"If your business model is to give away money, you'll always find product-market fit" is like, a phrase I'm going to be thinking about a lot.

this is the funniest single poll result I’ve ever seen. holy fuck

"The project" being Typst, not ox-typst which is obviously just a personal daily driver someone is being kind enough to share, as opposed to an organization with funding etc.

I know I'm a heathen who should have learned latex properly years ago, but it always felt it was just a bit too awkward to put the time into properly.

After my son started playing with it as a potential way of taking uni notes I've started having a look at Typst as an alternative (via github.com/jmpunkt/ox-typst obviously - I'm not going to give up org syntax for the basics like some kind of barbarian) and finding it pleasingly more straight forward.

I suppose this is my slightly reluctant post to check if I'm missing any big issues with the project given that checking that kind of thing is a depressing part of life these days.

@[email protected] Do you sell merchandise with your (non commissioned) artwork on it by any chance?

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.eu/

@[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.

@[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.

was out at a customer site today doing some work because i do like to get out occasionally. anyway, since i was suspiciously hanging around with four phones and a laptop, when i saw one of their employees walk by, i felt inclined to introduce myself, lest they thought i was some sort of criminal.

we exchanged hellos and i said, “i’m mike and i…”

before i could finish the guy said “they don’t pay me enough to care who you are, go nuts”

so #infosec tip of the day, pay people enough to give a shit

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

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

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.

Apparently Shandell, Elliott, and Grant woke up one morning and chose violence when picking their paper's title

tech.lgbt/users/Natasha_Jay/...

@[email protected] That should be Termux, sorry

@[email protected] Boox tablets will run termix if that's close enough? A real shell, but on Android

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).

code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/godot-in... #gamedev #RandomSharing