Alex Darby
@devilbox.bsky.social
Software Developer - Modder - Hobbyist Gamedev
If there was one thing I would add to the PS5 game library UI (or any other platform for that matter!) it would be the ability to filter based on if it has local multiplayer. After years of PS+ my library is large & checking if a game can be played coop means drilling down two levels. Such a faff.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If there was one thing I would add to the PS5 game library UI (or any other platform for that matter!) it would be the ability to filter based on if it has local multiplayer. After years of PS+ my library is large & checking if a game can be played coop means drilling down two levels. Such a faff.
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there's a Ghost of Yōtei tech deep dive article on PlayStation blog that is interesting to read (and watch). blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g... #gamedev
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
there's a Ghost of Yōtei tech deep dive article on PlayStation blog that is interesting to read (and watch). blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g... #gamedev
I've been trying to get my guitars set up properly, learning more about set up in the process. My Ironbird has some fretbuzz on the 6th string when fretting the 7th fret, it seems the truss rod is slightly too tight - The cover of which has screws directly under the strings, what a pain in the arse!
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I've been trying to get my guitars set up properly, learning more about set up in the process. My Ironbird has some fretbuzz on the 6th string when fretting the 7th fret, it seems the truss rod is slightly too tight - The cover of which has screws directly under the strings, what a pain in the arse!
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For Americans: Reuters utterly fucked this up, this election was a landslide for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. Labour collapsed, Reform was barely in the frame, but Reform is popular with English gammon-faced flag-shaggers (not Welsh folks), so that's what the lede has to be.
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
For Americans: Reuters utterly fucked this up, this election was a landslide for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. Labour collapsed, Reform was barely in the frame, but Reform is popular with English gammon-faced flag-shaggers (not Welsh folks), so that's what the lede has to be.
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It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
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WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid 😮
blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯
blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯
October 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid 😮
blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯
blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯
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An all-new EXCLUSIVE clip from
EARTH
MUST
DIE.
Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
EARTH
MUST
DIE.
Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
An all-new EXCLUSIVE clip from
EARTH
MUST
DIE.
Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
EARTH
MUST
DIE.
Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
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I added orbit snapping on alt to godot 4.6
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I added orbit snapping on alt to godot 4.6
I hate this UI fad. I have a huge high resolution TV capable of displaying so much information, why do they act like it's tiny?! When Netflix did it they not only drastically reduced the visible shows to bring the preview to the middle, they somehow also reduced the size and clarity of the preview.
lol crunchyroll updated their app so that you can see fewer titles at once. It's wild how dedicated every streaming service is to making the browsing experience worse in favor of showing you the 5 things they want you to look at. That's now how anime fans work, they want to find "their" series.
October 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I hate this UI fad. I have a huge high resolution TV capable of displaying so much information, why do they act like it's tiny?! When Netflix did it they not only drastically reduced the visible shows to bring the preview to the middle, they somehow also reduced the size and clarity of the preview.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Been working on a UI mod for #Carmageddon Max Damage to improve the garage. The carousel interface was just about okay with the stock cars, but once you add mods cars in it becomes combersome to find the car you want, so I'm changing it to be more like the mobile C1 port (or a fighting game!)
September 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Been working on a UI mod for #Carmageddon Max Damage to improve the garage. The carousel interface was just about okay with the stock cars, but once you add mods cars in it becomes combersome to find the car you want, so I'm changing it to be more like the mobile C1 port (or a fighting game!)
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a per-app "hide camera cutout" setting to slightly reduce the screensize, adding a black bar along so the camera isn't in the way. At some point in the last month that partially stopped working. Visually it wouldn't take effect, but it still blocked touch input in that area 😖
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a per-app "hide camera cutout" setting to slightly reduce the screensize, adding a black bar along so the camera isn't in the way. At some point in the last month that partially stopped working. Visually it wouldn't take effect, but it still blocked touch input in that area 😖
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#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine
From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...
godotengine.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
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Putting this on Duke4 means its definitely an old head. Brave soul please leak the build. We're all counting on you \o/
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Putting this on Duke4 means its definitely an old head. Brave soul please leak the build. We're all counting on you \o/
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Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂
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Duke Smoochem delayed for another five years while i go back and add 10,000 flags to every fucking level
September 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Duke Smoochem delayed for another five years while i go back and add 10,000 flags to every fucking level
Organising some old stuff, I found this 30 year old sealed, unopened blister pack of Morglum Necksnapper, before they changed from lead to white metal. Any #Warhammer people know if it's worth anything to collectors? Not much point in it gathering dust in my cupboard.
August 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Organising some old stuff, I found this 30 year old sealed, unopened blister pack of Morglum Necksnapper, before they changed from lead to white metal. Any #Warhammer people know if it's worth anything to collectors? Not much point in it gathering dust in my cupboard.
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The source code of the SlaveDriver Engine, powering the 1996 game PowerSlave for the Sega Saturn, is now published under the GPLv3.
github.com/Lobotomy-Sof...
archive.org/details/slav...
github.com/Lobotomy-Sof...
archive.org/details/slav...
GitHub - Lobotomy-Software/SlaveDriver-Engine: SlaveDriver Engine for Sega Saturn GPL Source Code
SlaveDriver Engine for Sega Saturn GPL Source Code - Lobotomy-Software/SlaveDriver-Engine
github.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The source code of the SlaveDriver Engine, powering the 1996 game PowerSlave for the Sega Saturn, is now published under the GPLv3.
github.com/Lobotomy-Sof...
archive.org/details/slav...
github.com/Lobotomy-Sof...
archive.org/details/slav...
WTF is this? I opened Edge view a PDF just because it's the default app associated with PDF files, and Edge threw up this windows notification wanting to pin yahoo to my taskbar. Totally unsolicited, I didn't ask for it and I never visit yahoo, let alone in Edge. Get this shit off my PC.
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
WTF is this? I opened Edge view a PDF just because it's the default app associated with PDF files, and Edge threw up this windows notification wanting to pin yahoo to my taskbar. Totally unsolicited, I didn't ask for it and I never visit yahoo, let alone in Edge. Get this shit off my PC.
Pour one out for ebuyer, one of the UK's OG computer enthusiast stores, dead but not buried as Fraser Group now wears its skinsuit, stripped what defined ebuyer as a company and not selling what people would buy from it but desperately wanting to be a Currys style basic consumer electronics store.
August 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Pour one out for ebuyer, one of the UK's OG computer enthusiast stores, dead but not buried as Fraser Group now wears its skinsuit, stripped what defined ebuyer as a company and not selling what people would buy from it but desperately wanting to be a Currys style basic consumer electronics store.
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wow this is big, Battlefield 6 is using Godot for user generated content tools www.gamedeveloper.co...
July 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
wow this is big, Battlefield 6 is using Godot for user generated content tools www.gamedeveloper.co...
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I am not sure I am digging the internet of 2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I am not sure I am digging the internet of 2025
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. What a fucking legend.
July 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. What a fucking legend.
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For that weird, narrow segment of technically-minded programmers who want to know how we programmed 3D graphics in the 90s and also want to know about 80% of the stuff I programmed before RAD, I sat down for a 5 hour interview on the Wookash Podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...
Legendary Software Rendering Era | Sean Barrett
YouTube video by Wookash Podcast
www.youtube.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
For that weird, narrow segment of technically-minded programmers who want to know how we programmed 3D graphics in the 90s and also want to know about 80% of the stuff I programmed before RAD, I sat down for a 5 hour interview on the Wookash Podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tX...
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Version Control - the kind of lesson you generally only have to learn once.
1 in 5 Godot users are not prepared for the day something unfortunate happens.
July 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Version Control - the kind of lesson you generally only have to learn once.