Here's gameplay from the new Predator pinball which I worked on over the past 18 months: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5a...
I ported the system code from the older proprietary platform to the more standard boards from @fastpinball.bsky.social .
Practicing my modern C++ skills yesterday and wrote a BCD (binary coded decimal) library - not named after me: github.com/bcd/modern-bcd
I wasn't hanging out on #moo then but I was at working at Heighway til the end, and I have quite a few stories.
So Skype is finally gone. I get Microsoft wanting to update their tech stack, but they had a recognized brand and they let it rot. This seems to be the trend now, every 5 years let's push some different that will change the world and forget about the last attempt.
Jack*Bot must have more randomness in it than any other WPC game. We still appreciate how well that game works in tournaments!
A friend that I watch #whitelotus with gave me this last week. It has been a great addition to my morning coffee routine: reminding me that whatever the day brings, it could be a lot worse.
PS: they should co-market this with the Folgers brother and sister ad.
When I was developing FreeWPC, I used this USB to EPROM converter. It let me push new code changes without having to burn ROMs all the time, effectively making it RAM but only writable from USB.
ROMW was obviously more flexible for interactive debugging. I had to restart on every little change.
The digital art exhibit at my office complex still has a few kinks to work out. Or is this art? #digitalart #techfail
It's nice having 3 monitors, but whenever I open a new window, 90% of the time it will not start on the screen I want it to. #programmer #developer
Hey there - reach out to me sometime and let's catch up!
Finally finished watching the playback of the IFPA Open World Pinball Championship from yesterday. If you've never seen competitive #pinball check it out (skip to the 11:30:00 mark for finals only) www.twitch.tv/videos/23643...
Was that studio in-house? Shared with the non-pinball divisions?
Just me in a Coke Santa T-shirt, thankful for the day
Hope everyone who celebrated had a wonderful Christmas.
Work within a domain that you already understand and enjoy. This will be different for everyone. Your passion will motivate you not to give up.
Finally someone who appreciates that your pipes form a directed acyclic graph. #compsci #cshumor
operator+ makes a new string. Its signature should be:
string operator+(const string& str, const A& a). Then you would call it like this: s2 = s1 + a.
To append, use operator+=:
string& operator+=(string& str, const A& a)
{
str.append(a.get_that_string());
return str;
}
...
s += a;
It's more fun treating it as a drinking game, every time Sean says "it depends on what you mean by".
So I finished the #yachtrock documentary on #HBO tonight, and overall I liked it, although it was a tad cringy at times. Still, I don't think I'll ever call it by this name, and I had no idea that was a thing until recently.
Surely those slacking surgeons will be docked some pay to cover the costs, right?
Disney branded Yahtzee for only a hundred dollars!
Still cheaper than a park ticket
From the article: "as an outsider, it sure would look as if C++ is basically falling apart"...
I've been following the debates for years and I'm definitely an outsider, but I think this article sums up the current situation pretty well: herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-...
I only saw them four times, but I remember them all #rush
Me at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2001
Post a picture from a different era in your life
Except defense... you can bet that isn't going to be cut at all
Wow that makes much more sense
Only a few days into using this app again and it's so refreshing compared to everything else right now. #realpeople #fuckelon
I truly wouldn’t care if a man dressed like the king of England was in the urinal next to me. I get that for extremely online rightwingers, a trip to a public bathroom might be the most memorable moment of the day, but the rest of us truly do not give a shit who is peeing nearby.
The coolest pinball machine in the world
Just deleted my X account finally. Not that I ever used it that much, but I figured it was best to delete it before things get any worse over there.
I'm near the path of the Betelgeuse eclipse tonight, but just slightly outside the official tracking area by only a few miles, and it's cloudy, so I don't think I'll be able to see anything.
