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I tried out my new #SteamController by playing #OuterWilds for the first time. Wow, what a game!

No spoilers but here's my ship being pulled into the sun leaving me stranded

The #SteamController feels like playing with a steam deck, 10/10 no notes, exactly what I wanted in a controller

I may be taking #CitiesSkylines a bit too seriously.... my inspiration board

I've discovered that #Forgejo actually means "distant gay" in Esperanto (due to a missing diacritic) which seems apt, a remote service for my gay agenda

The #SteamController is known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm

Wooo

#SteamController

@tanavit

My understanding is that #Codeberg is for FOSS projects and does not allow closed source, especially commercial closed sourced projects (of which I'd like to have a few).

See https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#can-i-host-content-without-a-free-and-open-source-license%3F

I am moving all my open source projects to #Codeberg. I'm not sure what to do with my private/closed source projects, maybe set up a self-hosted forgejo instance.

#Gitlab has been getting worse in the last few years, and their recent announcement means that I am no longer comfortable sticking with them

Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative. It has a lot of potential but is missing a lot. It appears to be made by a single computer science student

Anyway, here's me

#IndieGames

Enterprise-grade back up solution for #Luanti #ContentDB

Hilarious

#ByteDance #BytePlus

For those interested in archiving/public data, #Luanti #ContentDB now outputs a daily public database dump: https://content.luanti.org/help/backups/

New blog post: a write up about the #Luanti #ContentDB downtime two weeks ago

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/04/16/contentdb-ddos/

#Minetest

I made a smartwatch app a couple years ago and I finally released it to the Play Store. Write up coming soon

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenwardy.doineedacoat

#Android #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Kotlin

Updated in response to #OpenTTD's update blog post

New blog post: #OpenTTD and the Transport Tycoon rerelease

My thoughts about the TTD rerelease and OpenTTD requiring a purchase of TTD on Steam and GOG

(Replies to this toot may be added as comments on the blog post unless you opt-out in your reply. See "IndieWeb Backfeed" for why)

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/03/17/openttd-ttd-release/

#OpenSource #FreeGaming #FreeSoftware

I think the fix is that I need to equip my archers with more bows (wut?), have more of them, and ensure they're at 100% training

#SongsOfSyx

New blog post: Would you like a cookie?

Outside of my area of expertise but hopefully interesting nonetheless

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/01/15/cookie-consent/

#Privacy #GDPR #DigitalOmnibus #CookieConsent

I dislike how underpowered archers are. They take up a lot of space on walls and fire incredibly slowly. A lot of the time, 'potential targets' shows as 0 for unclear reasons

One of the key things about castles is raining death from above. They're built to maximise defender advantage

#SongsOfSyx

This is what military strategists refer to as a progamer move

#SongsOfSyx

My current obsession is a game called #SongsOfSyx. It's a medieval light-fantasy city builder with elements from #RimWorld and #DwarfFortress. The thing that drew me to it was the scale - you can make huge cities with 1000s of population

It's still in early access but there's a lot in the game, including a lot of quality of life features. Here's my city of 650 population

It's that time of year again

#SteamReplay #Gaming

New blog post: #Eleventy (#11ty) string-based translation with #i18next

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2025/11/25/eleventy-translation/

I've moved #Luanti #ContentDB to a new host. If you've had issues with it being slow to load before, please check again. I believe this particularly affects US users

It was previously hosted on a netcup virtual dedicated server and is now on a Contabo VPS. Whilst the specs are comparable on paper, the networking performance seems to be much better now

14 days of #Luanti ContentDB stats, with ignore-crawlers (although some definitely remain)

From the Luanti client - 3.3M requests and 90K unique visitors last 14 days

From the web (likely including some bots): 2.3M requests and 112K unique users

The tool here is #GoAccess

Announcing #ContentDB Verified! For only $8 a month, you can have a verified checkmark against your name, and all your packages will be promoted above non-verified users. This is part of an effort to combat spam. Subscribe now at https://rubenwardy.com/store

#Minetest #Twitter

My blog is hosted as a static website on my own domain name. I've been thinking about how the web has been moving towards centralised services like Medium lately, and wondering how decentralised blogs could benefit more from network effects.

I've found #IndieWeb and #webmention / #pingback recently, they look interesting. I like the idea of different blogs replying to each other.

What is there available for this sort of stuff? Also thinking about comments

We desperately need a General Election, this is chaos and ruining the country

Plus we need proportional representation to make this less likely to happen in the future

#GeneralElection2022

#Minetest #SteamDeck #OnDeck It almost works, just some small issues with the controls and onscreen keyboard to fix

New blog post: Tin Mining - Ludum Dare 48 post-mortem

#ludumdare #ld48 #gamedev

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/03/19/ld48-tin-mining/

Redesigned the website for my browser extension, #RenewedTab. It's my first time customising a CSS framework (#bulmacss), was less painful than I thought it would be

https://renewedtab.com

New blog post: Writing a Lua sandbox using sol3 https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2020/07/26/sol3-script-sandbox/

#sol2 #sol3 #cpp #lua #gamedev #indiedev

New blog post: Extending #sol3's implicit type conversion to convert directly between Vector3 and Lua tables https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2020/07/22/sol3-vector-extension/

#sol #sol2 #cpp #Lua

New blog post: A Comparison of GUI Libraries for #SFML: #TGUI vs #SFGUI vs #IMGui and more

https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2020/01/21/creating-game-guis-in-sfml/

#gamedev #cpp

A friendly reminder that I'm #OnPatreon. Help me make #Minetest better https://patreon.com/rubenwardy

#minetest #mesecons @[email protected]

#irrlicht #gamedev #minetest

New blog post: Self-registering functions using macros for C++ test libraries https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2019/02/17/cpp-self-registering-test-macros/

#cpp #dev #factorypattern #programmingpattern