Andy Bell

You’ll miss the soul when it’s gone

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:22:43 GMT

Pretty grim day of news in the industry today, with Salma Alam-Naylor stepping away from developer relations work permanently, Josh Comeau taking a sabbatical from making courses and GSAP’s once-vibrant forums descending into a ghost town.

The reason your token guzzler “produces” anything that could be described as “good” is because of the years of hard work from people that actually care deeply. The reason what we do was fun was because of the soul that these great people — along with many, many others — brought to the table. They inspired us to better ourselves and make genuinely good stuff. That’s increasingly no longer the case as these people nope out of the industry.

Anyway, enjoy your gruel. It’s all you’re gonna be getting.

I’m playing the Zelda games in timeline order

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:54:11 GMT

I’m a huge Zelda sicko and recently — maybe it’s the buzz of Ocarina of Time being re-made — I’ve decided to play the games in timeline order. Well, almost, because I’ve already started Minish Cap, which also inspired this little challenge because I forgot how rad the four swords stuff is.

I’ve beaten a good portion of these games already over the years, but for this challenge, I’m going to beat them from scratch again. Yes, that includes the monstrous Breathe Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom.

I’m not going to 100% each one because that’ll take forever. I’ve never 100% beaten a Zelda game either because I don’t have the patience. I got close with Tears Of The Kingdom tho!

I’ll play remasters/remakes where possible because SNES on the Analogue Pocket hasn’t been great for me. I’m not sure to do about the NES ones yet because I imagine I’ll experience similar issues. For 3DS releases, I need a device that’ll play them, like the AYN Thor, but I’ve got plenty of time to work that out in the order I’m playing the games in.

I’ve put the “tracker” (I guess) over on Tangled here. I’ll keep that up to date as I go!

To wrap up, please don’t be weird about this Zelda fans. I know we all have our own unique, radicalised views of the timelines 😅

We can just do things

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:23:01 GMT

I really like this blog by Barry Prendergast. I’m getting quite into the AT protocol stuff and their writing is really helping with my broader understanding of how this stuff works.

Barry does a great job of shining a light on not just the technical stuff, but everything else too, which is great because this stuff moves so fast and there are so many good humans doing good work.

Check it out

The logical destination of LLMs

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:32:47 GMT

Graze, the company that do really good stuff around AT protocol user controlled algorithms, have announced that they’re trying to “Billionaire proof inference” by creating an AI cooperative called co/core.

It’s quite an interesting idea, where users share their own personal spare compute, from devices like an old MacBook, with a network of other users doing the same thing. The idea is that LLM tasks are run on each other’s machines and everyone appears to mutually benefit.

The logical endpoint to this technology is that it’ll be these small, niche networks and local specialised models, used by technology enthusiasts. Add it to the pile of other “game changers” that are now predominantly used by niche groups. The economics don’t add up for the rest and that’s even while paying users/companies are still being hugely subsidised. When the real costs hit, the ROI just simply isn’t there.

I’m genuinely glad to see stuff like this co/core initiative happening — it’s actually quite refreshing. I do worry about security, but it’s an experiment, just like the AT protocol was, so I expect that stuff to be earnestly ironed out by decent people.

Do I personally have any interest in it though? Nah, because the stink of the tech oligarchy, environmental harms, psychological harms and being told every fuckin’ day that LLMs are the “future” will very likely never pass for me, so I can’t ever seeing me being interested in using this technology in any meaningful way.

I do appreciate that people genuinely enjoy using this technology, though, so at least there is some more accessible movement away from the sweaty tech oligarchy and their infinite losses machine.

I did the Standard.site thing

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:27:41 GMT

It seems like everyone is integrating Standard.site on their personal websites (and beyond) at the moment. It’s mainly been encouraged by Bluesky’s recent update to the treatment of sites integrated with Standard.site. Sam has a good explainer here.

It’s a cool feature! There’s loads of different platforms doing cool stuff, all using different data structures, so the standardisation was really needed. Integrating is fairly straightforward too.

If you’re using WordPress, for example, it’s as simple as using a plugin. There’s an Astro plugin too, along with all of your favourites (I imagine).

I’ll write up the details as part of my ongoing series. I’ll definitely be getting on that towards the end of the month too as my studio workload quietens down a bit.

Was it all a bit of a faff to integrate? Yes. Did I get rate limited multiple times? Absolutely. But do I think it’s worth doing? I think Standard.site is going to do wonders for website discovery, so without a doubt.