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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Over 1/3 of the market cap of the entire S&P 500 is in just 6 companies.

Their combined market cap of $19.163tn is 34.6% of the $55.379tn market cap of the S&P 500:

- NVidia ($4.461tn)
- Microsoft ($3.818tn)
- Apple ($3.744tn)
- Alphabet ($3.067tn)
- Amazon ($2.272tn)
- Meta ($1.801tn)

Bonkers.

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 3d

This was a great read.

www.felixstocker.com/blog/talent

On Talent — Felix Stocker

“It is generally ill-advised to say 'never' and I'm pleased for you that your grafting has got you to where you wanted to be.”

www.felixstocker.com

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 6d

Coconuts are banned for 3 reasons:

1 - as sealed objects, the gases inside can become pressurised and lead to an explosion.

2 - biosecurity - fresh coconuts risk contaminating biologically-sensitive environments like Australia and New Zealand.

3 - they are difficult to scan due to the shell.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 7d

Such a great comedian.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 8d

TIL about Weather derivatives: financial products that pay out based on weather conditions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather...

I am rather tempted to introduce the concept into Babsland - it adds an element of needing to think about extreme weather scenarios and how to mitigate them.

Weather derivative - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 9d

Even on a cloudy Sunday in Essex, a set of solar panels plus a 5kWh battery and hybrid inverter mean that I’m exporting to the grid right now.

The daylight is enough to meet the house’s electricity needs and send the excess up.

A picture of an electricity smart meter.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 10d

And thanks to that article, I learnt about Bioswales in the Netherlands

urbangreenbluegrids.com/measures/bio...

Bioswales | Urban Green-blue Grids

Systems for infiltration, buffering and drainage - In bioswale systems, the water running off from roofs and roads does not flow into the sewers but instead is...

urbangreenbluegrids.com

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 10d

This long-read article on geoengineering is worth sitting down and reading.

Also, who knew that seaweed absorbs CO2 more effectively than trees?

www.governance.fyi/p/all-natura...

All-Natural Geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune

Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?

www.governance.fyi

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 10d

This is a lovely blog post on Will Wright’s thoughts about Game Design, UI, SimCity and the sequel that became the Sims.

donhopkins.medium.com/designing-us...

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)

A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…

donhopkins.medium.com

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 11d

The numerous lights is impacting the frame rate a bit, so only the day/night toggling is enabled for the moment.

Click on the sun/moon (☀️/🌚) in the top bar to toggle.

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 11d

Good night from Babsland #gamedev #buildinpublic

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 13d

If you publish npm packages and want to make sure that the package.json is good, then publint is worth looking at.

www.npmjs.com/package/publ...

Publint.dev

#nodejs

www.npmjs.com

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 13d

It feels like it’s quite broad though - some people use AI for autocompletion, others for pair-programming, and some with agents which pause at intervals for human-in-the-loop input.

A vibe-o-meter if you will would be a good way to show how much input AI is having in the process.

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 15d

💯. Look what they did to the Home Screen - the weather temperature readings are practically hidden.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 21d

Good morning everyone. Have a great day at work www.babsland.com #gamedev #buildinpublic

A game screenshot of some office buildings and their car parks, with some cars parked in there.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 21d

When creating a new map, the max number of rows and columns that the device can display is calculated dynamically.

It even takes large image asset sets (with tiles as big as say 128px width) into account.

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 22d

Especially zoomed out (the map is 256x256 tiles, same as SimCity 4)

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 22d

It is starting to look really nice.

A screenshot of a game where you build a city. It features a city landscape where you have roads, trees, houses, apartment blocks, playgrounds, shops, a river, some beach, and other bits

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 22d

Added some pavements, even for the rounded corners. Not perfect but the image assets can be tweaked at any time (they’re just png images).

#gamedev #buildinpublic

A picture of a computer screen with a game loaded on it, which is of an isometric map engine.

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Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 22d

A classic photo of Higgs

A picture of a grey dog on a couch in a house, smiling as he is being scratched.

Paul Jensen @paulbjensen.bsky.social · 23d

Turns out different browsers/devices have different limits for how many pixels they can render in a canvas element.

Found a very good little library to help detect the supported max size jhildenbiddle.github.io/canvas-size/#/

canvas-size - Determine the maximum area, height, width, and custom dimensions of an HTML canvas element.

canvas-size determines the maximum area, height, width, and custom dimensions of an HTML canvas element.

jhildenbiddle.github.io

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