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@starliquidinc Understanding how this stuff works is incredibly valuable, and is also quite fun for many people. It's good being able to vet code that you didn't write, whether from an LLM, a coworker, or elsewhere. If you don't like learning it, that's fine

@sleitnick The point is why learn any of what you said when it is just a matter of compute when it’s said and done. Why not focus on the things that actually matter

Lua/Luau pop quiz: What is the difference between `table.pack(...)` vs `{...}`, and why would you choose one or the other?

@starliquidinc My post is not about those things at all

@sleitnick The value driver isn’t being a “programmer” flawless game logic is worthless without distribution, compelling story telling and a fun game play loop.

@starliquidinc The important part is learning it and knowing when to use them. Having AI regurgitate the answer doesn't grow you as a programmer unless you read and learn what it's saying too. The LLM also missed a critical piece of info and skipped over another important detail.

@sleitnick The moat is gone gang 🥀

Bonus: How do you iterate over all `...` values without putting them into a table? (This is ideal to avoid the table allocation... not that it usually matters too much in most real-world Lua code)

New blog post. Box3D is getting faster. box2d.org/posts/2026/07/…

@plasma_node One time I walked up to a group of guys and said hi, and one looked at me awkwardly and said "do you know who you're talking to?" as if they were some celebrity. It was so weird

@plasma_node Nope, too much family stuff already planned around then. Plus I'm an introvert, so large conferences aren't really my favorite thing unless I get to do a talk

How every dev pull up at RDC tryna act

We want everyone to be able to play baseball, so we've invented the automatic batter, unlocking amazing new potential at the plate. Get ready to swing! - how every company's dumb AI features read

@wiscript I set them all to private. They were not up to the standard that I'd prefer, and much of the info is either outdated or not in line with what I'd teach nowadays. I'm interested in making new ones in the future, but they need to be more polished, & I have limited time for that

@sleitnick Maybe I missed it, but where are your YouTube videos at?

@Vorlias Yeah it really does just die! I feel like Ctrl+clicking on a symbol is like russian roulette with cpptools

@sleitnick I've noticed this too, have been playing around with C++ more lately and noticed the language server etc will just die on me... CLion is pretty much like Rider in terms of how it works, but I think it uses cmake for handling build stuff.

Anyone have thoughts about CLion? VSCode is becoming oddly sluggish for C++ work. I need something cross-platform, so Visual Studio is unfortunately out.

@grilme99 Nice! I'll try out Zed for this

@sleitnick I think Zed being a really fast and lightweight editor shines best in that kind of codebase. VSCode is okay there but it's still slow.

@SkullAberration I saw others say the same, but I'm having some difficulty getting that to play nicely with cmake on Windows

@sleitnick Is this with intellisense and the such? I switched to clangd because cpptools was basically unusable

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I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers. As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine? You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

@Indieun You're going in the right direction! I'd recommend toning it down even more. There should really be minimal to no shake at all for a feature like that

Working on a "motion sickness" setting for Catch a Brainrot I don't really get motion sickness from games so I can't tell if this feature works or not, but if you get motion sickness check out the video below and let me know if it makes a difference

@verymidengineer Yeah I just turned 31 a couple days ago. RIP

@sleitnick this is just because you are approaching or already 30 the youths need constant stimulation

Just a friendly reminder that your camera shakes should be subtle and almost unnoticeable

@Vainglory100 Yeah I've been wanting to do this. The API is evolving so quickly though that I worry it would become outdated quickly. But some introductory stuff might be good

Luau integration for my engine now allows me to bind methods, static functions, properties, and signals. I then added a type generator to create the ".d.luau" file necessary to capture these types with Luau language server. The binding code is pretty messy, but it works!