Dorian

I am peeking out of the hermit cave and considering coming back to social media.

Hiiiiiii :3

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Thanks for the reminder, hadn't done one in ages and it went surprisingly smoothly

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 22nd 2026 (Hard), in less than 9 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

This demo is seriously so fire. If you have a steam deck especially then it's mandatory

black screen with orange text in the style of the windows 95/98 log off screen, except it reads " It's now safe to log off from social media." I made it, feel free to use it.

I'm stepping away for a bit.

Between the financialization of everything and declining birth rates, this truly looks like the game for our times.

Lunar New Year Art of an elongated tiger creature with mandarin oranges. There is a red envelope in the middle with the Mandarin character for luck/prosperity.

🏮Leading up to Lunar New Year festivities, I'm bringing back the ones I did for prior years!🏮

🧧 祝你好运 🧧

- while the plant in my bathroom is withering away.

Real-time Cinematics Portfolio Real-time Cinematics Portfolio by Bongane Mahlangu.

2026 #Porfolio update! 💪

mahlangu.artstation.com/projects/EzR...

5k done, and I beat my time! Lungs were well behaved and only hurt now about as much as they did yesterday.

I'm out of a specific med so it hurts to breathe, but since it's just a lil' pleurisy and not, say, asthma - I'm still aiming at a cute 5k tomorrow.

The brains are in the grenades: how enemies think in Tactical Breach Wizards YouTube video by Tom Francis

The brains are in the grenades: How enemies think in Tactical Breach Wizards

youtu.be/gEFfBXQAtYE

I'm not going to GDC this year, so here's a little talk for free - on a thing I want to share before I forget how it works.

... The community knowledgebase was purged, as evidenced by all the dead links visible in a search, and the intntnal phone number I'm supposed to call as a South African is permanently disconnected. Such a mess.

At least you can still reach a human by continually asking the AI for one. Wow.

I have spent most of this week trying to get my PayPal account back from admin limitation nonsense. Wow, what a mess. Very obvious that they made a bunch of decisions internal to "streamline" things with AI. But it doesn't know how to help and misdirects enthusiastically instead...

I moved my original artwork shop to damousey.me after my previous host failed to host. Still sorting out all the little add-ons and things but it's functional and I can start posting new listings again soon.

🤡 that Ars article about the eye infection...

Weber State with a "WTF did I just watch? (Complimentary)" to win the partner stunt competition at nats

www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...

What looks like a long crocheted blocked cardigan (impractical in weight and the rows don't quite like up) laying on a couch as if on a seated figure, two arms and hands emerging from the the three quarter length sleeves in the usual way, if the usual way excluded the rest of the person.

Another for this collection.

To be clear, I'm just finding these in the wild, this one from Reddit. It feels like mudlarking

scifi is not actually about space ships, it's about weird little guys (m/f/x) and their quest trying to operate a vcr without instructions

You don’t understand, we gotta burn out senior experienced devs, so we can keep having the same 5 discourses on a loop. There is a very real risk that if we treat people with respect and manage them well that we might have to stop re-debating basic terminology and practices.

We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 New Voices Puzzle Grant!

grants.draknek.org

Everyone is here!!! Had so much fun making this artwork for Nuclear Throne Update 100! 🥳

Can you believe that I get to send this year’s holiday card to over 1,000 teams who’ve hired someone through Work With Indies!? We’re still a long way from “all the indie jobs, all the time”, but we’re 1,000 developers closer. Thank you for trusting us with one of the most important things you do: hiring, building, and growing your teams. You might’ve noticed I’ve been pretty quiet about growth the past couple of years. It never felt right to celebrate traffic or engagement when so much of it was driven by people suddenly needing work. But this year, something shifted. In 2025, we finally saw job postings start to tick back up– especially in the back half of the year. We’re still below the highs of 2021 and 2022, but compared to last year, there are more indie jobs being posted again. And after the last few years, that feels worth celebrating. So, here’s to you and the next 1,000 indie developers who find their people through Work With Indies and the games you'll make together.

Some (more) good news:

Our annual letter (below) shared that we saw more jobs in 25 than 24 after 2 years of declines.

We're only a few days in & I'm absolutely knocking on wood rn, but January is up 53% YoY so far!

If there's light at the end of this tunnel, it just got brighter.

Image of a plastic spoon for infants, made to look like an aircraft.

Same energy.

Square watercolour painting of a section of pine branch with 2 pine cones on it, the colours are varied with a range of golds and purples creating and almost impressionist wood colour. The background comprises of multiple layers of pine needle clumps drawn in the water colour with a palette knife, including another underdeveloped cone on an adjacent sprig.

First art of 2026!
A natural theme progression from strawberries, pine cones.

Watercolour + palette knife on 25cm square of hot press cotton paper.

I'll list this in my shop next week once it's processed. (About $38 wo ship.)

#watercolor #watercolour
#art #painting #painters #artist #bskyart 🐡

black and white sketch of a downed crow, arrow sticking out, feet comically in the air. A speech bubble reads "have you tried water?"

Good intentions.

<3

this is my wallpaper now

Bottom up lists of book titles, made to look like book spines in a stack with a colour code indicating when they were read, some of the bottom books are coloured in yellow, indicating that they were read in January.

New year, new reading list, including a discworld reread. Open to book suggestions.

Square watercolour painting of a section of pine branch with 2 pine cones on it, the colours are varied with a range of golds and purples creating and almost impressionist wood colour. The background comprises of multiple layers of pine needle clumps drawn in the water colour with a palette knife, including another underdeveloped cone on an adjacent sprig.

First art of 2026!
A natural theme progression from strawberries, pine cones.

Watercolour + palette knife on 25cm square of hot press cotton paper.

I'll list this in my shop next week once it's processed. (About $38 wo ship.)

#watercolor #watercolour
#art #painting #painters #artist #bskyart 🐡

A young man wearing a white shirt, open to reveal his chest. Carefully pinned to it are two branches of orange blossom, with open flowers. His eyes are closed, allowing himself to be carried away by the gentle scent of the flowers and the incense that surrounds him.

To breathe again. Smells like orange blossom and incense. #art #oc

Hearing people do their in-person year end "wraps" made me realise that I'd lost track of all the books I'd read in 2025. I know it's more than 35 because but I didn't know it was worth tracking. So I've finally started using storygraph.