Sometimes I favourite posts with photos that have excellent alt text, and are probably also great photos. I always wonder whether the favourite would count as 3 favourites to the poster if they knew I was blind. Liking photos in any form is a very new hobby for us, a child of Mastodon as far as I'm concerned. It's restful for me to read alt text about nature or ice formations or an interesting animal or a cute cat, so I'm grateful.

Interrupting your doomscrolling with a fun project I did to prevent myself from doomscrolling: a LEGO MOC of the world map from The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past video game. I used bricks we had on hand, so the colors and shapes aren’t perfect, but pretty dang close for small scale!

apparently I can not hear an Australian person say “standards” without immediately flashing back to Meet the Sniper

4chan-style horror story that never gets to the point. just gives excessively detailed descriptions of mundane things and then abruptly ends

PSA: you can just run the command "cal" in your terminal to get a properly formatted calendar. or "cal -y" for the entire year.

i recently found out that surprisingly few modern linux users seem to be aware of this, and instead keep digging around for a graphical calendar. it's an old unix command so it's typically available on even the most lightweight of systems (like alpine)

from now on all fantasy games with loredump cutscenes must replace those cutscenes with variations on this meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkk8z3f0GzU

here’s a really fascinating video about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDFhWWPZ4Q

just tried American Truck Simulator and all I can say is: apparently it is really fucking hard to drive a truck. I’ve genuinely had an easier time docking to a space station in Kerbal Space Program, than doing a three-point turn in the tutorial for this game

it seems like I’m on a three-game streak of “cozy games” turning out to be unforgiving, difficult, and stressful lol

hey. listen

go play that video game you excitedly got on steam sale with so much enthusiasm, but never played

go play that game from your childhood that made you happy, that let you escape from the awful around you

go play that game your friend made and tell them all the cool things about it

go play that game your friends are all into but youve been too socially anxious to join in on

go play anything. your mental health will thank you for the break and youll love yourself a bit more, which goes a long way when we're all stretched too thin to give everyone the love we all deserve

the timeslice for programming the visor is about to expire; please enjoy its results.

after 26 broken installs, 100+ hours of github issue research, and 12 git forks to fix bugs in the kernel, i think my linux install works how i want it

*tries to stream a game and discord can't find the window or play the audio*

hey software engineers, serious question: how do i estimate work times on a codebase i'm not deeply familiar with, other than that it's got a decade of land mines, and half of my job is investigating how it was supposed to work in the first place because the people who wrote it are gone?

what do you look for when making up a number? what do managers look for?

boosts appreciated

#SoftwareEngineering #iOSDev

The wind has italicised a bench in town

despite “figure out how to use this technical and complicated machine” being one of my favorite video game genres, and how incredibly well-designed Elite Dangerous’s UI is, I couldn’t really get into the game

the problem is that it’s designed to feel unforgiving and dangerous (everything from the sound design to the UI seems built around this goal), and to put a lot of different kinds of pressure (including time pressure) on the player

it isn’t actually as unforgiving or dangerous as it feels, and the time pressures are either extremely generous (7 real-life days) or don’t really matter in the scheme of things, but it creates the illusion pretty convincingly

so despite how much I enjoyed learning parts of its UI and systems, I sadly can’t really enjoy the game overall because it just stresses me out way too much. I had more-or-less the same problem with Hardspace: Shipbreaker

also I don’t find it fun to fly my ship around and I think that’s probably supposed to be the main {fun thing} that you do in the game. it reminds me of Mechwarrior Online where they deliberately made the mechs control like tanks. it’s supposed to be fun that way but for me it actually just makes the game a frustrating slog

to be honest I really wish that this game had a quicksave/quickload system because I think that would remove all of the stress for me. but then of course it couldn’t be a multiplayer game