Ryan C. Gordon

Trying out Patreon to see if people will keep funding fun projects like UT99/emscripten, PhysicsFS, 1pass, etc. patreon.com/icculus

(once I hit 510 bucks, I'll let you know, and refund anything that goes over.)

Just trying something. Our Girl Scout cookie season is over, and we still have 85 boxes: 510 dollars worth of cookies. If people PayPal me, I will give these cookies out to Charlotte nurses, Waffle House employees, and any other good ideas y'all have. paypal.me/rcgordon

Cookie Queens trailer is out! Come see us in theaters August 7th! youtu.be/nnSQS43Eil8

@_vkaku I was going to say, wow,, do I have good news for you…! :)

@icculus Actually, never mind. Someone's done this and I hope this gets in Ryan github.com/libsdl-org/SDL…

The SDL organization has an official position on LLMs and generative AI now: don't use it. github.com/libsdl-org/SDL…

@vlads1776 Yeah, once you have everything set up, you just tell Claude to take care of it for you.

@icculus Isn't SDL the graphics library you use until you set up a serious solution?

@kerm1t What 2026 is continuing to teach me is that attracting attention is not a desirable outcome. :)

@icculus interesting take. will attract attention to sdl

@cathode_dreams @realbriel @rokups If you find yourself in an introspective mood at some point, consider what it was about your approach to the conversation that produced this response.

@icculus @realbriel @rokups I was simply looking for transparency but sure whatever

@realbriel @cathode_dreams @rokups You can follow my example here and choose not to get into arguments with strangers with obviously bad opinions.

@cathode_dreams @icculus @rokups Do you really think it's ok to take someone's GPL licensed code and then literally rip that shit word for word without attribution? The fact that people will defend this blows my mind. Please tell me you are not trying to defend this

@cathode_dreams @rokups I don’t really feel like having a Twitter debate with you, stranger, if I’m the observably-uninformed person brashly making big decisions that you are referring to.

@icculus @rokups this is a pretty big decision being made brashly by observably uninformed people and SDL is wildly prolific. please list those issues.

@rokups It’s not just a question of correctness, it’s a question of license, and several other issues.

@icculus Weird position. Better position would be that each developer that submits code is responsible for underatanding and correctness of that code. Makes no difference if it was typed char by char or not if every line is read and understood and reasonable. But hey - your garden...

@jwatte Yes. :)

@icculus Do you also have a position on: - emacs versus vim - intellisense - tabs versus spaces Askng for a friend :-)

@monstercameron I'm broadcast-only here now, for the foreseeable future. This is true on most social media at this point, honestly. :/

@icculus Welcome back

Feel free to tell them the same.

Stay the course!!

I really hope Sinners wins a thousand Academy Awards, so everyone decides Oscar-worthy films don’t have to ship in the last five minutes of the year from now on.

@iandrian4ik Not in the near future: #faq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryG…

@icculus Should we expect support for Bindless Textures or maybe even Mesh Shaders and Ray Tracing pipelines?

Start the new year with a really big SDL3 release! 3.4.0 finally shipped, before the stroke of midnight! github.com/libsdl-org/SDL…

@kade0913 Notably: you can't use this with the other 2D rendering backends, and not all systems support the GPU API, so you might give up some deep compatibility if you rely on this. But if you're targeting desktop systems, it'll probably work out, and otherwise it's usual 2D API.

@kade0913 It's the usual 2D API, but behind the scenes it uses the GPU API instead of OpenGL or whatever; it could already do that, but we've added hooks so when you're using this codepath, you can tweak it with more powerful rendering options. wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_SetGP…

@kade0913 Yup, use shaders in the 2D API!

@icculus wait, goat?