Generalist developer and team lead, based in Munich
he/him
I care about ethical tech, teamwork, and badgers
Ladles are not spoons
| Blog | https://tomrenner.com |
| Twitter (abandoned) | https://twitter.com/TRenner_ |
| Github | https://github.com/tr325 |
@hausgeist do you know of anyone providing cloud runners? Don’t have the home setup to run my own at the moment.
Good to know the translation is pretty straightforward though
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.)
@ireneista yes exactly! I’m always grateful when I find the proper name for something - it helps encapsulate the idea and place it properly in the pantheon of related topics.
I’m somewhat in awe of people who can define and name phenomena in a way that helps me and others reason about them. It’s a sign of really thorough reasoning.
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!
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| I can follow the account. | |
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@ireneista Oooh TIL that there’s a name for that bias - thank you!
… would have been helpful to know and read up on when I wrote https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick … could have saved a few words (and improved the argument) by having proper definition of the phenomenon I was observing to hand!
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.
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