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Game and software developer. Working on https://xitter.gq/t.co/kpZvWtTScL and https://xitter.gq/t.co/Z9uVV4XSGU. Bluesky: https://xitter.gq/t.co/T7yvKcTP8Q

Joined June 2022
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My mobile diving game Bluelife is now officially out! I started working on this when I was 13🫢 I don't like to leave projects unfinished... So, this had to be done! Bluelife got me started with game development. Since then I've released a lot of stuff, but I've quietly kept working on this. Certainly blinded by nostalgia, but I think it's pretty fun. You can give it a try, it's entirely free. #Construct3
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Odd that Apple chose to round off the bottom corners for the touchscreen version
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Just when everyone was speculating Artificial Analysis adjusted their index to favor OpenAI...
I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model. Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching. We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards. As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!
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Found sth new that Opus 5.5 couldn’t do on its own. The goal was building a responsive drawer component (with all the nice stuff like interruptible animations, stretching, velocity-based speed, background fade based on the drawer’s y offset..) in Svelte 5. I’d either get something that works, but completely ignores Svelte and goes all-in on manual DOM manipulation, or something that uses Svelte directives and Svelte transitions but doesn’t work right. When I told it to use Svelte properly and fix all the issues, it went back to an ugly raw JS version and put it into a Svelte attach. Genuinely couldn’t get any further with prompting there, and went on to write this manually. Quite surprising.
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I reworked OpenGuessr's duel matchmaking. Now, the system starts by searching for players in a narrow Elo range close to you, and expands that range over time. The more players are online, the slower it expands. What's pretty cool is that you can always manually adjust this range. For example, a 1200 Elo player can choose to only match against 1100-1300, or open up to the full range.
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Since 2.5 Flash support is supposedly ending in 3 days, I'm really searching for a replacement now for Bugspot (my bug report pre-processor). Tried using Haiku 5.5 and it's decently fast to respond (significantly faster than Luna) but it's not performing well. It lets every feature request through, even if I explicitly highlight to reject feature requests in the prompt. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does this much better. It's also the fastest of the three. It's also the most quirky though, and doesn't always 100% stick to my bug report template, but it's much better at report classification.
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Here is an example for 3.5 Flash Lite, it correctly rejects the bug report which 5.5 doesn't, and comes to a decision much faster, but it invents a "map suggestion channel" that doesn't exist.
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Playing Spotr in the scenery category, maybe I should go visit Lauterbrunnen IRL at some point...
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That's the shot I ended up selecting
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Spotr, the Street View photography party game, is out now! Who can snap the best spot? Super fun to play in groups, with many categories (cars, architecture, scenery..) and locations to pick from. Feels like going sightseeing from the comfort of your home :-) spotr.openguessr.com
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Finally tried Muse Wonder and I’m actually blown away by its 3D capabilities. This was a one-shot.
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Media days make for good geography lessons 🗺️👀
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Stoked to announce that the new OpenGuessr main menu is now available! It's a big shift in how players experience the game, and I really hope you'll enjoy it.
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New page load animation
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I've also spend time making the page load animation look as smooth as possible
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Anthropic focusing on making Opus' responses more readable and jargon-free again is great to see. My biggest pain point with Opus 5 was that it just couldn't get you a straightforward answer.
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