I DON MY ROBE AND WIZARD HAT. Ok I haven't made the rim of my wizard hat yet and I have not yet made a robe....

For my Data Structures class I'm also having students find CSV data files off the Open Data KC website https://data.kcmo.org/ and we'll be loading, storing those records, and search/sort and so on.

I already had this code laying around but I integrated my PHP page that uses the Canvas LMS API to get my "To Do" list and am loading it into a proper freaking table. I can also get due date / end date and some other data but this is really all I need to help me with grading. #education #canvaslms

I've also updated my Data Structures assignments. In the past I worked a lot on making unit tests ahead of time so students could verify their work, but now what I'm doing is in class I step through writing the unit test THEN implementation of some portion of the data structure, then will have […]

I know that discussion boards are kind of considered "lame assignments" but I am at least seeing my students talk about important things. One discussion board is Deadly Errors in software and engineering, could errors have been prevented with design, testing, etc?, could the accident have been […]

Bad Game Ideas 3: Mare-a-thon! Our third episode of our once-a-year, 15-ish minute podcast where we come up with bad game ideas. #gamedev #podcast https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TOreb6zIxc

As far as me being like "Why is everyone buying into this??" Regarding my own job field, there's probably a health nutritionist or doctor being like "Why is everyone falling for these pastel packaged sodas that claim to be supplements or healthy????" Also it's weird that companies are trying to […]

I am having a good day today. The brain chemicals are working properly. I'm like "damn, music exists, that's pretty great, I love music. I love cats. I love birds."

Working at the library, and some designs in my Unaesthetic Hobonichi

Today's lil' project was to set up [http://esperanto.moosadee.com/ ] subdomain with a similar layout to the main moosadee.com webpage, but just with #esperanto related content. Kind of a place to aggregate it all in one place, especially as I add new things.

I dearly wish rather than people putting prompts in the slop generator to make far longer and pretty looking slop, they just sent the prompt itself. I would far rather someone just send me "write a memo that says all employees need to fill out their expense reports by Tuesday, remember there's […]

My "for myself" goal for today is to work on my webpage. >;3 http://www.moosadee.com/

The thing I'm noticing with articles to "how AI is being used" and AI justifications is that a lot of the links I'm getting are from marketing blogs - blogs on business sites. These blogs are an SEO strategy to rank higher on Google's search. Blogs make it look like the webpage is updated […]

Something else I've noticed with reading articles/blog posts these days is if the formatting *looks like* AI, my brain automatically is like "I don't want to read this" then I find it about as hard to read as if they had just formatted it as a big wall […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Gally the neighbor's outdoor cat hanging out in his dry tent I made for him 💕

Happy to invite myself to the European Open Source Academy (I received the formal certificate today, which turns out is signed... by me)

Any other game developers ever think "damn, I wish I were Jeff Vogel"? Like Spiderweb Software is my ideal indie-dev situation, in a way.

lol ok maybe the only thing that ChatGPT is good for is directing people to my itchio page for my CC0 game assets.

Anyway I love borb

I am going to go out of my mind. The lack of general Tech and Internet literacy among non-tech people is worse than I thought and now they're jumping into AI without literacy on that, either. I feel overwhelmed. It's like me vs. the entire world.

Looking at the sources on a paper about AI use in jobs but a lot of these sources just look like marketing-ass blog posts from like... Car dealership webpage, B2B search aggregator service page, consultant service webpage, etc. etc. Like look, I just have a BS and I'm not some big academia guru […]

My YouTube channel apparently turned 19 years old today. (From the YouTube Studio app)

Life is Strange character: Hawt Dawg Man Kojima character: Hot Dog-man

I'm out of peanuts and seeds right now. It used to be the adult male cardinal that would come glare at me when I came outside without seeds, but now it seems like they've sent their juvenile cardinal to come yell at me instead. ;P

I've been noticing more Monarch Butterflies in my yard lately. :') There are a couple hanging out right now on a tree.

My phone OS update changed the "three finger up gesture" from split view to some "Mind Space" BS which really bothers me. Looks like some AI thing that I DO NOT WANT. «AI and the fat finger economy», anyone? https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpis-off/#principal-agentic-ai-problem

I decided to stop trying to talk myself out of doing something I might enjoy. I haven't given myself much space for myself for like three weeks and I need some downtime. 😔

I hope the PS5 ends up being the ONLY console that Sony ever produces that needs an annoying piece of plastic to have the system lay down STABLE on a surface. -_-

I'm getting so many Fan Duel (sports betting) ads on YouTube this week. 🫩

emacs, class prep, and kitty cat

Maybe I'm having the urge to play FFXIV again because grinding side content is low effort given how tired I am from work.

I want to go to the craft store and buy more yarn.

YouTube just showed me an ICE recruitment ad. 🫩

This piano makes me mad. #halloweendecor #piano

Technician comes to repair dishwasher. Brings wrong parts. Says AI orders parts. Between Republicans and AI I've never before felt so completely surrounded by ignorance and stupidity.

2 am Star Trek TNG

I went around the mall trying to find a reasonably priced Goku for a kid's birthday present but so much stuff is blind boxes now, and I didn't want to buy a Pop figure.

Thinking about making some prototypes and doing some videos on "paper-based development". For example: 1. Write code on paper, scan, OCR, run. 2. Draw bitmaps on paper, scan, resize 1 tile to be 1 pixel, save sprite. 3. Design ASCII map on paper […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Latest scam text I think. The phone number isn't in my phone, and while I do have WhatsApp I don't think I blocked anyone. The scammers are pretty creative. #scams #spam

https://eurweb.com/africa-just-built-its-own-internet-and-its-a-nightmare-for-google-and-the-west-watch/ Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥 "Coupled with the African Digital Protocol (ADP), the CIX establishes rules for data sovereignty—ensuring that African data remains […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

I want to live in “Boodleshire”. It would be boodles of fun. I'd have boodles of noodles for dinner.

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel for observing that Kirk's murderer was MAGA. If you're paying for *anything* with Disney, you should stop now. Pirate if you have to.

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Husband's on vacation with long-time friends from primary school. Time for me to bake browniessssss and eat snackssss

I can't quote-toot yet, but what I've gleaned from this thread for new #mastodon lingo: https://kind.social/@Fruan/115219774480090854 * Posts - Toots (you'll never take this from us!) * Quote toots - Quoots * Boost toots - Boots, or Boops if you prefer. * Bookmark - Tuskmark

Long ago I crocheted bright orange yarn around our luggage handles and it's such a cheap way to make our own luggage stand out.

About #ai is that I watch the news on thinks like fake AI generated vulnerability report slop polluting software development efforts, ways that writing code with AI is introducing vulnerabilities, and that adding AI into systems creates a target for hackers to come try to exploit that system […]

I have a student in class that already works in tech and is a big nerd like me, and her and I were talking about the firehose of misuse of AI, but also my pet peeve of everyone reinventing UI elements on the web, whereas the desktop had all the features implemented and we just used the desktop […]

I have my work computer wallpaper set to a slideshow of various video game scenery and one of my students today was like "is that LEGO ISLAND??" Yeah. It's Lego Island.

Actually my pronouns are c/vim