● 07.01.23
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● Gemini Links 01/07/2023: New Job and Making Games
Posted in Site News at 8:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Gemini* and Gopher
Personal/Opinions
- The weather was just … gross, this morning. I woke up to it being cloudy and threating rain. The news last night warned of heavy rain and thunder, but when I left home in the AM it wasn’t really coming down. In my infinite wisdom I only took a small umbrella, and when I got out of the subway at my destination the rain had really started.
- my work has been taking me to near Dublin on and off over the last few months. i have managed to get some swims in between shifts or on days off. i am trying to get back to more regular running and swimming.
- on previous trips i swam at Portmarnock but this trip i went only a very little further north to Malahide; or rather High Rock. i prefer changing on rocks or pebbles.
- The ‘nb’ mention got me interested, and I immediately installed it. I’ve been looking for an easy note-taking solution, and this looks like a pretty good one!
- Apparently, it is 25K lines of bash… As long as it’s not Python I am in! (The only things that break on Linux are written in Python, if you haven’t noticed).
- Been drinking a lot of mineral water today. By god it’s so hot out. I think they should turn the Sun off for just a couple of days. We could really use a break from it. If I could sleep until Fall I would be very pleased
- Got a new job as a baker in a bakery I am under an apprenticeship for 5 years The pay is good but the work is hard Working till 5am every night 10+ hours
Politics and World Events
- I despise Capitalism and most other -isms (political systems that prefer A over B). But I believe that people are generally good, or if they are not, it is still wrong to opress them using violence or threats thereof.
Technology and Free Software
- Today, one of my Mastodon mutuals boosted a blog post by software developer Evan Todd. It’s a long and thoughtful piece about what we think we want, and the ways in which we deceive ourselves. For Todd, what he thought he wanted was a career in indie game development, and in a very particular, 2010s sort of way. This was after the point where people like Jonathan Blow, Ed McMillen, and others were able to get famous, quickly, by releasing small-studio games in an environment where there was (relatively) little competition. The years after “Indie Game: the Movie”, after certain game developers became, in certain circles, actual celebrities, and after a whole industry spun up around The Things You Were Supposed To Do (YouTube trailer, Early Access, twitch, social media, funding via Kickstarter). I know this because I was, in a very small way, adjacent to this sort of scene. I’m a game developer in maybe the loosest sense of the term. I don’t do it for a living. I never could. But I’ve written a little terminal-based puzzle game in C++ – that took me a couple of weeks – and I’ve written, and continue to write, a huge, sprawling, frustratingly incomplete game on my own time.
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