Playing Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. Good Vampire: The Masquerade game so far, with atmosphere so dense it could overcome the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Terrible Bloodlines game though. Technically you get the whole goodness of yet-another-UE5-game: Grainy software Lumen (no option […]

Prices for #cannabis are almost down to 3€ per gram at my favorite pharmacy, and my stupid government still wants to tell me that the black market hasn't collapsed. That's about 75% (!) cheaper than the last black market weed I've bought one and a half years ago. Even my old dealer gets his weed […]

Nice agent task for today: We have integration tests that have to prepare expectations for a database mock. To no big surprise, this created a mountain of duplicated code, and is pretty hard to maintain. But what if we would combine statements into reusable blocks related to repo functions and […]

AI evaluation continues: We enabled #coderabbit reviews for some repositories. From what I've seen so far: It's not bad! Among other things, it adds an auto-generated sequence diagram describing the change's context. Pretty nice!

Oh my, I'm burning through credits like hell. 😳 Clearly a significant downside of agent usage.

Fun fact: Scattered laser light illuminating a room seen at 2 billion fps looks almost exactly like ray traced global Illumination accumulating over several frames. Because it literally is. :D https://youtu.be/o4TdHrMi6do?si=Zdjd6vhx6gXpDhPk

I don't know whether the AWS outage does actually affect my work, but I've decided to pretend it for now.

Kirchweih in Bayern 🍻🤤

Today's vibe coding experiment: Using Claude Code to implement a rather wide ranging feature into one of my personal pet projects. Not really complex, but touching almost all files in the project. This time I am trying a two staged approach: 1) Write a detailed plan. 2) Follow the plan to do […]

I've reached an age when I normally should begin to dislike everything new, but instead began to dislike people who dislike everything new. I've heard "X is dying because of Y" too many times already to still be able to take it seriously. Most of the time X isn't dying at all, but merely […]

If you thought risking the Kessler syndrome to provide fast internet for rich men's yachts, check this out: A startup wants to provide "sunlight on demand" using a mega constellation of low earth orbit satellites with big mirrors. It's hard to describe in a few words how absolutely terrible […]

Interesting example of what #neuralrendering could do in the future.

Every Tuesday afternoon I have the "Game Integration Sync-Up" meeting with our game scout and project dude, and somehow seeing this list of all the games and studios we're working with feels really good. Still can't believe that I'm genuinely part of this industry; this is everything I ever […]

Fun with #eos / #epiconlineservices: Server uses system ID to announce itself. Multiple servers on the same machine all use the same key, and hence receive the same join code, that, when used in the game, of course connects to the server that was started first. In-game server list is working […]

#tencent be like: Your game sells pretty well. How about celebrating that by laying off some people? https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dune-awakening-developer-funcom-announces-redundancies

Feel you, Opticon-22, feel you. 🤣 #warhammer40k #roguetrader

On this day, exactly 7 years ago, I arrived at one of, if not the most beautiful psychedelic trance festival I ever experienced: Desert Dance Festival in Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt. It feels almost unreal given the circumstances of recent years. Organized by […] [Original post on soc.psynet.me]

Vorsicht, Verwechslungsgefahr: Dieses vegane Fertiggericht besteht entgegen seines Namens weder aus Hack, noch aus Schnitzeln. #cdu #verbotspartei #veggiewurst #scheuermilchwirdnichtausandischeuergemacht #leider

How do people manage to live a whole life without ever killing another person?

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

I'm so glad I didn't become an engineer at a German automotive company. I like having a future.

It's hard to describe how stupid German politics became since chancellor Merz ("Trump ordered from Wish") took over. And it's not only incompetence. I've never seen a German federal government being so openly corrupt. They don't even try to hide it anymore. And they can do it, because the German […]

Die Bundesregierung wird - wie von mir vorhergesagt - das #cannabis Gesetz (noch) nicht komplett umwerfen, sondern erstmal "nur" den Kiffen unangenehmer und den Bezug schwieriger machen. Dazu werden jetzt erstmal Apotheken als Bezugsquellen unattraktiv gemacht. Ok, dann kauf ich halt wieder […]

Before my last vacation I set up a ton of new email filters, and it's unbelievable how much that improved my life / reduced time I've spent deleting bullshit. Also instead of further trying to train my private mail server's spam filter (which never really worked; at least I've never noticed any […]

Some Chrome update apparently broke half of our website including order and payment. 🤦‍♂️ I knew I shouldn't have left the bed today.

Bayerische Definition von "Extreme Gefahr": "[..] wird das Festgelände auf der Theresienwiese vorerst bis 17:00 Uhr nicht geöffnet." Gottseidank. Ich hatte schon Angst, dass das Bier ausgegangen wäre.

It's two weeks since I came back from vacation, but it feels like two months. 😑 Work is bullshit.

BTW, my goal with these vibe coding experiments is _not_ to get more productive. It's to get less annoyed. If that as a side-effect also increases my productivity: Fine. If not: Also fine. Also: We're not talking about code anyone's life depends on. It's a pile of more or less maintained […]

#JetBrains #Junie keeps on giving. I needed to put this snippet somewhere into my project, but had no idea how and where, and didn't find anything in the documentation of the lib which uses this lib. After desperately searching for half an hour, I told Junie to […] [Original post on soc.psynet.me]

I know you all hate vibe coding, but it made working on my personal pet projects so much more fun. I'm even documenting my code! Or, well, the AI agent is documenting my code, and I just check if the documentation makes sense. 😬 Also adding tons of new unit tests.

Recently at #disney: "People like the Mandalorian and Grogu. We should give them more of that. A movie perhaps?" "Ok, but we need a title so obvious that even the dumbest idiot understands that it contains more of the Mandalorian and Grogu." "How about ... >>The Mandalorian and Grogu<<?" […]

Trying to query the amount connected players for a game that uses #epiconlineservices, and doesn't provide an own stats endpoint similar to SteamNetworking's query port. According to the studio, it should be possible to do this with anonymous login using the #eossdk, but I'm skeptic. 🤔 We will […]

#jetbrains #junie keeps on giving, but man, is it slow... We're finally back at the old XKCD Compiling comic.

Wait a sec... You can buy whole houses in Denmark, right next to the German border, for way less than €100k?!? Like for real?!? O_O

Facebook decided to show me ads for houses in Japan, and, oh man, it's effective. O_O

One Oktoberfest pls

Vibecoding the shit out of my personal Go pet projects, a simple Telegram bot. JetBrains' Junie really is fun. Already did maintenance on all submodules (including fancy readme's, whose content even looks somewhat correct to me), and now trying to implement proper multi-chat support with unique […]

We're currently evaluating AI assistants, with Claude AI being the first. I didn't take part because of being in vacation, but apparently the default version isn't very useful, and Claude Code (which would have proper IDE integration) is pretty expensive, particularly when compared to GitHub […]

About two years ago, there was a huge debate around "Baldurs Gate 3 shows the AAA industry how to do it". Back then I took the stance that BG3 itself is a AAA production, and shows the exact opposite: That the so-called "AAA industry" is absolutely able to produce outstanding games, and that […]

Fire alarm went off in the hotel. After an unusual attack of brightness, I quickly found myself outside the building, with clothes on, smartphone, passport, wallet, and keys in my pocket. Then I realized: Oh no, I left my weed inside, including an already built joint. 🤯🤦‍♂️ Have to realign my […]

Wenn am Strand auf #mallorca plötzlich #katwarn losschreit... 🚨

I wanted new AirPods Pro (since mine are really dying now), and I got new AirPods Pro. Good. The rest of this #appleevent was more like a haze disturbed by the thought of Tim Cook gently entering Trump's ass.

Bruh... I hoped to have a relaxed week at the company summer office on Mallorca, but instead seem to have inherited the second dev team, because their own team lead is on vacation. 😫 Next week will be fun though, since we _both_ will be on vacation. 😁 Thankfully not a lot of game releases […]

I just remembered that the first book about programming that I got from the public library was actually about demoscene coding. I didn't understand any of it, and it was pre internet times, so I didn't even find out how to get a compiler to try the assembly listings myself, but the interest in […]

In the grim dark present, there is only war. Because entertainment has been cancelled. 😬 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukrainian-morale-takes-hit-troop-094551680.html

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Somehow my vacation / workation luggage feels lighter with every year, although the stays get longer and longer. But everything seems to be here: MacBook, tons of chargers and cables, big and small AirPods, various clothes, enough of my favorite tabac, long papers, and active charcoal filters […]

"Hey Neo, do you have your equipment with you? Can you play at the after party?" Arrrrr, goddamnit! 😆

Chilling at a floor with rather slow, very ritualistic psytrance, and watching the shroom cinema playing on my eyelids. And what a show it is! The aesthetics, the infinite verity, and how smooth it adapts to the vibe of the music. Absolutely amazing that a human brain can render that, in […]

Oh look, a rave 🔊 #trikaya