Earl B

Building a game using only a $20 AI subscription.
Teaching AI complex systems through visual structure, not guesswork.
🎮Godot | 🤖AI | 🧠Systems

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

I just hit 80% of my weekly AI limit, so today I’m doing the part AI can’t:

I’m manually deconstructing Disney Solitaire levels and rebuilding them in Godot using a plugin Claude wrote for me.

That data becomes training material so Claude can design a difficulty system that generates 500 levels automatically — all using a $20/month AI plan.

https://t.co/XGu7V6yTB4
This is how I teach AI complex systems visually instead of guessing.

#gamedev #AI #GodotEngine #PromptEngineering

[₿en Wehrman @benwehrman]

Some people still haven't seen the video of the private rocket that was launched into the atmosphere and smacked straight into the firmament dome, so here it is.

Space is fake, no human has ever gone past that barrier covering our Earth at around 73 miles (117km)

This is why every rocket launch you've ever watched on TV makes a giant arched rainbow shape. They are being yeeted into the Bermuda Triangle rocket graveyard, right off the coast of Cape Canaveral.

[📽️yt: terry eicher]

[@levelsio @levelsio]

And it works! 😊

I've now been able to make all these DOS games work in their original DOS versions in multiplayer with my own local area network (LAN) emulator:
- Quake 1
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Doom 1
- Doom 2

If you go to https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC and start a game, you get auto matched with another player if available, and a little LAN is created between you two over the internet and via my server (over Websockets)

It works remarkably well if you think about all the steps involved

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@levelsio So dope. Not likely that I'll ever want to play these games again (played then quite a bit back in the day), this is quite an incredible achievement and I hope to reach your skill level some day

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@littlescale This looks really cool and amazing, cool song too.

Nice work!

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@PlayStalgiaX An exploit

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

@sneako It’s even crazier that wealth is thought to be a series of 0’s on a screen that don’t exist in reality and can be printed from nothing by people no one knows.

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

But you're gay and nobody cares what you think

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

I developed video games for 25 years. I hate piracy with every fiber of my being.

I saw companies I loved and men I admired completely ruined by pirates. I detest every single excuse and facile lie used to justify piracy.

However, if you are using an emulator to play a game that you CANNOT PLAY OTHERWISE, then even I do not count it as piracy. Go forth and play Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead with Sandy's blessing, should you need it.

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@IM2BZ4Stupidity @annvandersteel What?

Which chemicals are unknown to pose risks in this video?

You're joking right?

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@ShimazuSystems IDK where you live but damn, my rent is 775 for a 2 bedroom on 2 acres with heat and water included. In America

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@IM2BZ4Stupidity @annvandersteel But "natural gas" or "propane" aren't?

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@jiro_3_ Bro, if you're doing posts in English then make all your images English too. Nobody reading your posts is comprehending what you're trying to convey in your images...

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@ziwenxu_ Unreal or godot?

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@SouthDallasFood I cooked as a saute cook at Olive garden for 2 years, it was definitely intense and this video doesn't really capture it because this guy seemingly was only working 3 of the burners. Usually there's 2 people on saute, one each covering 4

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@Simon_Ingari That's because in 2007 nobody asked, they simply informed they weren't coming in.

Nowadays people ask. Your language in your post proves this..

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

But what about ticks from plum Island @CultivateElevat

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@GamingWithNuke What game?

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@TheScholastics @kalin_t What if you just do a rebrand, it's probably cheaper to start under a new legal entity. Then just get a pirated version

[Earl B @ijustlivetruth]

@Rev0verDrive @munsplit Yeah it was basically anytime I created anything other than a blank template