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Jack Austin
@jackaustin.net
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I like to make games. He/him

jackaustin.itch.io/vector-c
jackaustin.itch.io/portal-warpin-robot-killer
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getgianni.com
Appreciate you posting this, I've had a heck of a time figuring out a new way to Flash Boil All Of My Blood Cells At The Same Time Instantly, but this really did the trick! Thanks!
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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chelledoggo.bsky.social
based as fuck

this should just be standard practice at every entertainment studio at this point
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
jackaustin.net
#spotifywrapped time

30,975 minutes of music this year. Listened to so much of the Andor soundtrack that I’m in Nicholas Britell’s top 0.3% of listeners.

Side note: #5 really should be Kazuma Jinnouchi. “Halo” did not create the glorious Halo 5 soundtrack.

spotify.com/wrapped
Spotify Wrapped. Top Artists: 1. Nicholas Britell; 2. Foals; 3. Nils Frahm; 4. BRONSON; 5. Halo. Top Songs: 1. Black Gold; 2. My Name is Kino Loy; 3. Gosh; 4. For — Peter — Toilet Brushes — More; 5. Always Ascending - Mixed. Minutes Listened: 30.975. Top Genre: Soundtrack.
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
jackaustin.net
It’s almost like I’m a game dev or something

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Check out your 2025 Bluesky Harvest from @anisota.net! anisota.net/harvest/
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "game" (6×), "control" (3×), "gets" (3×), "engine" (2×), "perfectly" (2×), "genai" (2×), "slop" (2×), "poetry" (2×), "special" (2×), "shot" (2×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
jackaustin.net
Just cloned, super cool stuff
alienmelon.bsky.social Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 10d
this is a good reminder that nothing is ever truly anonymous 🥲
github.com/neberej/expo...
“Discover all the information your browser shares automatically.
This project demonstrates the data your browser exposes by default … All data collection is 100% client-side. Nothing is transmitted or stored.”
GitHub - neberej/exposedbydefault: This is the data your browser hands out automatically, every time!
This is the data your browser hands out automatically, every time! - neberej/exposedbydefault
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
jackaustin.net
Lexicon updated with entries “squoot (n., v.); squootable (adj.)”
freya.bsky.social Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 26d
in C# is there a canonical way to do the square root of an integer when you already know the integer is squootable?

floor(sqrt(x)) would work too, but it seems kinda wrong to use floats here
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Mamdani is going to implement Steak n Shake law. The burgers will be mediocre and the shakes will be great
draudreyglover.bsky.social Dr Audrey Glover @draudreyglover.bsky.social · Nov 9
Mamdani is going to implement Sangria law. Flamenco will become compulsory
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
jackaustin.net
That’s a yikes and a half
taylank.bsky.social Taylan K - Indie dev @taylank.bsky.social · Nov 4
It's not a good sign when there is a webinar just for upgrading one's project to a new Unity version.
Email subject line reads: "Exclusive Unity Pro Hour: Solving Common Problems Upgrading to Unity 6"
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Buc-ee’s will unite the political parties and bring about class consciousness
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Hot take but —

and hear me out on this one —

I think mass surveillance might be a bad thing
October 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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😐
freya.bsky.social Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · Oct 20
tan(x) at home:
an approximation of tan(x) using x/(1-abs(x)) with a repeating pattern
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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wired.com
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Bring back “xD”
October 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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This game looks absolutely gorgeous
alienmelon.bsky.social Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Sep 9
thread of some screenshots of what I've been building...
i got the opening poem done, and the opening story that leaves you with the flower.
#GameDev
video...
September 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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1v1 a friend in Vector-C!

Just built this two-player arcade-style shooter with Costantino Frangos, Alex Piroth, and Charlie Heck for UCF Game Dev Knights Space Jam!

jackaustin.itch.io/vector-c
Vector C by Jack Austin
2-player arcade-style shooter.
jackaustin.itch.io
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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inconvergent.net
continuing the time-honored tradition of making raytracing slower by introducing imperfections we have been trying to eliminate from photography for centuries
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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jacobgeller.com
I know posting excerpts from 1984 is passé but this is literally the fifth page of 1984
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never --
September 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Found a funny old poem from high school in my Notes app and thought I’d post it lol

open.substack.com/pub/iamjacka...
Ballad of Stylographic Vengeance
Context: Just found this in my Notes app.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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wired.com
The Nvidia RTX 5070 is coming to the Framework Laptop 16, proving that upgradable GPUs in laptops aren’t just a fool’s errand. www.wired.com/story/framew...
Framework’s New Laptop Lets You Upgrade the Graphics Card
The Nvidia RTX 5070 is coming to the Framework Laptop 16, proving that upgradable GPUs in laptops aren’t just a fool’s errand.
www.wired.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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freya.bsky.social
a weird thing happened once I started medicating my ADD

Posting™ about my work used to be the only thing that really got me any kind of dopamine hit

but now I'm content just, tinkering with my projects, without ever telling anyone about them
August 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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cpaxton.bsky.social
Boston Dynamics showing off e2e large behavior models. Autonomous robot execution, the kind of stuff we haven't seen from them before, and its really impressive.
August 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Go kick some robot ass! Portal Warpin' Robot Killer out now!
jackaustin.itch.io/portal-warpi...
Portal Warpin' Robot Killer by Jack Austin
A game about warpin' through portals and killin' some robots.
jackaustin.itch.io
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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deathtrout
August 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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jessemakkonen.com
I'm looking for a console publisher for Without a Dawn, a visual horror novel I released a week ago: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... DM or email me for more info! ☺️
#publisher #game #indiegame #consoles
May 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM