Rick
@ricksmith.co.uk
I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
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Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.
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Lunchtime re-share
hopeful.technology 💕
hopeful.technology 💕
January 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Lunchtime re-share
hopeful.technology 💕
hopeful.technology 💕
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Anyway, everything is obviously terrible but - to quote the mighty Rebecca Solnit - "hope is the ax you break the door down with in an emergency". We have some potentially VERY exciting news to share soon, but in the meantime, hopeful.technology
January 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Anyway, everything is obviously terrible but - to quote the mighty Rebecca Solnit - "hope is the ax you break the door down with in an emergency". We have some potentially VERY exciting news to share soon, but in the meantime, hopeful.technology
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I just accidentally sent out the Society for Hopeful Technologists email newsletter 12 hours earlier than planned, but the upside of that is that I can share our excellent new website and plan of action buttondown.com/society-of-h...
#4: New Year, New Hope ⭐️
Our new purpose, workplan, and website - building a solidarity network for everyone who wants technologies to work for people and planet
buttondown.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I just accidentally sent out the Society for Hopeful Technologists email newsletter 12 hours earlier than planned, but the upside of that is that I can share our excellent new website and plan of action buttondown.com/society-of-h...
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It has come to my attention that you guys didn’t buy Sektori, and that’s fucked up. It’s the only game I’m playing right now. store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
Sektori on Steam
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another s...
store.steampowered.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
It has come to my attention that you guys didn’t buy Sektori, and that’s fucked up. It’s the only game I’m playing right now. store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
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The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
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People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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I’m geeked up on that pure Na’vi yayo while an eight foot tall goth cat gf cuts me. I’m high off that Pandora Payakan talking directly to the ancestors. We sipping pure Tulkun brain goo. That Mangkwan coochie got me waging war on Eywa. I’ve died. I will die again. This shit ain’t nothing to me man.
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I’m geeked up on that pure Na’vi yayo while an eight foot tall goth cat gf cuts me. I’m high off that Pandora Payakan talking directly to the ancestors. We sipping pure Tulkun brain goo. That Mangkwan coochie got me waging war on Eywa. I’ve died. I will die again. This shit ain’t nothing to me man.
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"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
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December 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
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Past work in content moderation or in tackling misinformation and disinformation could be grounds for rejection.
US will expand social media, work history vetting for H-1B visas
Past work in content moderation or in tackling misinformation and disinformation could be grounds for rejection.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Past work in content moderation or in tackling misinformation and disinformation could be grounds for rejection.
Sektori is all I’ve been playing since it came out.
It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!
It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!
It's been 2 weeks and we have officially crossed 5000 sales on Steam! Thank you everyone for playing! 🙂🌈
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Sektori is all I’ve been playing since it came out.
It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!
It definitely deserves more sales than this! Go and play it!
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So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
First #ffconf yesterday with the team. We laughed, learnt and came out inspired.
Thanks to @remysharp.com and the rest of the @ffconf.org team for organising. Hopefully we’ll be back next year!
Now off to build some small useless projects!
Thanks to @remysharp.com and the rest of the @ffconf.org team for organising. Hopefully we’ll be back next year!
Now off to build some small useless projects!
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
First #ffconf yesterday with the team. We laughed, learnt and came out inspired.
Thanks to @remysharp.com and the rest of the @ffconf.org team for organising. Hopefully we’ll be back next year!
Now off to build some small useless projects!
Thanks to @remysharp.com and the rest of the @ffconf.org team for organising. Hopefully we’ll be back next year!
Now off to build some small useless projects!
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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October 31st November 1st
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
October 31st November 1st
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Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.