Mats
@travelmats.bsky.social
I've been making things for the Internet since 1995. Solo developing web apps. Open web idealist. Nostalgic futurist, enthusiastic tourist and art lover. There will be art retweets and travel photos.
Thinking more about this, and the fact that Henry Cavill crashed out over a disagreement with the writers.
He disagreed with them not putting in any effort whatsoever? Seems reasonable to be honest, but I kind of expected something more controversial.
He disagreed with them not putting in any effort whatsoever? Seems reasonable to be honest, but I kind of expected something more controversial.
I was ready to dislike Liam Hemsworth as The Witcher, but I actually think he did ok.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Thinking more about this, and the fact that Henry Cavill crashed out over a disagreement with the writers.
He disagreed with them not putting in any effort whatsoever? Seems reasonable to be honest, but I kind of expected something more controversial.
He disagreed with them not putting in any effort whatsoever? Seems reasonable to be honest, but I kind of expected something more controversial.
I know I’m old and out of touch, but someone at a game event yesterday asked me if I like roguelikes and I said yes, I’ve played NetHack a lot 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I know I’m old and out of touch, but someone at a game event yesterday asked me if I like roguelikes and I said yes, I’ve played NetHack a lot 🤔
If anyone is wondering how the Australian social media ban is going: My daughter and her friends have already adapted by moving their chats to a shared Canva presentation. 😅
(Look at the page count...)
(Look at the page count...)
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
If anyone is wondering how the Australian social media ban is going: My daughter and her friends have already adapted by moving their chats to a shared Canva presentation. 😅
(Look at the page count...)
(Look at the page count...)
So a Black Friday sale is to give a tiny discount on your least interesting products?
I’m not sure it was necessary to send me 1000 emails about this.
I’m not sure it was necessary to send me 1000 emails about this.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
So a Black Friday sale is to give a tiny discount on your least interesting products?
I’m not sure it was necessary to send me 1000 emails about this.
I’m not sure it was necessary to send me 1000 emails about this.
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I can't lie, seeing the first wishlists trickle in feels amazing after working on this for a year. 🫣
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
Trailmarks on Steam
You're the new fact-checker for the Trailmarks Travel Guide. Your job: Answer trivia, verify facts and circumnavigate the globe before time and money run out. Travel by boat, bus, train, or flight. Tr...
store.steampowered.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can't lie, seeing the first wishlists trickle in feels amazing after working on this for a year. 🫣
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
I can't lie, seeing the first wishlists trickle in feels amazing after working on this for a year. 🫣
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
Trailmarks on Steam
You're the new fact-checker for the Trailmarks Travel Guide. Your job: Answer trivia, verify facts and circumnavigate the globe before time and money run out. Travel by boat, bus, train, or flight. Tr...
store.steampowered.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can't lie, seeing the first wishlists trickle in feels amazing after working on this for a year. 🫣
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #gamedev #indiegames
Sheesh, Claude Code really loves creating and maintaining documentation if you let it. This is from a single session before I told it writing .md files is banned.
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Sheesh, Claude Code really loves creating and maintaining documentation if you let it. This is from a single session before I told it writing .md files is banned.
I was ready to dislike Liam Hemsworth as The Witcher, but I actually think he did ok.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I was ready to dislike Liam Hemsworth as The Witcher, but I actually think he did ok.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
Just a shame everything else about Season 4 was awful. The story was just a medley of Hero's Journey tropes? It felt like the TV version of hanging out in the Witcher game world after finishing all the quests.
Reading the replies here makes me wonder how so many people are oblivious to how negative the experience is of being put on multiple slanderous lists.
Would they be OK if Palantir, Meta or Cambridge Analytica categorised people like this? If not why is it ok that BSky does?
Would they be OK if Palantir, Meta or Cambridge Analytica categorised people like this? If not why is it ok that BSky does?
I really wanted this social network to work for me. But apparently, I’m on the worst block lists out there… a bit unfair.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reading the replies here makes me wonder how so many people are oblivious to how negative the experience is of being put on multiple slanderous lists.
Would they be OK if Palantir, Meta or Cambridge Analytica categorised people like this? If not why is it ok that BSky does?
Would they be OK if Palantir, Meta or Cambridge Analytica categorised people like this? If not why is it ok that BSky does?
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Adding an entirely new level of complexity to Trailmarks
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Adding an entirely new level of complexity to Trailmarks
Building up a new kind of troll farm with reasonable people flooding social media with thoughtful, centrist takes looking for common ground and empathic perspectives.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Building up a new kind of troll farm with reasonable people flooding social media with thoughtful, centrist takes looking for common ground and empathic perspectives.
Adding an entirely new level of complexity to Trailmarks
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Adding an entirely new level of complexity to Trailmarks
On a more serious note: there really are *a lot* of non-developers in the game industry pushing this narrative of how indispensable they are in an apparently infinite supply of game studios.
Every talk about the games industry at SXSW Sydney:
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
On a more serious note: there really are *a lot* of non-developers in the game industry pushing this narrative of how indispensable they are in an apparently infinite supply of game studios.
Every talk about the games industry at SXSW Sydney:
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Every talk about the games industry at SXSW Sydney:
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
“Ong I’m so busy and there’s so many game devs wanting to talk to me so here’s the 100 requirements for contacting me and I don’t have time to reply to you anyways” #gamedev #indiegames
Listening to a lot of talks about game publishers at SXSW Sydney today, and they sound insufferable? Is it so easy to find successful games that they can be so dismissive and arrogant with studios? Or is that an Australian thing? #gamedev #indiegames
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Listening to a lot of talks about game publishers at SXSW Sydney today, and they sound insufferable? Is it so easy to find successful games that they can be so dismissive and arrogant with studios? Or is that an Australian thing? #gamedev #indiegames
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I don't know but this seems suss for a fact checker for a travel guide. #trailmarks
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I don't know but this seems suss for a fact checker for a travel guide. #trailmarks
Still looking for someone to play-test! Lots of new things since this. DM me - it's fun game and I'd just like to see a 15-30 minutes screen recording. #gamedev #indiegames
Hey!
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Still looking for someone to play-test! Lots of new things since this. DM me - it's fun game and I'd just like to see a 15-30 minutes screen recording. #gamedev #indiegames
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
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Hey!
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
September 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hey!
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
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Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Hey!
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
September 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Hey!
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
I'm looking for play-testers for the playable alpha of the travel and quiz game Trailmarks!
Just someone to play the game for 30 minutes or so on Zoom while I watch and ask some questions. In return, I'll give you the game for free when it launches!
Interested? DM me.
#gamedev #playtesters
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September 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM