Tolis Christomanos

Spend couple of weeks polishing polygo the game I’m developing. Reworked the abilities and improved physics predictions to compensate for latency. Have a polyGO! and give me feedback good and bad! polygo.io #gamedev #webgames

I have started experimenting with background agents. Agents that work in isolated infrastructure with well thought boundaries and responsibilities. First results are very encouraging. Inspired by background-agents.com

AI didn't break engineering. It showed us how little engineering some teams were actually doing. silot.substack.com/p/all-software-engineering-is-knowing #ai #coding

Turns out building a multiplayer browser game is the easy part. Getting anyone to play it is the actual game. Still very rough but let me know if I’m on the right track polygo.io #webgames #gamedev

Final Fantasy Rebirth felt like a chore but then I finally got to Cosmo Canyon. Happy I kept playing it. #final #fantasy #rebirth

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that wise old bird?

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

My latest substack post on thinking slow and acting fast open.substack.com/pub/silot/p/...

As a leader, changing your mind based on new data is accepted, but as a politician, you will be called a 'flip-flopper.' In this article, I try to investigate why this is the case. open.substack.com/pub/silot/p/... #leadership #politicians #decisions #opinions

With AI coding assistants the need to understand and interpret code is outstripping the need to write code. #ai #coding

From a young age we are told to treat people the way we want to be treated. George Bernard Shaw said "Don't treat others the way you want to be treated. They might like different things than you do."

How is AI coding affecting the evolution of programming languages? #ai #coding #programming #languages

With AI coding tools I switched from writing code to doing code reviews. The irony #ai #coding #tools

If you provide AI coding tools only functional instructions the code quality is not great. But if you also provide non functional, architecture characteristics, design patterns etc the quality is actually pretty good and the code maintainable. #ai #coding #tools

I am taking a new approach with AI code tools. Instead of me reviewing the code they generate, I ask the tools to review the code I write. This way there were many better solutions suggested than what I had in mind and I also learned something new. #ai #code #tools

Really impressed by how much Amazon Q Developer has improved especially the cli version. If you know what you what and what you’re doing it can really speed up development. I wouldn’t recommend it to non technical people though #amazon #q #developer

New favourite LinkedIn Lunatics www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLu...

TIL that Warner Music Group owned the rights to the “Happy Birthday” song until 2015… what a world…

First time in France. My suspicion that Greece is a French colony is confirmed

How real folks outside our tech bubble use the web: 😮 Some have connection speeds as low as 20 Mbps 😮 Most use the same modem for 5-10 years 😮 Avg person replaces their computer every 5.6 years 😮 11% use browser versions that are up to 5 years old www.speedcurve.com/blog/six-thi... #webperf #ux

If you have an allergy or intolerance in France you’re fucked.

Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

There must be a special in hell for journalists who distort the truth just to sell sensational stories. I’m reading the Human kind book and most of evil in this world is a result of distorted truth

Bureaucracy exists to constrain corruption.

If instead of coding we do prompting how do programming languages evolve? #programming #LLM #generativeAI

If we replace junior software engineers with AI coding agents how are we going to get new senior software engineers? Do we plan to make current senior software engineers immortal? And who wants to work forever? #pondering #genai #software #engineering

I wish there was a way to learn about the good news in the world. But I suppose good news don’t sell. Do you know a way to get informed on good news? #news #information

If you're looking for a place to do some work, the public library is like a coffeeshop where you don't need to buy anything and there's a lot more space and you can stay as long as you like and you don't get any coffee.

Can you tell whether you’re manipulated or inspired? It is becoming harder and harder these days

You don’t have a library card? Why? Just go and get one!

What’s your opinion on browser based games in terms of distribution and discoverability? #game #publishing

“There’s No Business Like Show Business”

Castlevania Nocturne Season 2 was amazing

I wonder if there are still people in this world who believe in trickle down economics

Are your beautiful images hurting your page speed and tanking your UX? This quick guide to image optimization covers: 👉 Size and dimension attributes 👉 Formats 👉 When to use (and NOT use) lazy loading www.speedcurve.com/web-performa... #webperf #ux #sitespeed #pagespeed

TIL that there is an encyclopedia but for Known Unknowns wikenigma.org.uk/start This encyclopedia will never be complete as there are always going to be Unknown Unknowns #wikenigma #encyclopedia