Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

if you wanna put a smile on my face go visit https://maple.pet/tech look at the stuff i do and recommend me for job positions or toss cash my way because i haven't had a job for 8 months now https://ko-fi.com/squirrel

With procedural generation you can save a lot of space for content but did you know that Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 uses one byte (!) to describe a room? Here's the link to an article describing how that works:
https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html
#gamedev #procgen #retro

i cannot stress enough how much I admire @mavica_again for its technical capabilities (not to mention its creative output, aesthetic choices, and ability to seed my brain with words that I can't stop saying aloud). You should follow it imo

Years ago I bought a collection of IBM Selectric Typewriter ‘golf balls’ (including some rarer ones) from a typewriter repair shop. Once upon a time this was how fonts were stored for the machine. The owner literally used his arm to shovel them into a cardboard box like he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough, in a shop full of hundreds of them. A good memory. #design #typography #typewriter #fonts

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

So @.joinmastodon got unbanned from Twitter.

This is the first tweet that they sent after the unbanning:

"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."

What a response!

Seizing the Opportunity

and hey, if you wanna help make next year better, or just make the end of the year more bearable, https://ko-fi.com/squirrel

Review your todo lists. Is there something you no longer need to do?

Create a freeze frame of the action in a video every 7 frames and pause at the end for 50 frames.

mpv --ao=null --vo=image --start=0:1:44.25 --end=0:1:46.6 GUEZCxBcM78.mp4
i=1
for f in 000*.jpg; do
convert -evaluate-sequence Min ${a[@]} $f $f
[[ $((i%7)) == 0 ]] && a=(${a[@]} $f)
i=$((i+1))
l=$f
done
echo 0001{00..50}.jpg |xargs -n1 ln -s $l
cat 000*.jpg |ffmpeg -y -f mjpeg -i - -c:v libx264 -r 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p skier.mp4

Documentation vs User experience.

ctrl-vvvvvvv cute

THEM: If it was important, you'd remember

ME: [has ADHD] I frequently forget that close friends of mine exist