steveship - What the Flax

Avoiding Work (on the main thread)

I'm working on a CPU opponent for Mark My Words because I believe it's a very fun game that a lot of people will like, but it can be difficult

Programming

But what's it good for?

I was in my teens when the Internet first started gaining ground among normies. I remember being at my cousins' house and they were showing off their new AOL connection. I remember being unimpressed. I didn't see the point then, because AOL was among

Solo Developing

August 2024, Indeed. A large portion of my party had fallen to layoff traps. Morale was down, and going lower. Upper management seemed to be trying to drive attrition through removing perks, increasing workload, and generally making stupid decision after stupid decision. Yeah, and

Consoles vs Computers

Recently Apple has been in the news for cases against Epic and for rulings in the EU which will require them to allow sideloading on iphones (in the EU). From the perspective of a developer that has been steeped in open-source, and a user

Apps

Mark My Words

The splash screen. Doesn't it make you want to try it?I've been working on a game for a while now in the few hours a week that aren't taken by my full time job and my full time toddler, and I'm running out

3Dprinting

Verbal Supplement

This is an old post that I queued up and never published. Have at it. What's the worst thing about this pandemic? Other than hundreds of thousands of people dead. And pervasive economic hardship. And the utter, casual, banal evil demonstrated by about half