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'A new industry with a new identity:' Canadian devs in 2026
We spoke to developers at Toronto Canada's XP Game Summit to see how they are getting by in increasingly tumultuous times.

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
As Epic goes all in on AI game development, maybe it’ll be the kids who ultimately decide the fate of the games industry | Respec
How the young audience reacts to the upcoming Star Wars x Marvel shooter and Fortnite may well dictate AI’s future in game dev.
MindsEye’s Dev Breaks Silence On Chaos And Mismanagement
Build a Rocket Boy's ex-lead animator, Chris Wilson, had a lot to say about his time at the company, and the two co-CEOs steering its sinking ship

Habitat's road to release: 07 bridging traditional SaaS apps - building [at] habitat
building bridges to the (organizational) atmosphere
Habitat & permission spaces for organizations - building [at] habitat
Our plans for organizational permissions on spaces
Deploy your apps with a git push
/dev/push is an open source alternative to Vercel and Render, allowing you to deploy your apps straight from GitHub.

DWeb Virtual Meetup — Jan 2025 — Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
DWeb Virtual Meetup (January 2026) featuring speakers sharing their latest DWeb product releases and community organizing efforts. SPEAKERSmauve signweaver, Awana Digital: Awana Digital supports those working to defend their human and environmental rights, but who lack the tools to do so. Their local partners represent marginalized communities worldwide, including Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities. They train local partners to use basic digital tools to gather, share, and manage information about environmental and human rights infractions. mauve presented CoMapeo Abare, an open-source local-first Android app designed with Indigenous communities, to enable non-technical users to easily map and document biodiversity, environmental threats, and human rights abuses.Blaine Cook, New_ Public: New_ Public is a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces that foster connection, facilitate pluralism, and encourage civic engagement. Blaine presented Roundabout, their new social app and website to improve information sharing in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people.Afri Schoedon, Department of Decentralization (DoD): The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from Berlin, who first assembled in 2018 to organize ETHBerlin hackathon. They aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Afri shared their experience of previous DoD events and share the technologies and approaches that their collective sees as being on the horizon of network decentralization.Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton

This Gamescom Showcase Did A Lot Of Games Dirty
Sorry to anyone who wasn’t Square Enix or CD Projekt Red

npmx: converging communities
The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together

unkyulee/micro-journal
Contribute to unkyulee/micro-journal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Habitat's road to release: 01 simplespace - building [at] habitat
First up: a pre-implementation of permissioned spaces
Design and Development Videos - Apple Developer
Learn about developing for Apple platforms with video presentations by Apple experts.
Despite Awards, South Of Midnight Studio Becomes Latest Victim Of Microsoft’s Implosion
Compulsion Games could be on the chopping block, months after Xbox hyped up its award wins

Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…
