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@gamemakerstk You should show that in the blooper reel on the end credits of the game

3 years into game dev and I'm still capable of making the absolute dumbest programming mistakes imaginable

@RichardDawkins @RichardDawkins Do you have an opinion on this?

Do human beings have free will?

No. Its not my XAnniversary. I joined Twitter. I never joined X. #MyXAnniversary

Things that aren't illegal but that feel like they are:

@rtalalay The bigger mystery is why so many Who stories do work so well. Most stories introduce you to a new set of characters to care about, many introduce you to a whole new world. To have a well-paced story with fun twists, a sense of jeopardy and a satisfying pay off is a tough job.

Trying to work out if there are trends that make a Doctor Who episode not as good. On rare occasions, I'll run into one that feels like a chore to get through. All the elements are there but it doesn't coalesce. No hate(!), but what causes this? Thoughtful thoughts? 1/2

@yakwaxlips It tried new things

Heres the ‘nice things to say about Escape’ post. Leave your replies here!

@saminton_io Haul

My game needs a name, any suggestions ? 🙂 1/3

@Kat_Alysha My neighbour Totoro

Name an animated movie that is not Disney you love: How to Train Your Dragon has my heart always ✨️

100% attendance. P.S. tomorrow's comic will be posted exclusively on my Newsletter. Link in bio.

@mirkoebert My rule of thumb is that the length of a variable's name should be proportional to the size of the scope in which that variable is known. The length of function's name should be inversely proportional to the size of the scope within which it is known.

I think it's a real lost opportunity that as an industry we haven't standardised on "bobbin" as the name for a group of strings, especially as in a localization file.

@rozkminia first example: 1. first parens - calls constructor (because constructors take presendence over companion object invokes) 2. second parens - calls "invoke" on the instance, returning a function 3. third parens - calls the returned function, thus executing the println("2")

Let's play a Kotlin game. What will be printed in first and the second case... and why?

@TobyPestridge terrible colour for a11y also

Your daily dose of #BadUX: this form has mandatory fields. The warning triangle shows it's a mandatory field, but when I select either option, the warning triangle turns to a tick, but it's positioned next to the "no" option! Which one have I selected?! #UX #BadDesign

Meta's new #Threads app is 100% native, without any #ReactNative. They used #Compose and #Kotlin for the #Android app, but very little #SwiftUI for their #iOS as they reused lots of existing ObjC and UIKit codebase from Instagram. @richz/post/CuW_fXZOgPc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@richz/post/Cu… @abumubarakdev/post/CuZ3VHbN1fU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@abumubarakdev…

📣🚀 The Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0 Preview is out! Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0-beta01 brings significant functional and performance improvements for iOS, along with other Compose Multiplatform capabilities. Here are some highlights: ✅ The ability to create Dialog and Popup composables in common code ✅ iOS-like scrolling physics ✅ Support for iOS-specific insets in the WindowInsets API ✅ Support for the Dynamic Type for iOS ✅ Simplified iOS resource management ✅ Support for 120Hz Apple devices ✅ Test framework fixes for desktop Try it out and share your feedback with the JetBrains team! ➡️ github.com/JetBrains/comp…

Truth.

@TobyPestridge slightly to the north of a hullabaloo

Teaching a non-native English speaker in the office some unique words. Opened up a fierce debate - where on the chaos scale would you put a "hoo-ha" vs a "kerfuffle"?

Hey Android devs! Do you write "useless use cases"? Why yes? Why not?

@WadjetEyeGames Looks awesome