our shared office printer has been acting up lately, biggest problem is that the color registration is off by a mile. i've been chasing around manuals, menus and hidden service codes to try and calibrate it. no luck.

our kitchen extractor fan has been a bit crappy lately, plus there's been a cold draft from it. today i opened it up and found this gift from the local bird population.

my office mate recently scored this as a bonus when he bought a used NES. incredible artifact!

solved a fun computer mystery yesterday. i have a lil' server in my basement, and when it reboots it sends me an email. it's been rebooting unexpectedly a couple of times lately, but i never had the time to properly investigate. here's a list of the timestamps of those emails. see a pattern?

help, i'm falling down a spline rabbit hole and i like it.

i spent the last couple of hours doing a handful of compound angle miter cuts for some moulding and it's the most difficult mind bending shit I've done for years. i'll need a year long nap to recover from this.

sometimes i go hunting for art references. 2026 internet delivers in spades!

Ah yes, finally the Windows 11 restore thing supports my 8th century runic alphabet keyboard. Thanks Microsoft!

I added my daughter's hamster to Home Assistant. I may have gone slightly overboard with the home automation. (also, that lil' guy can run!)

If I recall correctly this was live streamed on the Ouya YouTube channel too.

it's been below freezing here the last couple of days, which is all well and good except it turns my seven speed bike into a single speed bike.

I was in fact, bothered. It's like pulling on a sweater thread, it just won't stop coming!

many months ago i added a thing to my game that messes with the physics engine a whole bunch. like, it's not made to handle that type of nonsense. i fixed like 99% of the bugs and moved on with my life. today when trying to repro another issue i found a new physics bug and I CAN'T BE BOTHERED.

the stars finally aligned on me having both a couple of hours to spare and a suitably minimal project, to finally get around to learning how to make a pcb. still gotta quintuple check everything before I pull the trigger!

if i'm gonna be staring at that log window all day every day, i'm at least gonna make it look nice!

I recently stumbled over this magical machine in a for sale ad. A single track snowmobile manufactured in the 1960s in Sweden. We get like four days of snow here a year, so not exactly a useful thing, but just look at it!

I love my children very much, but their current combo of: A: Being extremely curious about what adults are saying B: Being very bad at paying attention to what adults are saying C: Being actively disinterested in any explanations of what the adults were saying Is _really_ testing my patience.

we're watching lord of the rings with the kids and idk what hbo is up to with that notice

I didn't shave for a week and change, and now I'm the closest I've been to a beard for years. My entire face is starting to hurt, is that normal?

inbox is where things come to hurt you. outbox is where you put things to hurt others.

it's just one shader, how many nodes could it have? four? five? y'all better appreciate this one once you get to see it. it's pretty good!

on monday i decided to buy a christmas gift because an online retailer said it would get delivered the day after, on tuesday. it's now wednesday and it hasn't even shipped and i'm regretting my decisions.

kid is at a handball game, i'm making time pass between matches by looking at balls stuck in the ceiling. how the actual f did that one get in there?!

seems the android app is really keen on signing you out!

do y'all get signed out of bsky all the time too or is that somehow a me problem?

in the end, i chickened out and named it something more reasonable.

decided to bite the bullet and get my screen size and dpi compensation set up for the new game. did you know there's a lot of different devices? like, this ui needs to work on a low dpi small phone and a high dpi tablet and ideally a computer or tv-screen too? it's awful and i hate it.

sometimes I'm out and about in the world and I see the moon, and then it strikes me that's a *place you can go to*? that's WILD. it's like, in the sky?!?

today, I'm playing the get-to-the-office-without-breaking-a-hip-game. fun!

i gotta admit, this looked a lot less like, uh whatever this is, when i imagined it.

i've spent the whole morning fighting to figure out the math to place an object inside a view space rectangle by moving the camera, while taking perspective into account. turns out this is beyond me!

@playtopia.bsky.social hey, I came looking for the schedule and the link in your bio is broken! (.com instead of .co.za)

I've been knocked out by a cold for a week+, but today I finally made it out of the house for the only thing worth pursuing.

Today is the steam release day for the lovely Drill Bird by @mnniska.bsky.social and friends, it's just a lovely little game!

if someone made me design some ui thing for hours, implement it for a day and then immediately go "nah, that's not it" i would punch them in the face. sadly for me, i'm that person.

it's a god damn travesty that I own a house and it doesn't have a single Jefferies tube. surely the bank will loan me all the monies to correct this?!

usually when there's an update to the unity hub it's something annoying, but now i can hide the cloud/version crap AND I CAN SEE THE NAMES OF THE PROJECTS NOT THE FOLDERS. OH MY GOD. FINALLY!

i wrote some php for my little error reporting thing today. there's something very therapeutic to me making those little utility scripts that are small and simple and don't really matter if you bodge it a bit.

Lily Pad keeps it all inside.

I have wet socks. I am in hotel. Now I have hot socks.

Bryce (Software), 1994

i'm heading out to sweden game conference today, doing a talk on artisanal randomness tomorrow. let me know if you're around and want to say hi.

i'm adding a second network adapter to my proxmox virtualizing server and looked up how to bridge the two connections. the article also helpfully teaches me how to copy and paste on a desktop computer. i'm not sure what their intended target audience is here?

lost a good hour being extremely confused by this. if i put the const outside the function the shader still compiles and "works" but the value of pi becomes something else entirely. it's probably expected behavior, because i call that last function via shadergraph. still tho!

finally got around to pumping my bike tires yesterday. the amount of satisfaction i derive from a well rolling bike is honestly a little bit embarrassing. biking to the office was a delight.

the floggings will continue until morale improves

please, come get free things * (in exchange for free work)

Friends, I find myself with EIGHT game versions that needs an update. I would be very thankful if you can give these a quick whirl and let me know if anything seems out of place. Both Android and iOS. grapefrukt.com/testing/

it's mushroom time again my dudes

pictured: me rebuilding all my games for a patched version of unity because security issue only a couple of weeks after i already did it because of platform requirements.