swetland you are underestimating AI. At least know your enemy. Claude Code on Opus 4.6 is fire stolen from the gods. Like you I’m a real programmer of many years who loves the craft, but this technology is the biggest step forward since the Internet or mobile. There are always half price offers if you want a link.
Show threadRupert RawnsleyFeb 12

@grumpygamer

…last try before I get bored of being ignored…

Consider this quote from Steve Yegge:

“But if you haven’t used specifically Opus 4.5/4.6 with specifically Claude Code for at least an hour, then you’re in for a real shock. Because all your complaining about AI not being useful for real-world tasks is obsolete.”

Source: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

Don’t miss out on the biggest change (and joy) in software since the Internet.

The AI Vampire

This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Medium
Show threadRupert RawnsleyFeb 12
@grumpygamer not even Microsoft use CoPilot. Claude Code is what you need; every day it brings little moments of joy. Half price for three months with links like this https://claude.ai/alex
Claude

Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Show threadRupert RawnsleyFeb 9
@BenHouston3D it was down for me today and the status page link took me to x.com 🤮 where there was a link in the bio to the actual status page 🤷‍♂️
Rupert RawnsleyFeb 6

Anthropic are the new Apple.

https://battellemedia.com/archives/2026/02/claude-says-non-to-ads

John Battelle's Search Blog Claude Says Non to Ads

Yesterday I wrote a short post on the impact that advertising would have on generative AI, a topic I’ve been thinking and writing about for the past three years. Seems the folks at Anthropic …

John Battelle's Search Blog