Normally I’d cycle the 11 miles to work whatever the weather, but maybe not today. #rain #weather #bus #commute #england

Did a thing today. Got my first ever piercing(s), aged 43. Done it for myself, and my self confidence. Thanks to Nelly at Silver Lining Piercing in Huddersfield for making it a very pleasant experience. I’ll be back for downsizing and swapping to rings later. #piercing #piercings #metal

This little guy made his web in this door way a week ago, and still hasn’t caught anything because I very rarely get anything flying about in my house. #spider #web #spiderweb

Good start to the day, before I head out on a fifteen mile walk in Wakefield. Popped in to The Six Chimneys (Wetherspoons) for a breakfast muffin and a few beers to up my untappd unique count.

Give blood. Do it now. Donation #21 for me today. Always something I fancied doing but I didn’t start until about five or six years ago. Now I donate every three months, whenever possible. #GiveBlood #BloodDonation #NHS

I've been enjoying some early morning dev sessions lately on my game Positron. I just finished optimising the generation of the environment stencil reflections (now running consistently 60fps on Nintendo Switch). #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #NintendoSwitch #SteamEarlyAccess

Not sure these times can be trusted 😬.

Today I ran my second parkrun, and only my fifth time ever running 5K (all in the past two weeks). Maybe I should slow it down and try not to obliterate my PBs 🤣.

Thanks to everyone that came and played Positron today, and to all those who left feedback! #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

Opening my door this morning reminded me of something. #musical #osmonds #crazyhorses #squeaky #wd40

Early morning cycle ride to the 24 hour ASDA to get some craft beers resulted in me spending £50+ and coming out with two LEGO sets too.

Total fail by AI at reading text from a supplied image (Google Gemini, after I googled the odd earthy smell from a beer I opened (which I knew was due to a certain chemical compound, but couldn't remember the name; Geosmin)). #AI #LLM #Gemini #GoogleGemini #Fail

Seven days straight coming up to Castle Hill. I’ve found loads of cool trails and paths, and I’m looking forward to discovering even more in the coming weeks. #walking #hiking #huddersfield #castlehill #victoriatower

This week I celebrate 14 years working in the games industry (as a C++ programmer). Primarily working on ports. Personal highlights include Rogue Trooper Redux, Z Steel Soldiers, Red Dead Redemption, Goat Simulator, and Worms 2: Armageddon: martincaine.com/games/ #GameDev

Write your own C++ engine. It’s great fun. I started extending my particle system today, and have since had to expand my Random Number Generator, switch the billboarding to the GPU, and added sub-frame emitting to keep spawn rates consistent. All while at the pub(s). #PubDev #GameDev #SoloDev

Needed to get out for a bit of shopping today, so came out early for a bit of #pubdev on my game Positron for a couple of hours. Finally working on my engine’s particle effect system, which is woefully basic at the moment. #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #NotMadeWithUnity

By total coincidence, the beer I just opened is aptly named too!

Watching The Boroughs on @netflix.com, and had to jump out of my seat to stop it auto-skipping the credits at the end of this episode. Can’t be skipping this classic from Heart!

Fixed it, and looks much better when the bike is turning now :-). #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Positron #PubDev #SoloDev #Steam #EarlyAccess

I had planned an epic hike for today, but it's too hot and I'll melt in this heat. So instead I'm back in the 'spoons for some #pubdev on my game Positron. Managed to sort out the trail shaders to add this nice swoop at the front. #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #Steam #EarlyAccess

Got out for a bit of #pubdev today on my game Positron. I feel like I need paper and pen to figure out the maths as this was supposed to add a nice smooth downwards curve to the start of the trail... #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Always nice when you're able to pair the beer with a proper glass at home ;-)

It seems people really, REALLY, like chips. Who knew?

Happy 17th Birthday to my Daughter Willow today. Continuing our tradition of hand drawing birthday cards; I found the cute Pochita image on Google and copied it as best I could, then added the Happy Birthday text. #ChainsawMan #HappyBirthday #Pochita #BirthdayCard #Drawing

Haven't been to the secondhand book shop in Ossett in ages. Quid each for these.

Just been to see Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II back-to-back at the cinema. As a big fan of the older games I loved it. So many direct references in the environments, signature moves, and dialog. @mortalkombat.com #MortalKombat2 #MortalKombat

Jupiter and Venus both nice in bright in the darkening sky this evening. A jet just happened to be flying right in front of Venus when I grabbed the photo too! #Space #Jupiter #Venus

Finally added this little diamond screen edge marker! It has been on my todo list forever. #GameDev #IndieDev #Positron #Snake #notmadewithunity

Emley Moor looked pretty cool this morning. I just had to stop on my cycle to work to grab a few photos!

Orange Vinyl of Skindred's new album You Got This, turned up today, along with my ticket for their gig in Leeds this week! #skindred #yougotthis #metal #leeds #vinyl