"Honey, Niels just dropped a new throttle modelling review!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyF0X1D3s8

The GabeCube should have a built int humidifier just to remind everyone that it is a Steam Machine.

Tried to install Ubuntu Server on an old Intel-based Mac Mini but failed in an error message that gets immediately hidden, and when I tried to re-run the install all I get is a kernel panic. Thinking it might be the USB-stick that's wonky.

Company retreat. Network manager: Ss, we are going to do some zero trust exercises.

Creative work is existentialism. First it has to exist, then it can be good. Existence before essence.

Humming "...the justified and the content..." while writing a chapter on Flexbox for a textbook "..mu mu land, mu mu land...".

I have spent the day revamping my tiny @11ty driven website using The Monospace Web by @owi as a design framework. https://soeze.dev

I read an old graphics programming book for research and had a sort of brainfuck when I realised that the shader code I was looking at was in assembly, as HLSL and Direct3D 9 hadn't been released yet.

Swapped graphics programming (just to iterate, I am not a graphics programmer) for tools programming today, and implemented a build system for my assets (instead of using make). My system uses .build (dot-build) files which are given this green heart […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Waiting on my post to be approved on the SDL forum so I can post a reply with the correct answer...

Writing a deferred renderer in SDL3 GPU but banging my head against this wall. Trying to reconstruct the original world position from the depth pass, but all I get is this red gradient instead of the expected green-yellow-red cube! Pictures: depth […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

While it's nice that the sun is out in the autumn, the glare, the glare on my screen makes it almost impossible to work in the morning. I could draw the blackout curtains and bivouac like I do in the summer. But then I don't get to see the sun!

A liberating part of using SDL GPU for my toy engine is that I only have to deal with the subset of features SDL deemed sufficiently cross-platform. No need to chase the cutting edge, but instead explore the tried and tested techniques of the past 10-15 years.

That time I decided to use a different spelling of my characters name.

That time the Jackdaw didn't spawned in and the crew fell to their deaths through the map. "Guess I'm Davy Jones now." -- Kenway (probably)

That time someone forgot a dev cube in Forza Horizon 5.

Need a power cable with a IEC 60320 C7 coupler. They used to be everywhere as every radio set and cassette recorder used them. Now I can't find a single one in my home. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Got reminded yesterday to actually delete my Spotify account and not just cancel the premium subscription and stop using it. Not obvious (had to google instructions to find the delete button) but not terrible hard (once you navigated to it). Been using Qobuz for a while now, enjoying listening […]

Universal Scene Description also known as "Dollars".

If you (for some reason 🙄) want to go European with your hosting, you might be interested in what Bahnhof Cloud can offer. https://bahnhof.cloud/

Hacking away on my little toy engine. Implemented loading of static meshes. Refactored from using an interleaved vertex buffer to separate buffers for each vertex attribute. But somehow I f-ed up and my poor test quad and cobblestone texture looks like […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Whoever decided to turn on Light Switch by default in the last PowerToys update will probably have a pretty bad end of the year performance review. 💡

Just saw that Material Maker released a new version a week ago when I was going through and updating software. It's up to 1.4 now and ported to Godot 4 with lots of improvements and features. https://www.materialmaker.org/

Hacking away on my small toy engine as a way to learn SDL GPU and Odin. Done the material loading (shaders, textures, samplers, storage buffers, etc.) and started on meshes. Using ufbx but currently having some huh? moments when inspecting my exports from Blender.

A student asked what my favourite social media was? I silently contemplated if Wikipedia counts as social media.

Two weeks ago I could barely read Odin code, now I write shit like this.

Everyone doing their own engine/game thinking they are going to do cool graphics programming, slowly realising they just becoming experts on resource and memory management instead.

I'm looking fora nice speedy source browser to study and navigate source code, instead of using an IDE. It's surprisingly hard to search for as all I get is hits for how to view the html source (Ctrl+U in most browsers). The only thing close enough is Source Insight which is a bit overkill in […]

Of course, the Special Interest Groups of the Mathematical Association of America are called... SIGMAA. 🙄 😅

Have been doing some recreational programming to learn Odin and SDL3 GPU by going through Nadako's excellent tutorial. SDL3 GPU reminds me a of D3D11, just less verbose, like all of SDL is. I've come so far that I started organize the code the way I'm used to and implement stuff on my own […]

I'm not balding. I'm in my Lex Luthor era.

Back from a Silent Film Festival a friend arranged this week-end. So now I've seen a lot of classics that I either, thought I've seen but hadn't, just seen clips from or just read about in film theory textbooks. We watched four movies were people was burned on a pyre (Häxan, La Passion de […]

I started playing through the games in the Assassin's Creed series that I had not previously already played. I came late to the series in '15 and had so far only played AC II, Black Flag, Origins, Odyssey and the first half of Valhalla. Here are my impressions so far, by a man who for some […]

PSA "Factoid" does not mean "a small fact" it means "a fact that sounds true but isn't".

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry. Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website. Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon […]

Video didn't kill the Radio Star. Video killed the dancers on Top Of The Pops.

Could do with a mipmap.

Sorry, I can't get over buff Yoda. #starwars

Tried to remember why I still had Visual Studio 2019 installed, then remembered that the MonoGame templates did not used to work with VS2022 so I just kept it around to generate new projects for a course I taught.

We are currently covering materials science at the moment in the general engineering course I'm teaching. So obviously tomorrow I'm going to show them the "Iron" episode from "Look Around You".

Going to LARP Cluedo tomorrow as Professor Plum.

New desktop background. #pikatchu #protest

Going to write a FEA software with computational errors. Going to call it FemFatale.

Looking at the price increase GitKraken has undergone, from $29 to $75 yearly, I guess due to all the added features I am never using anyway. I should probably check out SourceTree.

My cute little mini retro console is complete! SuperPi 4 case from RetroFlag with a pair of SN30 Pro controllers (notice the clever p1 and p2 indicators).

I booted up a couple of games from my youth in an :amiga: Amiga 500 emulator (although I had an :atari: Atari 520 STe back when) and wasn't prepared for the emulation of the floppy disk drive sound and speed that hit hard. 😅 Luckily there's fast forward in the emulator after the nostalgia […]

Learned today that XBox controllers are simple to repair and kits with replacement parts and tools are easy to come by. Going to replace the shoulder buttons on my XBox One controller that for no apparent reason broke off a couple of years ago.

I'm trying out software to set up a retro gaming console on a Raspberry Pi 4 I've had lying around. I just tested Lakka, that I believe is developed by the team behind RetroArch, that is very sleek. However, two blocking issues for me right now is that it won't find any wifi networks and that […]

Restored the "arcade cabinet" at work back to working order. The cabinet itself was built by students at least 15 years ago and was upgraded to a Retro Pie 7 years ago.

I've started playing Pokémon: Silver 30 years late to the franchise and it's quite fun. Don't get me wrong, I had nothing against Pokémon, I just didn't expect that something that was considered fun on a Game Boy in the 90s would necessary still be as fun today.