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the live coding scene is 100% the thing that has made me most excited over the last couple of years: seeing people perform actually live music with computers, as free as jazz, freer, showing their screen, sharing what they're doing with an audience who understand what they're doing has felt so...

your goddess of skiing is called 'damage'? oh you vikings. :)
good cat name tho!

remind me their names? the tired one from yesterday was very popular in this house from photo alone :)

yes x3 :)

when i awoke this morning, i opened my eyes to TJ towering over me, serving her best 'feed me' look. meanwhile Ishi (the naughty baby boy) took the more direct approach of 'dig at the covers while sitting on his face until he damn well moves'

its been a loooong day :)

what a timeline we're in. from e-bikes to pedo billionaires to multiple wars and genocides. yay. TUESDAY. kitten tax:

maybe in dk / nl it was better. but uk/london situation is dire regardless of bike ownership ime. they really do run the lights 'if they can see a way' as don says. the rise of food couriers under insane time pressure doesnt help - the number of badly ridden 'commercial' bikes is thru the roof

💯 amen

two lime bikes had a near collision at 90 degrees as they both steamed through a junction, at least one running the light. in the era of high powered electric bikes, 'red light is optional bro' makes my blood boil.

more petscii blackletter

love it!

yeah :) tho i wasnt contrasting home engine vs commercial engine; i was saying if you go home engine, be sure to dogfood it with a motivating project :) but i agree with you :)

not naming the engine is a great idea! maybe you give yourself the reward of naming it after the second finished game ships with it :) then its proved itself enough to be named :))

ive seen *so many* projects (online, and in my own discarded projects folder ;)) 'MEGA_ENGINE_99' that got lost in reinventing platform abstractions for the 9999th time. those steps are needed, but so much better when paired with a visible, playable, enjoyable end product to guide lowlevel choices.

both motivations are good btw! and ive been in both camps, having made my own tools and wheels for everything i've ever worked on over... many years. but when you're 'making the tool for tools sake', its way harder to stay focused & succeed and make good choices. always dog food by making a game.

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

lovely old article by @noelfb.bsky.social is on the-orange-site www.noelberry.ca/posts/making... love it! one thing that struck me (re)reading it was that your goal makes a HUGE difference: are u making your own game tools *to make a game you have in mind* or *to make your own game tools*

Made low-poly goldfish #256fes
256 polygons, 150 vertices each

Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school

Boing Boing

boing.greg.technology

fun mac-os footgun: if you add a folder to your sidebar (as a favourite/bookmark), and then rename the folder, the sidebar's name does not update. so in my case, bookmark 'plinky', in cli, rename it to plinky_old, recreate plinky folder - WAIT WHY IS NOTHING UPDATING IN FINDER -> it still * to old 😭

the good life (sound on)

We Once Knew, by Jagā from the album ECH001 - Inter Alios/We Once Knew

mood echotrainer.bandcamp.com/track/we-onc...

it'll be funny if labour lose the seat to the greens but in the uk we vote to punish other people, not to better ourselves, so i am not getting my hopes up for anything but continued misery here on shit island

ah yea of course! they kinda departed from it later didnt they... maybe its because the idea sucks a bit lol.

ooh! cant check on my phone ('content not available in your country'?!) but will check tomorrow! thanks

YouTube video by DJ Zinc should have said liquid 'was' shane and eamon, not 'is' - RIP Eamon♥️♾️

feel your pain! as a counterpoint ive been enjoying dj zinc's remeniscing shorts... eg youtube.com/shorts/iTnVS...

it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing

looks amzing! i always wanted to make a 4k game that doesnt scroll but has like 16x16 sprites so you have to sit right up against it. or a topdown game like micromachines except it doesnt scroll... just teeny cars

oh doh yeah ok so every path to leaf is a new object. awesome!