the 3 base colors I used
@[email protected] Do you sell merchandise with your (non commissioned) artwork on it by any chance?
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I needed my root domain address to have a website on it for reasons so now I have the world's most boring website as a placeholder.
Loads fast, though!
@mavnn yup exactly! I wasn’t aware of the slop but it all makes a lot of sense. Andrew was truthful but respectful / balanced
@[email protected] Yeah, and the experience of using Bun matches his comments about pre-slop quality and attitude: it had a bunch of rapidly expanding, genuinely useful features that ran really fast... when they worked at all. And a bunch of table stakes things you'd expect to work but didn't, and occasional really weird bugs.
Not a bad tradeoff for rapidly exploring a new problem space, but I'd not recommend starting a production project with Bun - which is a bummer, because features like 'compile JS to a native binary across multiple platforms out of the box' are genuinely great.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/116889478874166045
If you know of Zig and Bun, this is a fascinating read and feels… soul cleansing
@[email protected] Having some contacts in the Zig community and having used Bun on a couple of projects, it all rings extremely true to what I would have guessed from the outside. Andrew's tone (for me at least) manages to be both classy and honest about the frustrations which is an impressive line to walk.
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Final session of my "Making 2D Game Assets" course today where we talked about recording sound for your game which is always great fun.
The final wrap up had some fun resources so I thought I might as well share it here as well!
Remember: the secret sauce of audio is always the same! Get as quiet a space as you can, and start by normalizing and reducing noise. Save that version before you do anything else, you'll thank me for it later.
How to create 100 distinct voices
This is a video from a voice coach on how to get started creating distinct character voices, starting with the easiest aspects to vary. youtube.com/watch?v=FVmAEezr...
Wing - Dopamine
We spoke about how flexible the human voice can be at creating sound effects just on its own. Wing takes this to world class levels, creating effects like this using only his voice, microphone positioning, and some reverb (the only effect allowed in the competitions he enters) youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm...
The Magic of Making Sound
This video gives a whole bunch of examples of Foley work. It does assume a certain amount of equipment you won't have available, but the basics are always the same: make sure you can see the video you want to match the sounds to, record the sounds, normalize and remove noise from your recording before setting the final volume you want. youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRI... #GameDev #SoundDesign
The Magic of Making Sound
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How To Create 100 Distinctly Different Voices
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WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)
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Had a couple of days without #ADHD meds as I reset my sleep medication and times (summer holidays mean I can sleep with my actual circadian rhythm rather than taking a boat load of melatonin to try and shift it to match 'society').
And boy oh boy does it make a difference restarting them again. I suppose that even having taken them for years being unmedicated still feels my 'default' state from the decades I was undiagnosed - so stopping feels a drag but normal. Restarting after a break is kind of magical.
Random ask, but: I'm looking to buy some t-shirts with good art work on them. Previously I've bought a lot of pun or fandom based t-shirts, but honestly I've been burned by enough fandoms now that I'm just looking for nice art and decently ethical supply chains that I can buy in the EU without bankrupting myself.
Anyone got good suggestions of places to look, or even better artists I could directly support? Boosts for reach would be awesome, especially as I suspect I'm not the only person looking. #art #clothing #europe
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Apparently Shandell, Elliott, and Grant woke up one morning and chose violence when picking their paper's title
@[email protected] Boox tablets will run termix if that's close enough? A real shell, but on Android
@[email protected] That should be Termux, sorry
are there any currently available epaper tablets that can run a stock linux shell?
@[email protected] Boox tablets will run termix if that's close enough? A real shell, but on Android
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Using Ink in a #godot game? I built myself an Ink highlighter for Godot's script editor, and if you're feeling brave you can give it a try and help it get to a state where it can be published in the asset store (which would require at a minimum at least one Windows user telling me it works).
@Richard_Littler see, I'm worried now. Are you doing better? Check in with a doc?
@[email protected] @[email protected] "Let he who has never put their mobile in the fridge throw the first cucumber."
Ah, rain in the basement. Just what I always wanted.
@sjvn Similar: In approximately 2002, a recruiter talked to me about a senior position working with a J2EE stack. I was told that although I had led the team that shipped JProbe—the first integrated suite of server-side Java development tools—my 7 years of Java experience were insufficient to work in a bank.
Java first shipped in 1995.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Something about IT seems to bring this out in people. I was once asked to help word an email to a customer explaining that we could not honestly assert that the bespoke software we were being commissioned to write had been deployed for at least two years in a production environment without a major security incident given a) it didn't exist and b) it running in anyone else's production environment would suggest a rather brutal breaking of the NDA we'd already signed with them.
@mavnn @evan In the ordinary course of events, to see the boosted post, you would have to be following the bot. If the argument is this service will help expose hashtagged posts to broader audiences, that value is only realized if the bot has followers. Some number of those who follow the bot will probably also follow people they find through it.
I think where some of us see this potentially getting sticky for very narrow or personal hashtags, the bot may be seen as an adequate substitute for following the original person. And in the case that kicked off the debate, a hashtag used by one specific person for some of their more intimate work, a bot that exists to repost that hashtag *looks like* an attempt to do exactly that. Whether intended to or not, I understand the icky feeling that gave people.
As I've expanded on elsewhere, even though I don't specifically think Evan intends this, inserting the bot in the middle is an intermediation and poses some risks. If people follow the bot as a substitute for a hashtag feed, that's fine, but it's still an account, not a feed. The controller of the bot could begin to make editorial decisions about which posts to boost or censor, could start inserting other original content, could change direction entirely, etc. And to whatever extent that works, it would have been done on the back of the original work of others plus some non-consensual mass aggregation.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you
@maxleibman @steve lol
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Running my own instance I like the idea of tags pub as I don't want to set indiscriminate relays (which are not fully supported by the server yet anyway) of manage a massive federation list that would never include other single user instances I don't already know about in some way.
@evan @alice I didn’t say you targeted Alice specifically (the opposite, in fact), but they are a specific example of the problem. But hundreds of thousands of accounts makes it worse, not better. That means you’re doing the same problematic thing to every other hashtag that has a small number of contributors and/or is primarily associated with one particular person.
And setting aside the attention-harvesting aspect of this, I also think this is a boil-the-ocean solution to something that could barely be called a problem. Who was clamoring for this? Who had “hashtag apartheid” anywhere on their lists of reasons the Fediverse didn’t work? To the extent this is even an issue, small servers that can’t see hashtags well is solved by better federation. Other services that can’t follow hashtags are *different services* and are allowed to offer different feature sets. Your service might “solve” those problems, but I think the costs and externalities are too high.
I will say, my previous posts may have implied you are doing this in order to harvest follows and attention that would otherwise go directly to the original posters; having read several of your replies this morning, I believe that’s not your intent. To whatever extent your service has uptake, though, that *will* be an effect of it. That’s why I find it problematic.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm following along as I'm finding both sides of the debate making good points here. Would you be able to expand a bit on why the effect of a bot boosting a hashtag would be "to harvest follows and attention that would otherwise go directly to the original posters"? A boost, by definition, is the original posters post so I feel like I must be missing a second order effect that is obvious to you.
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I of course see an endless stream of people saying that "modular monoliths" are the default approach now for building enterprise-y systems. As one of the guys who builds development infrastructure, I'm telling you right now, that's not an easy slam dunk that there's worlds of complexity behind that!
@[email protected] It's almost like picking a different architecture changes how you solve your problem, rather than removing it. Who would have thought?
(Not that some problems aren't easier or harder to solve with some architectures, but I do get a bit tired of the 'do this, it will make it easy!')
Nowadays I'm more plugged in.
I hear about scumbags, creepers who are geek trade influencers, every single fucking week.
These are names you know.
@[email protected] Some of it is so much more banal than the creepiness and directly sexual as well. The very first professional tech conference I went to, I chatted to a female speaker and found out that (in context of the conference having paid to fly her across the atlantic to give a technical talk because she was a world class expert on the subject) she had just been told that she needed to choose between taking a pay cut to move to "developer relations" or get sacked because "a really good engineering candidate came on the market, and you're so good with people skills". No points for guessing the gender of the new team member.
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Blue coder needs coffee, badly
