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> While it’s far from perfect, writing it taught me more about UI systems than I ever would have learned by sticking to established solutions alone. This is a great attitude to hav…

That's a great story. Thank you. I hope you've had the opportunity to give someone else a leg up. Accepting that people change, and that people are inherently full of contradiction…

Alas my work will not allow me to mount a random NFS share but I take your point, simplicity is a virtue.

Nice. I self host using Navidrome, FreeBSD and Wireguard. I have a decent Fibre connection to my house and a static IP so it's "free" to serve. I primary do it because Spotify is b…

Indeed we are. I wish we interacted with the other industries more. There is a lot to learn from video game development where we are driven by soft real-time constraints. Alas the …

I'm really enjoying some of the innovation in the BSD space at the moment.

I recently migrated one of my FreeBSD servers to hetzner and it was a breeze. The only wrinkle was that, until you've completed a billing cycle, you can't host an email server as t…

I suspect it's just getting hammered: https://web.archive.org/web/20250923203108/https://tide.org/...

yep, it's the permanent nature of the recording put in to the public sphere that is the game changer for me. I accept I am visible in public to all who share a space but I do not a…

I agree with you but somethings are missing from the BP experience. I've implemented many VPLs in video games and I've used Blueprints extensively. I've probably made all the class…

I think you are correct. I work in game dev. Almost all code is in C/C++ (with some in Python and C#). LLMs are nothing more than rubber ducking in game dev. The code they generate…

yep, in London it's pretty normal to be driving at 30 and be overtaken by a teenager on a scooter with no insurance, no protective equipment and not a care in the world. They can k…

There is the old adage that every bit of friction increases the chance something won't be done. Swarm feels like a minimal effort to me and just isn't as frictionless as GitHub. Id…

I mean it might work but you'll still get pull time-outs constantly with LFS. It's expensive to wait two or three days before you can start working on a project. Go way for two wee…

> People should use the VCS that's appropriate for their project rather than insist on git everywhere. A lot of people don't seem to realise this. I work in game dev and SVN or Per…

When I was in my 20s I realized I had lost the thirst signal. I never felt thirsty. I guessed this was because I lived a comfortable life and I had lost this signal in the noise of…

Other languages internalise that complexity. C leaves it bare, human scale and understandable. The speed at which you can write great C code often far outstrips other languages whi…

Within game development it's Dear ImGui. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui Normally with the Windows DX12 backend, sometimes with the SDL+OpenGL backend if you want cross platform s…

Forgive me. I've banged my head a few times.

I've come off two motorbikes in the UK. On the first occasion I wore a leather jacket, on the second I had a synthetic jacket on (because it was more comfortable in hot weather). B…

These are strong points and I think the methodology behind Carbon is the correct one. The elephant in the room is that once Google decide to drop Carbon my existing code base will …

> ... and while LLVM is not my favorite compiler, we can thank them for spurring GCC team into action for improving their game. Exactly. I think people have forgotten just how poor…

I agree with you but it irks me more that the search doesn't find the content I'm looking for. Apple Mail search feels much more useful.

There are usually two types of flags. Whole-game and level specific. For most games I've worked on the most senior game designer will control the game specific flags and then level…

No. This might seem useless to non game coders but it's a very common pattern in videogames. The state of the world is frequently 1000s of yes/no data points. It's not rocket scien…