PLEASE FUCKING LABEL YOUR NSFW IMAGES. PLEASE. BLUESKY PEOPLE. PLEASE.

insane Godot design decision of the day: `bytes_to_var` doesn't deserialize objects but `str_to_var` does, leading to code execution with absolutely no warning about it. there is a 3 yrs open issue for this problem and one of the comments with 50 likes is "hidden as abuse" github.com/godotengine/...

`str_to_var` and `ConfigFile` allow for arbitrary code execution · Issue #80562 · godotengine/godot

Godot version v4.1.1.stable.official [bd6af8e] System information Ubuntu 23.04 Issue description The global method str_to_var and ConfigFile's load/parse methods deserialize variants from strings, ...

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Anyone happen to know where I can find actual work making stuff like this btw?

Hyeve@blahaj.pet · 5mo ago

Same shader, different track..

presenting what I've been working on with @katie.cat for the last ~year: GDPatch, a versatile Godot mod loader! we've built a mod loader for all Godot 4.x games with a focus on script patching and runtime hooking docs: gdpatch.dev code: github.com/GDPatch/GDPa... blog: notnite.com/blog/gdpatch

GDPatch: a versatile Godot mod loader

It only took 15 months for me to write another interesting blog post!

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>I desire to connect with people. I long for the days where I was vulnerable and shared my struggles with engineers who charitably stepped up to support me. I miss taking what I learned from those struggles and sharing them back out as a blog post or presentation All of this.

Adam McNeilly@adammc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116565662607962457 The chill I got when I downloaded the repo and realized the “exploit” was a zero byte file with a magic filename… The charitable interpretation is that Microsoft accidentally shipped an internal test build to global production. The […]

The AI coding tools have advanced a lot in the year+ since I posted this but I still see a ton of this phenomenon. I'm convinced that a significant percentage of the wow factor for a lot of folks can be chalked up to simply not having known their old tools well prior to the arrival of the new tools.

Casey Brant@basecase.bsky.social · last yr.

...if lack of editor fluency is one component of being overly impressed by the transformations LLM-based tools can perform for you. I've watched programmers be seriously wowed by Copilot doing what amounts to a YASnippet expand or a `%s` command.

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

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New heights in not taking women's health seriously have just been achieved.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116560335270718717 If you're still on GitLab you might want to speed up planning your migration path.

Frontier Supermodel@pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

Gitlab about to go to shit https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

Enjoyed reading this. I was explaining CASE and spec or example driven dev tools from the long-ago times and why they disappeared last week. This has some nice mental models and explanations, plus I never knew about The Last One.

jneen@jneen.ca · 5mo ago

how to make programming terrible for everyone jneen.ca/posts/2026-0...

I can't recommend reading this thing in full enough.

tante@tante.cc · 4mo ago

"Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship."

I've put a bunch more stuff up on my website! If you want to read about some of the projects I've worked on recently, go have a look :3 blahaj.pet

i think sometimes when people get too rich they start trying to design money-powered rube goldberg gambling machines

i feel like a lot of companies say "contractors" when they mean "third-party dev sweatshop firms" and i really do think we need to make that distinction stronger

My custom subD modifier with auto-creasing feels like cheating

I just discovered that unity's Matf.SmoothStep is NOT A SMOOTHSTEP 😭 it's entirely missing the step part of smoothstep, it's just a lerp with a smoothing curve applied there's no step in that!! that's just a smooth! maybe this is just me being graphics programmer brained but unity pls 😭

sometimes you optimize binary greedy meshing so hard that the actual logic of it compiles into 22 assembly instructions (everything else is just loops that load data into this function)

cancel your adobe subs asap and use non adobe products if you haven't already

Pat@pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

Cameron Blevins@cblevins.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is so, so well-articulated.

how to make programming terrible for everyone jneen.ca/posts/2026-0...

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

how to make programming terrible for everyone

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If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Same shader, different track..

Hyeve@blahaj.pet · 5mo ago

I remembered I never posted clips of the shader stuff I did for @automaphoni.ca, so, here you go! This is possibly the most advanced shader effect I've ever made - there's no geometry or models here, just one shader and a LOT of math.

this thing is available now! it's open source and set up to be easy to add more characters to, if anyone wants to! current characters you can play as: - the knight (from hollow knight, wow - as pictured) - mini goopy le grande (the cuphead boss) github.com/Hyyeve/Cuphe...

Hyeve@blahaj.pet · 8mo ago

so i've been working on a thing that lets you play as alternate characters in cuphead, any suggestions for characters to add? :3

375mil is not even close to enough. that's cost of doing business at their scale.

Forbes@forbes.com · 5mo ago

The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 5mo ago

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

I remembered I never posted clips of the shader stuff I did for @automaphoni.ca, so, here you go! This is possibly the most advanced shader effect I've ever made - there's no geometry or models here, just one shader and a LOT of math.

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

Haven't had time to check out all the new demos from NEXT Fest, but I took a look at CICADAMATA and WOWZERS the demo was so good!!! We have been blessed with so many good indie games these past couple of years and this one deserves your attention, too! store.steampowered.com/app/3817250/...

CICADAMATA" on Steam

+ follow the white rabbit + hop, skip, and jump to become one with joyeuse, until you are no longer you +

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i was up until 4am two days in a row playing this demo btw

bryonato@bryonato.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Videogames are cool because sometimes they just look like this