Dominic Szablewski

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

Xibalba 64 is finally here!

I'm very happy with how the game turned out! It looks amazing with the M64 on the living room TV, but of course is fully compatible with the original N64.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@awesomekling @falco_girgis @ladybirdbrowser That seems related to your recent post about sandboxing!? What changed your mind?

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

Constantly reminded of this post. This week the Adobe clones and @TheGingerBill dunking on them (for all the wrong reasons) and in contrast @wvo's Goose, @dhh's Omarchy and @awesomekling's Ladybird.

Turns out shit givers are as rare a breed as 10x devs used to be.

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

The only real moat is giving a shit.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@jrharbort Not sure if the schematics are entirely correct. There are a few more photos in the N64brew discord; search for "gamester". Let me know if you need anything else!

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

For my N64 game I wanted to support the Rumble Pak and stumbled down a rabbit hole of "not sure if genius or really dumb"-engineering. Libdragon, the system library I'm using, has this very convenient function `joypad_set_rumble_active(port, active)`. Simple, right? 🧵 1/n

[Wouter van Oortmerssen @wvo]

Goose: my latest programming language. Safer, faster and less memory than Rust/C++ for algorithms where tightly packed, flat data structures matter.

It can represent more kinds of data structures as flat, pointer-free bytes than any language I know.

https://t.co/qqC3RFD0BS
1/

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@awesomekling Protip: rdce ur msg len on X. Evry ltr › srvr load › colng wtr wastd.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

In my last blog post I stated that "Programming your [N64] game on bare metal is pretty much out of the question." - in this video @rfleury explains that I just lacked the ambition. Great intro to the N64! https://t.co/XpR7uLL5l5

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

It's pretty cool... but I still think they could have carried the depth values into screen space.

[Morden ㊙ @M0RD3N]

I finally took @phoboslab's Xibalba 64 for a spin and I'm loving it. The texture filter toggle effectively illustrates just how huge an impact this feature has on the visuals, and how beneficial selective application could have been in many games.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@ID_AA_Carmack Nope. Connecting a trigger to a func_door with CRUSHER set was a way more vivid example to get me into programming.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

Starting at 1:05:36 @dhh is talking about @modretro, the M64 and the great new being published for old consoles. For a moment I thought he would name drop Xibalba 64 too, but no, it's just Tetris for the Chromatic... which is a great game to be fair!

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization.

It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:27 - Introduction
2:56 - Programming with AI agents
18:14 - How software will change
27:30 - AI impact on open source
37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro
47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering
1:00:06 - The end of manual programming
1:10:24 - Advice for programmers
1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate
1:31:46 - Programming setup for AI Agents
1:44:11 - Obsessing about speed
2:07:06 - Voice prompting vs typing
2:21:05 - Best AI coding models
2:37:55 - Best AI coding harnesses
2:50:57 - AI video generation and filmmaking
3:10:28 - Fatherhood
3:38:35 - Linux will win the desktop
3:49:51 - PewDiePie
3:59:24 - Future of programming
4:22:17 - Politics and immigration
4:53:54 - Longevity, over-optimization, and fear of death
5:05:38 - Eternal recurrence and future of human civization

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@mrdoob @castano Neat! For a second I thought it's using something akin to https://t.co/BpjgoSjm7n

Thinking about it, this model of texture generation might a good fit for AI... I need to try that!

[Steve 🇺🇦 McCrea @Kweepa]

Progress on Quake for Commodore 64: tidied up the editor a bit in preparation for making the rest of the levels, and decided to use the Zombie after all. Here's a little demo of the editor in action.

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

Disassembled the .gba file of my favourite Game Boy Advance demo and ported it to Javascript.
https://t.co/iab2EHeyNG

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@M0RD3N Yep. I wanted to port https://t.co/iztVpyqzL1 which itself was just a souped-up version of this very old web game https://t.co/CD3QtL6dtH, clearly inspired by Warning Forever.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

Failed experiment for the N64: runs with 60fps in emulator, but fails to hit 30 on real hardware. The N64 memory bus is a bitch.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

Perfect demonstration of the "taste" question around AI.

https://t.co/czX5pRiGYO
https://t.co/VG0dpSALN1

[Danny Limanseta @DannyLimanseta]

Here's an early game trailer of Cook the Dungeon (🔊Sound on), a first-person roguelike deckbuilder where you defeat monsters, harvest their parts, and cook meals for the battles ahead.

If the game interests you, please wishlist the game on Steam! It helps the game to get discovered.

[Francis DiPersio @FrankAtHPP]

Xibalba 64 has been a real treat. Satisfying weapons, awesome atmosphere, and some excellent sound design come together to create a must-play boomer shooter for the N64.

Hats off to @modretro and @phoboslab on this top-notch release.

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@EskilSteenberg May I suggest my game? https://t.co/VmH6xSgxiX

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@nicholasadeleon Ha, you could read that sentence as imperative "leading", right? :D Not what I intended, though. Will fix, thanks!

[Piotr Fusik @fox6502]

View and convert @phoboslab's Quite OK Image (QOI) format with plugins for Windows Explorer, macOS Finder, Linux GNOME, Paint .NET and XnView.
The fresh version 3.1.0 is compatible with macOS 12+.
https://t.co/slLvPIPp79

[Dominic Szablewski @phoboslab]

@qristofer @Colonthreee Ha, amazing. Love it!