ben

alienmelon, 11 days ago to random

i’ve had my browser homepage set to this for a while and think i should share it because it’s so beautiful and endearing https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown
a procedural infinite city. it’s like looking at a goldfish bowl but the tiny town version ❤️🏡🚕

ben, 7 days ago to random

What's the group noun for British people?

glassbottommeg, 9 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.

ben, 16 days ago to gamedev

After working fully-remote for Epic for a year, I can't ever imagine going back to work in an office. It's such a wonderful experience for me:
⭐ I can pick up my kid when they finish daycare at 4pm, and fill in the hours at other times, even very late or early in the morning.
⭐ I can do chores or exercise in my lunch break.
⭐ My commute is exactly 0 minutes.
⭐ Our optional zoom room is perfect for jumping in and out of to keep up with information and build friendships with team-members.
#GameDev

ben, 10 days ago to random

Moving to my own instance has really shown the weakness in Mastodon:

• replies are not always shown
• it's impossible to look at someone's posts from their profile

I get why this happens from the distributed nature of the protocol but it's still awful from a user experience perspective

ben, 15 days ago to random

I bought a new boardgame from a store, and the hourglass timer that it came with was broken and had spilled sand inside the box.

If I return it, will they just throw the whole thing away? That would be such a waste so I'm loathed to return it even if I get a new one in exchange...

ben, 17 days ago to unrealengine

Another amazing making-of blog from Psychonauts 2
https://www.doublefine.com/news/devin-target-search
#UnrealEngine #GameDev

ghosttie, 19 days ago to random

I think it shows an unexpected level of self-awareness that they've chosen to use a pig as the icon of Copilot

ben, 20 days ago to unrealengine

How to find all Blueprints that subclass a C++ class in #UnrealEngine

1. Open the Class Viewer
2. Disable "actors only"
3. Type in the parent or child class
4. Click on the correct one
5. Delete the search, so it now shows parent/siblings/children

ben, 22 days ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts

ben, 21 days ago to random

I used to post about Unreal but because everything I do is NDA, I now just post doom shit

ben, 21 days ago to random

Three minutes of facts
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7N3-GKpG1j/?igsh=MW5obWNxY3lwN3dlNA==

ben, 21 days ago to random

> Scientists have warned of increased turbulence, particularly “clear air turbulence” which is harder to detect or forecast, as global heating warms air at higher altitudes and makes weather more unpredictable.

What if global warming solves global warming by making it impossible to fly anywhere or have reliable power or shipping? Neat!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

ghosttie, 21 days ago to random

Markdown is regex for people who have to write something

ben, 23 days ago to random

I just saw the latest OSX release. Why has their UX gone to shit? There's no contrast or borders around selectable list items, their Display Settings menu is incredibly vague and confusing.

glassbottommeg, 23 days ago to random

Ok indies (and I'm looking especially at you Death's Door)

look, screen shake is great, but if I'm struggling with a boss because I can't see what's going on, turn off all your FX, and then beat the boss without taking a hit,

That's too much juice, let some of the juice out, be like 20% less juicy

mathowie, 27 days ago to random

https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

ben, 27 days ago to random

I made a UI version of the thing that's going around
Original comic by https://instagram.com/mhuyocomics

ghosttie, 25 days ago to random

I've got a question - why isn't there an option to turn off Google's "AI Overviews"?

What do they gain from forcing it in everyone and costing themselves a bunch of money generating nonsense every time someone does a search?

maxim, 25 days ago to gamedev

Today I tried what Geometry Script is in Unreal Engine 5. Cool features, but I won't use it for the game. Maybe only as tools for level design

#gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #UnrealEngine #ue5 #indiedev #IndieGameDev #games

video/mp4

ghosttie, 26 days ago to random

I like how the metaverse didn't happen

Facebook evaporated billions of dollars on it and then just... nothing

Even autocorrect is like "that's not a word"

ben, 26 days ago to random

I've been using them for years but if @protonprivacy starts using training AI based on my email I'm closing my account the very same day.

ben, 26 days ago to random

"What OpenAI have presented with GPT-4o is a fresh paint job on a car with a dangerously corroded chassis. A false confidence machine."

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/