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Matt Lacey

@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

54 Followers
120 Following
41 Posts
Joined March 14, 2024
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 15, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @Kroc@oldbytes.space
@Kroc@oldbytes.space What is this?
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 01, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Still the best system call ever.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jun 30, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @256@mastodon.social
@256@mastodon.social That is one big pub sign!
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jun 19, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @ptribble@mastodon.social
@ptribble@mastodon.social I found out this week that Snowflake don't support Firefox. Pretty shit.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 13, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @kalleboo@bitbang.social
@kalleboo@bitbang.social @fergycool@mastodon.social @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net For a split second I thought that Mac was on a drip.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 12, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

For those who've not heard it, the new Bluetones album, Atlas, is great. Been a long time coming but totally worth it.

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 11, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @arnowi@social.themoto.network
@arnowi@social.themoto.network "speed is believed to be a contributing factor"... You don't say?
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 06, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @morrick@appdot.net
@morrick@appdot.net A friend has had access to the new super threatening Anthropic model. He said it still can't count :)
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 06, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

Any recommendations for B1/B2 level French books? Ideally sci-fi or similar. Found a bunch of "Victor Ironcrusher" ones on Amazon before and enjoyed them, though unsure as to whether they're AI generated or not (seems that way). They are enjoyable though and accessible.

Lots of advice is to always read comics and the like, and I love Asterix, but I find them harder to read.

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 03, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk the vintage port is an inspired choice!

mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Neil Brown (@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk) - mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 30, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

Opened X by mistake, forgot I recently signed in to check for DMs, but was quite astonished to see my feed was almost entirely

a) people I don't follow
b) all posts about how amazing claude is

The first post from someone I actually follow was a link to the article about claude blazing a prod database and all it's backups.

Actually amazed at how bad they made that platform.

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 29, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @Gammitin@mastodon.social
@Gammitin@mastodon.social Oh Plop is excellent! I use it to dual boot DOS and Win95 on the same machine.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 29, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @RonsCompVids@bitbang.social
@RonsCompVids@bitbang.social I said something to my dog about a sausage this morning, and then found myself repeating the whole start of this intro. Was not expecting it to enter my life a second time today.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 28, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @ThreeOhFour@mastodon.social
@ThreeOhFour Remember starting a meeting once and a huntsman ran out from behind my book case right by my head. Buggers always know how to make you jump
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 28, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @ThreeOhFour@mastodon.social
@ThreeOhFour I was thinking "Doesn't count if it's on a screen"... and then I realised the Huntsman is ON on the screen, not just on the screen.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 27, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

I know they work totally differently today than they did 25 years ago, but the speed of virtual machines still astounds me.

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 24, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @rem@front-end.social
@rem what game? I've got my IIIc knocking around somewhere
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 10, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social
@BigBadBiologist Not sure if it's a good thing I recognise the damned thing so well :)
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 10, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social
@BigBadBiologist That is an Atari keyboard right?
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 09, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @luna@evy.pet
@luna Wimdows <3 I use Wimdy all the damned time now, especially when my dog's ears are blowing about
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 09, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @enfys@wetdry.world
@enfys@wetdry.world Saw it last week, bloody amazing.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 08, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @thelastpsion@oldbytes.space
@thelastpsion Genuinely can't remember if I ever bought that. I know I meant to!
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 02, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @rc2014@oldbytes.space
@rc2014@oldbytes.space Nooo! Somehow I totally mised that!
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 24, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social always had respect for Patrick. I used to always run Slackware (late 90s/early 00s) but it's been a long time. But over systemd though so might be time to give it another whirl
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 20, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @hurt138@mastodon.social
@hurt138@mastodon.social @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social it sounds like they just have a good level of respect for the original, which is obvious from the love they pour into OpenTTD. They're both excellent games and both worth playing separately
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 20, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
@lynnesbian oof. I thought true, false and null was bad enough.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 12, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot
@Thebratdragon @PetraPhoenix Oof. Right in the feels.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 05, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @scy@chaos.social
@scy@chaos.social Once worked on a game where Nintendo rejected a release candidate for too much profanity in the source code.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 03, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @nixCraft__dup_2318@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social How are we not using SLOPilot?
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 03, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @nikitonsky@mastodon.online
@nikitonsky It's rather pathetic isn't it? You can see how little idea they have of how software works in the wider world.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 16, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @scruss@xoxo.zone
@scruss One of my favourite things to watch being generated.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 16, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @cloudhop__dup_33320@equestria.social
@cloudhop@equestria.social The number of times in 30+ years my development speed has been constrained by the speed of my fingers: 0.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 04, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @voltagex@aus.social
@voltagex yeah I know :/
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 03, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io
@mahryekuh Ooh, I'm sorry to hear that! I always say comments are for the "why". My biggest troubles are from a junior who doggedly follows clean code principles even when it makes no sense. I don't refactor or change his code for the sake of it if it works, but often it's far harder to grok and work with.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 03, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place

Just read this, and frankly, I could have written it myself. It nails my sentiments around Clean Code exactly.

https://dev.to/adamthedeveloper/the-cult-of-clean-code-5a7f

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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 13, 2026
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @i0null@infosec.exchange
@i0null@infosec.exchange I love how the second duck is all like "shit, gotta get my feet out and stop" and then switches to "ah whatever, I'll just go with it" and has zero fucks to give when it realises it's about to hit another one.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Oct 15, 2025
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @nikitonsky@mastodon.online
@nikitonsky@mastodon.online Nice work! I'm complained many times about how so many colour schemes use the lowest constrast they can get away with for comments.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Sep 30, 2025
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
@grumpygamer I hope you got a t-shirt.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 19, 2025
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club mate of mine was interviewing someone who'd inadvertently shared the wrong screen. He watched him type into it right at the start and said "you know I can see that right? I think we're done here"
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 12, 2025
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @theresnotime@fox.nexus
@theresnotime@fox.nexus Oof.
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Matt Lacey @Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 30, 2025
Matt Lacey
@Lacey@mastodon.gamedev.place

Code, Atari, Sega, Motorcycles. "Too young to be hatin', too old to be patient" - Hilltop Hoods

mastodon.gamedev.place
Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social
@bagder@mastodon.social Imagine it was 30%. Windows 12 would be dire.
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