24 years teaching games programming (maths, game AI, gfx, tool dev, networking).
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Last Notes npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…hm63 Yep, available right now for $150. https://flyhoneycomb.com/products/echo-aviation-controller npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…hm63 Replaceable parts too. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 This looks really bad. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…3q9y A Raspberry Pi or similar would be a safer bet for a linux box that should run mollytime, I'd guess. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…3q9y My thoughts on the moon... npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…3q9y Sounds like Attack on Titan. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Damn, they predicted Tiktok. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 More 70's computer magazine comics that have become prophetic. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Something I haven't seen mentioned about the new Steam Controller design... touchpad and thumbstick coordinate system alignment. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…hm63 True, rewriting chunks of Windows with AI sounds like a decision AI would come up with, not a human. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 If AI is going to ruin everything, could it at least do something positive while it's at it like also replace millionaire / billionaire CEO jobs? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…3q9y @nprofile…j05z All three of which kill you if you go for a walk outside in casual dress. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…hm63 If I don't set my laptop to quiet mode, even moving the mouse is liable to make fans hit max rpm. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…3q9y If it had bluetooth, I'd probably go back to my resurrected iRiver H300, such a cool device. It does have great quality with wired headphones, but when I'm out I don't want to give up wireless bone conduction. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 All password manager apps should use a font that makes the difference between one and lower case L really obvious on a 4k monitor. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 I'm looking around for some more languages (embedded scripting or native) that sound interesting. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f4xf I run into a fair number of lost flash drives and I check them. I also have a pretty good return to owner rate. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I got it bundled with a graphics card. I loaned the cd to a student but he then graduated and I never saw him again, so didn't get it back. So I eventually rebought it on GOG. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Does anybody else see this and immediately think "It's an Independence War 2 Devastator Class Heavy Corvette"? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 There's nothing quite like that explosive release of tension you get when you check both your work slack and email after several days of not looking and there's nothing relevant to you that needs to be dealt with. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…fnpd Hell yeah, :winamp: is in there. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy If I was walking around in a setting like that, the first thing I'd want is a thermal camera. I've got a HIKMicro Lynx Pro LE10 (monocular hand held scope), cost around $800au, and it's great for spotting things at night (or even in the day) that you won't see easily with your eyes or night vision. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy @nprofile…hqeh @nprofile…almt My DK1 had position tracking... since I'm one of the people who stuck a Razer Hydra controller in the headband. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy The Vuzix almost put me off of VR entirely. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I played a tiny bit of HalfLife 2 in VR in 2011 using my Vuzix Wrap 1200 headset. But as far as I know that wasn't native, they had a program that patched stereo 3d into a bunch of games. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy Living in Brisbane means either loving or hating the F-111. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I like the F-111 Aardvark. Not enough of them in simulators. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I like how people thought a stealth fighter would be a rounded sleek thing (the F19), but it turned out low poly cybertruck style had better stealth. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy Cosmigo is the maker of Pro Motion NG. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f4xf I was going to suggest icecast. Anybody with a phone running VLC can use whatever headphone connection (wired, bluetooth, etc) they normally use. Still in the park, just don't tell tell people the ip address or something in advance, have it on a sign so they have to turn up. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I grew up with Rage on a Friday night / Saturday morning. Lot's of cool videos there. Some that I thought were bearable at the time, but now I love. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I was on PC and I'm lazy as hell, so I just made my grid be an array of std::vectors. Not a good solution, but it was faster than the O(n^2) version. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f4xf Maybe a beach IN a 🛸. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy Here's my take on asteroids with it. 10x10 grid for collisions. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I did this in a 2D engine I used to run 1 day game programming sessions for school kids. I was making asteroids / space invaders style games but with more bullets and the collision checks were slow, so I changed it to a screen sized grid binned the objects based on which grid squares they overlapped. It worked pretty well for what I needed. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f4xf It makes me think of waves on a beach. An eerie beach. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy I thought the name sounded familiar. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…xlvy If Richard was upstairs moving my furniture, I'd see if he could get me one of the Windowlicker umbrellas. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Looking at some ship sizes. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Either I just heard a short bit of thunder, or somebody upstairs just moved a chair. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…rtt8 Yep, especially when it's not just moved and different looking, but requires more work (2 clicks to change post visibility is now 4 clicks) for the same result. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 So, Mastodon 4.5... npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 I had an urge to try implementing a .werkkzeug style block editor for behavior trees. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f4xf I wonder how well my Dragonbox Pyra would handle this. It's running Debian with the Mate window manager, but it comes with a resistive touch screen. I don't know if they customised that part of the OS to handle touch better. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Has any other software ever used a grid based node UI inspired by .werkkzeug? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Filling out an MS survey on my thoughts on Visual Studio 2026. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn I grew up on Elite 1 on the C64 (friend's C64 that is), so pitch, roll and forward was about it. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 I spent about 50 million outfitting my Python Mk II and took it for a spin. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…f9l8 Oops, I accidentally made it recursive. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn It's a vertical scroller instead of side scroller, but Kenta Cho's Gunroar had a mechanic I loved. Usually it was a dual stick shooter, but you could choose double play mode. You now had two player ships, each controlled independently by one of the thumbsticks. They were locked to forward shooting. There was a third gun placed at the midpoint between the two ships that aimed perpendicular to the vector between the ships. So much fun. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn In Kenta Cho's Tumiki Fighters you could collect dead enemies by bumping into them and they attach to your ship. Their weapons fire and they act as armor. Pushing a button retracts them into your ship to make you smaller. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Hmm, with recent Android stuff going on, I wonder how usable a Windows Mobile device is for development these days? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Replaying Webbed. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Do sugar cubes still exist? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x Full body bone conduction. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x 1 speaker and 25 subwoofers? npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn Hmm, if I do an FFT of the current game audio and time the feet recalculations to it... npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 When a programmer who doesn't like rigging or animating characters by hand needs a walk cycle. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x (I'm in firefox) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x Ublock Origin can remove the trending tab. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x For extra fun, set it to the usb inserted/removed sounds. :) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x If you mean Visual Studio running on windows (not Visual Studio Code on Linux), it's already got that. Go to the Windows sound settings and there's options for adding sound events to Visual Studio for build failed, succeeded, breakpoint hit, build canceled, test run failed and test run succeeded. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…d23x I've got a Soda Stream. But I'm 51, so it doesn't answer the question. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x @nprofile…t3wn The bulbs of carbon dioxide for drinks and nitrous oxide for whipped cream are physically compatible (well, used to be at least. Mix them up and you get fizzy whipped cream that tingles on your tongue. (First hand experience) npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 New shirt arrived. This one Forest Cat by Li Chen @nprofile…5y8z npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 I never really understood how matrices work for 3D graphics. I could do matrix maths, but didn't know why it worked. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Umm, ok. No idea what this show is. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x In 2022 Spotify wrap told me my preferred music genres were cryptidcore and clowncore. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x I've now got the image of this in the style of Satisfactory stuck in my head. 2s and 440s on conveyor belts being processed into 880s. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…mxac I used to have students make pac man. But it was a 5 week project and they already had 13 weeks of C++ and 6 weeks of making breakout by that point. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x Maybe we need to go the opposite way to counteract it, get AR glasses that just make the real world look non photorealistic. Get a PS1 theme for reality. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…d23x It's a bit old but Nanovg is pretty cool. Zlib licensed real time SVG style rendering (including ttf fonts) that just needs opengl. I use it in an SFML window, but works with SDL and others. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 My F: was running a bit low on space. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…t3wn My immediate thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmSL41CAR6o npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Often when I'm making little test projects (C++ or C#) in one of my frameworks, I don't want to bother with setting up the project or using wizards. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 Using top level functions and some global static usings in another file, I got my C# graphics sandbox to look like this. No visible namespaces, classes or using. No Main function. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 I've got a sudden urge to write a path finding algorithm for parking simulated trucks with long trailers in awkward locations. npub1csdgxce7z3m6tpmx9s2dg7eq7n8l78epmuj44uzutsekg3wame6qzmujx6 Kojack 🦎 @nprofile…jzk9 @nprofile…t3wn All this Grace Jones talk and I had to go watch Slave To The Rhythm. That video is even crazier than I remembered, still a cool song.
