Sam Deane (@[email protected])

A microscopic cog in your catastrophic plan. He/him. Indie app/game developer. Previously @sketch @footballmanager.

[Elegant Chaos (@[email protected]) @elegantchaoscom]

Just a reminder that we're not on X and FB these days, due to a certain distaste for their ownership.

You can find us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Details on https://t.co/eYP9oyiwZ0.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Just a reminder: I'm not on X or FB these days, due to a certain distaste for their ownership.

You can find me on Mastodon and Bluesky. Details on https://t.co/qEAht8v8I7.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Hi @british_airways, how do I change a booking made using the air discount scheme? Your website won't let me do it online, and the phone list you give doesn't work.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Credit where due: many thanks to the woman on the @British_Airways help desk at LCY this lunchtime who got me onto an earlier flight, sorted it so my bags would be transferred through to SYY, took them over and checked them in herself, and told me who to talk to at GLA.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@andydotxyz Thanks. Crossing my fingers!

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Oh joy. @British_Airways just cancelled my flight to Glasgow, which means I’ll miss my connection to Stornoway.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@andydotxyz Nope! They’ve rebooked me on flights today, but I had to sort my own hotel again, and I’m not convinced that I will make my second flight as they’ve done the booking in a way that may mean I have to pick up my bags and check in again in Glasgow - which I won’t have time to do :/

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@andydotxyz I just got through security when the first flight was cancelled. Up to that point it was quite smooth! I guess I should count my blessings.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Now my replacement flight is cancelled. Which means I’ve booked a hotel and onward flight I can’t use.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Person I dealt with at LCY was helpful, and not her fault, but the service from @British_Airways was terrible.

They eventually got me onto a later flight to Glasgow. Wouldn’t sort out a hotel for me, or an onward flight to Stornoway, even though all bookings were through them!

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

Very pleased to be a small part of this excellent team!
Exciting times ahead :)

[Neil Dejyothin @neildejyothin]

Thrilled to introduce you to @formationgames_, a newly formed studio I helped name & joined the leadership team a few months ago as Executive Producer! 🤓🕹️

Really excited by the lovely & talented team we’re building. 🥰🙏 #gamedev #indiedev

[Neil Dejyothin @neildejyothin]

Thrilled to introduce you to @formationgames_, a newly formed studio I helped name & joined the leadership team a few months ago as Executive Producer! 🤓🕹️

Really excited by the lovely & talented team we’re building. 🥰🙏 #gamedev #indiedev

[Formation Games @formationgames_]

👋 The news is out. Formation Games is here!

A Football, AAA & BAFTA Award-winning team has been assembled to create genre disrupting social game experiences.

Check out our first title @clubgameapp 📲

👉 https://t.co/beTLaFzWFQ

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

I will leave my account on here for now, but I’m done with Twitter.

To the people who don’t think mastodon is the future - I respect your decision but I’ll miss you. If you do find the future, maybe you can pop in there just long enough to let me know?

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@chuq That doesn’t have to be an argument for the status quo.

The trick is to learn lessons from the past, and apply them to the future.

[roger bennett @rogbennett]

This is how BBC opened coverage of World Cup 2022. Stark contrast to Fox Coverage in United States. Please take a minute to watch. This is how this World Cup should be contextualized 🙌

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@dimsumthinking Isn’t the point that you can publish it now, and the name will arrive later?

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@LBacaj If this was a rational plan, surely the idea of setting up a startup and wiping the floor with Twitter wouldn’t have appealed more to Elon’s ego?

Feels more like someone who had their bluff called, tried and failed to back out, and is now thrashing around in a panic!

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@LBacaj I think your analysis is solid in many ways, and I totally agree that this has ramifications far beyond Twitter.

However, a sane person would have set up a skunkworks team inside Twitter, hand-picked a few engineers to work on it, and locked all word of it down until ready.

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@LBacaj Rewrites can have compelling upsides, but they *are* difficult to pull off, and you often only find out the actual spec when someone complains that a feature is missing/broken (been there, done that).

There is little upside for doing it in on a live product!

[Sam Deane (@[email protected]) @samdeane]

@LBacaj So unless there’s exactly that kind of a team hidden someone in Twitter, with a product ready to ship…