Ben Carlsson

prev @twitch, @llnl, @sunpower. he/him. not here anymore, swapped to blsky and mastodon:

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

mastypon account https://t.co/C23ay1RmpV

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@BaconDonutTV @fire @notsquishy @IncendiaryMedia pull

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@BaconDonutTV @fire @notsquishy @IncendiaryMedia I'm nearing the end of a 10-year bet and I have another 20-year one in progress. Bring it on.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@BaconDonutTV @fire @notsquishy @IncendiaryMedia can

[Splits.io @splitsio]

As a reminder, today is our last day online.

Thank you everyone for your love and support. The last 11 years have been a chapter of my life I will never forget.

✌️ @glcls

[Splits.io @splitsio]

Due to the stress and emotional toil this journey has put us through, we are not looking to be saved again. Thank you for your understanding, love, and support. ♥️

- @glcls

[Splits.io @splitsio]

After four months, I’m sorry to share @GamesDoneQuick has decided to stop supporting https://t.co/Dn0qsdK46L, citing financial reasons.

We will continue with our original shutdown plans, with a new last day of March 31, 2025.

[Splits.io @splitsio]

Good news! Thanks to a generous commitment from @GamesDoneQuick to provide ongoing financial support, https://t.co/Dn0qsdK46L will no longer be shutting down!

Please send them a nice thank you message for their support and submit your runs to AGDQ and GDQ Hotfix!!

[Splits.io @splitsio]

I'm very sad to share that https://t.co/Dn0qsdK46L will shut down December 31, 2024. There will be a way to retrieve your runs even after that date. More info: https://t.co/zbP1oL7Xb6

Thank you for using us. ❤️

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@zemnmez that sucks 🙁 sorry this is happening to you friend.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@Bosby_ @frozentrually Love Heritage! Their tasting room up here is one of my favorites.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@djbystedt I agree emotionally. But this was an experiment in the literal sense, not a beta. Being public about experiments can invalidate their results.

Still, we knew people wanted it. Heck we wanted it for ourselves, as users. That’s why we built it. The experiment was a sanity check.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

Early at Twitch, we thought we’d be heroes for adding chat history on load. So you’d land on a channel and you’d already see recent chat messages, instead of a big white box as new ones come in.

Everyone was asking for it. It was simple to build. Easy win, we thought.

Nope.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

@ianfoo Then there are the ones like <name of our company>-<topic> instead of just <topic>.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

stage 6

ok but your users clearly don’t read labels because people are putting first names and usernames and pet names in the email field and one person even put their phone number into it and then they COMPLAINED to you about it

…you write code to check it has “@“ and “.”

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

the seven stages of writing software to check whether a text field contains an email address.

stage 1

“what’s validation?”

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

stage 5

but then you read that one comment on stackoverflow that says well actually the best way to validate an email address is to send it a dang email and see if the user gets it.

you remove all text validation and accept this new modern inclusive minimalist approach

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

i'll save you a tirade but the rest of the software+support experience is equally as fragmented and confusing,

filled with googling through old reddit posts and sacrificing half the features of your hardware to buggy software so you can use the other half kinda how you wanted.

[Ben Carlsson @glcls]

for 10 years i have been annually refreshed with awe over how much logitech's amazing hardware is held back by its… everything.

to download software for your logitech gear you go to this page and you throw a dart at your monitor. wherever it lands, that's the app you download.