Matt (Tech) Lloyd

Ok Programmer, Shitty Pianist, Total Prat. @Krakentech_ Head of Software Engineering - Ex @Thoughtworks - @techlloyd.bsky.social

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

I think it’s time to move on from here. You can find me at the Bsky address in my bio for those inclined.

[Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @GreyAlien]

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!

A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching.
Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

https://t.co/b66XFR3wRF

With @SlickNickLives

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

If you want to see some people raging search for corer on twitter. Yesterday’s wordle was the second hardest word they have ever used.

[Neath - Coming 2026 @CellarDoorGames]

It's been over 10 years since we released Rogue Legacy 1, and in the pursuit of sharing knowledge, we are officially releasing the source code to the public.

https://t.co/BwIYTBIn7X

Eternal thanks to @flibitijibibo for setting this up, and being with us since the beginning.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Bayes’ theorem, clearly explained:

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

@ChShersh Depends what you want to do. SBCL is good place to learn pure lisp. Clojure is great if you want JVM compatibility, Racket is a slightly different flavour but better from a conceptual purity standpoint it’s a great learning language.

[TheBlackDog @TheBlackDog]

This made us laugh more than it should have.

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

Since everyone else is doing it here’s my shots from last night

[Yugo Nakamura @yugop]

Convex-Hull Body 2.1

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

@yugop It’s amazing how much information is retained. You can tell this is a ballet dancer(?) just from the motion of the extremities.

[8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnortherner]

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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Another delivery from privatisation.

Today 1st class stamp price rises by 30p. Royal Mail hasn't met delivery targets.

1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p.
At privatisation in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p

Benefit of privatisation - Higher prices for worst service.

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

@KakapoCalypse Bottom

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

A really nice 628 page textbook for Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

I like the Author's description

"The goal of this book is to help the reader make the transition from being a consumer of mathematics to a producer of it. This is what is meant by ‘pure’ mathematics. While a consumer of mathematics might learn the chain rule and use it to compute a derivative, a producer of mathematics might derive the chain rule from the rigorous definition of a derivative, and then prove more abstract versions of the chain rule in more general contexts (such as multivariate analysis).
Consumers of mathematics are expected to say how they used their tools to find their answers. Producers of mathematics, on the other hand, have to do much more: they must be able to keep track of definitions and hypotheses, piece together facts in new and interesting ways, and make their own definitions of mathematical concepts."

[matdryhurst @matdryhurst]

Our GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan

[Matt (Tech) Lloyd @TechLloyd]

Is there any paper/explanation as to how UE5.5 Megalights work? The performance improvement is vast, I was thinking screen space but apparently it’s RT?

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

all hail London's night czar!

[Iron Economist @IronEconomist]

There is no more perfect encapsulation of the failure of our planning regime than that we are going to import water from Norway to *England*. We are deeply into the ‘stop hitting yourself’ part of the failure phase diagram.

[Yan Cui @theburningmonk]

We build knowledge over time, but most of our system decisions are made at the start.
That’s why we need to build systems that can evolve over time.
well said ⁦@boyney123⁩ 👏