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Chris Knowles

@tarrenam.com

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Christian, indie game developer of optimization puzzle game Hexahedra. Blogs about geekery and Christianity at the same time. Former RuneScape engine dev at Jagex. Hexahedra: https://s.team/a/1248420 Blog: https://blog.tarrenam.com

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 16h

Wealthy people should pay more in the name of equity and redistribution?

Sounds like we should tax the rich.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 18h

Come on, we all remember dancing to "Rain Rain Barkels" in the summer of 2016.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 22h

Given how old the case is, why do they still have the files at all? Surely the easiest and most secure way to maintain attorney-client privilege is to destroy the notes.

Is there a requirement to keep them around? To what end?

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 1d

Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons were about exactly this.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 1d

It's always fun knowing a few networking engineers, and discovering that the cause of yesterday's Vodafone outage was "they delisted their entire IP range from the Internet and disappeared from the global routing tables".

I mean, wow.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 1d

The Ouroborosausage

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 1d

My puzzle game, Hexahedra, is 50% off this week in celebration of #AdaLovelaceDay 👇

Sidequest Ninja | Buy Hexahedra on Steam! @sidequestninja.com · 1d

It's Ada Lovelace Day!

She was the first person ever to publish a computer program, before we had transistors or thermionic valves and, in fact, before the first computer!

To celebrate, Hexahedra is currently 50% off in the #AdaLovelaceDay Steam sale.

store.steampowered.com/app/1248420/...

Banner image for the Ada Lovelace Day Steam sale. It shows a messy workshop full of computers and other hardware, with a picture of Ada Lovelace in the background.

Text Overlay:
October 13-19
Ada Lovelace Day Sale 2025
Awesome games about coding, automation & engineering
Hosted by Luden.io

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 2d

'...and so, in honour of his name and to commemorate his odd walk, the fledgling city was named "Baldur's Gait"...'

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 2d

The Ring of the Grammarian claims another victim.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 3d

If you see this, quote your favourite Pokémon!

(Wrong answers only)

The Puckmaren from Flight of the Navigator, being stroked by David.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 3d

I love learning about industrial hacks 😀

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 3d

"The main Steam capsule image size is now 534 pixels by 3 nautical miles"

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Olli-Wer-Wolf 🐺 @owolf.bsky.social · 5d

I love my little red robot hauler.
You can have it with buzz saw or with doomsday device.
#Nerdlings
#WarhammerCommunity
#FindFolksFriday
#JHBackdrops

Red robot hauler on tracks with a military green box on top containing a yellow bomb

The same red robot hauler on tracks this time with a red robot arm buzz saw on top

A closer look at the bomb with cables and a computer pad

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 5d

A redheaded gnome sorceror in a red casting circle.

Both one of the few red, and the few non-Warhammer things I've painted!

A female gnome sorceror, on a flagstone base which has a red-yellow magic circle on it. She has a staff in her right hand, and a potion and scroll case on her belt. She has her arms spread wide as she casts a spell. Her eyes are glowing yellow.

Model by Reaper Minis (https://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/bones+female/latest/77031)

The same mini, viewed from behind and to the left. The full staff can now be seen, with a metal cog on its lower end.

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 6d

OK, but how do I get to Mornington Crescent?

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Timothra @timrandosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as uncredited U.S. Army staff sergeant in “Them!” (1954)

20-something Nimoy in a Sargent uniform standing before a board listing strange news reports to be monitored:
Kidnappings
Unsolved murders
Alleged suicides
Strange migrations
Thefts of sugary sweets
Strange phenomenon

It’s in black and white

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 7d

I stand corrected!

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 7d

Bryan Cranston, best known for his role as Ranger Ericsson in the Babylon 5 episode "The Long Night" (1997)

Still from the Babylon 5 series 4 episode "The Long Night". In the foreground, Bryan Cranston playing the role of Ranger Ericsson, dressed in the standard Ranger uniform, on the bridge of a White Star ship. In the background, three religious caste Minbari wearing yellow robes.

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 7d

Here's hoping.

If the EU can kill predatory F2P mechanics, especially ones that target children while hiding behind smokescreens like "ah, but *technically* it's not gambling", then I'm all for it.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 7d

Supercell CEO claims proposed EU regulations around digital currencies will 'kill how games work'

Ilkka Paananen is worried the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act will 'cripple' the European video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 7d

public enum MonasticRole {

NUN = 0,
MONK = 1,
ABBOT = 2,
FRIAR = 3,
...

}

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 11d

Yeah, I expect so. This could be handled so much better, though. Set up a web chat (so the appeal handler is online at the same time as the person wanting to appeal), send photo, verify on the spot, delete, done.

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 11d

The most hair-pulling part of this is that some of the data stolen was photos of people's government ID.

Verifiers keep saying "yeah, we want an ID photo, but we delete it straight away!"

Either this company was storing them, or the breach allowed the attackers to grab the data in real time.

Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 11d

So, that Discord data breach? The headlines *should* have focused on the Age Verification angle.

It affected a 3rd party service Discord uses for Age Verification appeals.

It took 3 months from the start of the UKs OSA age checks for the first known data leak.

www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

www.theverge.com

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Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 12d

Mini of the month competition October - Terrain-ing day

Your mission this month involves no minis at all. Instead you are to create a terrain piece from scratch. Old school style. So cardboard, foam, plastic bottles etc.

Rules on skeet 2 (please read them)

1/2

#Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 11d

I just want to point out that Tylenol/paracetamol isn't an NSAID.

www.drugs.com/medical-answ...

Is acetaminophen (Tylenol) an NSAID Drug?

Official answer: No, acetaminophen (Tylenol) is not classified as an NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug). Acetaminophen is...

www.drugs.com

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Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · 12d

I finally understand why timezones are so hard.

#gamedev

Results of a Google search for "2025-10-01T07:00:00+01:00"

Before the traditional search results, Google shows a section called "How to solve your problem". It has interpreted the search query as an equation:

2025 - 10 + (-T * (7/0))/0 + 1/0

It then says "Simplify". Step 1 is "Division by zero is undefined". Here it shows the same equation twice more, with an arrow pointing down from the first copy to the second. The "7/0" part is highlighted in red each time. Presumably this would show an actual simplification if it wasn't complaining about division by 0.

Below this is a section that reads "Result: The expression 7/0 is undefined."

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