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Back home for Christmas. Little traditions.

A copy of Hogfather

Lucy got me this pegboard for Christmas and I bloody LOVE it

It’s an Ikea pegboard thing on a wall. There are cables and headphones and an Analogue Pocket.

Having to use Perforce is a form of slow torture. Who invented this? What’s their address? Just wanna talk

Some morning game dev with my helper

A tuxedo cat sitting with her front paws on the keyboard of an open laptop.

Didn’t stay up for TGAs but think it says a lot that in catching up I saw an article about every game announcement and trailer and only found out who won game of the year on Bluesky

We fixed this in Bridgy yesterday. Here’s the PR, if helpful: https://github.com/snarfed/granary/pull/844

If you click through the linked issues you’ll see discussion on the Bluesky side. They might be able to retroactively fix existing images, but unsure

A PSA: Bluesky changed their API recently so that image uploads need to include their aspect ratio, otherwise they’ll appear letterboxed (like the first image). If you use a third-party tool it’ll need updated.

An image of a Bluesky post featuring a picture of a cat. The image is letterboxed within a square frame. The same image, but now the frame matches its size.

New sleep position unlocked

A tuxedo cat folded up like a furry fortune cookie or something

Bopped a fascist over the head with a violin then threw him off this wall, 10/10 game no notes

A screenshot of the Indiana Jones game showing Rome at night

Baffled by how difficult it is to render a rectangle outline using a shader without pixel alignment going all wonky. GPUs were a mistake