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Indie Game Developer, Father, LARPer, Hiker and Nemophilist. I post dev log videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@richbuilds_com

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The Daiquiris are on me!

www.numbeo.com/cost-of-livi...

12.03.2026 09:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah - good spot - thanks for clarifying :-)

11.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starter Kit: Racing for @godotengine.org is now available! πŸŽ‰ Easy to understand code, fully open-source & 3D models included! It's a little rough around the edges, but feel free to do pull requests if you can improve on it!

github.com/KenneyNL/Sta...

#gamedev #gameassets

11.03.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 431 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

30+ years as a senior dev tells me otherwise.

11.03.2026 10:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professorΒ  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

The author of the Quicksort algorythm (amongst many other CS fundamentals) has passed away :-(

RIP Tony Hoare.

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

11.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WTF! When did *this* start happening!?

Wikipedia is supposed to be a factual, reference resource!

We are poisoning the water supply! This will get scraped by other LLMs, and the enshitification will spiral.

11.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we stop calling it "Vibe Coding" and call it what it really is?

"Technical Debt Development"

11.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Using a non-deterministic guessing engine for critical infrastructure process?

What could go wrong?!

11.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want solar panels to be widely adopted in the UK and stop the NIMBY's from complaining - make them look like Union Jacks instead of black.

They are less efficient, but it would top 80%* of complaints immediately.

* Stat made up on the spot because this is the internet

09.03.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Being offended by the Bafter 'N' word outburst is like being offended because you dropped a bunch of scrabble tiles and it spelled out a naughty word.

07.03.2026 05:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Private Eye is a National Treasure - possibly the last truly independent investigative journalism in the UK.

Highly recommended if you want to know what's *really* going on in UK politics.

06.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Going over some hikes I've done in the past as I plan hikes for this year. Here's the view from Haystacks in the Lake District:

maps.app.goo.gl/rC5GPBHnz5hj...

It was right here I found out I had developed Acrophobia after an ear infection and was the last high trail I did.

06.03.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm not racist but...." vibes :-/

04.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dammit! - I have the Bagpuss tune earworm now!

"We will find it, we will bind it,
We will stick it with glue, glue, glue
We will stickle it
Every little bit of it
We will fix it like new, new, new."

"Heave! Heave!"

04.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...

Can't they just type "Claud, fix this please" ?

I mean that's how it's supposed to work right?

Because we don't need coders anymore.

02.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for replying. I love seeing these 'simple' systems giving way to complex behaviours :-)

02.03.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This brings me joy :-)

27.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can I suggest making the red circles that do damage look spikey - I assumed they were pickups :-(

27.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

^ love this

27.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's too dark and twisted for me!

I'm going to re-read In The Mountains Of Madness and calm down.

27.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've had two coding discussions this morning with people who turned out to be vibe coders.

One didn't know the crucial difference between repeat-until and a while loop.

The other wanted me to phrase his prompt for him because he lacked the technical skill.

I am getting SO tired of this

27.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just hearing that Rob Grant has passed away.

This is heartbreaking. He and Doug Naylor's work was absolutely formative for me.

Not felt like this since Terry Pratchett passed away.

GNU Rob Grant <3

26.02.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mirrors in Godot (it's easier than you think)
Mirrors in Godot (it's easier than you think) YouTube video by Mina PΓͺcheux

So - wanna add mirrors to your Godot 3D game? Check out this tutorial! πŸ”₯
πŸ‘‰ youtu.be/psq76bEEr84

#gamedev #game #godot #GodotEngine #godot4 #madewithgodot #csharp #gdscript #programming #tutorial #mirror

26.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the info. :-)

26.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don't know why - but whenever I try to follow links from your website, I end up in a perpetual loop of this:

Pressing proceed to ignore it takes you right back this page.

26.02.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's to make you search the rest of the store to make sure they get more adverts / products in front of your eyes.

The whole supermarket shopping experience is designed by psychopaths. From carpets to slow you down, to expensive products at eye level, to baking smells wafting out the door.

26.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Valheim is the only "recent" game that has given me that feeling.

26.02.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The other drawback is you have to parse the whole line instead of:

if condition:
# the code I'm interested in

else:
# the code I'm not interested in and can be ignored.

26.02.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I dislike ternaries in general other than for trivial applications (one line if-then-else).

That's a particularly egregious example you posted - it violates the established left to right parsing.

I much prefer PHP's format:

$result = $condition ? 'foo' : 'bar';

26.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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