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Head First Ruby: Simplified Chinese Edition! Trying not to geek out, and not really succeeding. :) Thanks, @OReillyMedia!

@MoralAnxiety Today I learned you have a Bsky! ❤️ I'll follow you there instead!

By the way - every now and then I post some cool stuff on my Bsky, such as: adventurers be like "let's explore a bit" #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev

@EuropaGame I sought a refund a few days ago because the game was crashing for me. Turned out I had installed bad RAM in my PC. 🙃 Purchased again and excited I'll get to actually play it!

No joke - depending on where you live, you can pre-order ROADWARDEN on NINTENTDO SWITCH (YES) at a discount (now or soon). And in a WEEK, it will be available for purchase! Thank you, @AssembleTeam , for handling this port for me! #indiedev #gamedev nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Ni…

@cooperx86 Cory Doctorow: "Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything" archive.ph/uAruT (Ironically, I had to find an archived version to get around a registration paywall)

Unfortunately you can no longer read The New Stack without registering an account and signing in.

@beaucarnes Well, yeah, you said there was a lesson, and that it's 57 seconds long! 😁

Only took 1000 days but finally the algorithm found this video. 🤣 I guess there's a lesson in here somewhere.

Vibe coding slaps.

@cooperx86 Yup, I could see that being unreasonably effective, even today. 🤢

@jaymcgavren This just popped up in my feed(!!) x.com/Morbidful/stat…

Wrote a program to take an AI generated radio script based on a Wikipedia article and use TTS and @elevenlabs sound effect generation to make it fun to listen to. Here's an example output based on the entry for "Acoustic Kitty", a weird 1960's espionage experiment.

Walked carefree in the field, winter sun in blue sky, the dog chasing the wind. On return, a few minutes scrolling through social media is all it takes to erase my peace of mind. Without this digital panopticon, what would we feel? Less possessed and more alive I guess.

@mcmire Same here. I like my code not to have subtle bugs in it.

Yes, we exist 😎 (Although I do use ChatGPT occasionally for tedious tasks, such as writing scripts.)

Open Source, Not Open Contribution Contributing to SQLite is invite-only (I don't have a source). Only after you are invited and have signed an affidavit dedicating your contribution to the public domain can you submit patches.

IoT-based game dev directly on cheap retro handheld using @NodeRED :) #gamedev #WebDev #IoT #javascript #haxmas

bsky.app/profile/kawaii… Hi, it's Kawaiikochans. As for these kawaiis, we've arrived at Bluesky with "Comic!" Please continue to follow us there.

I plan to start posting more, but it's time for me to give up on this place Twitter. I was hoping it would return to normal, but I have no hope left. You can join me on the other platform. It's gonna be fun. Thank you for the path we've shared. #indiedev #gamedev

File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs. Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: > If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s. You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

Just a li'l 'ween short, just a li'l 'ween short. Nothin' fancy, nothin fancy. (flash version: homestarrunner.com/toons/a-prickl…)

@cooperx86 Have you played Hypnospace Outlaw? It's basically a love letter to websites of that era. Great stuff. Also, if you tire of hosting it personally, this would fit right in on neocities.org!

As an aside, my late uncle (who died 20 years ago!) built his Web site in FrontPage and I still host it. The code FrontPage generated is amazing: bryancooper.co.uk/index2.html

I've noticed Microsoft's trademark for "FrontPage" (their ancient WYSIWYG HTML editor) has expired. C'mon, you know you want to revive it..

I want to talk more about one of the really cool parts of this campaign—the companion website I built—a bit later, but for now, the big project I've been working on this year has now finally been announced! egmbook.com

@cooperx86 So eldritch. (Seriously, that's horrifying. Were the supports algorithmically generated by slicer software, or did someone do that manually?) Result is awesome, though!

I’ve been getting into 3D printing. In this case I almost preferred the version with supports left on, it looks more tragic. So vaporwave.

@FilmCow Is the strike removed from your account? 😡 if not.

The video is back up! Thankfully it seems like it was a matter of wires getting crossed rather than anything nefarious, and should be resolved now.

Thanks to everyone who has messaged me about the Llamas with Hats epilogue getting copyright-striked. I've submitted a request with YouTube to get it reinstated, and with any luck it'll be back soon. Genuinely baffled by this!