freelancing in indie games // building Wizwag // games preservationist // C, JS, Lua, Playdate, Love2D 💛 // transmutrix.com // Appalachian hermit
transmutrix (wishlist LINOVICTUS 💙)
the hard part of committing to a real streaming schedule is that it's hard being away from my wife for hours when i know she's nearby and we _could_ be hanging out
@blanksword.bsky.social did you intend to CC everyone who didn't get an interview instead of BCC-ing? 😅 i don't think anything can be done about it now, but - whoops
i miss FlashBuilder
wanted to doodle some SMW-inspired tiles, gave myself an hour and this is how far i got ^_^
software development challenge level: impossible - a video editor that is beginner friendly for obvious things, works and is fast and doesn't crash and also doesn't encode my audio track wrong on export for some reason, making me waste 20 minutes messing around with ffmpeg in the terminal...
"stack" joins the list of words completely ruined by bros doing podcasts / blogs / newsletters / youtube productivity bullshit
We’re fast reaching the stage where the only way to *get* something both handcrafted and of passable quality is to buy from small teams and individuals -_-
at this point i think i would take a small, non-optimizing compiler over llvm or gcc, which are many millions of lines of code, and will be subject to "ai cursory review rot" and related problems over the coming years.
for the software i write, it'll run fast whether it gets vectorized or not. 🤷♀️ i probably don't need that -O3 if it comes with so much baggage? it seems hard to justify. i would rather have something at a scale i could read and understand if i needed to.
they really gotta do away with this Nintendo direct baby toy narration. I'm getting so sick of hearing the same four formulaic sentences over and over.
VERB, VERB, AND VERB YOUR WAY THROUGH NOUN
DEFEAT NOUN AND EARN NOUN
never describing gameplay, but describing the scenario my eyes already see
