🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

the roll your own engine highs are high, but the lows sure are low

just found out you can dump visual studio exception info in C++ on a crash to a file even in a release build and then open the file in visual studio and have the call stack and locals with all the line numbers (optimization permitting more or less) intact. this is game changing for debugging crashes on other people's computers.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/minidump-files

python tk is nice if you need a UI for something dumb fast

me and myself after i find out that the feature i'm implementing was already implemented by me months ago

UFO50 is so wonderful. what an achievement! what a value!

@toxi I find it's good at writing small, self contained bits of code that can easily be checked for correctness. think of it as a junior programmer (who remembers how to properly sort an array :) that you're delegating tasks to.
a lot of people who come at it with skepticism ask it to do things that it simply cannot do.
it's basically just a very good code snippet lookup engine, not a "fellow programmer".

gamers really hate when number go down

@helvetica that was the point when I finally made the jump. paying $100 a month for software was criminal enough, but doing it for bad software stopped making any sense at all.

i have a phd in particle systems

how is this the first time i've seen this menu option in any software??

@nasser Union of Service Script Runtimes

it's temping to think sometimes that there is a singular clever solution to a game design problem when in reality the solution is a bunch of small tweaks across the systems

what the fuck Cheryl Hines is RFK Jr.'s wife??