Trying a sip of German elderflower liqueur, and am immediately overwhelmed by the urge to move into a cottage and spend all my days sitting among the trees in a neverending summer.
Alright. Exactly one person reading this is going to be very impressed, two people are going to be like " :/ Why tho", and the rest of you will have no idea what I'm talking about.
Making a 1-button game. Won't have time for rebindable controls because this is a small game, but I can assign any number of buttons to act as the button. Going for Space Bar, Z and X. Should I add more? Which ones?
I want to avoid buttons that trigger stuff like Windows Sticky Keys tho.
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
Asking for a friend*: Are there any books about ECS, code patterns that work well with ECS, common pitfalls of ECS? She's thinking about the Gang of 4 book or Nystrom's "Game Programming Patterns" and wanting that but for ECS.
@mcc I have not yet been convinced that ECS is useful for anything but 1. extremely complicated games that literally nobody makes, and 2. people who want to make engines rather than games.
I have literally implemented SRP at both the client and server side but I am still unable to figure out, if I were to purchase or set up a "Passkey", what exactly I would have, or how it would work, or which computers, web browsers or web sites I should expect it to work with
@mcc@cthos Honestly it's time for Linux to get with the times and start properly supporting secure enclaves. It's such a huge improvement in security, and Linux to me now feels like one of the least secure OSes for not using them.
@Nifflas I like things that lean into their mediums, so to speak. An analog synth that leans heavily on its analogness is cool. A digital synth that goes all in on being digital is cool.
But a digital synth going to great lengths to be analog just seems like... wasted effort. I mean, sure, there are questions of being affordable and accessible, but, you're never going to be actually cool trying to be something you are not.
@Nifflas Oh yeah. I've been trying my hand at that myself, with very limited success because a) it's hard and b) I am totally clueless about it. But that feels like a good angle for coming up with something actually new? So far it's a lot of banging my head against various walls though.
I especially like synthesis that can run on resource-constrained systems, so that they feel like they are a good fit in the digital world because they are easy for a computer to do.
And in a final act of self-defeat for the evening, I wipe my phone so I can put it in a bag for tomorrow and go to sleep so I can get up early and catch my flight and… oh… oh wait… I just disabled my phone… which is also my alarm clock.
