Javier Arevalo
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Javier Arevalo
@thejare.bsky.social
1.1K followers 150 following 490 posts
Demoscene, Games, Game development, Software Engineering, Sci Fi and movies. That sort of stuff.
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You totally know that some exec complained about the jerky Southpark animation and said it would be so much better at 60fps.
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Humans adapt to change at human rates. Not technological rates. Not economic rates.
Imagino que si. Creo que estaba super nervioso pero aun asi no ha estado mal. :)
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If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

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Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests
Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.
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Ok despues de casi 10 años sin dar una charla (que se me han hecho largos como 100), mañana nos veremos en la #TRGx! Estoy mas oxidao que el Titanic pero con un poco de suerte lo disfrutaremos desde ambos lados del powerpoint.
Ojo al CHARLONIO DE PLUTONIO de @thejare.bsky.social en la #TRGx: diferencias en el proceso de desarrollo de software empresarial y videojuegos, y que puede aprender el uno del otro 🤯

Una charla nada habitual y, menos aun, impartida por alguien con experiencia de DECADAS en cada sector.
That `as` is the best field name I never new about.
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A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that.

If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened.

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Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a successful career as a software developer. Spanning six companies and thirty-seven years I’ve had the opportunity to work on Elastic Reality, Xbox, Windows, Ste…
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“We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.”

No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.
I'm very happy in bsky but I'm not a zealot, I kept my twitter account alive and every few weeks I drop by to check out how the site is doing.

I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.
Define “perfect ending”
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Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%
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Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...
Lots of great things and also some shitty things are happening all around us, but tonight The Diplomat is back and that's going to be how my own day ends well. That show is a perfect blend of tones and themes, backed by a cast that's fully into it.
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Jupiter Ascending (2015): Titus Abrasax clipper, art by George Hull
The Mist probably qualifies as sci fi and definitely horror, in fact I expect it to show up in this thread.
Why don't you just
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!

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Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke
YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
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If you think AI hallucinating stuff when generating code or graphics is bad, let me tell you about this nightmare I had last night where AI was doing producer work.
I know I know, with all the shit that's going on everywhere, being stressed about a CVE is a bit dumb, but hey emotions are like that.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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