avery

games designer-writer-programmer; lisper; sepia addict; queer. living on unceded indigenous land in naarm. seems impossible to satisfy a need for "introspection".

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Sy BrandTartanLlama
2025-06-10

Building a Debugger is now officially released!

It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.

Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

The book Building a Debugger, featuring a robot designing a complex debugging machine on a drafting boardThe book placed in front of a tortie cat

@swiftyshq single righteous tear... I need to get that sona going soon

(if you don't get enough bites within a day or so i may have fixed this situation and Will get in there)

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Me: "I wonder what inspired the look of the 'safe to turn off your computer' screen in Windows 95."

Burger King in 1968:

A screenshot from a 1968 Burger King advert that says "the burgers are bigger at Burger King" in orange text on a black background.

@hailey I just cannot do bleeding edge releases T-T give me my beautiful several months old Emacs and a C++ toolchain that can't compile anything new. it's enriching

@swiftyshq i am soooooo excited for big walk

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2025-06-06

instantaneous, violent, convulsive

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2025-06-05

Internet Archive is looking for engineering managers with a rare set of experiences, and we could use your help.

Do you know someone with extensive experience using PHP as a systems language? Someone who has gardened a petabyte-scale system under high load? Is this person a player/coach engineering manager who enjoys helping other people succeed?

If you do know someone like this, or someone close, I would love to talk to them.

Apply at this link and drop me a line:
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/de

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2025-06-05

@eri@mk.moth.zone @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe There's also the Fujitsu oragami ethernet jack. only uses about the same space as a USB port when closed.

Fujitsu oragami ethernet jack ready for an ethernet cord. it' has a door that pops up after it pops out.has an ethernet cord plugged in.ethernet jack only using about the same space as a usb plug, closed.
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Perfect Butterfly Angeljunebug@slime.global
2025-06-02

as long as we're all talking bout weird tf i wanna give a shout out to the now-delisted roguelike game Beacon, which has the most "okay someone in the writers room was Horny For This" writing i've ever seen

every single upgrade has an extensive bit of writing about what it would feel like to suddenly have that happen to your body

i don't know who decided that all of the 50+ upgrades should have one of these, but goddamn, i salute you

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@Dwarf :borgcube:dwarf@borg.social
2025-05-29

My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, preview.redd.it, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fucking-jpeg/
#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur #tumblr

@misty i was sold the moment i read wavedashing

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:crewmate:​ πŸ†ŽπŸ…ΎοΈπŸ†–πŸ†™

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mira twilight, undefined ✨twilight@synth.download
2025-05-27
References, Note 1: This is false, emacs is only found on Mac computers, and is the reason for their name.

@srxl open gl in the Open Games sense, inviting the community to shape the direction of play in the space of a given GL

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2025-05-26

Gamedev be like: This crowd of NPCs has a bunch of women in green dresses and a bunch in purple dresses. They're all supposed to walk five steps to the right. The green women move, but the purple ones stand still. I cannot find a single difference in their scripting logic or object settings, other than the color of their dresses.

The fix was to delete all the purple women, copy green women into their places, and recolor them purple. Now they all walk five steps to the right.

#gamedev #rpgmaker

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Alex β˜•πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Alexjgriffith@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-26

love2d-fennel.el has been updated to work with the latest version of fennel-mode.

The emacs package wraps fennel-repl to let you run love or the fennel repl based on whether you're in a love2d project.

It also wraps fennel-reload to give you project aware module names by default.

codeberg.org/alexjgriffith/lov

@srxl happy birthday!!!!

@swiftyshq every day i thank my lucky stars I was deleting meta.inf as a kid, I'm meeting first years in compsci who don't understand filepaths!! we need better computer education stat

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