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What the web has become is an embarrassment. 5 ads for Adobe and a pop up combined with poor page layout leaving a sizable portion of the page blank. The actual content I am trying to read is maybe 15% of the displayed page. #webDesign #oldManShoutsAtTheSky

A screen shot of a news page where the vast majority of the page space is advertisements for the same company

I guess Inc can't use words like "enshittification", but that's exactly what they are describing here, OpenAI transitioning to the next stage: www.inc.com/jason-aten/o...

OpenAI Just Declared ChatGPT as You Know It Dead

The company's desktop makes it clear that free ChatGPT users are not its focus.

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Spent the weekend working out the bugs and Pawn-Up! is officially live on Itch: golden-tamarin.itch.io/pawn-up This means I've launched apps on Apple's App Store, Steam, and Itch.io. Pawn-Up! - pay what you want, even if that's nothing😂 #cards #indiedev #chesslike

Pawn-Up! by golden-tamarin

Kinda like Poker - Kinda like Chess

golden-tamarin.itch.io

Rewatched Devs - its not a perfect show, but its pretty good and definitely has its moments. Well acted - Alex Garland is good at what he does - after watching Civil War and Alien: Romulus, seeing Cailee Spaeny as Lyndon 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoBm...

Devs - E02 Opening scene

YouTube video by TheOncomingStorm

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Waah - I'm a profitable $400 BILLION dollar company and can't help but raise my prices!! Boo hoo - take a pay cut, Tim Cook... We all spent the last 10-20 years reading about how Apple was one of the most profitable companies of all time... #apple thehill.com/policy/techn...

Apple raising prices, CEO says

Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that his company is raising its prices. In an interview published Wednesday by the Journal, Cook said the tech company is set to incr…

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Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Perhaps its time for *consumers* to dictate the level of machine they are willing to pay for and *software devs* to constrain themselves to that spec. This cost death-spiral is driven by manufacturers and large software publishers determining the specs and consumers stuck in the middle #boycott

Steam Machine 512GB is $1,049.00 buff.ly/L2QgLVy 2TB with Controller $1,428 buff.ly/TW3rHgW

Paul@spookshow71.bsky.social · 4mo ago

At least 242 times😄

Post an album you’ve listened to 100 times. 100? God only knows how many times!

So if you have a grid of textureRects and you want to display things by coloring them, you can take what you want to display, send it to an offscreen subviewport, resize it to your grid of textureRects, extract it as an image and check each pixel to drive which rects to display #godot

Alien3 is probably my least favorite of the movies, but the acting saves it - Charles Dutton does a great job at owning his role #alien #alien3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cm...

I ain't much for BEGGING! Nobody ever gave me NOTHIN!

YouTube video by Majin Yojimbo

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All textureRects and tweens with a tiny bit 'o math #godot

Discovery #1 for today: Amazon charges double what Microcenter does for a #raspberrypi zero 2, but they'll give you free shipping on that 100% markup (that you also pay for via your Prime account) #amazon #enshittification Discovery #2 - my #godot clock app does not run on a pi zero 2 (not shocked)

I had been avoiding using shaders for vfx to keep things easy on the #raspberrypi, but I wanted something "lava-lampy" so I tried and its totally fine. The shader is a simple dual-texture overlay with warping, so its still fairly simple, but it works. #godot #clocks #shaders

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jHY... - its nice when you stumble across something like this from 15 years ago (album released 2009) #music

My Body's a Zombie For You

YouTube video by Dead Man's Bones - Topic

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Perhaps someone has a better approach. In #godot I have a label with text and a randomly selected font which I want maximized in size to visually fill the label. So I determine the % diff of the label size to the font's text size and then multiply the font size to that %. #fonts

Screen shot of the following code:

# final font sizing
# tmpRect == label, only attempt if label has text or get_string_size will error
if tmpRect.text != "":
# set font to a starting size, doesn't matter what
tmpRect.label_settings.font_size = 20
var string_size
# if single line, use get_string_size - if long enough to be multiline, use get_multiline_string_size
if tmpRect.text.length() < 14:
string_size = tmpRect.label_settings.font.get_string_size(tmpRect.text, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER, tmpRect.size.x, tmpRect.label_settings.font_size)
# pad the value slightly for better results
string_size.y += 10
else:
string_size = tmpRect.label_settings.font.get_multiline_string_size(tmpRect.text, HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT_CENTER, tmpRect.size.x, tmpRect.label_settings.font_size)
# pad the value slightly for better results
string_size.y += 15
# compute the percent size difference for X and Y axes
var tmpX = tmpRect.size.x/string_size.x
var tmpY = tmpRect.size.y/string_size.y
# sort of average them to get a resizing multiplier (.5 results were too big, so downsized to .35 via trial and error)
var fontMultiplier = (tmpX + tmpY)*.35
# apply the multiplier to the font size
tmpRect.label_settings.font_size *= fontMultiplier

Lesson about #clocks and #raspberrypi's - Pi's don't actually have a persistent clock - like many SBC's, they rely on network time to update their clocks on boot-up - so if you boot without a network, it has no idea what actual time it is. The solution is to attach a hardware clock to the GPIO pins.

Picture of raspberry pi board with a hardware clock attached to it.

Trying to see how far I can take a text-only experience in #godot. This is all labels and tweens and math behinds the scenes. #Fonts really make it visually interesting, but they also introduce a ton of placement variability and issues - font-sizes are very inconsistent. #clock #raspberrypi

Now that I've got a "clock face" that's an RSS news reader, its making me wonder if I want it😬 I tried to make everything else uplifting or meditative and this is like pouring a bucket of darkness in the swimming pool... #godot #rss #raspberrypi #news

Huh... #godot XMLParser is a SAX parser - somehow was expecting it to be DOM. Maybe no one cares anymore 🥴

Tip: #godot has a good built-in file/directory chooser, but when your project is running on a #raspberrypi with a 3.5" screen, the file listing scroll bar winds up being like 3 pixels wide and nearly impossible to use via touch - you can create a theme override though to make it much wider.

Screen shot of godot file chooser with tiny scrollbar

Screen shot of Godot file chooser with wide scroll bar

Screen shot of Godot theme manager setting an override on VScrollBar

Screen grab of Godot StyleBoxFlat settings highlighting content margins

[audio] Why have just one spectral analyzer when you can have two for the same price? 😀 Creates some nice glitchiness - still runs like a charm on a RP4... #godot #raspberrypi #audioplayers #mp3player #vfx

A quick demo of clocky playing an externally loaded mp3 file with playback debug parameters showing - its mostly just taking a series of geometric patterns, applying spectral strength as a modifier, randomizing colors/sizes, and tweening it all. #godot #music #raspberrypi #classicRock

I've noticed while working on Clocky that recurring adjustments to font settings in #godot script winds up loosing memory (i.e. this discussion: tinyurl.com/mv6njbr3) - which apparently is not so much a "leak" as "over-caching". Adding this func and calling it before font adjustments helps a lot.

func font_size_cache_clear(font : FontFile):
for i : int in range(font.get_cache_count()):
for size_cache : Vector2i in font.get_size_cache_list(i):
font.remove_size_cache(i, size_cache)

Watching Ralph Fiennes trudging through life muttering the lyrics to Girls on Film 😂 ...and I thought I was the only one... really enjoyed 28 Years Later: Bone Temple #BoneTemple #duranduran

Apparently in Godot you can't just set the HSV values on a color, even though they are exposed - you have to use the from_hsv method off the color class. HSV is nice for creating a spread of colors cause you can just iterate over the H value instead of triangulating RGB's #godot #color #hsv #clocks

[sound] And now we use our old friend "lerp" to help transition line and 2D mesh positions when shifting between display models and bring them all together #music #spectral #godot #clock #lerp