Rileyzzz

Just a quick update for the folks who follow me. The other week I released my Advanced Camera and Bloom Panel tools on my Gumroad. It's a good time to pick 'em up if you haven't already; definitely a lifesaver for anyone who films in Trainz! gumroad.com/rileyzzz

she/her, btw :)

After Tuesday's election disappointment, I kinda realized that of all times, right now is the time to be standing up for what you believe in. Right now is the time to plant my flag instead of cowering from the folks trying to tear it down. So this is me, planting my flag: 🏳️‍⚧️

Of the (probably five?) times I've installed Ruby on my system, I've never NOT had it fuck up all future Ruby/Jekyll/Bundler/WTF installs on that system. Today it was both Win11 and Ubuntu WSL. I don't know. These error messages have all been useless.

Started again with a fresh repository. Works fine on GH pages, but can't serve to test it locally. "Permission denied - bind(2) for 127.0.0.1:4000". Wiki says to install webrick. Still get the error. Run terminal as administrator. Still get the error. Nice.

Using Jekyll/Ruby with Github pages again for the first time in 4 years. Nothing has changed, it's still the worst dev experience ever. Started on Windows, couldn't change the theme without weird errors. Tried on Linux, can't serve through WSL. Committed the site, blank page.

minnesota gokart racing game called Tim Wheelz

building clang on my laptop and watching MSVC proceed to melt was my canon event for today

british people trying to be taken seriously and proceed to keep calling it a 'wheelie bin'. we cannot be serious

A technology blog asked me to comment on this video showing off Roblox's new AI world generator. This was my answer. They did not published it.

Roblox does and can do a lot of things well. "Being a social media platform" is just, not one of them IMO. It's just not even on the bingo card.

This is an official clip to push their new TTS tech. The feature itself looks fine. But like- every single thing in this video (ad-style delivery, muzak, TikTok interface?) is a perfect case study in the horrors of design-by-committee execs trying to make the 'everything' product

Caught a bit of the RDC stream, was immediately put off by the tone of the keynote. Doesn't seem like a dev conference. Not to imply that marketing and business growth don't count as "dev", but most of the keynote felt like a metaverse advertisement to their corp. partners.

typical monday afternoon

i dont think doordash quite realizes the drastic effect theyve had on how autistic people approach eating

made in a rush in a 1am call. it's mindful. it's demure. did I cook? #moltenredcomp

kind of hoping that tron ares bombs but becomes another cult classic in 5 years, so we end up caught in a vicious cycle of Disney repeatedly betting the farm on a tron reboot only for it to flop only to then get revitalized again cuz they ran out of other IP to milk for sequels