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syldarion

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About syldarion

Professional SWE; Hobbyist game dev;

https://twitter.com/Syldarion https://github.com/Syldarion https://syldarion.itch.io/

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    Comment #46323197

    Like the other commenter, my mind also fixated on the mouse cursor. Great post on the fonts, but I spent most of my time seeing how the strange cursor behaved. I don't like it much…

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    Comment #43865384

    Location: Rochester, NY Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: - Professional: Python, Gitlab, Jenkins, CI/CD & general DevOps work, C#, C++ - Hobbyist: React, JavaScri…

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    Comment #41674483

    This and 'The Games That Weren't' [1] are my favorite coffee table books. Like another commenter, I tend to just open to a random page and it's always a great tidbit of learning ab…

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    Comment #40566273

    Location: Rochester, NY (soon) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Professional: Python, git, Gitlab, Jenkins, CI/CD, C#, C++ - Hobbyist: React, JavaScript, HTML/CS…

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    Comment #39224836

    Location: California, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depending on location Technologies: - Professional: Python, git, Gitlab, Jenkins, CI/CD, C#, C++ - Hobbyist: React, JavaS…

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    Comment #38562337

    Fiction: "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" and "Tress of the Emerald Sea" - Two of Brandon Sanderson's "secret projects" that he released this year and easily my favorites of the bu…

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    Comment #38562184

    I was introduced to Calvino this year and picked up Invisible Cities for the first. It was amazing how evocative the descriptions were. If On A Winter's Night is a great place to g…

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    Comment #37866238

    Oh for sure, I'm with you. Old graphics work has this mindset of avoiding transparency passes stuck in my head. Certainly a small part of the bigger problem.

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    Comment #37866140

    Agreed. Once a file/page reaches a certain size, I find minimaps to be a mostly unintelligible blob. Maybe it'd be solved by just making it bigger, but then we push into the proble…

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    Comment #37866054

    I'm sure it's negligible these days, but there's also the concern of an increased graphics load since you'll have to do an extra pass for the transparency. But I don't want to dive…

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    Comment #37429732

    Precisely my thoughts. The fact that this exists is so cool, but it's clear some more tuning would have to be done for "proper" balance. 'Subterranean Crush' is exactly 'Flesh to D…

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    Comment #37400356

    The hardest part of the hardware experience for me so far has been the waiting . I recently took the next step in being a keyboard nerd and have been tinkering with custom macro pa…

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    Comment #32462699

    I followed microtrailers, it was awesome getting the brief snippets of EVERYTHING. I hadn't seen that you'd made a new one until now, definitely giving that one a follow!

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    Comment #32462669

    I'm not sure if I can say abandoned YET, but I thoroughly enjoyed working on Braggle ( https://braggle.app/ ), which is a site that lets you create rooms with your friends to post …

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    Comment #30940432

    https://calebmakela.com It's nothing fancy, the site in itself is a personal project spawned from wanted to write more and have a presence. It's built with Hugo and some gross hand…