Brennen

I retweet and like a lot of art. SFW and NSFW. I retweet game related things as well.

[Octo 🐙📼 @Octopimp]

I hate AI so much it actually makes me upset when I see people I care about using it

[2XKO @Play2XKO]

delightful agony awaits. thresh joins 2XKO on june 9.

[Sajam @Sajam]

2XKO release started off slow, but they really are cooking now. The character designs and release pace is so good.

Really impressed with everything the team is putting out.

[bashbunni @sudobunni]

Also, to clarify, I think it's a very powerful tool that can streamline a lot of your workflows. BUT if you outsource your thinking to it you will become rusty.

Also nobody cares about your AI-generated content, don't make humans consume AI garbage

[bashbunni @sudobunni]

a big part of the coding process is the refactors along the way. Scaling your solution to handle more edge cases, understanding why things need to be organized a certain way.

You can't learn those lessons by outsourcing that journey. That makes you a user not a developer

[Shaders Bible Series @ushadersbible]

If you're interested in technical art with Maya, we’ll be launching The Technical Artist’s Guide to Python in Maya soon. You can wishlist it now ➡️ https://t.co/wuWYHEhSAd

#maya3d

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

More sanity like this, please.

https://t.co/UMXsOeU1C2

[Lane || Boot.dev @wagslane]

AI has successfully made it harder and more expensive to create digital art for your business, because when you go to shop for an artist, you have to wade through the 95% of the "maker profiles" that are full-on slop cannons pretending to be human

[codegirl007 @codegirl007]

A little (big) ramble.

So many people I know in large tech companies are either worried about their jobs or wanting to leave their jobs. A lot of them have become discouraged because they used to love programming and their job has been distilled down to just talking to an AI and in some cases, being shunned for touching code in an editor.

I can relate to feeling discouraged. I can't help but to think about nearly a year ago when I left my job at a large tech company. I was scared a bit for the last few months I was there but I was also deeply miserable. One night, I decided I'm not going to plan for what I'm going to do after leaving because a) I was financially fine and b) it was my kids' summer break and I wanted to hang out with them and c) I went through a really really really rough patch with my previous company and just didn't want to rush into another bad situation. I was lucky in a lot of ways but it was really just me being traumatized by what happened.

In the time after leaving my job though, I was so relieved (probably because I didn't have to deal with the difficult environment I was in). I felt free. I shed the identity of "software engineer" that I held so close. That promotion I was gunning for suddenly didn't seem to matter to me much anymore. That title I worked hard for? Also didn't matter to me much anymore. In a way, I think I even grew a resentment for titles because the titles I once respected were also the same titles that let me down.

Much of my previous coworkers are in similar spots but they're too scared to do the same thing. And I get it. A large part did feel like I was starting over. Or that even my career was over. Or even that somehow I failed.

But the terms I've come to is that the accomplishments at previous companies are no longer mine. Likewise, neither are the failures. We're allowed to walk away when things don't work for us anymore and we're allowed to start over. On our own terms, even.

It's much easier to say that on twitter than to convince my previous coworkers of this because it is hard right now for a lot of people. And it's hard to watch people I genuinely care about and have known for over a decade go through the same thing.

[Brennen @Spikepk]

@CovfefeChan talk to get to know you and then go from there ^_^

[bashbunni @sudobunni]

building tolerance for hard tasks

[ZERO @zeronisART]

It was really fun to help out on some of these character designs!

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

I 100% support this petition.

[Touya! ★ @Touyarokii]

Avatar the last airbender is one of those rare shows where the quality gets better with each season

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

May the future belong to painters, potters, woodworkers, seamstresses, storytellers, bakers, gardeners, and people who still make things with their hands.

[Brennen @Spikepk]

@Hanabunny_cos I would love a hug

[Swordcery ⚔️ DEMO ON STEAM NOW! @TempleDoorGames]

Look, if you slash these nerds fast enough there's a prize in the glowy cage for you! 😲 It even explodes! The cage, not the prize.

#wishlistwednesday #indiegame

[Lane || Boot.dev @wagslane]

GitLab announced a layoff today.

Please take this seriously.

There will be many, many more.

Your assignment is clear:
Get skilled ---- ------ and practice shipping to prod.

It doesn't matter if you're HR, eng, infra, customer success, admin, ops, sales, whatever.

As a Founder/CEO, I can tell you that I won't be hiring any employees who aren't really skilled ---- ------ and able to ship to prod.

I'm not alone in this.

There is -- an 'engineering' org in the future.