Random discovery of the day is that GNU’s linker has different rules to those of MSVC or LLVM - the latter two are happy to resolve linkages at the final executable or library, while ld seems to require that every intermediate object binary be linked up?
Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Latest blog posts
·
My favourite command-line tools
A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.
·
The games of 2024
I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.
All blog posts / subscribe via RSS
Some things I’ve made
- Feud – Bearwaves’ first game, a free-to-play strategy board game for mobile and PC
- Unremember – My first poetry book, published in 2017 by Bad Betty Press
- A LAKE IN AMERICA – A game-poem made in collaboration with Antosh Wojcik
- Growl – A lightweight game development framework, written in modern C++
- eos4j – An Epic Online Services SDK wrapper for Java
Recent
Note
Photo
Kissing Gate, Dog Race and Ugly at Village Underground
Note
In light of the recent AI news I hereby renounce my 1254-day Duolingo streak. Finally, I am free.
Photo
So, two weeks on, got to try and bend my finger and it…doesn’t. At all! Even with force applied. So that’s a bit scary. But I did get to choose the colours on this fetching new splint so that’s something.
Photo
Met some new types of guy yesterday
Note
Generative AI has ruined bold text for me. If you put bold text in a paragraph I’m ignoring the whole thing sorry
Photo
Taking quad bikes through the Sahara desert to a 2000 year old Roman fort might be the coolest thing I’ve done on a holiday ever
Photo
Saw these in the wrong order
Photo
More Tunisia exploring, saw Berber villages and the place they filmed The Phantom Menace. Breathtaking country.
Photo
Salt flats in Tunisia (yes I did taste it)
