Joakim Hagdahl

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Programmer of the movement of things. Opinions are mine and does not reflect any company I've worked at.

Currently at Full Circle EA. Previously at Capcom, Bioware, 2K, Sony and UDS.

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This industry is sad and broken. Hearing the news of massive layoffs at Epic and looking at linkedin to see if anyone I know was affected.
Today’s layoffs

Epic Games
The Amiga 500 was the best console and the best PC. Period. I do think it shaped quite a lot of people growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWrbFmV-ZQ - Making games and listening to Rod Sterling vax on.

"As long as you are not ashamed of anything you write if you're a writer, as long as you're not ashamed of anything you perform if you're an actor, and I'm not ashamed of anything."

Two Bodies (Extended Version)

YouTube

You know how a few years ago if the us or some other country was saying that they wanted to ban some Chinese communications tech due to security concerns it somehow felt valid.

Now when they say the same it feels more like they want to insert their own surveillance tech instead.

Who to trust?

Absolutely noone.

My Wife: I’ve seen reports that bears are up and about. Time to bring in the feeder.

Me: Seems awfully early.

My Wife: You said that last year.

Me: I did? Ok, after the weekend.

My Wife: That’s EXACTLY what you said last year. And then when did the bear eat our feeder?

Me: Errr… like Monday night I think.

My Wife: No, it was Sunday morning.

Me: We’ll compromise. How about Saturday night?

SATURDAY, 6:30pm
Me: I took the feeder in. See, no bears.

10 minutes later…

#Bears #15SecondsOfFame

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-ai - lots of that I'm sure.

Working as intended I'd say and I'm sure there are many people that would like a no AI setting in Spotify/etc.

US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI

Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots

The Guardian
Topic jump: Arseny talks about meshoptimizer compression for *mesh* vertex data compression, but turns out, it is very good for lossless compression of other same-sized kinda-structured data. I've used it to compress game saves (https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/02/02/Float-Compression-4-Mesh-Optimizer/) and multilayer HDR images (https://aras-p.info/blog/2025/07/08/Lossless-Float-Image-Compression/) and it fared very well there. Very fast decompression speed too.
Float Compression 4: Mesh Optimizer · Aras' website

Aras' website
"Integrating AI where it's most meaningful, with craft and focus: You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well‑crafted. As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad." - they put AI in the snipping tool? Hahahaha. Oh my. Well done.
The kids are alright