I’ll be wandering around WASD this week if any pals want to hang out! I’ll be at the Thursday night thing and at the expo on Friday and prob Saturday. Please be aware I have been doing gamedev again so will probably trauma-dump.
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.
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I was on Twitter in 2019, I can promise you I have thought about feral hogs.
Alright, I caved. I have a Steam Deck. I also have £45 of store credit to get nice games for it; recommendations please!
Discord, or the Death of Lore
Been attempting to integrate a native C library into a Java project and it’s proving to be a total nightmare, even with jnigen. Once again cursing myself for choosing to write a game in Java.
We went for a walk/forage on the Ridgeway today which was very muddy but gorgeous. We found:
- Jelly ears!
- Oysters!
- Gorse!
- Nettles!
- Wild garlic!
- Turkey tails!
- Ground ivy!
I will admit it irks me slightly that my application for a Switch developer license was declined when the eShop is full of shit like this.
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-eshop-aaa-digital-clock-release-1850205218
Some interesting insights here - where have all the engineers who have been laid off gone to?
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/big-tech-job-switching-stats/
So after posting my Manifesto I tried some pizza from Veggie Crust on the Old Kent Road and while it was no Mario it was some pretty good Good Shit Pizza.
We went to a couple of cool exhibitions today - the ASMR one at the Design Museum and the one about Japanese silk braiding (Kumihimo) at Japan House.
