Thomas Thomassen

@exQUIZitely I got a new copy on steam last year, got sucked into playing for hours again. (This time I had an audio card - which was a new experience for me 😀) I recall editing the config (ini?) files and ending up with some really ... interesting... game plays 😄

Regardless of whether your gaming days started in the 70s, 80s, or 90s - what's a game that has never left your heart? Easy pick for me: Colonization (1994) Beautiful pixel graphics? Yep! One of the best soundtracks ever? Absolutely! Excellent gameplay? Roger that! Replayability score? Very, very high. A near-perfect game.

@trq212 This makes me think that skills overlap more with rules than I though. I'm still struggling to get an handle on when to choose a skill vs rule... 🤔

@exQUIZitely I loved Styx! But... I never saw it with these colours 👀

What's one of the most basic games you've played and loved? No flashy graphics, no epic soundtrack, no steep learning curve, no complex gameplay - just a genuinely great game for its idea and concept. I loved Styx: Fill 75% of the area - without getting hit - to advance to the next level. I wonder if games like this would still be able to catch the minds of kids these days...

@ClintRutkas If you have time after Easter I'm open for a chat.

@thomasthomassen would love to know how we can make Windows better for you.  What experiences do you love / would love to be adjusted to help you be more productive. As a dev, you know the better you understand the issue, the better it can be improved.   Happy to pop on a call too.

Dev using Windows? Love to chat with you

@shanselman I would highly appreciate if the persistent push for AI features and marketing call to actions to use them was reduced. I paid for my Windows version and I wish to be left alone with my work. That would be quality to me.

Working on this is part of my new job! Even more to come blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

@redblobgames If you haven't seen this already, I thought you might find this blog post from the Slug author interesting; terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

Blog post: I've been working on a guide to SDF font rendering, and I kept getting stuck. The blog post is about the things that didn't work redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-2…

GNU Terry Pratchett

@visualc Link in post is 404 but a related v14.51 post is here: devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/micros… No deeper details into performance improvements though...

MSVC v14.51 is up to 6.5% faster on SPEC CPU 2017 integer benchmarks from improved optimizations such as a new SLP vectorizer and major SROA improvements on both x64 and Arm64. Learn more about the performance improvements: devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-perf…

@leejy31415 @visualc Or someone forgot to hit publish? @visualc ?

@visualc Has the blog post been deleted? It returns 404.

@exQUIZitely We played this for hours and hours on end! So good!

The self-proclaimed Mother of All Games! Did you play this back in the day with your friends? Scorched Earth, by Wendell Hicken, was released as shareware in 1991. It wasn't going to win awards for groundbreaking graphics, yet it's one of the best multiplayer games ever - highly addictive with endless replay value. It let you customize a huge range of settings, from gravity, wind, and meteor showers to many others. Building on earlier games like QBasic Gorillas, it took the concept to a much higher level, supporting up to 10 players with far greater complexity and variety. You set angle and power to aim, with a wide choice of weapons (unlike the banana in QBasic Gorillas). Computer-controlled enemies ranged from difficulty 1 (Moron) to 10 (Cyborg). No other game has named its lowest difficulty level so perfectly! Wendell Hicken, the Quentin Tarantino of game developers!

@sorenblank Interesting. I always assumed sub-menus was using timers.

prediction cone/safe triangle — this is something we take so much for granted in modern day native UIs. but it's not the same for most web-based dropdown menus. it took me a while to implement this here. Amazon, macOS, Windows all implement some version of this.

@bunjavascript Windows ARM64 support 🔥 Do you need to uninstall older intel versions first? Or will `bun upgrade` pick up the ARM64 build and replace the old intel?

Bun v1.3.10 - Fixes 155 issues (addressing 642 👍) - `bun repl` - native JS/TS repl - Windows ARM64 - ECMAScript decorators - Faster event loop - Barrel file import optimization - Faster structuredClone, Buffer.slice, path.parse Thanks 11 contributors! bun.com/blog/bun-v1.3.…

@ersinkoc @bunjavascript That's not very appreciative response to someone who's making a very useful tool available for free. Bugs and issues will occur, but the good part of open source is that you can contribute back. If you want stability you want to stay on stable releases, not canary.

@bunjavascript I almost lost 10K euros (time). Who will compensate it? 😎

@mkristensen Had time to install it now. This is a very nice addition. 👍👍 Thank you very much

@thomasthomassen We're looking into that. In the meantime, check this out that I just released marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

What features or extensions make you jump from Visual Studio to other IDEs and editors to perform certain tasks?

@mkristensen Nice! I'll have a play around with this. 👍

@mkristensen Yes, sometimes I just make working notes. "Scribble" ideas. In VSCode I can have an unsaved file (which persist across app launches) with notes like that.

@thomasthomassen Gotcha. Having Ctrl+N just creates a new blank text file you can then give whatever file extension when you save?

@shanselman My virtual Desktop dream is that on a laptop I can map my virtual Desktops to physical monitors. So when they connects they automatically "expand" the virtual ones to the physical ones. And vice versa.

Virtual Desktops on Windows aren't used enough. Mac has the "maximize to Virtual Desktop" button so I did a similar for Windows. Please test it+file issues. SHIFT-CLICK the Maximize button will maximize a window to a new Virtual Desktop. Also a hotkey. github.com/shanselman/Max…

@redblobgames This is the kind of attention to user experiences that I wish was more common.

So if you write on a forum "visit redblobgames.com, and scroll to the bottom", and the regexp picks up the trailing comma, it will redirect you from "https://www.redblobgames/," to "https://www.redblobgames/"

When a url is posted on a forum/chat, it's often automatically made linkable. But sometimes the regexp that grabs the url also grabs a trailing punctuation mark. I've added this to my nginx conf to remove the punctuation: rewrite ^(.*)[,.)]$ $1 redirect;