aeva

I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.

I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️‍⚧️

Curses are just blessings with caveats.

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Sunsonic 986-II. A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in.

Sunsonic 986-II Famicom clone
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2025-06-19

ironic that we live in a time where everybody owns a computer with a mandatory button that spawns a supposed "magical genie", except for computer witches & wizards who specifically do *not* have such a button anywhere, nor do they wish to have one

i assume mastodon rubies are similar to chaos emeralds

@hipsterelectron @lritter french is a conlang

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2025-06-19

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

udm56.com/

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Edit: udm14.com still works too, this is just an alternative view.

&udm=56 website

@efi hi dumb im aeva :3

insomnia implies the existence of outsomnia

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2025-06-19

Never forget what Kiryu thinks of AI:

Screenshot from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. ChotDDT: "ChotDDT is a machine learning AI designed to provide highly accurate responses to a wide variety of conversation topics."Screenshot from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Kiryu: "What makes Kazuma Kiryu so popular and cool?"Screenshot from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. ChotDDT: "Kazuma Kiryu is an italian chef and restaurant owner based in the Saitama Prefecture."Screenshot from Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Kiryu: "It's a lot less all-knowing than I was led to believe... What is this thing actually useful for?"

@hipsterelectron programming languages are human languages

@pupxel some nodes will have multiple input args with different meanings, eg lerp

@pupxel what if the sounds are nonbinary tho

also I'm considering making the add tile effectively just a pass through and having the system add all wires connecting to the same input when the input doesn't have a special arithmetic meaning. eg draw two wires to the line out and it just adds them. or draw two hz values into a sine wave and it adds them. draw two values into a mul tile and it multiplies them instead.

idk what I'm going to do for the "min" and "max" tiles lol

"input" and "output" could work, but I'm intentionally avoiding them so the output tile doesn't have an input named "output"

Also I'm annoyed that math words are all verbose. "term" and "sum" fit as alternatives for the inputs and outputs of the add node, but the vibes are off. "result" reads better than "sum" for the output. I don't like "term" because it's ambiguous. "summand" is too long. "addend" both is too long and it looks like it says "add end" which what. In the end I went with "+" for the operand end of the tile and "=" for the result end. (operand is also too long)

I'm planning on having little detached wires hanging off of the outputs to hint at their polarity when they're disconnected. When they're connected my intention is to have an arrow indicating the directionality of the connection.

Incremental progress tonight while waiting for dinner. I've updated connect mode to now show the parameters of the selected items, as well as which side corresponds to which selected tile. Still lots of room for improvement.

Work in progress screenshot of the revised connection screen.  Now the screen shows the inputs and outputs of the selected tiles.  One side of the screen is labeled "mul" and has "=" as its output and "*" as its input.  The other side is labeled "add" and has "+" as its input and "=" as its output.  The background is semi-transparent which allows for the program to be seen in the background, though this design assumes you remember what you selected before opening connect mode.
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Lake Superior! Live!Livelakesuperior
2025-06-19

Current* conditions near Montreal River Harbour, ON:

View looking through the trees of unincorporated Algoma to Lake Superior. // Image captured at: 2025-06-19 02:30:05 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Montreal River Harbour: 61.98 F | 16.66 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: SSE at 3.780 mph | 6.08 kph // Humidity: 88%

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