Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan

Jonathan Blow

11.5K posts

Jonathan Blow

@Jonathan_Blow

Designer/Programmer: Order of the Sinking Star, The Witness, Braid, “Jai” Programming Language. Wishlist the Future: store.steampowered.com/app/499170

Boulder, CO

Joined January 2010

Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Jun 7, 2025
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.
Dell Technologies
@Dell
May 30, 2025
"Dang, my computer’s running slow." –me, with 47 tabs open, 12 apps running simultaneously, and a podcast minimized in the background.
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Aug 3, 2024
Why does software almost always do the opposite?
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Nov 19, 2024
Replying to @netcapgirl
They don’t understand “POV”, you think they know e.g. from i.e.?
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
May 29, 2025
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.
Alex Albert
@alexalbert__
May 28, 2025
Since Claude 4 launch: SWE friend told me he cleared his backlog for the first time ever, another friend shipped a month's worth of side project work in the past 5 days, and my DMs are full of similar stories. I think it's undebatable that devs are moving at a different speed
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Jan 25, 2025
Sam. Literally nobody has any idea what these arbitrary combinations of letters and numbers mean, any more.
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Nov 9, 2024
Both of those giant biographies of Elon Musk are now completely out of date…
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Mar 23, 2025
"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 weird bugs! You can hook up payments to this not-really-game and then lie about how much it makes!
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
May 16, 2025
I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of… For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Nov 9, 2023
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]
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Sep 30, 2023
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.
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Jan 31, 2025
This new Star Wars movie looks like a banger.
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Dec 4, 2023
Programmers who can add functionality, without making the codebase unnecessarily complicated, are *incredibly* valuable. If someone has properly absorbed this aesthetic and knows how to do it, I would hire that person on the spot regardless of perceived lack of other skillsets.
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Apr 13, 2025
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 out. Thanks, @elonmusk and team!
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Jonathan Blow
@Jonathan_Blow
Jan 21, 2025
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 taken so long.
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