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Dr. Beekeeper

@hauntedbees.com

* Not a real doctor or a real beekeeper. Working on @uprooted.hauntedbees.com, a video game about throwing vegetables at startup nerds.

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Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 4w ago

For the @pigsquad.com Inventory-themed Summer Slow Jam, I created another game in the "what if System Shock and Sonic the Hedgehog had a baby" genre: Bag Witch! The premiere video game where you can stuff anything, including enemies, into your bag! Play it for free! hauntedbees.itch.io/bag-witch

Bag Witch by Haunted Bees Productions

Your mighty bag will save the animals!

hauntedbees.itch.io

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · last mo.

The people getting angry about this are reminding me that, despite Free/Libre Software and "Open Source" being 95% the same, the ideological differences that make up that last 5% are a pretty big deal.

gabby@fullmoon.id · last mo.

I thought this was a pretty interesting take from Codeberg's announcement of their anti-LLM policy They argue that many developers using LLMs are essentially heaven-banning themselves where they don't realize they're developing for a nonexistent community

# The development team of none

Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code.

It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don't realize that they don't actually have a community around them. They build projects as if they had, and spend resources accordingly. We see projects having a lot of code activity, heavy CI/CD testing, frequent and large release binaries. Sometimes, it feels like the amount of supported platforms exceeds the amount of actual users.

To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg, which operate frugal with CI/CD and storage resources. We do not believe it is reasonable for Codeberg to invest our precious donation money into hosting of large ghost projects.

alex @shitshow.info · 3mo ago

sucks that AI is the next automobile - a tool that will be made all but necessary by dismantling cheaper, safer alternatives that already exist

jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aaron Stewart-Ahn@badideas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Internet led to an explosion of a massive array of voices who had been locked out by traditional corporate gatekeeping, whereas Ai is like ‘we’re going to program an algorithm to steal your soul, take your job, make a handful of rich people even richer, and turn Earth into Venus’ rocketship yayy

Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game @uprooted.hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

A farmer is only as good as the crops they grow! In Uprooted, there are dozens of different crops at your disposal, from fruits and vegetables to mushrooms, eggs, paddy crops, and bees! Each with their own stats and abilities. How will you farm? #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #godotEngine #indieDev

A screenshot of the game Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game. The player, a black farmer with pink hair, is thinking about what type of crop to place on a tile of soil on her field. An inventory menu is open showing the available crops. The selected crop is a Peanut, and several details about it are shown. It has a 3.5 star rating, grows in 13 turns, grows well in Spring and poorly in Autumn and Winter. It is immune to salty soil and weak to fire (which is inaccurate! note to self, fix that lmao). It has 3 abilities: soil boost, shell, and fire forged.

Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game @uprooted.hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

What is Uprooted all about, you ask? Well, it all starts with the CTO of a meal replacement beverage startup who won't take no for an answer, siccing his robots on your farm because you refused to sell out to him! Why does a drink company have a robot army? 🤷‍♂️ #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

A screenshot from Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game depicting the player, a black woman with pink hair, standing in the center of her farm. Plants are uprooted, soil is destroyed, and a couch is on fire. Two robots look over the destruction.

A robot has approached the player and says "Oh hey you're that farmer I'm supposed to attack! Welp, guess you know what that means! Ha ha!"

Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game @uprooted.hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

What's your favorite part of county fairs? The fried food? The cell phone carriers handing out branded garbage? The stands selling shirts with cartoon characters dressed up as gangsters? Well you can experience all of that in Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game! #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

A food stand for "fried tea" that emphasizes that "even the cup!" is fried.

A horse in a pen is painting with a paintbrush in his mouth. A crowd is watching him, and a child says "Mommy, look! The horse is painting! I want to be a horse when I grow up!"

A line of people are waiting in front of a tent labeled "MAGNIFICENT ROCK'S." A man says "Now, son, I know you weren't a fan of the sedimentary rocks I showed you last week, but once you see the metamorphic rocks they have on display here, "boring" will be the last word you use to describe them!"

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

Happy 20th anniversary to #neilBangingOutTheTunes and happy 7th anniversary to this drawing I have hastily corrected the number on. Also: new hat!

A drawing of Neil, a rat(?), playing a keyboard, wearing a diamond earring and a beanie with "DJ Warehouse Fire" written on it. Text reads "Neil banging out the tunes! 20th Anniversary! April 23, 2006"

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

oh wouldja look at that -- we got a whole bluesky account just for the game now! isn't that swell?

Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game@uprooted.hauntedbees.com · 4mo ago

In Uprooted, there will be many obstacles on your journey: such as a road blocked by a constant stream of delivery trucks! Looks like you'll need to head into the ItsWay warehouse to find out who's responsible! "You Want It? It's On ItsWay!™®²" #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #farmingGame #indieDev

A screenshot from the game Uprooted. The player is blocked by traffic; countless delivery trucks are driving in and out of a warehouse, fully obstructing the road. Behind her is a warehouse worker ordering from a food truck named "Grill you Dairy me?"

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 5mo ago

No Context #ScreenshotSaturday

A pixelated 3D model of a laptop. A screaming face on a green background covers the entire monitor.

typing loudly ⌨️@typingloudly.zip · 12mo ago

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 7mo ago

Rick Astley has a new single out, if you care. youtube.com/watch?v=wl2H...

Waiting On You

YouTube video by Rick Astley - Topic

m.youtube.com

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 7mo ago

Someone was telling me that their uncle has been missing for years, and that I can look them up on Wikipedia. So I immediately did so. And that's how they found out that their uncle was, in fact, no longer missing, but dead.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 7mo ago

When I set up my RSS reader app (shoutout to @inoreader.com) I picked a few random feeds from the default categories and such, and since some of them were food industry sites, I now get to see riveting headlines like “Innovation featuring cherry flavors is accelerating” and I'm like "cool, great."

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Danielle Ryan @danirat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Everyone should have to work in the service industry at least once

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 8mo ago

This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 31. If this worked I'd be unstoppable. The end! Back to less exciting posts next year.

A comic depicting some sort of science lab.

Frame 1. Two scientists are looking inside a cage at some sort of creature. The first scientist says "I've never seen anything like it. This species' self-defense mechanism is to post relatable memes mocking their predators online."

Frame 2. The second scientist looks at the first and says "I don't appreciate your attempts at humor, Dr. Medina." The creature turns its head and looks at the scientists, eyes wide, and pings are heard from below them.

Frame 3. The scientists pull out their tablet and phone, which show a meme of the throwing up emoji with the caption “WHEN THE JACKASS WHO SKIMPS ON THE GOOD TREATS TALK SHIT” on the top, and on the bottom “TALKS SHIT TO THE LEAD SCIENTIST.” In the background, the creature is hissing at the second scientist.

Robert Walker @studioatmarob.bsky.social · 8mo ago

devs who write crappier code than AI are now putting out crappy code 10x faster

eevee@eev.ee · 8mo ago

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between "oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god" and "yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 30. Whenever you think Bluesky kind of sucks, just remember how much worse it could be.

A security guard Mark Zuckerberg blocks the entrance to a club. He says to the person trying to enter, "Woah! That's a pretty offensive shirt! Threatening messages like that have no place in this club!"

The person being denied entry is wearing a shirt that reads "I hope the president shits himself to death" on the back.

Inside the club, people can be seen dancing, wearing shirts with Nazi and fascist symbols on them.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 29. Social media is great because years ago the odds of running into some weirdo screaming about minorities was comparatively low but now you can experience that constantly in a nice easy-to-digest feed right in the palm of your hand.

A comic depicting a boba tea shop. A bald white man is standing, naked, in front of the cash register, clenching his fist against his chest and looking down solemnly, a single tear being shed from his closed eyes. His lower half is obscured by a sign that reads "Try our new Boba Meal™!" accompanied by an image of a burger, french fries, and a drink. Instead of meat, the burger has tapioca balls in it.

In front of the register is the sign for "Milky Blobs: Premium Boba Milk Teas" and its menu. Several of the flavors are obscured by the naked man's arm, but the ones that are visible are: Green Tea, Boba Coffee, Campbell's® Boba Noodle Soup, Boba Water, and “Oops! All Boba!” A note next to the menu reads: The blobs in your tea? They're supposed to be there! “Boba” or “bubble tea” is a novel new kind of milky beverage! Yum!

An asterisk is next to the word "new" to imply that this is not actually a new beverage. A woman stands behind the cash register dressed in a "Milky Blobs" apron and is looking at the naked man with concern. She says to him, "Sir, you can't run around naked and shouting slurs at everyone."

He replies, "What happened to my country? I thought we were in a democracy!!"

She responds, "No, we are in a Boba shop. Please leave."

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 28. Humans can be Sonics, too.

A drawing captioned "There's nothing radical about exploiting workers, animals, the environment, or anyone."

The drawing depicts Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog, and a man dressed with Sonic shoes and a backwards baseball cap is hopping off of a Prison Egg / Capsule and releasing several animals. In the distance, Jeff Bezos, in an Amazon-branded Egg Mobile glares angrily at these events.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 27. I like to imagine that the Earth is stuck in a time loop and every few billion years it resets, but every other planet just continues linearly, so aliens like to visit Earth every now and then to see if the Earthlings did anything new on the current loop.

A comic.

Frame 1: An alien leaves their spaceship and approaches an ancient Egyptian man, saying "Take me to your—" and stops. Note that all of the alien's text has strange accents on it.

Frame 2: The alien points at a pyramid in the background and yells "WOAH WHAT THE FUCK!? WHAT THE FUCK IS *THAT*?!"

Frame 3: The Egyptian man replies "uh... a pyramid?"

Frame 4: The alien exclaims "Y'all MADE that shit?!"

Frame 5: The alien puts their hands on their head and continues "THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME!!"

Frame 6: The Egyptian man stares awkwardly at the amazed alien and replies "Uh... thanks?"

Frame 7: The alien lowers their arms.

Frame 8: The alien and man stare at each other in silence.

Frame 9: The alien asks "Have y'all invented batteries yet? I need to charge my iPod." The man asks "Your what?" and the alien replies "Damnit."

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · last yr.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 26. I hope nobody got a new printer for Christmas.

A comic:

Frame 1: A woman stands next to a printer with a smiley face on its screen. She gestures towards it and says "Behold our newest printer model, the XD-NITRO Wireless All-In-One iPrinter Pro Deluxe 7S!"

Frame 2: She shows a screen depicting the logos for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, 5G, Neuralink, and Nintendo DS Local Wireless. She continues, "Connect with Wi-Fi, 5G, Bluetooth, NFC and more!"

Frame 3: She pulls a solar panel out of the printer and adds "Use the built-in solar panel to use it without a power cable!"

Frame 4: She winks at the printer and says "And you'll quickly fall in love with your new digital assistant, Gutenberg, or Guty for short, with his charming personality!" The printer winks back and replies "You're too kind, Aida!"

Frame 5: Various features of the printer are highlighted in quick succession. "There's also a built-in file browser! Apps! Developer API! Social Networking Features! Dark Mode! GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card for Bitcoin mining! Soda Dispenser! Atari Emulator!" Various screens of the printer show it running solitaire, enabling emoji support in the settings menu, an Atari game, the printer making an ecstatic face as it shoots soda into a cup, and a message that “Jeff likes “Divorce Papers.pdf”” when the social media features are mentioned.

Frame 6: Several journalists are watching the press conference. One asks "How well does it print?"

Frame 7: Back on stage, the woman angrily throws a smoke bomb and yells "THIS CONFERENCE IS OVER!" The printer is now shooting papers out erratically and making a pained face, exclaiming "Oopsie, I made a Fucky-Wucky!" Various error messages appear, reading Low Ink! Error! Paper Jam! Toner!

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

A simple one for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 25, and the only one even tangentially related to Christmas (I originally drew all of these in October, so a snowman is the closest we'll get).

A drawing of a Polaroid photo, with "Jeofry's First Day of Work 10-11-84" written in ink in the corner. The photo depicts a Snowman putting on a hat, ready to go outside. There is a pocket formed in his chest with a pen in it, and with his other hand he is holding a briefcase. He is wearing shorts, which very buff pronounced legs are sticking out of, with white socks and shoes. Next to him is a small dog made of snow. His facial expression is difficult to describe, but I've been watching the Great British Bake-Off a lot lately and those limey bastards use the word "chuffed" a lot, so I'd describe his face as "straight chuffed to be here."

Outside the window a generic American suburban neighborhood is visible. Notably, the sun has a smiley face on it that also appears to be made of coal, much like the snowman's smile.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24. If something is true, it must be true in ALL languages!

A scientist is holding a stack of papers, and holding in their other hand a single paper that has the word "team" written in several languages on it. They say "The results are in, sir. Of 67 Latin-alphabet based languages, 35 of them have an “I” in “team.”"

In front of them, another scientist holds their head in frustration and replies, "Damn it... welp, back to the drawing board."

In the background is a white board, with the following phrases crossed out: dog is god backwards. assuming makes an ass of u and me. realize real lies real eyes. The next phrase, circled, is "there's no I in team." The final phrase is "a picture is worth 1000 words."

In case you wanted to see them, the words on the first scientist's paper are: iqembo, equipo, tim, sgioba, takim, lið, tiimi, team, koox, tawager, meeskond, topary, jamoa, egbe.

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23. This is a callout for myself. #usGamers #epicGaming #horrorGames

A comic about videos games.

Frame 1. A woman is sitting on a couch holding a Dreamcast controller. She says "Alright, time to play some Murder Hut II."

Frame 2. The game's brightness screen. It shows the silhouettes of 3 skulls, with one clearly visible, one barely visible, and one all black. Text on the screen reads "Brightness: Please adjust the brightness so that the middle skull is barely visible." She says "Adjust the brightness, huh?"

Frame 3. She says "Let me just..." as she brightens the screen.

Frame 4. The screen gets even brighter. The middle skull is very visible now.

Frame 5. The screen is even brighter. The left skull is now visible too, and has a condescending face. She says "And... Perfect! Wait a second..."

Frame 6. She asks "What's with that patronizing-ass look on that last one?!"

Frame 7. She asks "Do you have a problem with my settings, buddy?"

Frame 8. The skull's face changes to be even more judgemental. She yells "DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK DOWN ON ME!!"

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22. I love when things I drew several years ago are still relevant now, it's such a fun thing to see. It's just a great time all around.

The image is captioned "If video rental stores had been more like YouTube..."

A woman is returning a DVD to Blockbuster. The cashier is smiling at her, and next to him on the counter is a candy dispenser with the text "can't movies without candy!" on it. The woman is wearing a necklace depicting an egg being cracked.

Woman: Oh hey man! That movie you recommended last week? Snakes On a Plane? It was great!

Cashier: Awesome! If you liked that then you'll probably love Lizards on a Ship, or Sharks on a Vespa!

Woman: Excellent! Let me write these down real--

Cashier: Or Triumph of the Will!

Woman: ...Wait, wasn't that the, uh, Nazi movie?

Cashier: Oh my goodness I'm so sorry; that was so inappropriate of me to suggest that! I know you don't like foreign films! My sincerest apologies! Anyway, the Birth of a Nation should be right up your alley!

Dr. Beekeeper @hauntedbees.com · 8mo ago

Saw a very bleak children's book today. A book about how cocoa beans are turned into chocolate sounds pretty great and fun for kids... but by HERSHEY?! "First, little boys and girls just like you go to work in the cocoa farms in Côte d'Ivoire for up to 14 hours every day to earn like 25 cents..."

A real book cover for “Bean to Bar” by Bonnie Lady Lee, illustrated by Bonnie Lady Lee, Matt Diehl, and Harry Moore. Amidst a background of tropical tree leaves stand an anthropomorphic Hershey bar, Kiss candy, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.