Can somebody explain to me, why the last static assert fails? The value type has <=> operator returning strong ordering and std::map is clearly capable of having strong-ordered <=> operator. Godbolt link: https://godbolt.org/z/xnaaoWxaq #cpp #cpp23 #programming #help

Somewhere at the bottom of old boxes in the cellar, I have a game magazine with a preview of the first #borderlands with screenshots before they switched to cell shade. Back when I first read it, it left no lasting impression on me. Some time later, in other mag, I read a preview after the […]

Tip 92 of #TuesdayCodingTips - Pinning interop memory in C# When interoping C# with, for example, C++, one can send a pointer to the managed memory directly to the native code and work with it without the need to copy it into the local address space. For as […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Second Lace fight ultimate strategy: * Architect crest * Fire spawner, pollip pouch * long pin, cogfly, tacks = almost didn't have to hit Lace with my nail #hollowknightsilksong

This keybinding dialog took way longer to implement than I anticipated, but is generic so I can use it in any project from now on :) #gamedev #sfml #tgui

Originally I wanted to buy #metroidprime4 at launch, but since that open world reveal at the latest Direct, I am probably going to wait for reviews and possibly a price drop 😞

Year 2035 - To hit climatic goals, EU passes a new law that mandates developers to only compile the final releases of their code. All other CI builds can only be compiled in the developer's mind to save on electricity and therefore emissions. Companies have to pay an emission tax for every […]

One of the things a good CMake-powered C++ library should do is to test its own integration - in other words, if others can plug it into their projects. One reason is obvious - nobody will use your library if they can't. The second one is pragmatic - the tests act as documentation for the users […]

PSA: Get protector caps for your #nintendoswitch2 thumbsticks. After 3 months and roughly 100 hours of usage time, the rubber on the left stick is falling apart. Meanwhile my 7 years old Nintendo Switch 1 thumbsticks are pretty much okay. #psa #gaming

We're doing some natural language processing at Safetica, so we had to integrate a tokenizer. First, we started with HF tokenizers that use Rust as the underlying implementation. Since we consume it as a C# package and native runtimes are not shipped for Mac (thanks Apple for preventing […]

If you hate Hornet's 45° angle downwards slash, there's a way to get OG Hollow Knight slash early on. So early in fact you don't even have to beat the Bellworm boss. It is a sequence break, yes, but I did it by accident, so not that hard. #hollowknight #hollowknightsilksong #nintendoswitch2 #gaming

A bunch of #hollowknightsilksong spoiler-free beginner tips. Rosary string costs 80, but you'll get back 60 rosary beads on string, which you don't lose on death. (so you only really pay 20) There is a bench next to the first mapmaker spot. To the left of it is a room with 5 bugs you can grind […]

You cannot pet the travelbug in #hollowknightsilksong, 0/5 game. Jokes aside, the game's amazing. #gaming #nintendoswitch2

Valve screwed up with Half-Life franchise naming. They should've start with 4, then 2, then 1. And maintain a constant time window between releases of course.

Fifth episode of #alienearth is cool, but doesn't contribute in any way to the overall story. Two mildly-important bits of information could be shrugged of as two single sentences during the main course of the events. It should've been the first episode of the series instead of a flashback one […]

In the case you live under a rock, #hollowknightsilksong is now available on #nintendoswitch2 store for 20$! Insta-buy for me. #gaming #hollow_knight_silksong

Tip 91 of #TuesdayCodingTips - String or StringBuilder? If you're a C++ programmer, you can easily troll yourself while working with C#'s `string` objects. In C++, they are optimized vectors of bytes and can be dynamically resized at will through […] [Original post on techhub.social]

#android 15 problems on #motorola G84 - Investigation continues I suspect Google did something with regards to USB permissions. My #backboneone controller is a device that controls the phone, but should be charged by the phone. While trying to connect it, it sometimes registers as a connected […]

So let me get this straight. If you buy a #SteamDeck, you can play PC games and stream your physical #xbox console onto your deck as an added bonus. And there is bound to be a way to pay for Game Pass and stream the games from cloud. If you buy #xboxrogally, you can play PC games and you need […]

Summer is almost over and I'm releasing my summer-long project - MagRider! A simple-to-learn, hard-to-master 2D platformer where you move by magnetizing your avatar - a cutsy round ball. Build by hand in C++, SFML and TGUI, this one also runs on Android and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Summer is almost over and I'm releasing my summer-long project - MagRider! A simple-to-learn, hard-to-master 2D platformer where you move by magnetizing your avatar - a cutsy round ball. Build by hand in C++, SFML and TGUI, this one also runs on Android and […] [Original post on techhub.social]

So far, #alienearth is really good!

Serverless, AWS, lambdas, Graph, Rest, that's all so yesteryear. Let me indulge you with a more sexy, leaner idea - dataless. Simple, efficient, elegant.

Tip 90 of #TuesdayCodingTips - Is enum value defined? In both C++ and C#, enums are mere named numerical constants. Even if they appear to be distinct types, and switch statements can check whether you covered all names within an enum, that's simply not […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Anyone else having issues with #android 15? It has been recently rolled on my #motorola G84 and so far I can see less-smooth scrolling in the launcher, worse battery performance and USBs are not picked up correctly, usually taking up three reconnects and a restart to hook up by Backbone controller 😭

First time playing #cyberpunk2077 - great storytelling, immersion and worldbuilding. But the gameplay is... lacking. I miss Deus Ex :( #gaming

Summer's almost over, energy refilled (wishful thinking), so I'd like to return to writing engineering articles. And I am kicking it off with the most explosive topics of all - Singleton design pattern. 💥 Is it really as evil as many people claim it is? Or is there more to it other than being a […]

Took me two months and watching a someone else's YouTube video to realize that cars in #mariokartworld have different stats 🤦‍♂️ #gaming #nintendoswitch2

Has anyone made a Souls-like with a leveling system akin to modern Elder Scrolls titles? 🤔 #gaming #gamedev

It's about month and a half since I finished working on support for gamepads in #sfml on Android and the maintainers are ghosting me ever since. I guess I pissed them off with something, although unclear on what. Welp, seems I'll be building everything on my fork for foreseeable future 🤡 #gamedev

Using #gimp v3 with a stylus is so frustrating. Not only it has separate settings from the mouse controls so touching the mouse will completely switch the active tool and active colors, but also when selecting a color in palette with a stylus, the smallest twitch will duplicate the color […]

I am sick and tired of #mastercard and #visa holding not only adult sites but also Steam or Itch (most recently) hostage for selling adult content. If there is sufficient moderation to keep the content away from minors then what's the problem? Why we have this perverse view of the world where […]

Made good progress on #magrider today. 4 new levels, new environment theme and a lot of time spend drawing menu backgrounds that been promptly discarded. A public pre-release next week would be nice, if life allows it. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

I wonder, fellow gamedevs - what is your approach to making background images for your menus? Do you go for solid colors / gradients, do you spend hours hand drawing or do you just take a nice screenshot of your game landscape? Right now I am really struggling with making a pixel-art […]

#darksouls Remastered runs (albeit poorly) on a low-end Motorola G84, using #winlator. My life is now complete. #gaming

New Superman? A suprisingly damn good movie!

I don't have problem with analysis when it comes to my gaming backlog... I just don't have enough time to play everything 😅 Luckily, current-day AAA market devolved so much that 90% of my backlog are games 18+ years old. #gaming #backlog

I made a significant progress on #magrider, but my last two weekends were so full I was unable to prepare any nice posts for screenshot saturday... The most frustrating thing about this project is that coding is 90% about UI. Not only I have to make two completely different layouts (Android vs […]

Tip 89 of #tuesdaycodingtips - Semantic versioning When creating a library, semantic versioning is a really useful versioning scheme to use. It's a promise to your users that changes bumping the minor/patch version numbers are backward-compatible. As such, much of the software relies on these […]

Is anybody else experiencing weird power issues with their Joy Con on #nintendoswitch2 ? When in handheld with attached joy cons, the left one shows 2/3 charge and NOT charging. When I unplug/replug it, it charges for a while before stopping to charge (at about 66%). When docked, both joycons […]

#gimp3 behaves a bit odd - all settings (active color, active tool, tool settings) are instantiated per input device and switch when the input device is switched. Is there a way to turn that off? Also, the actual point where each tool registers is a few pixels to the upper left than the […]

@adhemara @davidcampey Thanks for your suggestions 🙏 Shifting the colors of the background did the biggest difference. I also decided to make the yellow lines less frequent, I like to have them in rather than using one of the darker colors...

I need help - which looks better? The version of the game with solid-color background or with some more varied background? Or is it as my wife says and the background is fine but it is the foreground tileset that is visually distracting? The goal here is to […] [Original post on techhub.social]

So yeah, I am making a game again. An homage to Magnetic Joe, working title MagRider. Stupid name, yes, does someone have a better suggestion? Made with C++, #sfml, and #tgui, target platforms are Windows and Android. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

As a friendly reminder, all these copilots of the world are trained to give you the most probable answer to your query. In other words, they reply with something commonly seen in the training data. The problem with "common" is that "common" doesn't mean "best". "Best practice" will be in the top […]

Tip 88 of #TuesdayCodingTips - Enum-discriminated unions with nlohmann::json JSON is a fairly trivial format and as such, its only way of supporting polymorphic data is an enum-discriminated approach. In other words, you might have an array of objects where […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Programming for Android using C++ is bonkers sometimes. Asset data embedded inside the APK have to be loaded through NDK functions while data on both internal and external storage can be loaded normally via streams. The logic for the internal assets can't be reused. Just decide an approach and […]

Can you guess which old game I'd like to pay homage to? #gamedev

I am surprised by the lack of good C++ 2D physics libraries. There are either college projects or C libraries. Even box2D which claims to be "C++" is just C with classes. No wonder Erin Catto went full C for the version 3. #cpp #programming #gamedev #physics