Found 11 shells in just a few minutes of metal detecting out in the Front Range, looks like a lot of time between the newest and the oldest huh? #metaldetecting #frontrange #shells #prospecting

"I finally got out of Downtown, and it felt good to get out of the rat race." #Denver #PrairieDogs #Skyline #Photography

Cool to see almost 25,000 hours of utilization on our new Azure software this month, so close to being done with this next reNgine-ng 2.2.2 release to make Microsoft a happy camper and then back to physics / fire / potatoes with AVBD / Tumblefire / Spud Customs. #azure #rengine #tumblefire

The WhiteCobra threat actor just flooded VSCode marketplace with 24 malicious extensions designed to steal cryptocurrency and sensitive data. This attack targets the tools developers use daily including VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf. Read more: tinyurl.com/bder9dpw #VSCode

finally recovering from terrible virus, and prototyping some geochem mapping utilities using python and folium. Now I can take soil samples for icp-ms from hiking and map out interesting lode deposits under cover using point maps or heat maps. #gis #geochem #analysis #dataviz

Fast, thorough results on latest testing with reNgine-ng 2.2.1 on Azure. In the home stretch here! Going forward VMs will require at least 4 CPU cores and scaling up to 416 CPU cores for optimal scanning.

Found some nuggets of copper / iron / sulfur ore with my partner this past weekend around Santa Fe Mountain, and listed one of the larger chunks on eBay (all proceeds go to Gatorade, 9 volt batteries, bear spray and granola bars): ebay.us/m/FtqOoL #geology #prospecting #copper

#art #political

reNgine ng-2.2.1 is now in testing for our AWS and Azure instances. This new release is screaming fast, has the latest nuclei templates, it won't give you up, or let you down. Platform approvals expected by this Friday! New GPU acceleration means scans go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #cybersecurity #infosec

Big news that #Roblox will be cutting all unrated experiences on September 30th. Finally cleaning up their act? Hmm. #robloxdev #gamedev #indiegamedev

Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.

His friend just told the funniest joke. #stalker2 #fps #besties #skeleton

Almost at 10 million streams for my last cover song! #covers #selfpublish #music #pop #indiemusic

Another hotfix for Spud Customs to add additional tutorial messaging explaining rules/violations, adding rule complexity and amount scaling with difficulty and game stage, and added improved messaging for ALL laws, and translated to all supported languages! #godot #spudCustoms #gameDev #indieDev

Lil Spud Customs hotfix, adding potato type to passport to make it easier to tell which potatoes to pass!

Latest update of reNgine-ng (feat/improve-scan branch) is finding all vulnerabilities on XSS Game and Juice Shop in 58 minutes on a 2 core, 8GB Azure VM. Very nice. #rengine #securitytools #cybersecurity

Through the worst part of this 120 day long security audit and uploaded almost 6k pieces of evidence, will have more time to do some updates in August for Tumblefire & AVBD implementation, Axolotl Rancher, and Spud Customs. Also, my WIP sluice for taking heavy metal concentrates for geochemistry.

First pass of procedural coin and document loot spawning in a procedurally generated and placed saloon in Tumblefire on Godot Completely GDScript and tweakable, you pick a town type, it generates buildings from RigidBody3Ds, fills with loot and AI, makes cliffs around, done #godot #godot4 #gamedev

First, I made the AI kill each other, then I made myself kill the AI, and finally, the AI must kill me. Time to add a healthbar to the player in Tumblefire! (Also commentary on LLMs? lol) #godot #gamedev #godot4

4 weapons in and mostly working, matches, revolvers, incendiary revolvers, and dynamite! #gamedev #godot #godot4 #tumblefire

Working on the basic UI for Tumblefire on Godot, Upper right will be inventory/skills/weapons, lower right will be events/minimap, mid-right will be notifications. #godot #gamedev #gameui

Stealth kills in and working for all the factions / faction AI alert states! #godot #godot4 #tumblefire

It's a scorcher out there. #tumblefire #godot #gamedev

New voice lines for enemy faction sightings, warnings to allies, 3 types of gunfire, and reload sounds make wandering main street MUCH more interesting in Tumblefire #godot #gamedev #tumblefire

Added tracers and gave the bandits a rare chance to get a gatling gun, lol #tumblefire #godot #gamedev

When they build the saloon right next to the bank and nobody notices you drilling into the bank roof because the bandits are shooting everyone that steps foot outside. #tumblefire #godot #godot4 #gamedev

Now all of the procedurally generated buildings have interiors (and almost procedural loot). They are rigidbody 3Ds which are FROZEN until they are damaged sufficiently or burned, then they are unfrozen and only bound in place by procedural joints at contact points. #godot #gamedev #tumblefire

THE HUMANITY! Violence in the streets as the Railroad Company and Waterton Sheriffs duke it out over unpaid wages. #tumblefire #godot #gamedev

Procedural town generator shaping up in Tumblefire, and then I added a level bounds generator that adds level bounds w/ some degree of padding on generated towns, in the desired style (in this case, staggered cliffs with 20 meters padding) #godot #gamedev #godot4

Burn baby burn, one step closer to feature-complete fire propagation now that physics and particles are stable and performing well, then procedural grid generation for MVP level type, then we can add some NPCs and LOOT. tumble tumble tumble tumbleFIRE! #godot #gamedev #indiegamedev

Burning object shader set up for showing progression through burn phase in Tumblefire #godot

You can't push a burning crate, but you can push the crates underneath it without hurting yourself. In this example I lit the top crate of a 3 crate stack on fire and then crouched and pushed it into the mock saloon walls on the left without tipping over the stack. #godot

Starting a rebuild of Tumblefire from scratch in Godot 4.4.1 to leverage my new AVBD project for high-performance physics interactions. Got basic UI for interactions and crosshair set up, as well as player-initiated burning, and ash disposal after everything's burnt to the ground. #godot #fire

Burned from one edge of the fort down to the other, walls tumbled down and left ash where they burned DIDNT spread to the nearby crates that were still 3m away AND the crate stack was stable the whole time #godot #avbd #jolt #godot4

Tinkering with AVBD and burning in Godot 4.4.1 as I recreate the core systems for Tumblefire from scratch in Godot. Physics collisions and stability is one upside, but also seeing if it can be used for better fire propagation. #godot4 #physics #fire #simulation #tumblefire #avbd

So far trying to implement MASSIVELY ACCURATE physics in Godot via the new Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) method is going much better than in Roblox, compiled C++ into Godot plugin with a little GDScript handler and loading into Godot 4.4.1 properly now. #godot #physics #avbd #gameDev

So you're telling me we could have Taylor Lautner Boba in Towers of Boba? Twilight is now granting access to their IP via the license manager in Roblox! #roblox #robloxdev #gamedev

Is anybody trying to get Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) working in Roblox games right now?https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/avbd/ Results look insane, trying to replicate w/ constraint/collision solver overrides in Lua but might just have to wait. #roblox #robloxdev #gamedev

Day 10 of turning Tarkov into an open-world third-person shooter is going well, lol. #eft #tps #openworld #gaming #gamedev #modding #spt

Setting up new home and office this month, expect a big uptick in updates for Towers of Boba, Spud Customs, Axolotl Rancher (Re-Name TBD), Towers of Coral, and a new Robloxian take on Tumblefire's destruction, fire, and stealing gameplay with up to 7 friends. #gamedev #robloxdev

WOW! If you have Forever Winter, and you haven't played since April, DOWNLOAD IT AGAIN! Insane performance and AI improvements have shot this to my most-played extract shooter of June/July. The game is beautiful, janky, scary, and IMMERSIVE! #foreverwinter #shooter #fps #extractshooter

Wild pets roam the lobby in Towers of Boba as of today's update, and you can pet them faster than others for a server-wide compassion shout-out. Wild pets that have been petted will have a happy pink aura for a while! #roblox #robloxDev #gameDev #uiux

Check out the Tapioca Tsunami event going on in Towers of Boba today, where you can launch 500 tapioca balls into the Tower to sweep other players off their feet. www.roblox.com/games/113211... #roblox #robloxdev #gamedev #event #obstaclecourse

Cute boba-themed pets now follow you around and earn cash for you as you beat the the various towers in Towers of Boba! #gamedev #roblox #robloxdev

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

10,000x times the kindness and empathy shown to others, Doctors Orders.

Hatch event is a total train wreck, no analytics from visitors, harsh limitations, no availability of developer support resources from Roblox, and some unsavory participants brought back from bans to participate. Not participating with Towers of Boba or Towers of Coral. #roblox #robloxdev #gamedev

Running some of the first ads for Towers of Boba now that the lobby, first few towers, badges, and game passes are working as expected. Hopefully we can stay under $0.01 cost per play. Got over 100 new favorites from yesterday, which means more recurring players! #roblox #robloxdev #gamedev #games

Just released a new update for Towers of Boba with an improved tutorial, token system, and fusion coil! Next up, more coils, more boba tea flavors, maybe boba pets? #roblox #robloxDev www.roblox.com/share?code=4...

You ever get stuck on a programming problem and just wanna... #lasereyes #meltedcomputer #cyclops #gamedev #robloxdev #veo