Last night, I learned that I should work through difficult logic *before* stream 😸 The thing I was stuck on simplified a lot after realizing the desired value after the "compare_exchange" is always the same, no matter what the previous value is, so it could have just been an "exchange".

I'm diving in! 😼 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

The next thing I'll be programming on stream is starting to get into some hardcore stuff: multi-threaded task dependency management. I know I can do it. I just need to stay calm and think through the logic in gory detail. And don't worry, there's worse yet to come 😸

There's so much that I'm excited to create this year! I just need to keep moving forward and take things one step at a time 🖥️😺

I'm live, writing C++ code for writing WAV audio files, which I planned to do weeks ago, but what is time, anyway? 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

"I am weird, and I am human, and I am not for sale!" --Hank Green, in his recent video on why commercial New Year's celebrations suck, talking about how people are coming together to form their own traditions.

I'm so hyped to stream "Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel" when it comes out next week. I've been following @chipflake.com almost since he started on YouTube, and it's exciting that he and SalsaShark Studios have created a full 3D platformer. store.steampowered.com/app/3064060/...

It's wild reflecting on that I've managed to avoid getting a respiratory infection for the past 6 years, via the very good fortune of being able to work from home, getting every vaccine available, and the personal sacrifice of my partner and me wearing masks everywhere in public, as well as

After years of occasionally having this tune pop into my head, from seeing this animated short when I was a kid in the 90's, I finally found a video of it online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMo...

Rogers internet tried to stop me from streaming, but I'm hoping to finish some C++ code for reading WAV audio files from scratch 🖥️😺 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Ubisoft shut down Ubisoft Halifax less than a month after the employees there unionized. They claim that it has nothing to do with the union. Their excuse seems to be that it's really so they can outsource all control of their game franchises to the Chinese company, Tencent, as if that's better 😑

As promised, here's the music theory section of the stream on my 2nd YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC56... I saved both halves of the stream (singing and then music theory) as highlights at www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat..., too.

Let's start 2026 by setting some good precedents! Free Palestine. Trans and Nonbinary Rights. Black Lives Matter. Bisexuality and Asexuality are real. Disabled people deserve respect and opportunity. NSFW art and expression must not be suppressed. Fuck GenAI. Eat the rich. And you are valid! 💜

WE'RE LIVE! 😺

I'm kicking off 2026 with a stream starting to teach music theory from scratch! 4pm ET, 1pm PT, at twitch.tv/tawnycodecat . @xenosbreed.bsky.social will be my test subje-- I mean, student, as I try to contain my excitement about the weird an wonderful things we'll find. It will be recorded 💜

I briefly mentioned it at the end of last stream, but I'm going to try a very different sort of stream next week sometime. A friend has asked if I could teach her music theory from scratch, with potentially writing music in mind, which really intrigued me. She's also just started learning to sing.

Just blocked 2 accounts that had "playing with LLMs" in their bio who followed me last night. It's my first time blocking anyone on BlueSky. Even if they're not bots, I don't have the patience to deal with people trying to encourage people to make software worse by using A.I. code generation.

As promised, I'm writing code for reading and writing WAV audio files from scratch. It's fairly straightforward, but I'm starting late, so we'll see how far I get 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Did y'all know that froge takes art commissions? This is their "YCH Goobies" comm from vgen.co/hypofroge . I love how they captured the goofy vibe, and there are so many bases to choose from! 💜 These will hopefully be emotes on my Twitch channel once Twitch approves them 🏳️‍⚧️

Amazing Christmas YCH art by @lunamikin.bsky.social showing @lunazera.bsky.social and @nightskyevt.bsky.social making cookies together. There are *so many* little details! 💜🎄 Luna Mikin takes commissions at vgen.co/lunamikin #art #christmas #cookies

Next coding stream, I think I'll tackle reading & writing WAV files. It's a nice & simple audio file format, but with a few little quirks along the way, and I've found a good reference for it again. Will I stream on Christmas? 🎄 We'll see how it goes. Maybe Boxing Day.

A fun halfbody commission by @scarfinstein.bsky.social 💜 Her commissions are currently closed, but should be open again soon! bsky.app/profile/scar... Thanks, Scarfy! 😺

Okay, hear me out: Min from "Mind Over Magnet" #hearmeout

I'm a bit later than I'd hoped, but live now, to play Mind Over Magnet! 🧲 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I finished most of the changes I'd planned for the file I/O code (except ref counting, which I realized is a bad idea 😸), so I thought next stream, I'll play "Mind Over Magnet" by @gamemakerstoolkit.com (GMTK), a neat puzzle platformer where we need to help magnets escape a factory.

@blastoffbucky.bsky.social came into @xenosbreed.bsky.social's chat with an unhinged response to a riddle 😆 www.twitch.tv/xenosbreed/c... The game is Cryptmaster @thecryptmaster.bsky.social Nice attention to detail 😸

By far my favourite Christmas song, by The Arrogant Worms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vrs... content warning for violence 😆

Good news story: a bunch of caring people dressed as Santa and elves took $3000 of food from a big grocery store and gave it away for free, in protest of record profits due to grocery stores raising prices above inflation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The grocery chain (the real criminals) are mad 😸

I hope that soon I can get out of this phase of writing code that's incredibly confusing for no good reason, since I don't want to make people think programming is confusing. I want to show people they have the power to do amazing things. It takes a lot of prep work to make good explanations, or to

This time, I'm trying to write wrappers for file input & output functions that actually work cross-platform. It might be a pretty short stream, unless I start ranting about capitalism 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I started questioning back in 2019, thanks to a trans man on Discord, and him being trans made it clear to me how not everyone would prefer to be female. Took me 2 years questioning to encounter egg_irl, and it was probably some meme about not every transfem having the same dysphoria cracked my egg.

I've used and recommended Firefox for over 20 years. Guess I have to switch to one of the A.I.-free forks of it now. Congrats to @firefox.com for shooting themselves in the foot by going all in on A.I., in the pursuit of making Firefox as malicious as Chrome 🤦‍♀️ #Firefox #NoAI

On stream, I've implemented a class I called "Array", for a single memory allocation with a separate initialized size and allocated capacity, for fast appending, and "Queue", for the same, but also fast prepending. I forgot to implement the simpler case of just needing a

I'm live, writing code to convert between Unicode text formats, all to be able to efficiently work around a common Windows "bug" with opening files in C & C++. The rabbit hole continues 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I put together some notes to remind myself how Unicode text encodings work. UTF-8 & UTF-16 are pretty weird text formats, but they work, and at least they're not code pages. Thank goodness.

I was thinking I should write file input/output wrappers on stream next, so that I can get to writing code for reading & writing WAV and BMP files, though to work around a bug on Windows, I'll need to write UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion support first. Lots of code ahead! 🖥️😺Maybe gaming first, though?

I'm live again, starting to implement an array-based queue class in C++, so that I hopefully never have to again. I just couldn't keep myself away from the code any longer 🖥️😺 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I'm live, continuing to implement a resizable array class in C++, while I come to terms with just how many messy issues C++ has that I have to work around. Wasn't this supposed to be something simple? 😸 twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Side note: C++ is a wild language, y'all. Why does anyone use it? ...asks a person who's been actively using it for about 20 years 😆 I should learn Rust, but I'm just not sure it solves the issues I hate about C++, e.g. how it makes it unnecessarily convoluted to write efficient code.

I faced my anxiety and finally streamed for the first time in 3 months! There's so much I'm excited to do 🥹

I'm finally back to streaming, and now I'm FREE to write code on stream! What could possibly go wrong? 😼 I'm live now at twitch.tv/tawnycodecat #pngtuber #programmer #catgirl

Still a banger *checks upload date* almost 18 years later 🫠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ...

Well, I was so optimistic, but #CMake decided it has no idea how to tell an executable it built how to find a library it also built and knows the executable depends on, and I've spent 2 hours just searching for how to solve that. I hate CMake so much. This is such a simple situation.

I think I might stream this evening (starting in a few hours) for the first time in months. I have so much that I'm excited to do. I'll probably be writing some code today 🖥️😺

Please share for any Canadians to sign. This official House of Commons petition calls for dedicated and expedited pathways for LGBTQ+ people facing discrimination, loss of rights, or threats to safety in their country of origin to be able to immigrate to Canada: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I shouldn't post anything on BlueSky after midnight. I don't think clearly, I say something stupid that I regret so much a- wait, *checks current time* ...shit.

This video sums up a lot of how I feel about systems in general these days: youtu.be/NBZv0_MImIY Systems are now designed to be unreliable, designed to fail, designed to hurt us, and designed to break us. Nobody wins when neglecting how systems hurt people, not even the companies doing it.

Without downloading a new image, describe your gender!

Thanks to @lunamikin.bsky.social for this coloured sketch! I sent a really goofy pose ref for fun, and she nailed it 😸 She's in urgent need of money for rent, food, and a new computer screen, so she's doing these for only $25, and offers other types of comms, too! 💜 bsky.app/profile/luna...

This lore & music video is so freaking cool! Warning for some flashing and mild body horror. Nice touch of having Adelia's eyes roll back right when #LuLuYam says "eyes roll back". Congrats on getting this out there! #animation