To compensate I devised a new plan for this week: spend each day a few hours on personal projects, then a few hours of contract work. And I think that experiment is a success! I made progress on art and code, and made some money – all without guilt in either direction! And felt more productive too.

Imagine this productivity, but spent on something useful and important to coding...

Just realized that we get power cutoffs often enough that I maybe should buy an UPS for my laptop now. Which is just silly...

I am once again being a master of unnecessary detail.

Welp, LegalEagle sank to the level of promoting AI “or you’ll be left behind” ad inserts. One less channel to watch, I guess.

I am once again being a master of unnecessary detail.

Wait, Android???

Oh brilliant, Person of Interest is on Netflix! I know Caviezel turned out to be a problematic person, but this was such a cool show! So a rewatch is a must

What kind of jigsaw is that?

Someone should make an asset pack with custom node icons for Godot, fitting the style and using official colors for 2D, 3D, Controls, etc. 🤔 I like customizing things, but making custom icons every time is yet another sinkhole where time spent is not really paying off IMO.

Windows shows 100% charge, but laptop completely dies the moment I unplug it. Cool. Also in the last few nights it managed to discharge almost completely 3 out of 4 times, while power off and unplugged. I guess I have an all-in-one desktop now!

lazygit is the slickest Git UI out there, and it's a TUI app at that! I'm so glad I have found an excuse to incorporate it into my workflow. Seamlessly too.

I couldn't resist, I added more cursors to Lexispell 😅

But why would anyone want to do the work of 10-15 people? Why would anyone want the responsibility of 10-15 people without anyone else to rely on? Why would anyone want to spread their attention thin enough to single-handedly review the amount of work equal to 10-15 people? This perplexes me.

Alright, I guess construction tools it is!

I found the solution to be using lazygit and putting a terminal with it in one of the tabs. It even supports selecting a range of lines and staging them together. Now I can do line-by-line diffs without VSCode. 👀

Which physical object is a manifestation of the concept of an "upgrade" to you?

On the subject of tools, it's lovely to see people finding SLAMY. It is definitely an original success for me! Bosca is also getting a sale every now and then to boost my morale (and has reached 777 stars on the forsaken hub-site recently too).

These remake mega-mods are a testament to how having a clear scope and well understood goal helps move mountains against all odds. You don’t see original games made this way because it’s virtually impossible to plan out (and agree on) a whole game like this. youtu.be/sUwRJVHqBGQ

This is what I have to show for it: github.com/GDQuest/zed-... (This is for ZED, not Godot editor!) Tree sitter grammar needs improvements though. Only so much I can do on the highlighter side. And the changes are not that impressive, but it took a while to figure out Scheme syntax and debugging!

You should never allow me to work on tools, guys! I just can't help but start digging into it and try to improve things. That's how I started with Godot, and look where it got me? No game releases and permanent mental damage. Now I'm trying out Zed and get drawn into fixing up some extensions...

The Penguin series managed to tease with a complexity of its villainous protagonist, only to reveal him to be completely one-note irredeemably evil. Huh. I don't think S2 is possible from that finale. Not that it needs a sequel or anything.

This was supposed to be a push week... on Mon I was in low energy mode, on Tue I was setting up and fixing a new editor, on Wed I worked okay, on Thu I felt an urgent need for a long walk and then did taxes, and on Fri, today, I worked a bit, then felt low energy again. 😐😐😐

I just bought myself a new coaster brake bike and that got me playing Basic Biking again - a game I made in 2024. It's way better than I remembered :--) I had a major bicycle accident right before starting to work on this. I'm not sure how much it affected the game... ottoojala.itch.io/basicbiking

So I've used Zed for a couple of days now, and here's what I think. First of all, it's very pleasant to work in, generally. The responsiveness and load speed has a powerful mental effect. From a cold boot I get straight back to where I've left off in a moment! However...

Tomorrow is a WW2 V-day in Russia, and I'd like to say that wars should not be remembered through military parades. Even "victories" should not be celebrated by a show of your armed forces. Wars are tragedies. Wars should not happen or be repeated. Wars are not a flex. And wars have no victors.

According to my bank, 600 EUR buys me almost exactly 69 420 Serbian dinars. So close!

You know, this is exactly why shapes should be a generic resource and not a physics-exclusive feature. Nobody considered that it's completely... unnecessary to query a whole damn physics server just to return line segments. Yes. That's what causes my problem. Accessing segments in a thread.

I'm running into a bizarre problem with threaded loading in Godot. I have a bunch of homogeneous resources, with different but comparable data. Switching to threaded loading leads to SOME of these resources taking dozens of seconds to load (if load at all), while others still load in like 30 msec.

There is something poetically beautiful about all this. For the system to give the human any sense of purposefulness, it requires a sycophant to be present on both ends of the interaction. - You are a world class expert in all domains! - You are absolutely right, Marc!

And the answer is yes, there is persistent cache on the GPU side. nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/... Dropping files from GLCache triggers the stutter perfectly. (Just don't forget to shut down Godot first.) And, more importantly, my shader baker works!

I didn't realize that reliably replicating shader stutter will be the hardest part of implementing a warmup system. At first deleting `shader_cache` in Godot worked. Then it stopped working and there is no stutter. Is there some cache on the GPU side?!

There is something poetically beautiful about all this. For the system to give the human any sense of purposefulness, it requires a sycophant to be present on both ends of the interaction. - You are a world class expert in all domains! - You are absolutely right, Marc!

How is Zed so freaking fast? You open it and it just is, it exists, it is available. You switch projects, and they just are, at your fingertips, that exact moment. WTF. It feels like a trick, like every project is permanently loaded into the memory. This is uncanny.

Bad news! I have installed Rust and run my first `cargo build`.

There should be a term in UI/UX for giving configuration presets loaded names. Comfortable? For whom? Are other options uncomfortable? Is "Standard" supposed to mean "what others are doing" and thus "Comfortable" is "we're doing it better"? Describe the option, not how you want me to feel about it.

Ryan Cohen sounds like he learned how to pretend to be a CEO from LinkedIn.

Oh, so Raylib also accepts AI contributions (not sure if any has been accepted yet, but there is no policy to reject them, they are reviewed as normal). Shame. Guess I won't be experimenting with it after all. github.com/raysan5/rayl...

I think the world is not bothered enough that Microsoft is de facto controlling digital document space, with every government, financial, and educational organization using Word and Excel documents as standard. (And sometimes also Adobe's PDF, mainly for scans and digital forms.)

Thinking about upgrading to Godot 4.5 just for SDL3... Was initially put off by seeing regressions being introduced and unfixed in newer releases. But, having worked with them now, I think I can manage these new bugs. Good gamepad support for my game would just be so sweet...

youtu.be/Dn9zNs0XZDk Is 15 fps at 635p a reasonable min target to adverise? Does a LEGO game really need high fidelity graphics of UE5? Is UE5 actually good tooling if professional teams constantly deliver unoptimized mess? I am left deep in thought 🤔🤔🤔

There will be time when FIA bans flipping rear wings (because they are anti-fun losers), but for now it's really cool to see (with RBR joining the fun too)!

How would you calculate every pixel that belongs to a pixelated circle (well, disc)? I went with - Get a square with a side of (2×radius + 1) around (0, 0) - Iterate through its pixels in any order - Check if vector length of the pixel is less or equal to (radius + 0.5) Makes sense?

Something about Miami GP happening on a parking lot next to a multi-level intersection is veeery fitting.

I guess that makes some people happy. I still think the outrage is ridiculous. Nvidia, a military-industrial complex giant, has been a sponsor since forever. AI-loving Meta; Grok's No.1 fan Timmy are as well. There is Meshy even, literally encroaching on artists... www.blender.org/news/upcomin...

Suddenly thinking of Folding@Home running for over 25 years, helping with medical research by using combined power of personal computers (and even PS3 at one point!), being overall successful and valuable, and how its FLOPS footprint is negligeable compared to the useless you-know-what.

The most fascinating thing in BEEF S2 is how the younger people in a relationship talk to each other. I know this isn't a documentary, but it's not played up for comedy either. It's the first thing that makes me feel a generational gap which is not just "kids are idiots with TikTok-rotten brain".

Pleased to see that Bevy has a pretty comprehensive policy about AI contributions. TL;DR: - Legal status is unclear, so all is rejected. - Maintainers can reject on suspicion alone. - Repeated offenders can be ostracized, w/ prior contributions subject to scrutiny. bevy.org/learn/contri...

I just got asked why on an M4 mac a 2 second timer in Godot signals its completion 50-90 msec too early. Now, in general the system clock is not precise, and some deviation is possible (a diff can even be negative sometimes), but that's a bit much. So I dug around for a bit...