| 1 | Jan 31, '25 | This new Star Wars movie looks like a banger. | 42.7× | 963k | 2.9k | 66 | 88 |
| 2 | May 29, '25 | Reminder: this is all fake. Any time someone makes a claim like this, either they are lying, or every single programmer they know is completely awful and can’t program at all. | 36.8× | 831k | 6.5k | 264 | 620 |
| 3 | Aug 3, '24 | Why does software almost always do the opposite? | 35.5× | 802k | 8.4k | 619 | 989 |
| 4 | Nov 9, '23 | We've been working quietly on the Anniversary Edition of Braid for a **while**, but we can now announce that the release date is April 30, 2024. Here are some fun details: [1/n] | 26× | 587k | 3.5k | 484 | 192 |
| 5 | Jan 7, '25 | 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 | 25.4× | 574k | 1.4k | 162 | 232 |
| 6 | Dec 21, '24 | I keep hearing on podcasts all these people raving about how AI is revolutionizing programming and I just don't see it. At all. (I think this may happen eventually, but what is bei | 22.8× | 514k | 1.9k | 101 | 380 |
| 7 | Jun 7, '25 | We used to have 47 tabs open in the year 2005, on computers thousands of times weaker than what is being sold today, and it was mostly fine. | 20.6× | 464k | 10k | 291 | 426 |
| 8 | May 16, '25 | I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing | 20.3× | 457k | 3.8k | 551 | 1.8k |
| 9 | Oct 12, '25 | So, reminder: the quality of code output by these systems is *very low* and the AIs themselves don't understand the output. This is obvious to anyone who knows how to program. Ther | 17.2× | 389k | 2.2k | 176 | 419 |
| 10 | Feb 15, '25 | A “sum type” is a union. A “product type” is a struct. C has had these since before 1970. If someone uses these terms as though they were some new amazing inventions, they probably | 15.8× | 357k | 1.2k | 46 | 313 |
| 11 | Dec 4, '23 | Programmers who can add functionality, without making the codebase unnecessarily complicated, are *incredibly* valuable. If someone has properly absorbed this aesthetic and knows h | 14.8× | 334k | 2.4k | 178 | 499 |
| 12 | Aug 10, '25 | The people who would historically be excited about a new operating system can't do that any more, because everyone is too helpless to even conceive of a new OS. So they have to get | 14.4× | 324k | 1.7k | 43 | 250 |
| 13 | Jul 19, '23 | I bought two $3000+ Windows laptops this year from major manufacturers. Neither of them can even play YouTube videos correctly. YouTube launched and was playable by computers in 20 | 14.2× | 320k | 1.1k | 51 | 86 |
| 14 | Nov 19, '24 | @netcapgirl They don’t understand “POV”, you think they know e.g. from i.e.? | 11.8× | 267k | 7.2k | 39 | 76 |
| 15 | May 29, '25 | If I am being ignorant, this is easy to prove. Just do a livestream where you vibe code something nontrivial that actually works, like @theprimeagen et al set up in the tower. The | 11.7× | 265k | 2k | 50 | 223 |
| 16 | Jul 1, '24 | Sorry for the profanity, but every single laptop I have bought since 2020 has been unusable dog shit. Newest entry: Framework 16. It automatically switches between integrated and d | 11.2× | 253k | 1k | 34 | 163 |
| 17 | Oct 19, '24 | Every time someone sends me a link to their GitHub profile, there are just months or even years of nothing. | 10.6× | 238k | 1.6k | 18 | 197 |
| 18 | Jan 25, '25 | Sam. Literally nobody has any idea what these arbitrary combinations of letters and numbers mean, any more. | 9.9× | 223k | 6.1k | 150 | 169 |
| 19 | Sep 30, '23 | Computer monitors would all be much better if they had a physical brightness knob right there on the front. But this is high-level 1960s technology that has since been lost. | 9.7× | 218k | 3.1k | 175 | 57 |
| 20 | Mar 23, '25 | "Vibe Coding" is great because after 3 weeks you can have a game that seems like it was made at a weekend game jam, except it will also have a nasty low frame rate and lots of weir | 9.7× | 218k | 3.7k | 124 | 326 |
| 21 | May 14, '24 | Braid, Anniversary Edition is out now: | 8.7× | 195k | 1.4k | 184 | 35 |
| 22 | Jun 30, '25 | In 2025, the “means of production” costs $200 at Best Buy. Anyone who really wants to be productive has it already. So anyone who talks about “seizing the means of production” is f | 8.3× | 188k | 1.9k | 83 | 167 |
| 23 | Nov 9, '24 | Both of those giant biographies of Elon Musk are now completely out of date… | 7.8× | 175k | 4k | 106 | 131 |
| 24 | Jun 11, '25 | Why does everyone keep pretending so hard? | 7.3× | 166k | 1.2k | 15 | 237 |
| 25 | Oct 14, '25 | This can happen to you. Back up your work on something that you own, not something that you are able to rent only until someone doesn't like what you said. | 7.2× | 162k | 1.1k | 67 | 120 |
| 26 | May 27, '25 | Remember when Windows was the best OS to game on? | 6.8× | 154k | 1k | 36 | 171 |
| 27 | Jan 24, '25 | Reddit used to be a pretty good site but I feel it has fallen off hard. Is there a word for people who still use Reddit? Maybe it's a good time for a new site to appear and disrupt | 6.8× | 153k | 1.9k | 17 | 135 |
| 28 | Sep 4, '25 | So I heard there are these phone apps where you take a picture of food and it tells you how many calories it is. I tried downloading 3 of these today. They are all clones of each o | 6.3× | 143k | 1.7k | 47 | 171 |
| 29 | Aug 14, '25 | I got a bit colorful in this reply, but let me describe why this drives me so crazy, especially now in 2025: Now someone comes along to make their web app, and they are using React | 6.1× | 137k | 1.5k | 102 | 560 |
| 30 | Jun 12, '25 | Suppose I wanted to short all the clueless AI coding overhype. How would I do that? | 6.0× | 135k | 1.1k | 33 | 214 |
| 31 | Jul 10, '25 | My LambdaConf 2025 talk was posted. It's mostly showing tools that we have around visualizing programs and their behavior. | 6.0× | 134k | 1.1k | 88 | 364 |
| 32 | Aug 22, '25 | Every single email that says "here is my github so you can see what I do": | 5.8× | 130k | 1.8k | 24 | 105 |
| 33 | Jan 21, '25 | This game we're working on is going to be so good... ... it's just crazy what a huge endeavor it is. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but when you play it, you'll see exactly why it's | 5.7× | 129k | 2.2k | 60 | 109 |
| 34 | Dec 3, '24 | Do "functional programmers" just totally shit themselves when they have to write shader code, or, what is the deal there? | 5.7× | 129k | 1k | 11 | 146 |
| 35 | Apr 26, '23 | View post on X | 5.4× | 121k | 1.2k | 84 | 52 |
| 36 | Apr 30, '25 | He's not lying. At some point the situation will become untenable, even for game developers. | 5.2× | 118k | 1.3k | 40 | 97 |
| 37 | Mar 22, '24 | Braid, Anniversary Edition has 35 new levels. Originally I thought there would be no new levels. Then I was like, "hey I figured out a way to add like 4 or 5, without ruining the o | 5.1× | 114k | 2k | 110 | 89 |
| 38 | Jul 27, '25 | I guess @tsoding did a video, my mailbox looks like this all the way down the page... | 5.0× | 113k | 1.4k | 15 | 102 |
| 39 | Apr 13, '25 | I bought this experimental car 15 years ago and daily-drove it for 12. Now that I live in snowy climes, it is the summer car. It still goes hard and I have fun every time I take it | 4.9× | 111k | 2.5k | 43 | 56 |
| 40 | Nov 25, '24 | This has been true for decades, and it's *obvious*, but designers keep doing it for some reason. | 4.9× | 111k | 1.3k | 34 | 100 |
| 41 | Jan 9, '25 | Sometimes people ask me how to succeed in the game industry. And my answer is, when you start your game, make sure your entity flags field is 64 bits. Do not skimp there. | 4.9× | 110k | 1.1k | 19 | 127 |
| 42 | Oct 25, '25 | Why do Bluetooth devices not have NFC tags so that you just tap them to the device you want to connect to, and they are automatically connected in like 0.01 seconds? Because that w | 4.8× | 108k | 1.7k | 30 | 93 |
| 43 | Aug 7, '25 | Everyone already knows what I have to say about this tweet, so I will just say, let's check in 2 years from now and see how this went. | 4.7× | 105k | 2k | 33 | 181 |
| 44 | Jan 14, '25 | To explain further, this is interesting because the naive method is to atan, quantize to pi/4, then cos/sin back; but this is all very expensive (see my previous atan2 retweet). | 4.6× | 104k | 1.2k | 48 | 696 |
| 45 | Aug 1, '24 | Since there are weird, non-reality-based discussions going around, let's clear some things up! Braid, Anniversary Edition has been profitable overall. It made more money than it co | 4.6× | 103k | 988 | 52 | 110 |
| 46 | May 19, '25 | Some people might read this and think, that's just not my world, I am stuck in this world where software breaks all the time and everything I build is disposable. Even if that is k | 4.5× | 102k | 1.6k | 178 | 572 |
| 47 | Aug 10, '25 | Elon: makes car company (when everyone thinks electric cars will never work), rocket company (the rockets land themselves), Neuromancer brain chip company. Computer Nerds: Noooooo | 4.5× | 100k | 974 | 26 | 116 |
| 48 | Oct 26, '25 | If this post gets 1 trillion likes, I will switch to Rust. | 4.4× | 99k | 2.1k | 24 | 19 |
| 49 | Oct 15, '25 | This is legitimately what a lot of people think. It's very sad. | 4.3× | 98k | 1.5k | 34 | 127 |
| 50 | Jun 7, '25 | They are way beyond saving at this point, but if I were Satya N, I would cull at least 30% of engineers to start, then tell people more is coming if they don’t learn to do their jo | 4.2× | 95k | 1.3k | 50 | 75 |
| 51 | Oct 17, '25 | Some in the industry are still honest and reasonably objective? | 4.2× | 94k | 1.2k | 37 | 174 |
| 52 | Aug 9, '25 | Everybody posting about AI in programming sounds like this to me. | 4.1× | 93k | 2.1k | 99 | 155 |
| 53 | Oct 7, '25 | Guys. This just means we will stop using Windows for as many things as possible. If you think that's not true, just keep going... | 4.1× | 92k | 1.1k | 55 | 89 |
| 54 | Mar 1, '23 | One of the levels we are emailing about today. The game is coming along! #screenshotsaturday | 4.0× | 90k | 1.1k | 50 | 37 |
| 55 | Mar 9, '25 | Raw talent in the game industry appears to have been in decline for 10+ years. (Not too surprising… why should a programmer work in games when he can make $700k TC at Google for si | 4.0× | 90k | 1.4k | 42 | 221 |
| 56 | Sep 2, '25 | "web3" is really going to take off any day now. | 3.9× | 88k | 1.5k | 36 | 41 |
| 57 | May 2, '24 | Braid, Anniversary Edition is now Steam Deck Verified! | 3.9× | 88k | 1.1k | 49 | 18 |
| 58 | Sep 25, '24 | If you have never used data breakpoints, don’t be telling people that debuggers are useless and they should be logging everything. Entertain the possibility that you just might not | 3.8× | 86k | 1.4k | 55 | 138 |
| 59 | Aug 29, '25 | Remember in 2021 when software companies were swearing up and down that remote work made everyone more productive ... and now they have all done Return-To-Office mandates because t | 3.7× | 84k | 1.2k | 42 | 144 |
| 60 | Nov 16, '24 | For most of my life, America was not run by a weird cult of decay and death, but that changed sometime around 2014, maybe even 2010 (though it was very subtle). For the first time | 3.6× | 81k | 1.5k | 63 | 118 |
| 61 | May 20, '24 | Based. | 3.5× | 80k | 1.2k | 50 | 46 |
| 62 | Feb 25, '25 | Okay, so, like, here's a very *high level* overview of the issues involved in doing a networked game at a decent level of quality. The first thing one discovers when doing this kin | 3.5× | 80k | 1.1k | 100 | 880 |
| 63 | Mar 18, '25 | They haven’t thought about the part where most victims of this crime are going to use the insurance payments to buy new Teslas, resulting in net income to Tesla. But thinking is no | 3.5× | 79k | 1.2k | 29 | 44 |
| 64 | Mar 29, '25 | They really are trying to kill Windows. | 3.4× | 77k | 1.1k | 26 | 49 |
| 65 | May 7, '25 | HUNDREDS OF OBJECTS on the screen! Clojure is not slow! (Note 3rd screenshot mostly doesn't have art yet). | 3.4× | 76k | 1.1k | 31 | 117 |
| 66 | Jun 6, '25 | New excuse just dropped for why LLMs produce trash code: “You just aren’t using it at the right time, bro!” | 3.4× | 76k | 1.4k | 39 | 72 |
| 67 | Sep 25, '24 | @yacineMTB This plus “you can learn anything in two weeks” tells me you have not worked in real hard programming problems enough to develop deep domain expertise……. | 3.3× | 74k | 1.2k | 8 | 84 |
| 68 | Sep 17, '25 | It's 2025; you should be able to sue someone for storing passwords on the server. | 3.3× | 73k | 1.2k | 29 | 43 |
| 69 | Oct 17, '25 | She’s a 10 but she “contributes” to GNOME. | 3.1× | 71k | 1.2k | 16 | 36 |
| 70 | Aug 29, '25 | I am working on a fun gameplay thing, that is small in the scheme of the whole game, but still pretty interesting. It involves syncing state between a level and the overworld. I im | 3.1× | 70k | 1.4k | 71 | 206 |
| 71 | Dec 2, '24 | By working harder, you quickly gain experience in the subject matter and will be in a much better position to figure out how to work smarter. Those who try to “work smarter”, but d | 3.1× | 69k | 1.4k | 118 | 218 |
| 72 | Oct 24, '25 | You would not believe all the behind-the-scenes struggles required to make an ambitious video game. There are just so many things. | 3.0× | 68k | 1.3k | 28 | 71 |
| 73 | Jan 7, '25 | @anthdm Wow you can draw LINES OF TEXT at 60fps??? Amazing!!! | 2.5× | 55k | 1.7k | 33 | 40 |
| 74 | Jun 19, '25 | The funniest thing about the Bay Area is all the terrible pizza people eat because it’s perceived to be upper-class: brushed with olive oil and topped with Gruyère, rather than God | 2.4× | 55k | 1k | 10 | 38 |
| 75 | Jan 26, '25 | BREAKING: Trump's new executive order decrees that all gaming monitors must have buttons on the FRONT or be subject to 3000% tariffs. Monitors with physical, analog volume and brig | 2.3× | 51k | 1.5k | 46 | 30 |
| 76 | Jun 25, '25 | Your programmer friends are not good at programming but they don't know this because everyone around them is also not good at programming. Because a big factor in being good at pro | 2.3× | 51k | 1k | 37 | 119 |
| 77 | Jan 31, '25 | Even on a low budget, you can create atmosphere and do smart game mechanics. (Actually it's easier...!) | 2.3× | 51k | 1.1k | 36 | 146 |
| 78 | Dec 10, '24 | #screenshotsaturday | 2.3× | 51k | 1.3k | 58 | 45 |
| 79 | Mar 31, '25 | nvidia's graphics driver download is now approaching 1GB in size. | 2.2× | 50k | 965 | 20 | 31 |
| 80 | Oct 9, '25 | You know what would be very, obviously, much more “carbon aware”? Letting me turn off updates. | 2.2× | 50k | 1.2k | 34 | 38 |
| 81 | May 22, '25 | At the top of the list of people I don’t trust are speakers who say “that’s a great question” to every question. | 2.1× | 49k | 983 | 30 | 52 |
| 82 | Jan 25, '25 | @KevinNaughtonJr Ehh. Only very junior engineers should get stuck for weeks, nobody should get stuck for months. If someone is stuck for months (and is not working on an open probl | 2.1× | 48k | 1k | 8 | 44 |
| 83 | Jan 31, '25 | Hey, guess what day it is??? That's right, it's #screenshotsaturday!!! | 2.1× | 47k | 1.4k | 41 | 44 |
| 84 | Mar 18, '25 | I am here at the Game Developers' Conference, but I am not too busy to observe #screenshotsaturday!! | 2.1× | 46k | 1.2k | 30 | 39 |
| 85 | Nov 6, '24 | View post on X | 2.0× | 45k | 1.1k | 43 | 50 |
| 86 | Jan 22, '25 | What day is today? Oh yeah, it's #screenshotsaturday! | 1.9× | 44k | 1.2k | 35 | 24 |
| 87 | Mar 27, '25 | Happy #screenshotsaturday, everyone! | 1.9× | 43k | 1.1k | 26 | 31 |
| 88 | Mar 27, '25 | @chamath Fake news. | 1.9× | 42k | 1k | 9 | 14 |
| 89 | Apr 27, '21 | Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involved in the Web and, sort of, software more generally. | 1.9× | 0 | 1.5k | 258 | 70 |
| 90 | Sep 12, '24 | View post on X | 1.9× | 42k | 1.1k | 41 | 32 |
| 91 | Aug 6, '25 | If you keep posting Screenshots every Saturday, then after enough Saturdays go by, your game will be done! Maybe.... | 1.8× | 41k | 1.1k | 30 | 39 |
| 92 | Mar 30, '25 | It's been a long wait, but, finally it's that time again. Happy #screenshotsaturday! | 1.8× | 41k | 1.1k | 19 | 30 |
| 93 | Jul 9, '25 | We are gathered here today to celebrate #screenshotsaturday once again. Thank you for your attention to this matter. | 1.8× | 40k | 972 | 19 | 22 |
| 94 | Apr 17, '25 | This time, #screenshotsaturday brings tactics-game vibes... | 1.6× | 37k | 979 | 20 | 47 |
| 95 | Jul 5, '25 | @ThePrimeagen This is the expected result. | 1.6× | 37k | 1.1k | 6 | 10 |
| 96 | Jul 4, '25 | @Grummz Incoherent. "It has chosen you. But whoever kills you ... claims the blade." What?? | 1.5× | 35k | 1.5k | 2 | 15 |
| 97 | Jun 10, '25 | @growing_daniel It's a displacement map like video games have been doing for decades. Any script kiddie can do this on shadertoy. | 1.4× | 32k | 991 | 6 | 51 |
| 98 | Feb 25, '25 | @levie Yeah no my man, making the equivalent of this would not take months or years. | 1.4× | 31k | 1.4k | 6 | 12 |
| 99 | Jan 4, '22 | Re-doing things, that didn't come out well enough the first time, is one of the most effective methods of making good things. If you're working on something new and different, you | 1.3× | 0 | 1k | 139 | 102 |
| 100 | Sep 25, '25 | @bradgessler @dhh Do not try to “both sides” this. The problem is coming from one side, and would go away completely if that side stopped what they are doing. | 1.2× | 27k | 1.2k | 18 | 22 |
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