🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

that is to say, i wish there were more beginner oriented engines that focused only on getting things up on the screen quickly and didn't bother so much with optimization, deployment and extensibility (Processing is a great example of this) and professional engines were closer to what they used to be: just collections of low level libraries that made the job of rolling your own tech accessible to people who already know how to code (this is my current personal goal)

i strongly believe that it is impossible to build a tool that is both friendly to beginners and useful to professionals. the needs are on the opposite parts of a pretty wide spectrum. i feel like this is doubly so in the game engine space and the confusion between the two needs has turned every engine into a soup that is too much for a beginner and too inflexible for professional development

the worst thing Unity ever did was convincing a generation of game developers that rolling your own engine takes more time and effort than dealing with their bullshit

i cannot tell you how many times in the past 10 years someone poked fun at me for writing my own engine instead of just using Unity so every time they do something predictably shitty i can't help but feel that sweet sweet schadenfreude

forgot that Patrick Stewart holds the royal pug while defending the palace from the Harkonnen attack in the original Dune

mocking up a menu scene with midjourney textures

my dog takes playtime so seriously i can't even look at him funny without him going to assemble all his toys

space skyrim is good, actually

i really hope that there will be stable open source LLMs available in the future because i've come to rely on chatGPT quite a bit over the past few months (mostly for looking up API information and algorithm implementations). it has freed up a tremendous amount of my time as a programmer

aint no bugs quite like raw socket programming bugs

i want more cool voice notifications from my computer. it's such a sci-fi trope and yet the only thing that does it currently is my headphones telling me their battery status

masto admins: i switched my instance to use a CDN and it works great on the web, but all the media in apps is broken. I don't think it's a cache issue as it's the case with newly installed apps too. any ideas?

disappointed to not see the younger generation slapping their forehead as hard as possible when they realize they did something wrong

i'm so excited for how my little suite of header only libraries is evolving. here is the code of the MNIST digit recognition app using the header only vulkan graphics engine that lets you draw a digit and tells you what it is using the header only ML library

https://gist.github.com/ivansafrin/24069d453663471598e9532fcd19fba7

can't wait to share it all once they're a bit more cleaned up!