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Three Dialect Backdrops by natknight Three Backdrops for Dialect

I wrote some backdrops for _Dialect_!
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There's a price on them so that I have something to contribute to fundraising bundles, but if that sounds like your kind of thing please grab a community copy. ❤️

#ttrpgs #language #thornygames

A foot gun in ripgrep #ripgrep #tool #footgun I adore ripgrep. It's fast, it's convenient, and I've never wanted a feature and found it missing. But no softw...

I found a footgun in ripgrep

#ripgrep #footgun #rustlang

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Per the footnotes in *How Bad are Bananas* (which I find very helpful for doing these kinds of comparisons as a non-climate-expert) it's something like a volcano eruption or the World Cup.

howbadarebananas.com/notes-and-re...

Catty Cardinals by natknight A GM-less Roleplaying Game of traditional values, veiled accusations, and paranoia in the College of Cardinals.

I made something for the Pope Game Jam!

Catty Cardinals is a game of traditional values, veiled accusations, and conspiracy set in the college of cardinals.

PWYW on Itch: natknight.itch.io/catty-cardin...

#ttrpg #pope #gamejam

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

pink in the night (2019)

They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables.

California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.

Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky

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And go check out Skin Deep on Steam or Epic if you haven't already! Go have a laugh! It's good for you! 🍌🤸‍♂️

I think it was the bathtub scene in “The Shining”, which is surprising because I read a bunch of Animorphs and Diana Gabaldon before that and was none the worse for wear… 🤷

if you guys and pals aren’t following @clairewillett.bsky.social today you are having a *very* diminished New Pope Day Bluesky Experience™️

it’s a guy from Chicago named Robert Prevost I’ve never heard of in my life

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🎉 Skin Deep is RELEASED! 🎉

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We hope you enjoy Skin Deep! ✨

The logo for the third issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, a collection of high-quality long-form writing about adult games. The words "ADULT ANALYSIS ANTHOLOGY" have been stacked on top of one another in a rough pyramid shape, and the first letter of each word is a bright red. The "OLO" of "ANTHOLOGY" has been rendered as a knowing smirk. The words are contained within an ink-spattered circle. At the bottom-right of the circle, there is a large bright red "3".

Following Indiegogo's unaccountable series of fuckups, I've remade the Adult Analysis Anthology 3 fundraiser on Itch! If you want to support our mission of increasing the amount of high-quality long-form writing about adult games in the world, here's where to do it! itch.io/s/152026/aaa...

An orange cat with glowing eyes stares into your soul and points an accusing emoji finger. Well, did you??

did you vote yet

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

> The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim

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Skin Deep releases next week...!

➡️Wishlist at store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Lazy-loading data modules in Python with one magic function #python #data Greg Wilson was soliciting strategies for lazy-loading datasets in Python modules. There are, of course, many ways to do t...

Did you know that Python modules can have top-level __getattr__ functions? Lots of neat things you can do with this but here's one: lazy-loading data modules.

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#python #data #metaprogramming

sticker design of murderbot's upper torso, from the side, one arm up with an arm gun shooting a red blast to the side. text in a sci-fi font says "my pronouns are it/it's". signed layaroseart.com.

anticipating an exponential increase in murderbot misgendering with the show coming out so I drew something about it

#art #murderbot

Yeah, I'll admit the capacity for executives to irrationally replace programmers even though it won't work is a real risk.

Link: AI's Effect on Programming Jobs #link #ai Laurie Voss hypothesizes that rather than driving all software developers out of a job, the rise of generative LLMs and "vibe ...

Just got around to reading @seldo.com 's article on AI's effects on programming jobs. I have a couple of quibbles, but it's _way_ more useful than most takes I see on the topic!

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#ai #vibecoding

TIL: Copying to the clipboard from a webpage is easy now #til #webdev #javascript #clipboard I remember a time when there were whole libraries dedicated to clipboard management. Turns out in b...

TIL: Copying to the Clipboard from a WebPage is Easy Now 🤷

#til #webdev #javascript #clipboard

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For sure! I have absolute faith that the APIs are the way they are for a reason and that part of my problem is that I'm holding them wrong.

I _still_ haven't a good path up that learning curve though :\

Ooh, I hadn't considered the nested shadow DOM case. Definitely makes sense to automate at that point! Thanks for the feedback 🙂

It seems like a custom element containing a textarea that gets chucked into a shadow DOM via a slot is probably the cleanest solution that still works with JS disabled?

Updated, thanks!

Ooooh. Okay, after diggin in a bunch more I _think_ I understand how that would work. Every time I touch web components I'm surprised by how _much_ of them you need to adopt compared to how incremental most web-tech is. :\

TIL: Accessing Content in Custom HTML Elements #til #javascript #webdev #customelements I was working on a custom element today that replaces a textarea with CodeMirror in the UI whil...

TIL: Accessing Content in Custom HTML Elements

It is truly wild to me that web browsers work like this.

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Going For Broke - a sitcom game about making rent. Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose your roommate, jump into an ill-conceived plot, and try to get that coi...

Check out Going For Broke - a sitcom game about making rent by one of my favourite designers.

On @BackerKit: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

TIL: uv --script #uv #python #til #scripting I've known for a while that uv can run Python scripts that declare inline dependencies. I learned today tha...

TIL: uv --script
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#til #python #scripting #uv