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[Max Bo 🔰 @_max_bo_]

Is sending Factorio to your competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage?

https://t.co/vrB9cfYi7u

[Factorio @factoriogame]

Factorio: Space Age is here!
https://t.co/dxTrXUf2tM
#factorio #gamedev

[mayerj @mayerj]

@jmpaquette What

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Global engineering productivity set to dip in November:

https://t.co/XbfNVxBA4Z

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

Look, I'm all for making fun of Boeing — but the astronauts are not "stranded."

• 1 of 28 reaction control system (RCS) thrusters isn't working, they tested the rest and they're fine

• they still have 10x more helium pressurant than they need to land

• RCS thrusters don't re-enter with the crew module (A), they get jetissoned with the rest of the service module (B)

• people being lame about this for SpaceX fanboy reasons are horribly misguided — they are (accidentally) arguing "NASA should go slower and not accept failure even in redundant systems" which is the antithesis of the commercial space ethos

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

To start with, none of this changes anything about the stream schedule or my other obligations to Pirate Software or our games. This is something I have wanted to do for a very long time and now have the opportunity to do so in-addition to my regular work. Basically I'm a mutant, work 19 hours a day, and love it. No ChatMD will stop me.

With all of that in mind I've accepted a position as the Director of Strategy for @offbrand_games. I'm going to help manage the relationship between developers and us to make sure there is mutual benefit for both sides. This means coming up with solutions for development or launch issues, pitching and testing localization pricing options, helping rework steam or other platform pages, reviewing and judging pitched games, or structuring contracts during negotiations.

It also means that offbrand games is sponsoring our next game jam. Any of the winning teams will be able to talk to and get feedback on your game from a publishing perspective. This is entirely no strings attached and should give you a ton of insight into the process and how everything works. Understand that many of you will not need a publisher but in the cases where you do I want you to be ready for it and be able to get the best deal possible.

I've seen far too many instances of publisher over-reach and I've wanted to do something about it for close to a decade. This is a chance to help push our industry in a better direction and I am super happy to do it. It doesn't mean every agreement will go perfectly but it does mean we're going to try. Thanks for supporting the things I've done for all this time. Wouldn't be able to do this without all of you.

Go make games.

https://t.co/Smqhb43jxb

[Museum of Science @museumofscience]

We are thrilled to announce a major renovation and reinvention of the Museum to establish the Public Science Common, a state-of-the-art convening space that will connect Boston’s scientific community and play a leading role in transforming the nation’s relationship with science & technology. Lead support has been generously provided by @BloombergDotOrg.

["#1 ruescott melshi fan” tom @HELLA_GIRTH]

barista asked if i’d watched dune and i said oh yeah and she said she’d messed up making a flower and got shai hulud instead

[dax @thdxr]

if you are building self-hosted software please make it serverless

it's so easy to self host stuff that just needs a few lambda functions and a dynamo table i never have to worry about at any scale

if step 1 is "setup kubernetes" it's a much higher bar

[Factorio @factoriogame]

Friday Facts #374 - Smarter robots
https://t.co/v94LnEtPA3
#factorio #gamedev

[Louis Virtel @louisvirtel]

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

[Factorio @factoriogame]

Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age
https://t.co/ew3fUG5Viz
#factorio #gamedev

[mayerj @mayerj]

@jmpaquette

[ILSpy Team @ilspy]

ILSpy for #VSCode shipped a new version! Assembly list persistence per workspace, decompilation from Explorer and more. https://t.co/1SHA3YR3Qh

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Originally I thought the @awscloud CDK was a cult.

Then I used it for a project.

Now I'm a cultist; wanna come to a meeting with me?

[Satisfactory @SatisfactoryAF]

To address extreme levels of factory building, we've applied the following temporary limits:

- factories may only consume 6000 MW of power / day
- players can only build 600 conveyor belts / day
- you can no longer pet the lizard doggo

[Giorgio Bonfiglio @g_bonfiglio]

The Amazon Builders' Library is an hidden gem: it consists of articles written by some of the most senior AWS engineers covering foundational patterns and principles used when building AWS services.

Most learnings can be applied anywhere. Here are my favourite articles:

[Jessica Paquette @jmpaquette]

Kicking off summer with my favorite band @TJTofficial