Dan Sandler

A photo of a reverse mount SMD button with the four leads pointing up, looking like shrugging arms.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The boss is on a roll with “Voice Quitting”

screenshot of the stamina meter from the game PEAK. it is a horizontal bar, currently divided into four sub-sections: the amount available to you as stamina (green), and the amount that has been subtracted for other temporary game conditions, in this case encumbrance (red), hunger (yellow), and poison (purple).

started playing PEAK by @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social and all I can think about is the genius of the everything-meter

Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

A screenshot from the game Astroneer, in which a hamster ball has been shot into space.

mistakes were made, mostly by physics #astroneer

passing it on to the team, thanks 💚

suddenly reminded of the way twitter felt in the late aughts / early teens: your friend texting you from the splash zone of history

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
- Glamorizes hustle culture
- Speciest
- Was taught to you in elementary school

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."
- Metal as fuck
- Implies that you are a wizard
- No one will know you are testing out a font

…and then my remote desktops to other workstations, each running i3 with multiple workspaces, each with too many windows and terminals, each with too many tabs and screens

And then showed her all my virtual workspaces, each of which had too many windows with too many tabs

And then my terminals, running GNU screen, with too many screens…

My daughter saw my computer and said “you have too many tabs open.”

I then zoomed out and showed her all the windows she couldn’t see (that had too many tabs)…

Stop what you're doing and read this.

(unless you're driving or performing some kind of surgery, in which case you probably shouldn't be reading anything at all right now)

Another screenshot of the #Android14 easter egg. The spaceship is landed on a rather large moon named Redvelvetcake Novis-O.4338 4, which really rolls off the tongue.

this "moon" is an absolute unit! I was under its gravitational pull from the moment the simulation started

Ah, much better

Screenshot of the Android 14 easter egg, which is a simple vector-graphics spaceflight simulator. The vaguely androidesque spacecraft has landed on the sole planet in today's star system: Eclair Psi 1, a pungent moonlet with a reticulated atmosphere, corduroy fauna, and low-poly flora.

Too bad the star system for #android14 launch day only has one planet.

doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location

I have a website. For years I kept a blog there and then stopped due to social media posting and also game dev making me more boring. Now I'm pretty sure I'd never be able to draw eyes to a site. In a lot of ways the internet actually is worse now than it was a while back.

I guess, who among us hasn't gotten all the way to the party and then said "nah I'm not feelin it" and turned around

What are you talking about, it fits right in with my vanity healthcare and vanity food security

OK I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the ease of setting up a vanity profile domain on bsky