Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ ⩜⃝

RE: @gridlabs@mastodon.gamedev.place

Hey folks! The game I've built is coming to Steam. 🎉

Just imagine! A Minesweeper-like MMO with an infinite map... 🙀

Please WISHLIST:) 🙏

#GameDev #IndieGame #IBuiltThis

Platform support stats for Steam Deck Builders Fest.

Windows: 2051
macOS: 507
Linux / SteamOS: 328

What da h311 are you talking 'bout!?

#GamingOnLinux #SteamDeck #Steam #Linux

Spent 30 minutes the other day with an AI coding agent (the model was Opus 4.7). Made myself a Telegram bot that receives a query, uses it to find a torrent, downloads it, and notifies back when ready.

Uses python, rtorrent, prowlarr, and flaresolverr. Prepared podman quadlet based setup for it.

This one is going to live on my RPi with a storage box connected.

#GenAI #DIY #RaspberryPi

I’m putting my little game on Steam, and I paid the Steam Direct Submission Fee through my legal entity.

Valve’s confirmation is just a web page with no supplier or payment identification details. It references an invoice number, but I can’t seem to access the actual invoice.

❔ Has anyone paid the Steam Direct fee and found a way to get a proper receipt from Valve?

#GameDev #Steam #IndieDev

Want to give your teammates a headache? 😄

Try this on `main`:

```
git commit --allow-empty --allow-empty-message -m "" && git push
```

A commit with no changes *and* no message… perfectly valid, technically cursed.

#Git #DeveloperHumor

Neat one-liner for updating a PR while keeping your local main fresh.

git fetch origin main:main && git rebase main && git push --force-with-lease

This: • updates your local main • rebases your current branch onto it • safely force-pushes the updated history

Compact, explicit, and avoids drifting main locally.

A small Git tip I hadn’t used before 👇🏻

If you want to update your local `main` while staying on another branch:

```
git fetch origin main:main
```

This keeps your local `main` in sync without switching branches—handy when rebasing and you don’t want to rely on `origin/main` or forget to update later 👍🏻

#Git #DevWorkflow #VersionControl

Mission impossible

OK, this is officially the weirdest day of my life.

Just had been copying something over SSH. The progress got stuck. I've pressed Ctrl+C and it got unstuck and continued.

WTF?

#SSH #Linux

I've just found out that my external display has a tiny, unnoticeable power button. It took me several minutes to intentionally find it again just to turn it back on 😅

I knew it should be the button, but I almost panicked thinking it might have just died.

#Hardware #UX

How marginal are you?

Me: Firefox, Thunderbird, Android, Pear Launcher, Fedora Linux, COSMIC desktop, Fish shell, Mastodon

Somewhere between “mainstream-adjacent” and “fully self-inflicted” 😄

#Linux #Fedora #COSMIC #FishShell #Firefox #Thunderbird #Android #Fediverse

This is too funny, sorry:)

How do you think a Eurovision spin-off in Asia is called?
(answer first then google it:))

#Eurovision #Asiavision

About a month ago I soft-launched Grid Lands — an idea that lived in my head for years.

Since then I've added more mechanics, better balance, and a tutorial.

Thanks to everyone who played, broke things, and shared feedback. Thank you 🙏

It’s still very early. Please treat it as early access.

If you enjoy experimental multiplayer strategy, come explore the endless grid.

https://game.gridlands.io/

#GridLands #IndieDev #GameDev #Minesweeper