Jim Stormdancer / is on Nostr

Sandwich Imagineer at Twinbeard. Made Frog Fractions. May or may not have already made Frog Fractions 2. He/him.

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2024-07-26 00:33:18

Thinking about that time there wasn't an official AS3/Flash profiler, and I couldn't get any of the third-party tools working, so I just wrote a preprocessor that added timing code to the start and end of every function, but it turned out Flash doesn't support timing resolution smaller than a millisecond, so I ran the code on worse and worse computers until one was slow enough to measure the bottlenecks

2024-07-24 23:24:28

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I just learned about Parc Astérix, the 2nd biggest amusement park in France, and I wondered "what would an Asterix amusement park look like?" Turns out a bunch of the attractions have individual Wikipedia pages, and every photo is just "yep it's a roller coaster"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goudurix#/media/File:Goudurix.JPG

2024-07-24 23:23:42

I read a bunch of Asterix comics as a kid, because my stepdad grew up in Argentina, then never heard of it again, because I live in the United States.
Every once in a while I read a factoid like "there are 3000 live-action Asterix movies" and I'm like "huh"

2024-07-22 02:54:20

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Peachable

2024-07-19 18:38:16

Major blow to the concept of software updates today.
Remember when developers would make an effort to bundle all their new features and bugfixes into a single stable build, and test that release thoroughly before sending it to users? We called it "shipping."
Shipping is old-fashioned now, and continuous deployment is in, which is why 5% of any given app is busted this week -- but don't worry, it'll be a different 5% next week.

2024-05-17 18:58:03

Nine hours remaining on that Star Control 2 sequel kickstarter from the guys who aren't allowed to say that they worked on Star Control 2.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity