AI developer tools like Github's copilot are the future of development and DevEx. And will, in the future be as common as intelligent code completion, such as itellisense, is now.

I built a game called yavalath, you can play it at https://play.yavalath.com/. It was annoying as hell but I’ve got the hang of it and now I’m working on something else a little more exciting

Contrary to the name this was not swift at all. However it is finally here and I couldn’t be happier about it. All that is left to say is congrats to Swift and to anyone that uses swift I hope you’re looking forward to rewritting a shit load of code or deleting a load at least.

So I’ve been playing a lot of Valheim, 106 hours as of this Monday, and we can get the obvious out of the way first. It is one hell of a game. I mean it’s early access which means there is a few rough edges but apart from that it’s a cracker. Well worth the price and more.

You can take data driven decision making too far. The same way you can take intuition based decisions too far. A balance of the two is needed to make a product or tool feel like a human has solved a problem instead of a machine.

The final subject I want to talk about is the world itself. Blizzard often talk about the world being one of the primary characters in WoW.

As someone that initially loved the idea of transmog I can’t help but feel somewhat responsible for what has happened with the system and what it has done to the game over the years. Let’s try and break it down into two key points.

A natural progression to dungeons is raids. Raids have, since the beginning of World of Warcraft’s life, been the crowning jewel of end game content. It’s the place the best gear drops, it has the biggest bosses and it requires a team of other committed players in order to complete.

This is my take on the current state of World of Warcraft and what classic has taught me about retail World of Warcraft and what I hope it has taught the developers at Blizzard.

A good place to start is dungeons. Dungeons are a great introduction to group content for a lot of people and continue to serve as the gateway drug to raiding for a lot of people.

Good code is a phrase that’s thrown around a lot. Whenever I speak to other developers at conferences, or my friends a phrase that comes up a lot is “good code”.

Don’t Starve is a breath of fresh air. Aside from incredible game play and an immersive and creepy narrative (I won’t spoil anything) the art style is the thing that struck me and stays with me until this day.

Think about what type of test you are writing and why you are writing it. If it is too cumbersome and it adds little value then don’t write one. Fewer good tests > many bad ones.

I will be using this to blog share my ideas mostly regarding tech and programming but also about films, video games and maybe some other stuff. Especially if I think it’s either really cool or really annoying.