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Tweets from 2018/03

  1. …in reply to @Michael_French
    @Michael_French oh. oh, good
  2. suddenly I feel sympathy for cold bats @bats_london/969150413076385793
  3. RT @AranKoning: still the worst game i've ever made that was also the best game i've ever made motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ypw3yw/the-video-game-by-committee-was-an-epic-disaster
  4. …in reply to @undefined
    @reallyfancy @siobhangx i texted my mum & i believe a Rhythm is turning up for my birthday next week!
  5. …in reply to @v21
    @reallyfancy @siobhangx Say Yes To Weird Sounds
  6. …in reply to @VitaminPowered
    @VitaminPowered oh, that'd be sweet! I think I have a PO-12 on the way now, but the PO-16 (& maybe 14) would be great to play with
  7. RT @mjmcmaster: 🚨 NEW FONT ALERT 🚨 I've spent the last couple of months learning how to make fonts and here's what I made: https://t.co/N0…
  8. …in reply to @rebheartsyou
    @rebheartsyou awwww, this is very sweet to see!
  9. RT @David_Rudnick: one bit of market research Major Large Graphic Design Firm is unlikely to show a client is that 90% of people prefer loo…
  10. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 a thing that explains a bunch about spotify is they sold a decent chunk of the company to the major labels for very little money early on. smart decision.
  11. …in reply to @CaseyG
    @CaseyG yes please!
  12. i keep running into references to Mierle Laderman Ukeles' work and i'm very happy about this, more please
  13. lovely thread (in Russian) of interesting Twitterbots @Felegz/947876765363593217
  14. RT @q_dork: "bibbis likes brocky road ice cream before bed" - @108 #doodlestudio95
  15. new HMHB album announced:
  16. RT @catherineols: An interesting punchline: claimed improvements in previous work were due to implementation mistakes. So, the improvements…
  17. RT @mkruz: “The Nokia designers have been smoking the wacky-backy again.” A look back at when phones used to be crazy awesome, from one of…
  18. yesterday evening I spent playing with generative graphics on @glitch, this morning I'm sending out a code test with a suggestion to use @glitch. what a good thing to exist.
  19. …in reply to @undefined
    @PastelVolcano Half Man Half Biscuit
  20. daily sketches thread
  21. …in reply to @v21
    yesterday (inspired by @inconvergent's Hyphae, though I've not got the not-overlapping bit yet)
  22. …in reply to @v21
  23. a thing that still amuses me is @seajayshore using a Beasts of Balance plinth & a test app as a digital scale (for calculating postage costs, etc)
  24. RT @zeynep: This is a great thread, especially for anyone who would like some cheering up this morning. @janellecshane/969239712190746624
  25. SVG is a horrifying and glorious technology @GalaxyKate/969620752205996033
  26. …in reply to @PIXELATEDCROWN
    @PIXELATEDCROWN I am glad you raised your prices!
  27. oh, wow: Unity has gained npm-like package management! shame it doesn't quite go far enough into automatically checking stuff out (yet, seemingly) @LotteMakesStuff/969437180056645633
  28. very pleased with myself for writing some code to detect if a point is within a circle or not from memory
  29. …in reply to @v21
    x² + y² < r², yeah!! and i only fucked it up once before it ran correctly!
  30. …in reply to @vertxxyz
    @Vertexxyz haha - so as long as you install the package loader component manually, the rest can happen magically?
  31. …in reply to @v21
    3 variations
  32. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican oh, the multiple divergences from a single path is nice!
  33. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal I use oDrive for syncing Google Drive, as it can connect to multiple accounts
  34. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin I was wondering this the other day! My hypothesis (with no research) is that they're done by one person/a small team, tracing stock photos.
  35. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli UK: I haven't heard "open concept"
  36. RT @JFriedhoff: I got asked this question for an interview, and the answer didn’t end up being used, but I like it because it encompasses a…
  37. RT @BWDR: "Tarkovsky drank a lot of vodka and...turned off the speaker in the restaurant & began to sing the theme of samurai from Seven Sa…
  38. RT @joshmillard: Went to the museum today to, ad much as anything, look again at this Julian Stanczak painting that knocked me on my ass la…
  39. RT @kcimc: good intermediate-level generative graphics assignment: recreate dürer's "six studies of pillows" metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1975.1.862/ https:…
  40. …in reply to @v21
    starting to get to the good stuff
  41. looking forward to a private company having a database of verified identities linked to specifics of what porn people have looked at for a significant proportion of the population of the UK!!! @eey0re/970144255745212416
  42. this thread made me be into basketry, too @pangmeli/969720466784116737
  43. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow this sounds extremely good
  44. interesting comment from Vitor Batista on this interesting article about Into the Breach - it's more of a puzzle game than a strategy game, because there's very little hidden/random information gamasutra.com/view/news/315058/Reimagining_failure_in_strategy_game_design_in_Into_the_Breach.php
  45. …in reply to @v21
    i played a campaign yesterday and it was interesting how little i cared about seeing opponents play out their turns, or planning ahead for a new turn - instead, it was all about getting out of *this* sticky situation
  46. …in reply to @v21
    further thoughts: it's a masterpiece, but i don't love it. given a choice between the tight, measured, balanced thing & the wild oh wow oh what oh, hah! thing, they went for the balanced thing every time.
  47. …in reply to @v21
    this could be felt most strongly in the choice of what battles to pick. there was rarely anything that drew me in, compelled me to see what was what. but the single turn loop of "he's webbed, but i need him *here* to kill this one... oh, if i..." - top quality Interesting Choices
  48. RT @pangmeli: norma minkowitz's 'baskets' (?) (1980s) feel like grief, time, and interiority
  49. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad i was glad for all that stuff, but it didn't quite connect for me? definitely felt like it was flavour applied on top.
  50. RT @MarioBrothBlog: My apologies for an error in a recent Tweet. I had wrongfully stated that Luigi's skeleton can only be seen in cutscene…
  51. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa would you describe it as ... essential? @thameswater/970396825923604480
  52. …in reply to @v21
    @studioanisa (not trying to shame you! i just saw this and now feel self-conscious about the long showers i usually take)
  53. RT @srfrjulie: The list of items that are not accepted by the local coin sorting machine is exhaustive and amusing
  54. …in reply to @v21
    dense
  55. …in reply to @_never_work
    @_never_work @whatisian @CarlMuckenhoupt @emshort @jonotrainEB much love for The Gostak, i think about it often
  56. …in reply to @jmhodges
    @jmhodges @letsencrypt this got notifications, so jsyk: I have https set up now
  57. …in reply to @jmhodges
    @jmhodges @letsencrypt and using let's encrypt, yes
  58. RT @VentureBeat: Apptopia: Interactive story games thrive on mobile with $14 million in revenues last month wp.me/p8wLEc-9M9H by @swe…
  59. …in reply to @Jam_sponge
    @Jam_sponge I did a 4 island run first (& so far only) run. Not played FTL, but the game does a great job of giving you interesting puzzles you can usually solve if you spend long enough.
  60. …in reply to @v21
    exploring this edge avoidance
  61. …in reply to @Jewbacchus
    @Jewbacchus you mean less dense?
  62. …in reply to @Jewbacchus
    @Jewbacchus it's somewhat of an emergent property, but future days definitely try to get into that territory (i'm working a few days in advance)
  63. @sasha_reneau i just read "i died and it was great" and i liked it a lot, thank you!
  64. conlang phonology manifesto (from arieljmoody.itch.io/arifestoes)
  65. …in reply to @v21
  66. i think i'm gonna start typesetting everything i write in default Latex (with Computer Modern). it's such a mood.
  67. …in reply to @v21
    sorry: LaTeX
  68. …in reply to @v21
    here is every time I have tweeted about the font Computer Modern twitter.com/search?q=from%3Av21%20%22computer%20modern%22&src=typd
  69. …in reply to @inconvergent
    @inconvergent ohhhh - imagining training a neural net - rejected if Latex throws errors, validation function is how much black you can get on the page
  70. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin I don't think i've ever watched a single episode
  71. RT @jomc: JUST BROWSING, my five-part video essay series w/ @nananaKneeeees and music by Vince Clarke, is available to watch now: https://t…
  72. …in reply to @CelineDayJardnz
    @CelineDayJardnz @crowfather1 @MultiTaskingCat @earthygirl01 @sazza_jay @decouvrir_xx @OwenJones84 what changing rooms should trans men go to?
  73. …in reply to @mmalex
    @mmalex @KommanderKlobb ohh, yeah, i don't know for PCB mounted - the TWT ones are ultimarc.com/ClassicRGB.html - now i'm thinking about the Monome, which has LED buttons on a PCB - but not preassembled: monome.org/docs/grid-kit/
  74. …in reply to @mmalex
    @mmalex @KommanderKlobb oooh - another ref learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-trellis-diy-open-source-led-keypad/overview the rubber pads will need a case made to hold them in place, though, which maybe becomes the limiting factor?
  75. …in reply to @RedArmy99
    @RedArmy99 @Marcotti @EddyTeddyFinch @alanferrier We've not left the EU yet
  76. …in reply to @mmalex
    @mmalex @KommanderKlobb ohh, nice. good luck!
  77. RT @DVSblast: FOODHACK: put a bread in the toaster for a crunchy surprise
  78. RT @RebeccaFiebrink: A clear description of the sham process by which @UniversitiesUK "voted" to drastically reduce our pension schemes, re…
  79. …in reply to @JenuinePanic
    @JenuinePanic I think it basically is? But also, most of the times I watch that movie it's for the soundtrack
  80. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb you can do it faster?
  81. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb oh, in which case it's do it without stopping. that's the next aim.
  82. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn it IS my birthday! thank you for the many images!
  83. RT @MetaphorMagnet: "Join a troupe," they said. "It'll make a graceful dancer of you," they trumpeted. Turns out I joined a troupe of awkw…
  84. …in reply to @tigershungry
  85. …in reply to @v21
  86. …in reply to @tigershungry
  87. this thread is immense and detailed about the grisly details of a gorgeous game @hllwpnds/971374377387397120
  88. I look forward to pretending I have a neutral opinion of Ready Player One when a friend of someone I like enthusiastically talks about it to me at a party.
  89. …in reply to @v21
    and y'know, I am glad they (he) (odds on its a he, and probably less tragic?) like it, I'm glad they can take pleasure from this thing in their life
  90. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions I don't want to be rude to someone someone I like likes! Maybe they're good other than their awful taste in pop culture? Who gains? Other than me, in that moment, desperately trying to stop hearing about it
  91. …in reply to @hondanhon
    @hondanhon I was just looking at them, and really I should have more self control or a more curated twitter feed
  92. …in reply to @spacefinner
    @spacefinner this is also my general position on things, but also I want to acknowledge this feeling of generalised dread I just felt
  93. …in reply to @v21
    @spacefinner (I do also try to be aware that in talking about the thing, I become part of the problem)
  94. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d fast and the furious is just a retro fury road
  95. …in reply to @v21
  96. …in reply to @v21
    the filename is "dense continuous.png" but i right now i just wanna say "veiny"
  97. …in reply to @v21
    @Jewbacchus here's similar, but with the opacity reduced... (not quite what you were asking for, but i have it in the folder)
  98. RT @cher: Wu Tang Cher Clan
  99. @patrickashe happy birthday!!
  100. imagine designing a game as good as bingo
  101. unknown
  102. …in reply to @v21
    apologies, this tweet was intended to read: unknown undefined Unhandled
  103. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i have! it was computer bingo, with electronic screens. you didn't have to do anything except repeatedly tap on a touchscreen and watch numbers fill in. it was very exciting.
  104. RT @jkap: Announcing HyperCard Zine! A new collection of HyperCard stacks in 2018. Submissions open now until (tenatively) 5/31! https://t.…
  105. …in reply to @v21
    oh! for some reason i thought i'd already posted today?
  106. …in reply to @Jewbacchus
    @Jewbacchus i might set up a bot? the way i am making them right now is incredibly bot-suitable
  107. Dissembler is out on Android! A really neat, tight minimalist puzzle game & it looks real good & tactile.
  108. …in reply to @v21
  109. …in reply to @Remi_Tootata
    @HeskHwis Yeah - there's a bunch of puzzles where I just don't get it, and end up skipping them for now
  110. a random game dev task i find very enjoyable - writing synonym lists for Alexa intents. it's the same process as carefully growing a list of options in Tracery, but it makes a list of thing you can recognise, instead of a list of things you can generate
  111. RT @mcclure111: And in the 90s if a kid loves both video games and Hitler? There's no *connection* between those things, that's ridiculous.…
  112. …in reply to @v21
    two for the price of one
  113. …in reply to @ThomasAmnesiac
    @doctor_thomas thank you!!
  114. …in reply to @fionchadd
    @fionchadd short answer: a little algorithm drawing in canvas in javascript. longer answer: i'm using glitch.com to run a little node process, then using node-canvas to render this, and serve it up as a png useful answer: here's tomorrow's source code glitch.com/edit/#!/v21-hyphae-pearls?path=clock.js:1:0
  115. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN yeah! I won't be, but others will be. Not sure exactly who, but I think Ana is one of them? (tagging in @beastsofbalance so she'll see)
  116. RT @MermaidVR: DEBUG VISUALIZATION (3)
  117. some time ago I was playing a videogame, and to assist me I made notes on this piece of paper. can you tell which game?
  118. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro I just paint the heck out of my cuticles, then scrub clean in the shower/pick it off.
  119. RT @social_brains: Best illusion I've seen, maybe ever. The blue and black lines are NOT moving. Insanely good.
  120. death to all twitter jokes that provide the context in square brackets
  121. …in reply to @junklatch
    @junklatch oh, good call
  122. RT @JKirchartz: I just released pos2tracery on NPM, it generates tracery grammars from a corpus of sentences, or one sentence per line of a…
  123. …in reply to @v21
    trails of rings
  124. i was about to make a tiny microsite that adds a single pixel of translucency into a png, saving it from twitter's jpg compression... but then i found someone already had! ravenworks.ca/twitimagefix/ what a good thing to exist, thanks @RavenWorks
  125. …in reply to @MaizeWallin
    @MaizeWallin what's the seasoning? and yeah, I've been big into sprouts recently!
  126. RT @perlin_noise: 🔥😩🔥🔥🔥👹👿🔥🔥🔥🔥👺 👺👺👿👺🔥🔥👹🔥🔥🔥👺🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👺👿🔥🔥👿🔥 🔥👹🔥👹😩🔥🔥🔥👺👺🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥👹🔥🔥👺🔥🔥😩🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥👹🔥🔥🔥🔥😩🔥😩 🔥🔥🔥🔥👹🔥🔥👿👺👹🔥🔥 😩🔥👹🔥👿🔥🔥🔥😩🔥👿🔥 👹🔥🔥🔥🔥👿🔥🔥🔥👺🔥🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥…
  127. …in reply to @DavidLublin
    @DavidLublin this is weird to me, sitting here in not-USA
  128. RT @FinalBullet: "Hey, you love tech". So weird and meaningless, like being accused of enjoying been clean, or wearing shoes on your feet.…
  129. …in reply to @DavidLublin
    @DavidLublin I mean, yes, definitely, but also if anyone considered raising the drinking age to 21 a lot of people would kick off
  130. RT @mizabitha: *The best furry MUD, the Borges-themed Orbis Quatriis, managed to combine both uses of the asterisk, and in so doing quickly…
  131. I newly appreciate Boys, the best song of last year. I got to do a (basically) PC Music song at karaoke!
  132. …in reply to @v21
    it was just pointed out to me (during Die Young) that I have curated a group of friends to karaoke with who are all older than me? hm
  133. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite neither!
  134. …in reply to @v21
    also, look how nice the floor is
  135. …in reply to @RobotJoel
    @RobotJoel upstairs room at the Star of Bethnal Green
  136. this is a nice interview about creative coding youtube.com/watch?v=sDfIkXf3uzA
  137. RT @zeynep: YouTube may well be operating as a giant radicalizing engine through its recommendation algorithm—leading people down a rabbit…
  138. RT @v21: remembering this bit from Roshonara Choudhry's police interview, after she stabbed her MP theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/03/roshonara-choudhry-police-interview https://t.co/I7g…
  139. …in reply to @v21
  140. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal my previous retweet reminded me of it: @zeynep/972591994659745792
  141. …in reply to @shahidkamal
    @shahidkamal here's a clearcut case of someone being radicalised in 2010... and still it operates in the exact same way
  142. …in reply to @pangmeli
    @pangmeli I was thinking about this & the bits of English culture I do stand by, which there are some of. It's hard to see, because it's invisible except when contrasted against. But, like, my granddad and cousins do Morris dancing...
  143. …in reply to @v21
    @pangmeli & of course when I wikipedia Morris dancing, I find it's called that because it started as "Moorish" dancing... cultural appropriation has been going on since 1448.
  144. …in reply to @ok_remi_ok
    @sandwich_cool if you're not using pooling already for stuff i would just use instantiate and switch to pooling later if profiling/GC stutters suggest it's a problem
  145. I keep thinking about the lines & forms & brushstrokes in this drawing. Really glad Rachel is posting art again. instagram.com/p/Bf7T9IGA5Yc/
  146. RT @inform_dreams: A food is a kind of thing that is edible. Food has some text called flavor. The flavor of food is usually "Tolerable."
  147. RT @Labbars: This is the greatest video ever made
  148. RT @ojahnn: tag yourself
  149. RT @mattdesl: Poisson disc squares. #generative #javascript ◾️▪️
  150. RT @pangmeli: aleksey kondratyev's photo series of kazakh ice fishers
  151. "I feel like I woke up one morning and I lost some of the ability to have gender that I always had had before." therumpus.net/2018/03/the-rumpus-interview-with-mallory-ortberg/
  152. …in reply to @HilariousCow
  153. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow how long did that take?
  154. …in reply to @v21
    @HilariousCow (and also, there really should be a good utility library for handling angles somewhere... I've written code like that so many times, and it's always bad)
  155. …in reply to @RITPhotoHF
    @RITPhotoHF @jeffthompson_ oh, this looks sweet!
  156. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow how long did it take to execute, tho? I have no intuition
  157. support to all my friends who've been on strike the last few weeks & deserve better than what UCU have come back with
  158. …in reply to @v21
  159. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz oh! congratulations! i hope it is the beginning of the end of your struggles with paperwork
  160. RT @joonturbo: I just had to make this sign for my workplace.
  161. RT @idamantium: Let’s critique sex party design! @qz published my response to @emilychangtv’s excellent exposé of Silicon Valley debauchery…
  162. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate counterpoint: the fact you could fly in second life was the best bit, and exploring deserted cyber landscapes was the second best bit
  163. …in reply to @v21
    @GalaxyKate i mean, all i wanted from VR was for it to get popular enough that old headsets would be cheap from second-hand electronics stores at an indeterminate point in the future, so maybe i'm not the best person to opine
  164. RT @willknight: Very interesting paper from UC @berkeley_ai examines the innate knowledge that helps humans solve computer games more quick…
  165. RT @hannahnicklin: Just packaged 40 zines and trying to remind myself about stage 7 of making a Zine
  166. …in reply to @v21
  167. RT @emojiatlas: 🌊🚣🌱🏤🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌱🗻🌲🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌲🌲🌱🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌱🌱🏦🌲🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌲🌲🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌲🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🐬🌱🌲🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌱🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌀🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌱🏢🌱🌊🌊
  168. …in reply to @markeryjane
    @8fldh @brothboy I am very excited to learn there's a new Point Blank game
  169. sudden idea to make a tarot card app. golden thread is good! but the illustrations don't speak to me, and it has so much stuff you have to get through to just draw a card. and i'd love to really nail the UX of such an intimate thing. idk. do people think this is a good idea?
  170. …in reply to @inconvergent
    @inconvergent no, and Rust
  171. RT @unicode_garden: 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌷🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺…
  172. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi interesting! I am much less interested in recording draws over time (definitely as a core thing). what information would you record with the card?
  173. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi page per week - there's something nice about having time marked off like that, although it might not fit to phone screens so easily. but yeah! interesting.
  174. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi yeah, i was just thinking about the terrifying nature of an infinite scroll list of all your days. a week per page feels much more humane, somehow.
  175. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii I was thinking of this as a proper commercial project yeah - and yes, good features! maybe adjustable proportion of reversed cards - it doesn't quite make sense, but about 30% feels right, somehow?
  176. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i do not miss university air conditioning
  177. this is the life
  178. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii mmm. i do know what you mean. and it kind of exposes the weirdness at the whole idea of a tarot card app.
  179. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii not-speaking-to? do you mean it's insistence on a digital feel with smooth vectors & little skeuomorphism?
  180. …in reply to @xxvi_xxxviii
    @xxvi_xxxviii ah, i see. it's interesting (having just launched it again) how you can see that the design came from designing a deck first, then oh! this could be an app.
  181. …in reply to @v21
    @xxvi_xxxviii which is a fine way to do it, but it doesn't lend itself to questioning what it means to make a tarot card app. (though note all the bits about, oh, you could use a physical deck instead)
  182. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie oh, nice. yeah, i feel like shuffling and holding on your question and slowing down is vital. there's not enough people exploring slow rituals in tech.
  183. …in reply to @v21
  184. i should start adding my daily sketches to a bot, maybe? they're all perfectly bottable...
  185. …in reply to @v21
    I'm not joking
  186. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone @aeleitch the place it gets hard is coordinating with data files where there's no concept of types (but maybe the answer is "don't use them, then")
  187. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisamaphone @aeleitch or, cheaper fix for this case, the import process should throw visible errors if a reference is missing? but this gets close to backseat driving
  188. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone @mcclure111 @aeleitch yep! current (Typescript) project, we serialise to JSON for user data, and when we pull it out it's set up as an object with the right types & errors if the types are incompatible
  189. …in reply to @v21
    @chrisamaphone @mcclure111 @aeleitch but we also load data files from csv (which come from google sheets our very much non-technical writers work in). maybe the same approach will work there? idk, not looked into that part of the project yet
  190. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @chrisamaphone @aeleitch i think prepending "export default" to a JSON file would be enough to turn it into a Typescript module... but honestly i'm not sure there's that much benefit to doing it then rather than when the code is loaded/tests are run etc?
  191. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @chrisamaphone @aeleitch i mean, actually it comes down to workflow - do you recompile to update data files, or run a script, or just replace them and run tests? depends on how tied the cadence is of editing data files versus modifying code.
  192. RT @molleindustria: I made a city-building game that you play on/with my dog
  193. what a good tweet this was @everyboolean/797828443589091328
  194. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker @mcclure111 @chrisamaphone @aeleitch mm, good point - though if you're parsing data files at compile time, i reckon you're just gonna update the whole thing (code & data) at once. or, the other way to look at it is that your data has become code.
  195. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @lazerwalker @chrisamaphone @aeleitch yeah - i think our data files are type-checked when the application loads, not when tests hit them (if they're not, they should be). which is not quite at compile, but good enough, imo
  196. …in reply to @expdotzine
  197. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i want you to know that i watched this video on mute and i enjoyed it wholeheartedly
  198. …in reply to @robotduck
    @robotduck @unity3d i do it when talking to someone about a problem (on Slack, Twitter, whatever) and want to look something up. Or if the wifi is bad where I'm at, but I have data. I probably look at it on mobile a third of the time?
  199. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc @omar13x @GameAI_QMUL wahhh! <3
  200. RT @GIFmodel: the day will come we will fix the snow
  201. I am excited for Jenny Hval's book & I am excited for Jenny Odell's book.
  202. the answers to this are interesting if you want to think about developing games as a community experience, not individuals and small teams working by themselves @robotduck/973958241288966144
  203. got a lot of thoughts about the final segment of the new Cool Ghosts episode youtu.be/U0MSxdhnqSg?t=19m16s
  204. …in reply to @v21
    recently i attempted to play Nier : Automata. people i like had praised how innovate it was, had loved the characters, it was full of goofy fun stuff & nice rhythmic combat.
  205. …in reply to @v21
    i don't play many big videogames, and mainly i was like, oh. there's a open world, there's collectibles, there's endless thingys to fight, there's side quests, there's all this stuff that you need to put in when you're making a videogame like this
  206. …in reply to @v21
    and i liked a lot of that stuff! and the game couldn't have existed without that - it was clever solutions to make that stuff feel great. and i did love the characters. but. mainly it was just really long. and i put it on easy and burnt through it as fast as i could.
  207. …in reply to @v21
    i like seeing all the ways you can use a computer to do things that don't help you achieve a task. i like games. but i don't think i really like videogames all that much.
  208. …in reply to @lawraclark
    @stephen__clark yeah, i definitely think the game couldn't have worked the way it did if it wasn't built on that triple A scaffolding.
  209. this is a good thread @max_read/973743748814458880
  210. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts @Dick_Hogg once told me it was an airline safety video that got him into animation. i might be misremembering.
  211. …in reply to @moocowpong1
    @moocowpong1 @mcclure111 i mean, this is basically homestuck
  212. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @ammonite @PuzzleGami @YaGirlCaitie @DavidHelbich Dynamicland - but I think it is maybe too much about being an interface to technology right now?
  213. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio I wonder if @RobbyKraft has any interesting leads
  214. I guess on average, tube gatelines have more barriers set for egress than ingress - trains arriving cluster passengers, and they want to be set for local peaks, not averages.
  215. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern please write about J13 Records
  216. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern seemingly the only ref is this paper?
  217. …in reply to @v21
    @alexhern (and Companies House, with Peter Bentley's name attached...)
  218. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @alexhern haha! yeah, it's a good point! i was reading the paper like... i want a journalist to do journalism on this... oh, yeah, Alex is a journalist? and he posted the paper? hm
  219. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc scale is really important! i think about this a lot.
  220. …in reply to @DanFriedman81
  221. RT @hollygramazio: Today’s amazing Now Play This issue: because of the recent cold weather, the trees we’ve booked are growing their leaves…
  222. RT @MISTYS_BIG_TWIT: My current job is helping children record butchers.
  223. …in reply to @lizardengland
    @lizardengland ugh, yes, you can do this, it's fiddly and I'm on my phone so can't make a decent example. if I remember right, you define multiple variables next to each other for each form, and then randomly select an version with each full different set.
  224. …in reply to @lizardengland
  225. …in reply to @ftrain
    @ftrain hard licorice is also good!
  226. RT @josefkenny: i present to you all. my latest masterwork: the ELEANOR RIGBY BATTLE THEME
  227. this is a good thread & applies much more widely than music @jukiokallio/974260284134215681
  228. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou probably for the same reason i've started leaving the cursor in my instagram photos of my daily sketches?
  229. …in reply to @jericawebber
  230. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @acgodliman i really want you to have your own tv show now
  231. RT @ragzouken: are there more colours out there?
  232. RT @newlinla: My gas utility wanted me to fill out an online survey.
  233. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ custom made toys, you say?
  234. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ haha, it's fine! i'm hyped for sok-edit! (i assume that's one reason you've been on this chain of thought)
  235. doesn't this just sound great? (discussion of Ontario lifting the IT worker exemption to overtime rules: osler.com/en/blogs/risk/november-2017/ontario-considering-overtime-and-hours-of-work-rul)
  236. RT @lottelydia: Amazon has carefully analysed my buying habits and has decided that I need to frequently and rapidly purchase coffee filter…
  237. …in reply to @dreamfeelx
    @dreamfeelx mentions of infinity & metaphors remind me of Where Mathematics Comes From, which I found pretty extraordinary
  238. …in reply to @ragzouken
  239. …in reply to @v21
  240. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox @kevinwatters this looks great! i've been wanting to play with SDF stuff for a while, exciting
  241. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz i should be along (when done with work and down to Croydon, so not soon, but soon!)
  242. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
    @neighbour_civs @mousefountain can i also receive a book?
  243. RT @leighalexander: I published a new 'algowave' short story called The Soft Truth. Please enjoy! medium.com/@leighalexander/the-soft-truth-b7c8639031f2
  244. RT @neighbour_civs: @v21 You're holding 'Cooking with Fruit.'
  245. …in reply to @v21
  246. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander it's real good & uneasy!
  247. RT @AdrianChen: I'm reading the journal of Ana Voog, an artist who was one of the first people to broadcast her life on the internet in the…
  248. …in reply to @khalkeus3d
    @khalkeus3d @mousefountain honestly I had no idea it was supposed to be Canada? and yeah, censorship makes sense, it's definitely a long-running theme with the Strugatskys
  249. …in reply to @brothboy
    @brothboy @q_dork @8fldh YEAHHH get that tech industry nectar
  250. …in reply to @undefined
    @briecode yesterday i read this section from a book by Ana Voog, who livestreamed for ten years. this is what having a phone can be like. books.google.co.uk/books?id=TTssJ4CeiGoC&lpg=PA98&dq=homecam+webcam&pg=PA7&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
  251. …in reply to @v21
  252. …in reply to @jbushnell
    @jbushnell no - not yet, anyway
  253. RT @geofflapid: This @tommchenry comic is so good, no one pulls off the horrors of banal work culture like Tom does medium.com/@tommchenry/agency-790d94c4a1d6?source=linkShare-7220c9c971bd-1520900274
  254. RT @Kaleidopix: the filename is dense ʇɥǝ ɟᴉlǝuɐɯǝ ᴉs qǝusǝ continuouspng but i couʇᴉunonsbuƃ pnʇ ᴉ @v21
  255. …in reply to @brothboy
    @brothboy @ivyatoms very much so
  256. RT @0xabad1dea: v good tumblr content I tear my hair out over the way historical people’s glaringly obvious queerness gets “well we can’t…
  257. …in reply to @v21
  258. media recommendation wanted: i love Dungeon Meshi / Delicious In Dungeon, but I've ran out. what else has the same fascination with it's own worldbuilding?
  259. …in reply to @JumpOvertheAge
    @JumpOvertheAge ah, lovely!
  260. …in reply to @JumpOvertheAge
    @JumpOvertheAge the filename was "xstitch+rose", so i think we're going back to the similarities between textiles & computing, here
  261. this diagram is not to scale @xxvi_xxxviii/975462529265819649
  262. RT @Nikyatu: Remember: a toxic workplace is more likely to change you than you are likely to change a toxic workplace.
  263. …in reply to @_gaeel_
    @_gaeel_ @dreamfeelx why the what is what?
  264. …in reply to @v21
  265. …in reply to @_gaeel_
    @_gaeel_ @dreamfeelx you're making a nice pattern (it's implemented in messy but straightforward JS if you wanna dive in - transformations are represented as convolution kernels)
  266. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain at first i imagined that bench as a hand, but now i'm imagining it as a 3 seater potty
  267. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain oh! yeah, that makes sense
  268. bot of the day: @DavidPayneCart1 Allison *is* the best, and I hope she wins this award.
  269. if you're at GDC, come by the Mild Rumpus, lots of tasty games & crayons to draw with @WildRumpus/975782105098502144
  270. …in reply to @v21
  271. divination via generated Glitch project names
  272. …in reply to @v21
    think i might try streaming some daily sketch stuff in a mo? once i make some tea/figure out how technology works
  273. …in reply to @v21
    i made tea & figured out some technology stuff. let's make a sequence of gifs! twitch.tv/vtwentyone
  274. …in reply to @v21
    i made my code make a gif! here it is (and now i'm going to stop streaming, because my computer goes very slow when i do)
  275. i thought unions would be good for game developers, but i have to say that Jen MacLean, IGDA Executive Director has really changed my mind usgamer.net/articles/igda-director-union-crunch-interview?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
  276. …in reply to @v21
  277. …in reply to @oliviacpu
    @oliviacpu I found videos on youtube of people just... driving around where I grew up
  278. …in reply to @v21
    @oliviacpu in fact : this one youtu.be/oFi26K8Yh3s
  279. shoutout to SteveDD1 / SteveDD2 on youtube for his videos of driving through the area I grew up in youtu.be/oFi26K8Yh3s
  280. …in reply to @EmilyEMeo
    @EmilyEMeo It's wonderful, so glad we could show it
  281. celebrating the end of this lingering cough that came with the flu by getting a cold
  282. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn i use communal mugs, so i clean it when i'm returning it to the general stock
  283. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn yeah, or i realize i was too lazy & have a couple piled up. or when i'm going to the kitchen anyway
  284. RT @adultswimgames: We’re proud to announce Pool Panic - the world’s least realistic pool simulator. Come play with our balls this spring…
  285. a tool i made was used to make a bot which made a tweet which was used as an example by a person i very much admire at a conference i'm sad not to be at! @lizardengland/976142438224994304
  286. …in reply to @v21
    also the lineup for this panel is killer, wow
  287. RT @WildRumpus: Nestled among the flowers in the back garden today we’ve got Nour, Hypnospace Outlaw, a Museum Of Dubious Splendours & Soft…
  288. good, specific, advice @vivschwarz/976180291483131904
  289. …in reply to @HTHRFLWRS
    @HTHRFLWRS break a leg!
  290. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz it's okay, the blood moon will make them right as rain again
  291. …in reply to @v21
  292. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio in a few days i go to trying to create white by layering more and more colours on top of each other. it doesn't really work, but it's nice to try
  293. RT @TarletonG: Amazing essay on the consequences of health assessment algorithms. Really gets how its not "algorithms," its the institution…
  294. RT @AsherVo: “It’s dangerous when 1 is the smallest number in your game system, because the next number is 2, which is twice as powerful”
  295. the sheer joy that is building a complex game system by editing a google doc (i started setting one up yesterday, but it is nowhere near this complex) @KrisLigman/976523560289095681
  296. …in reply to @winnersusedrugs
    @winnersusedrugs i once had a towel nicked while i was in the (communal) shower. fun situation.
  297. …in reply to @v21
  298. …in reply to @v21
  299. RT @brandonnn: The lineup for that.party 2018 is now available here: that.party/lineup/ See you all tonight! https://t.c…
  300. hurrah for @haikus_by_KN! excited to be following the unionization rally over here in London (it was not intended as a unionization rally) @john_brindle/976594244201836545
  301. 1) this is bad, obviously 2) this is about how long i've been in the industry 2) i think i was pretty aware how bad it could be when i started out 3) on reflection, i've been pretty lucky/made some good career choices? @jennfrankgames/976602326671609858
  302. …in reply to @v21
    i've always been prepared to leave, though, and always distantly thought about how employable i'd be outside of games. and i've never wanted to work for a large studio.
  303. …in reply to @Wofiel
    @Wofiel yeah, for sure - like i say, i've been lucky
  304. …in reply to @doam
  305. as a contrast here, i am thinking of Dwarf Fortress starting from "what stories & events would we like this simulation to be capable of generating" @lizardengland/976612360189169664
  306. …in reply to @v21
  307. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike hello Casey!
  308. I love this image @maljx/976518097275244544
  309. Okay, so. I was making toast, and then I started wondering - why is there a thing about scraping burnt bits into the sink? That's definitely the script I have, but why not into the bin?
  310. …in reply to @v21
    the sink is larger, so catches more burnt bits? the sink feels cleaner than the bin? is this somehow a Britishism?
  311. …in reply to @v21
    I checked Twitter : twitter.com/search?q=%22burnt%20bits%20into%20the%20sink%22&s=09 so it's not just me ("burnt bits into the bin" has fewer results)
  312. …in reply to @v21
    I didn't burn this toast, btw.
  313. …in reply to @timbusuttil
    @timbusuttil i think that makes unwarranted assumptions about kitchen layout
  314. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio oooh, good question. we don't have one now, but as a kid I'd say I'd probably just scrape into the tub and it'd be extra annoying to clean up after?
  315. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl but burnt toast isn't actually hot - also see Holly's point about the plastic basins in UK sinks
  316. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @AOsher i still stand by this being cultural, meaning that present day factors will have a delayed impact on the practice
  317. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet i guess! but i can't think of other very dry things we put into the sink... i guess most food prep makes a mess on the side, and then as a later step is transferred to the bin.
  318. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet oooh, that's a very particular mental image
  319. …in reply to @gracebruxner
    @gracebruxner @brandonnn it gives me a lot of pleasure to find you reading my tweets about burnt toast rn. the party looked great, very sad not to be there dancing. hope you get to bed soon!
  320. …in reply to @mike_robbo
    @mike_robbo it does!
  321. …in reply to @brandonnn
    @brandonnn @gracebruxner <3 <3 <3 i am very glad you're not still adrift somewhere, like that year we ended up eating the worst diner food possible at 5am.
  322. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke @hollygramazio @AOsher now you're making me want to scrape toast upside down
  323. …in reply to @metasynthie
    @metasynthie @lizardengland what a pleasure to be reading a tweet thread about a talk by @lizardengland (instead of a tweet thread by Liz, about a talk)
  324. …in reply to @v21
    looks a bit like the moon
  325. RT @pangmeli: these pogs!
  326. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz s'just a big circle, right?
  327. RT @casskhaw: New story? New story. 'You Do Nothing But Freefall' is about a cat and a fox, about immortals and the immortality of friend…
  328. RT @john_brindle: In an interview today with @zamofficial, IDGA head @jenmacl told me she would support developers who choose to unionize i…
  329. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall good points, well made
  330. …in reply to @dannybirchall
    @dannybirchall that squirrel, oh my god (the exhibition looks good, too)
  331. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn apparently you are alone in this!
  332. …in reply to @v21
  333. RT @metasynthie: A recurring theme in several talks at #GDC18 has been how systems, done wrong or simplistically, can be dehumanizing or fo…
  334. RT @TheJadedGuy: David Cage: Can a robot learn to be human? Yoko Taro: Can a human? Cage: what Yoko Taro: Can a human learn to be human? Ca…
  335. RT @whatisian: hello, here is a tiny, new puzzle game I made Constellations // Play here: ianiselsewhere.com/constellations/
  336. RT @ada_rob: The #beatblender AI Experiment built by @tBlankensmith and @hapticdata with #MusicVAE is now live! I am just having fun sittin…
  337. …in reply to @asponge
    @asponge is this supposed to be a wake up call about your worrying knife habit?
  338. …in reply to @undefined
    @jennfrankgames this tweet prompted me to finally find a book i read as a kid that had a big impression on me. it was called "Matt's Million", and it's about a kid who discovers a computer game he made had made him a millionaire?
  339. …in reply to @v21
    @jennfrankgames anyway, the whole book is about him dealing with the complexities of being suddenly rich (including - his friend Clare helped him with the game, and how does he deal with that? they had no rev-share agreement in place, of course)
  340. …in reply to @v21
    @jennfrankgames the moral at the end is "look after your mum, and the thing that brings satisfaction isn't money but hard work". good book.
  341. …in reply to @v21
  342. …in reply to @SFBTom
    @SFBTom @jennfrankgames i discovered there was a TV adaptation about 15 minutes ago!
  343. indie dev
  344. …in reply to @skeleton_hugs
  345. RT @TwoHeadlines: If Cambridge Analytica controls your mind, so do a lot of other tech companies
  346. here is a good blog post talking about the work that goes into making something in a game good enough that players won't notice it medium.com/@nickfourtimes/prodding-gnoggins-f481bea963ab
  347. RT @JordanMorgan10: TIL you can use NSDoubleLocalizedStrings as a launch argument to, obviously, double the length of all of your NSLocaliz…
  348. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful oh, rad, see you there!
  349. …in reply to @frozenpandaman
  350. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin oh, that is a good comparison
  351. RT @mcclure111: I'm sorry I just can't get over the possibility that YouTube's recommendation algorithm actually *works* and this is what a…
  352. RT @WildRumpus: It’s the last day of our delightful bungalow back garden at GDC and we’ve got a few more choice picks from our games allotm…
  353. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes ko-op rally racers
  354. the thing about the expanding brain meme is that at it's best, all of the levels of brain are true
  355. …in reply to @v21
    imagine I'd made a expanding brain thing about the proportion of women writing for games outlets, the existence of non-binary people in those numbers, the importance of where power exists within editorial structures, this tweet
  356. …in reply to @v21
    the Discourse is tiring, but it's taught me a lot
  357. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow hi jack
  358. …in reply to @v21
  359. …in reply to @v21
    and I've tried to contribute to a "is this a white man, as far as we know" column in a spreadsheet before and it's a very hard column to fill out without, y'know, interrogating artists about their identity in a discomforting way (it's definitely a valuable column)
  360. …in reply to @hanbandit
    @hanbandit for first Beasts KS we had a presence on BGG, but not an active/engaged one (I suspect because we have electricity, we don't fit the traditional mould). the important thing is to find a community that will want to support you, not that it's that one particular one
  361. …in reply to @clare
    @clare once is fine, a couple of times makes me paranoid, but after long enough and you're still actually friends it's just the way they are and it's weird to take it personally
  362. RT @delaneykingrox: Most games just feel like a walk through virtual production for me... I can taste the time constraints, the shortcuts,…
  363. i did not know dwarf fortress had vampires. amazing: dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Vampire
  364. myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/171904353715/note-dump-dump-notes thecatamites goes off on games full of stuff, rolling dustballs of content
  365. …in reply to @CheerfulGoth
    @Brica6rac haha yeah - i found out about vampires via @3liza's recent thread: @3liza/977481406434623488
  366. the UX of buying a book on Amazon is weirdly bad? at least the way I do it
  367. …in reply to @v21
    - search for book title on Google - click Amazon .com link - look at product page - change .com to .co.uk in URL - look at product page, slightly different this time, decide, yes, I wanna buy this
  368. …in reply to @v21
    - don't click the big BUY NOW button, but instead look at the "formats" section - click either "new" or "used", depending on cost etc - click through to listings page
  369. …in reply to @v21
    - leave the book in my Amazon basket for a month or so, until there's something I need to buy urgently - realize the book has changed price, so there's a new cheaper seller, re-add the book - oh god, that whole checkout flow, i'm not even gonna try to thread it - book!
  370. …in reply to @v21
    - wonder why Book Depository (owned by Amazon) sells books cheaper than regular Amazon - wonder if any of the other sellers are also owned by Amazon - think about what £9.90 + £2.80 is, and realize, yes, they're sorted correctly on the page - click "Add to Basket" on Wordery
  371. …in reply to @v21
    there's probably an easier way to do it
  372. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian who is your online bookseller of choice?
  373. …in reply to @PeteOlympian
    @PeteOlympian yeah - just checked the publisher's site, it's $36 to get it & shipped to the UK :< but using the clues on the Amazon 3rd party seller listing, looks like I could get it on Wordery instead
  374. …in reply to @bambam_alt
    @bambam_alt @Tweet_Delete i can go in and block it manually, if that'd help?
  375. …in reply to @JDespland
    @JDespland well. yes. often? but also the dynamics are different, and often better. chunky rev-share agreements are common, for instance, and that fundamentally changes the relationship
  376. …in reply to @v21
    @JDespland in midboss's case, it seems like the dynamics are different in a bad way - the informal context & situatedness in an outside community increased the potential for abuse
  377. RT @raphkoster: More sad news this morning. @BernieDeKoven is no longer with us. He was a true inspiration.
  378. farewell, Bernie DeKoven. we never met, but he was and still is a big influence on me, and the interactions we had online meant a lot to me.
  379. …in reply to @MaelB
    @MaelB @GalaxyKate only very convoluted ways! (defining lots of copies of a list, and using a variable to select the version of the list that doesn't contain any of the first item)
  380. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i can't believe you're still drinking those same drinks 18 hours later
  381. Typescript question: I keep defining stuff as "Something | null" when it's sometimes valid, but if it's not it's explicitly not valid & that's meaningful, too. Is this wrong? Will it blow up? When?
  382. …in reply to @yevrahjleinad
  383. …in reply to @v21
    somehow i updated Instagram, but forgot to update here! sorry, here's yesterday for you:
  384. …in reply to @v21
  385. …in reply to @undefined
    @quartzcrusher but i want to be crisp and expressive with my types! i'm mainly from C#, and the first language I was taught at university was Haskell
  386. …in reply to @v21
    @quartzcrusher (where 60% of the work was getting the types right, after which actual implementation was almost always trivial)
  387. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker yeah, i guess my haziness is about null vs undefined vs void vs a union with a ... thingy? which has a name? but whose value is not used?
  388. …in reply to @v21
    @lazerwalker (also, i guess, vs smth like { isValid : boolean, value ?: Something }, but that seems super fussy for internal stuff)
  389. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker i can forgive a lot for finally (if you set the compiler flag) being in a language where null is only a valid option if you explicitly said it should be
  390. …in reply to @v21
    i read the book of this as a kid, and it made a big impression. it's about a kid who... discovers he has a million pounds? and now i've just watched the first episode of the show and it is suffused with an atmosphere of very believable terror youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3Sc-XV9Nk
  391. …in reply to @undefined
    @kimadactl @quartzcrusher it's purely functional, so the paradigm is very different - a lot of the logic and flow is contained within the type system. was a long time ago, now, though...
  392. RT @mw_unrest: "Alexa, can you cheer me up with one of those feel-good news stories?" Alexa: *maniacally laughing* ... https://t.co/FEjdfr…
  393. RT @_Red_Long: I’m a blind twitter user. There are a lot of us out there. Increase your ability to reach us and help us interact with your…
  394. …in reply to @v21
    green, yellow, orange
  395. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn @glitch I have also wondered what the most lightweight way to get persistent storage working with Glitch is!
  396. RT @WorldBollard: *WIN A BOLLARD* Retweet and follow @WorldBollard to be in with a chance to win this magnificent Monoscape Bridgeford Smo…
  397. …in reply to @_gw
    @_gw @deathmtn @glitch oh, nice, cheers! (i wondered it, but did not go so far as to Google it)
  398. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC on the one hand, yeah, I definitely feel this on the other: when was it not?
  399. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo pretty sure you're gonna want Windows some of the time, but OS X is pretty sweet! I'd set up Boot Camp if I were you?
  400. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo that makes sense
  401. …in reply to @v21
    @joonturbo I dunno. I like OS X, but if Windows is what you're comfortable with, why fuss?
  402. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo I found performance in a VM was pretty tolerable - played some games that way. And it's less harsh on hard drive space than BC.
  403. …in reply to @timoni
    @timoni i deliberately don't customize stuff as much as i could, because then i'd have to maintain those customizations
  404. welcome to the experience of 1 hour youtube.com/watch?v=8iMymjJWleI&feature=youtu.be
  405. …in reply to @undefined
    @zaccolley sorry, it doesn't - which it really should, huh? will think about it.
  406. …in reply to @undefined
    @zaccolley it is open source! but it's tricky because it cuts across the whole stack & opens new questions in terms of UX and syntax...
  407. …in reply to @v21
    @zaccolley though maybe for {svg } could use this: css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/
  408. …in reply to @v21
    @zaccolley (use "<title>" within the SVG, I mean)
  409. …in reply to @swizzle_kiss
    @swizzle_kiss @Nele_St i have definitely seen it happen if you're getting underpaid & this is to make up for it
  410. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin this sounds great, have you got a link?
  411. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin oh! cool. yes. i will continue reading it.
  412. …in reply to @jericawebber
  413. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I went to see the BOBs yesterday! It's really interesting, an installation that seems like it's only properly experienced by the gallery staff.
  414. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew oh, sweet! hey, mum, look - I'm an influencer!
  415. …in reply to @v21
    @jawsew (like... they have to feed them twice a day. and when I went they weren't interacting because they'd been overstimulated the say before)
  416. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew this is an exhibition on at the Serpentine, by Ian Cheng (connected to the Emissaries livestream I just linked you). 6 digital creatures burbling about.
  417. …in reply to @bfod
    @bfod I've been using a static site generator for years, so my setup is horribly out of date - but it's a setup I can let get horribly out of date & it stays up & secure & can continue to post stuff.
  418. …in reply to @v21
    i'll get bored of colours soon
  419. i thought too much about the practical logistics of food production in Pokemon
  420. what a joy a creative tool built for accessibility can be: electrondance.com/the-citadel-reborn/
  421. …in reply to @_chrisroberts
    @cbloggy @accidentalflyer @sallykuchar @edwinksl even here in London the problem isn't land but policy. public housing being demolished to build new schemes with a proportion (5%) with "affordable rent"...
  422. …in reply to @GriddleOctopus
  423. RT @profaniti: We are looking for someone to help us at Now Play This with making flat games in Unity! We need for you for up to 3 days wit…
  424. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin when i peel an orange, it looks like a dick and balls
  425. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang i can't talk in the chat, BUT: did you know i'm related to the real-life Dr Langeskov?
  426. …in reply to @v21
    not yet, though
  427. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine i am very glad to see people being enthusiastic about things they like online, especially if they're doing the good work to dig into why
  428. …in reply to @v21
    @tambourine that said, if Paul Gross ever liked a Due South tweet, i would forgive you for freaking out
  429. "play this, it's got really good writing!" "has it got really good writing, or does it just have really good writing for a game?" "... ... ... okay, yes, it's just good writing for a game" @hoskingc/978575542134829057
  430. …in reply to @v21
    (and some games genuinely do have good writing! and also writing for games is very different from writing for other mediums! but also the bar really is lower than it ought to be)
  431. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox oh i remember that face
  432. …in reply to @BexSaltsman
    @BexSaltsman @ADAMATOMIC would love to say hi while you're around! likely won't coincide at EGX itself, but maybe if you're around on the Friday evening?
  433. is there a word that means "a word that's now only ever used when talking about the word itself and it's obscure but specific meaning, never in actual usage"?
  434. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand most people fall on German for this!
  435. RT @melessthanthree: we were talking about bayonetta earlier right? #LUCAHgame
  436. i really like this article because it sees a difference in behaviour between men and women, and instead of saying "well, women should change their behaviour", it thinks about the systemic reasons why that difference exists hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified
  437. …in reply to @v21
    if we're talking about society-wide problems (ie women don't apply unless they're more qualified), solutions that apply on an individual level (ie you should have more confidence!) are just... not even wrong. they don't apply. people do this a lot and it frustrates me.
  438. RT @wombatstuff: final look & name for the comic game
  439. i would like to subscribe to a big long Spotify playlist of music that Charli XCX has picked out as good
  440. RT @hardmaru: Our work on "World Models" is out!🌐 Can neural network agents dream, and learn inside of their own dream worlds? Read more…
  441. RT @AngelNafis: hard hard hard to say what my favorite frank poem is. but, if forced? i wish this poem was liquid so i could toss in some s…
  442. @krpipkin just in case you hadn't seen this.... @me_irl/975124946602135552
  443. …in reply to @AranKoning
    @AranKoning i've been making graphics in JS on a canvas, it's nice
  444. …in reply to @beta_public
    @beta_public @ella_mclean such a good poster! woww
  445. if you are worried about a thing, then maybe this thread will help? Viv is very smart, so it probably will. @vivschwarz/979011951736090628
  446. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz for this I would maybe look at John Lewis?
  447. …in reply to @awesommelier
    @awesommelier oh no, this is awful. sending my love to you and her.
  448. RT @G2Institute: I have some thoughts on Gremlins 2, demonology, Oedipal robots, the Chthulucene, Jay-Z’s wardrobe, Hobbes’ Leviathan, comm…
  449. …in reply to @ksheely
    @ksheely here is a video i very much enjoy youtube.com/watch?v=ZYz2DLN9uik
  450. making egg salad by cutting open an succession of gala pork pies
  451. RT @glitch: Today, it’s really easy to embed a video, a song or social media on your website or blog. But embedding a whole app has become…
  452. …in reply to @v21
  453. i was irritated because a library for random numbers had a bool function that took the probability of true as a percentage. it turns out they called it "percentage", but actually it DOES take a value between 0 and 1.
  454. …in reply to @v21
    that's not a percentage! that's a ... there's no good term for it. unit value??
  455. …in reply to @inconvergent
    @inconvergent @rumorsmatrix oh, i was trying to get the more general term for "value within the range 0-1". probability is not quite unambiguous, but yes, would be perfectly clear here
  456. RT @johl: Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.comment
  457. …in reply to @hellocatfood
    @hellocatfood I know what they are? And am willing to try?
  458. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin rather good > weebl's stuff, heck yeah
  459. RT @waypoint: Teachers and parents share stories from inside the Fortnite phenomenon bit.ly/2IaFJSO
  460. RT @PeterGleick: In honor of the 60th anniversary of the @Keeling_curve, here are 10,000 years of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, with an i…
  461. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin i'm mainly just indulging in nostalgia for when this was an Important Opinion
  462. …in reply to @v21
    upping the opacity
  463. @GalaxyKate for some reason this makes me think of you @katjungnickel/979190385908985856
  464. i wrote some code to show control points etc for my generated beziers. it looks like debugging annotations, but i made it because it looks nice. but now it's helped me understand why there are some discontinuities in these splines. i'm not sure if i played myself.
  465. …in reply to @hellocatfood
  466. …in reply to @v21
    @hellocatfood (also i'll reply to yr other email, yes!)
  467. …in reply to @wgemigh
    @wgemigh mainly asset importing/localisation/data right now! honestly they rock as a tool that bridges the technical and non-technical domains
  468. …in reply to @v21
    @wgemigh @leighalexander had a great Google Sheets shot in her Reigns GDC talk
  469. …in reply to @v21
  470. …in reply to @v21
    update: turns out i fucked up Pythagoras' theorem when converting from cartesian to polar co-ordinates!
  471. …in reply to @v21
    all pretty & smooth now, though!
  472. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 so i think if you replace the old fbx with a new fbx within the file system, without giving Unity focus during this process, then it'll magically work!
  473. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @joonturbo then i think you will have to manually unpick it? i have not done this myself, but that would be my expectation.
  474. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew *echoing, from very far away* fox!
  475. RT @RobZacny: Me: I feel like my writing is getting colored by too much grief and anger. Also me: This fun baseball video game reminds me o…
  476. …in reply to @RobZacny
    @RobZacny I'm British & I don't know and don't care about baseball, but this was immense. Thank you.
  477. …in reply to @BRKeogh
    @BRKeogh do I need a receipt to say that this looks rad, fundamentally sound, and I'm excited for it to be out in the world to point people at for a grounding in how games work when they go off on some other nonsense?
  478. RT @russss: Chuckling at the rather splendid bash telescope control DSL in this paper arxiv.org/abs/1401.5473
  479. …in reply to @emshort
    @emshort here's a stack overflow answer going into this (with citations!) within the context of Harry Potter scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24856/can-an-animagus-be-infected-with-lycanthropy-while-in-animal-form
  480. …in reply to @v21
    @emshort though personally i like thinking about what happens to astronaut werewolves, instead.
  481. RT @alephograph: Easter weekend cooking up some skyscraper stew, some braised brutalism and some suburban soup + drying croutons for Peep-P…
  482. RT @budou_mochi: 0315_animation
  483. …in reply to @v21
    i figured out how to make this workflow make gifs
  484. next weekend is Now Play This time! 3 days of interesting games & weird experiences website with details is here: nowplaythis.net/ and tickets are available here: somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-this-2018
  485. …in reply to @v21
    included in those extra games is this game where you can be a horrible goose youtube.com/watch?v=wQknBJo4aBQ
  486. …in reply to @v21
    if you want to hang out all weekend, we have unlimited tickets (nowplaythis.net/weekend-tickets/), which give you: - artist talks - extra workshops - extra games (that are a bit more long-form than work for an exhibition) - demo your game - selected boardgames & indie RPGs - biscuits
  487. I DID NOT KNOW WE HAD A GOOSE CONTROLLER FOR THE GOOSE GAME @SK_Louie/980070720079302661
  488. …in reply to @Eastmad
    @Eastmad honestly, not sure we've bought them yet. any requests?
  489. RT @JFriedhoff: Great news: Lost Wage Rampage, the game I made for @peabodyessex’s PlayTime, will also be shown at @nowplaythese! Me and @A…
  490. I tell you - I would be more visible if there was a good full length mirror in our flat.
  491. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain oof. yeah. although you can end up in a similar place even if you do many different things, if you always take them seriously enough to turn them into obligation.
  492. …in reply to @v21
    @mousefountain i find one thing that helps is to do stuff you enjoy, but that you're bad at and happily expect to always be bad at.
  493. RT @8fldh: Go play Froach Club’s brand new game at Now Play This ! @v21/980070063607828480