I'm sure absolutely nothing will go wrong with adding features to my project roadmap late at night. I'm sure most of them are unnecessary and can't be tested too well, but I'm pretty sure some of these are also ideas I've had for a while, but never bothered writing down. #softwaredevelopment

making tools is great. you make a game and it's like ten hours to make one thing move correctly once. you make a tool and it's like you spend five minutes adding in honking sounds. this suddenly opens up an entire lifetime's worth of combinatorial honk-based self-expression. magic.

🔴 #furry

never believe what you see when you flip your art that is the version of your art that lives in the mirror dimension

Neutrino Project xkcd.com/3249/

Haven't watched the video this post is about but didn't know that USB 4 was gonna be 100% USB Type C and mandatory PD support which both seem like positive outcomes

sorry i just think it’s really funny that when you eject from a plane you get to be part of a special club and you get exclusive swag and if you wanna drop the money you can get a special watch that nobody who hasn’t been ejected from a plane can buy

Valve bankrolled Proton development. Discord probably fixed their terrible Linux client for the Steamdeck/Steam Machine. AMD probably got off their ass, to some degree, about proper legacy FSR4 support for the Steamdeck/Steam Machine thanks for saving PC gaming again, Valve

Commissioned @aroma031416.bsky.social to draw Rin, but as a furry this time :3

Finally decided to get PTGui. As much as I like open source image stitching software the professional software does a way better job at image stitching.

GAMEOVERSE. OUT NOW! Go watch it on our YouTube channel!

The Alaska Senate just passed my bill establishing a Right to Repair for consumer electronics in Alaska. My office will be putting out more on my official channels later, but I'm encouraged by the fact that the legislation passed with a strong, bipartisan majority, 15 to 5.

It's such a good feeling when you manage to cut the time a program takes to run in half. On a side note, my focus stacking program is now a bit over 2x faster! #programming #softwaredevelopment

me listening to any song ever made

Man mobile file upload UIs will really do ANYTHING but just show you the file system on your device and let you select a file from it It's like they think "files" and "folders" are scary and unintuitive for the average user, which MIGHT even be true but like ...

I'm having way too much fun focus stacking. Probably helps that I have an easy way to take the photos now with FieldWeave. I do have some ideas on how to improve the focus stacking algorithm now, but that'll have to wait until later. #photography #macrophotography #FieldWeave #focusstacking

GAMEOVERSE OFFICIALLY DROPS MAY 15! We are SO excited to share with you this special animated pilot that RubberRoss has been working on for years. We hope you enjoy it! The team has been working hard to make this an amazing watch 💖

I think I can finally call the improvements on the focus stacking algorithm for FieldWeave done. For the interested, this will be available on Github as a cli tool once I finish optimizing it's memory usage. #FieldWeave #Programming #Photography

Am currently working on improving my focus stacking algorithm for FieldWeave. I gotta say, I'm making great progress, but on the downside it can no longer generate height maps. I'll be working on restoring that functionality soon. #FieldWeave #focusstacking #programming

mei already drinks (water) out of a teacup, but today she wouldn't drink her water. she kept nosing at my teacup, which had a coaster under it. then i put a coaster under her teacup, she drank her water. this is the face she made afterward.

we used to be a society

Also, look, I know there is still *so much* imperial measure hardware out there, but can we all please *please* just standardize everything to proper metric already, (yes yes, I know the inch is defined in terms of the mm, so it is /technically/ metric by association, but I still hate it)

I think a lot of gamedevs underestimate the value of "that's so fucking cool, I wanna be that" in their games seeing a cool dark mage or a knight or even just looking at the trainer classes in Pokemon for example I think letting players unlock classes/outfits of cool NPCs is super slept on

Wasn't satisfied with existing focus stacking tools for opaque samples, so I developed my own. Once I polish up the algorithm some more it'll be added to FieldWeave so 5x and 10x objectives can be used for sample imaging. #dendrochronology #treecore #machinevision

Finally got automated calibration slide imaging and DPI measurements implemented into FieldWeave. Now it's onto adding position hinting via the movement calibration for other machine vision features. #softwaredev

IXION also still has the coolest warp drive sequence...

Okay I can't leave it like that, every artist who use commission . gg, I HIGHLY suggest you to change your email and paypal email, commissions . gg have HUGE security breach allowing ANYONE see your personal info like email, password and paypal email.

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

I love making the silliest stuff

I never realized just how much starting splash screens annoy me until they make them render on top of everything and you want to go do something else real quick while the program starts.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI

Took my first gigapixel photo! Only took 2.5 hours and 899 photos to make it. It's a spruce tree cross section that is ~58mm in diameter. I'm still working on the best way to stitch the images, so there's a few visible seams. #gigapixel #photography

Hmmm yes, File Explorer. Clearly the best way to view gigapixel images. On a side note, I'm having trouble actually stitching these. Turns out Fiji can't handle stitching images with more than 2 billion pixels.

FieldWeave managed to make it to the semifinals for a local innovation contest! Expect to see me post scaled down version of things I've imaged with it. On a related note, why does Bluesky limit images by their pixel size and not their file size?

Figured i should post an update on my tree core scanner project again. I renamed it from Forge to FieldWeave and added focus stacking and area scanning. Currently training a ML model for core surface detection for more accurate alignment and focus.

english is my first language yet I fail at it I swear I am better at programming languages just dont interview me

I went to the park without my glasses on and saw someone taking their pet armadillo for a walk. At least, I can only assume that's what it was, on account of not having my glasses.

well this is horrifying

Open source maintainers already had enough to worry about before the ongoing agentic AI revolution... my thoughts on recent AI-induced problems in open source development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7...

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

i will absolutely delete my discord account rather than give them personal info to verify age. that company has had so many hacks. they've /already/ had a hack which revealed scanned photo IDs. i'm not giving them my personal info. reverse the policy decision. www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

I was experimenting with using a microscope lens on Forge again, and made this image of a Basswood stem ~2.5mm in diameter consisting of 257 pictures all focus stacked then stitched together. I'm still working on getting this to be automated. #microscopy #softwaredev

I love it when I make code that I'm confident in adding to my library of reusable code snippets. #Programming

Found out that Windows has really crappy support for exif data on images. That had me really confused for a while on why it wasn't showing up in the image details.

going to the .DS_store, anyone need anything?

Got some cheap linear rails to upgrade Forge again, but they make this awful grinding sound. I'm gonna try cleaning them with IPA. If that doesn't work then I'll likely either have to get new ball bearings or new carriages.

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Commissioned @aroma031416.bsky.social to draw my character Rin. I'm really happy with how it turned out!

OK, I haven't considered that some of the arguments I find myself in these days are coming from people who still think solar energy and battery storage are expensive. Already the LCOE from solar+storage is cheaper than anything else. Seemed like the obvious outcome to me since the sun is free.