Tom Renner

@trenner
124 Followers
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Generalist developer and team lead, based in Munich

he/him

I care about ethical tech, teamwork, and badgers

Ladles are not spoons

Bloghttps://tomrenner.com
Twitter (abandoned)https://twitter.com/TRenner_
Githubhttps://github.com/tr325
Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

@trenner @hausgeist If you’re still talking about Codeberg, they provide Actions runners: https://codeberg.org/actions/meta

I was also looking for Forgejo Actions cloud hosting, but that doesn’t seem to exist yet and it’s incredibly easy to set up on e.g. a Hetzner host

meta

Information and discussions around hosted Forgejo Actions at Codeberg

Codeberg.org
The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.
Folks who have happily migrated to Codeberg: what are you using to run jobs? I’m so used to just plonking admin tasks into a Github Action, it feels like a real barrier to migrating away.

The podcast Post Games by Chris Plante is my #1 recommendation if you're looking for contemporary discussion of games as art. See this thread for some great episodes to start with.

(edit: the linked post wasn't showing up due to me not understanding masto visibility i guess, so i'll just copy paste it here)

list of recommended episodes:

* the just published episode with c. thi nguyen, author of the oft-recommended book "games: agency as art"

* the episode with ed mcmillan (feb 12) is heartbreaking in a good way and changed how i feel about "deformity" (including my own, you know where to find me if you wanna talk about it)

* kaitlin tremblay (aug 1 2025) about death — didn't quite get into my own (lack of) hangups about death, but definitely stuck with me and i'm tempted to revisit this one for more

* all of the episodes about nsfw games. just search for "nsfw" in the episode list. fantastic nuance and maturity, gets at aspects of being a goddamn human being that tend to be punished by moral majority / capitalism / puritanism

* the very first episode, with jenny jiao hsia talking about Consume Me and her teenage disordered eating, a game which won the seamus mcnally prize (the thing i'd want to win if i ever made a game) but is a heartbreaking commercial flop

chris is making the kind of podcast i'd want to make if i ever turned pro. incredible work, consistently excellent, feels deeply human.

(you'll notice im not linking to anything. chris hasn't made a nice website for this show. you gotta just search for it in your podcast player of choice.)

OK, let's try the experiment two years later.

I've created a Fediverse account with a non-ASCII username.

@你好@i18n.viii.fi

Please try to follow it and then answer the poll questions.

If you can click & follow, which app and service are you using?

THANKS GANG!

I can click on the username.
1.9%
I cannot click on the username.
70.9%
I can follow the account.
1%
I cannot follow the account.
26.1%
Poll ended at .
scoffs imagine caring about the quality of your software 🙄

can you imagine what that would do to our productivity???
the mythical machine month
'Legendary' TV advert star returns after disappearing for 8 years

Ever wondered what happened to Cillit Bang's very own Barry Scott? Well, eight years after he vanished, we finally have some answers. Kind of.

Metro

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.