If things go according to my plans, May may be the first month with two blog articles.

Apparently I just made myself a clone with a race condition bug in Forgejo

Today's article is a bit different than the usual. It's personal: it's about depression, social anxiety, joy and euphoria. https://samerion.com/journal/2026-04

Today's article is a bit different than the usual. It's personal: it's about depression, social anxiety, joy and euphoria. https://samerion.com/journal/2026-04

The AI crawler attacks are only becoming worse. At some point I'm going to have to close my Forgejo instance to logged in users only, for fuck's sake.

I'm afraid I'm going to skip making the illustration for the blog this time.

Send me ANYTHING about brutalism

GOOD NEWS FOLKS I GOT AN INTERNSHIP TRANS-FRIENDLY TOO

RE: https://mstdn.io/@ratking/116517827511421117 Ooohh, maybe when I'm done with the Flamebox release, I could take some time to learn Reaper and do music instead of coding

comfort https://analognowhere.com/_/ohrico/ #unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #openbsd #fosschild

Found some piece of clothing in the thrift store. Brand name: "Democracy." It was made in China.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/116522563149146006 It's up online at https://samerion.com/flamebox/introduction Not entirely complete, but I'm getting there. I will release it when I'm done.

🦜 “Volando a casa” — By Carlosalberto GH in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico 🇲🇽 Street Art Gems From Mexico (29 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/06/street-art-gems-from-mexico/

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/116522563149146006 It's up online at https://samerion.com/flamebox/introduction Not entirely complete, but I'm getting there. I will release it when I'm done.

my husband mentioned that Odin has seemed less whiny and needy for attention lately; I think it’s because he finally has a consistently available dog friend who isn’t afraid of him.

The important question… should Flamebox' homepage/manual be hosted on https://flamebox.samerion.com, or https://samerion.com/flamebox?

Full year of coding. This time without holes.

#bakedbeansowl time! You remember how I said Beans is small? Well here's a banana for scale #owl #screechowl #zoo #animak #Animals #owls #screechowls #scalebanana #bananas

Hurray for Patreon for providing alt text in images! Because I am NOT enabling images in e-mails.

I might actually have to scrap the current blog article draft because it turns out I have something way, way more important to say and it deserves full attention and an entire article on its own.

Aces against ICEs

ONE (1) more day to *actually* having 365 days of coding

I'm trying out a new schedule or model or whatever for writing blog posts. And I just got the first draft done ^^ so maybe it'll work!

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/116182941100935679 Does anybody remember this? What happened? The website is still up lol.

«Everyone has their own way of solving problems»

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 returns. As with the Spitfire, the stand is hidden in a cloud (of cotton wool). #scalemodel #repair #bf109 #messerschmitt #drh

I GOT A FRIGGIN KERNEL PANIC AND IT'S A BSOD???

holy crap https://copy.fail/

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/116483146793074772 Except for some bugfixes, the one last thing I'd like to get done before release is a proper instruction manual. Got the first two pages written today. With screenshots, elaborate descriptions of each feature, and all.

Flamebox is coming to itch.io… probably this week‽ This will be my first commercially released program. Useful to anybody? No, probably not. But I suppose if you're interested enough in #Samerion to give it a shot, you can probably spare a few bucks. :P

Does anyone know if its possible to supply a Linux build on #itchio as a tar.gz file? It seems to always get zips.

And… it works!! Flamebox obtains its color from KDE, so the Windows version is gray. It runs in Wine.

Look at this beautiful illustration for https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine Thought this is something y'all on fedi would enjoy #ai #noai #art

#google surely makes the best search engines. (inb4: yes, it is available on my phone and i can get there by link)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattkenworthy/116457899750718128 I'm debugging my CI workflows by baking cookies, going out and meeting friends, and doing little crafts on the train

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/116449844049246024 On a more serious note, I do struggle with social anxiety. I've come to realize the worst part is attempting to fight it. Ironically, keeping that fight up drives other people to cut ties with me. But if I stop and listen to this […]

its time for my villain arc. People dislike me and I see no reason why. So I'm going to give them one.

The bane of native development being every ecosystem assuming you're only ever using the OS you're compiling for.

This is how the render tool looks like. I can set desired resolution for the image, select an area on the screen to crop, pick lighting settings, and capture. I can also add a watermark, which I can move and scale freely before taking the picture.

nice 10K up the local mountain between rain showers this afternoon. #sanfrancisco

OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING https://openjdk.org/legal/ai > Contributions in the OpenJDK Community must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models, diffusion models, or similar deep-learning systems. Content, in this context, includes but is not limited to source […]

Finally spent the time to have cache working on my Forgejo Runner CI

Finally spent the time to have cache working on my Forgejo Runner CI

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop? Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours? If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers! Go add your business now! And please boost this?

Anubis always seemed like an overkill to me, because it took the crawler bots UNTIL NOW to learn about such a complex and hard to implement feature like COOKIES.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@samerion/115424048359685474 Just scrolled to this post, seeing the homepage nearly empty and with no splashscreen makes me nostalgic.

Before moving on to the next Flamebox release, I thought it might be a good idea to make some improvements to Fluid. Fluid is the user interface framework that powers Flamebox. Just renaming "NodeSlot" to the briefer "Slot" #Samerion

I'm done with #flamebox 0.8.5. Most important changes being batch operations like entity duplication & removal, but also a number of improvements to render UI #Samerion #gamedev #indiedev

It's a big moment for #Samerion, as finally, #flamebox— its level editor —has become powerful enough to efficiently handle its task. Check out my work on Riblands, and also… my #minecraft world. https://samerion.com/journal/2026-03 #gamedev #indiedev #blog