It’s self-defeating to demand changes (i.e. to a software project) that you personally want to see, but reject others (that you don’t want to see). Teams and projects can be taught to embrace change or be resistant to it, but nobody will ever see eye to exactly with your exact …
This entire time I could have been using retro-style codepage 437 glyphs as icons??? This changes … something.
You don’t always need to use codegen (or custom lints) in your apps or packages. Just write a test. For example, I have a Codepage437Icons class, where I need to (manually) include a string-based representation of the icons, so I wrote a test to check I don’t forget any!
One thing I particularly like about GitHub Co-Pilot is that it pushes you towards DAMP solutions (by nature of the tool, it doesn’t refactor your code) - which is great (personally) at making me avoid needless abstraction.
We call this “the cat house” (yes - have seen animal control out here before)
How do folks who still use Twitter and Mastodon and Bluesky … keep up? I don’t need to read every post by every author but logging into 3 separate apps a day to scroll is too much for me.
I have mixed thoughts about how effective full remote work is, but “gaslight our employees back into the office” isn’t going to work folks (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-13/remote-work-comes-with-daytime-drug-and-drinking-habits).
Donut Man!
One thing I am appreciating about Wing Span (seen here on my Steam Deck - what a great purchase) is the deliberate timing, i.e. “when activated” instead of having to interpret game text.
I can say first hand this is a failure of “office culture”, not a fix. If you’re asking folks to commute in to sit in a soundproof box, let them stay home.
San Jose… Wild.
The computer history museum is great.
Software is the last thing you should write
I’ve been thinking a lot about how software engineers solve problems. Where I work, most of the time someone is given a problem (either by a lead, manager, or peer) and told to solve it. When you give a software engineer a problem to solve, most of the time they end up writing … you …
Ludum Dare 52
Tomorrow starts Ludum Dare 52, one of the biggest and oldest events where you create a game ffrom scratch in a weekend based on a community-voted theme. Today concludes the final voting round, and you can see my wishes below: I’ll be teaming with up an old friend QuantumBits; we previously did …
I’ve really enjoyed the “Nobody Playlists” <www.youtube.com/@nobodypl…> on YouTube as background, reading, or coding music. One of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TOVBNSJDA.
One thing I appreciate about Rust is the ease of tooling. If I have an idea for a package, I just type “cargo new –lib”, and open the folder in VSCode. No ceremony, no Java UI wizard, no trying to configure prettier, typescript, eslint, etc. Everything just works.
I spent a few minutes (hours?) cataloging different text-based UIs, patterns, games, and some tutorials. I’ll add to it as I see fit, but this might be a useful reference for others: https://github.com/matanlurey/tui-game-inspo.
Challenge of generic text-based games
A framework for text-based games Ever had an idea for a turn-based game you’d love to play with your friends? Worried about the hassle of: Choosing a language, framework, engine Writing and testing UI, networking, game logic What if we could instead write game logic (with quasi-declarative rules), …