I have been having fun programming and experimenting this last week in new ways. Sometimes low stakes experiments are very rewarding.
Ana
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It's me! Someone of no particular note. @a_hoverbear on formerly Twitter. Also ana@hachyderm.io and @hoverbear on GitHub. https://hoverbear.org
Working encrypted Gentoo install with GUI and audio in under half an hour. 😅
Hey, I have a Bevy contributor who speaks Chinese with limited English skills. Can I have some help translating and mentoring in github.com/bevyengine/b... ?
Add support for world space UI by MushineLament · Pull Request #21812 · bevyengine/bevy
Preface Added feature 'bevy_ui_container' to ensure normal functioning of other functions Objective Fixes #21278 Try #5476 Existing problems: Fix node rotation UiTransform based on UiCon...
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I wrote more about @obsidian.md ☺️ This time, how to have fonts that are portable via sync, and how to do some custom styling both in Obsidian and Publish! hoverbear.org/blog/custom-...
Custom fonts in Obsidian
Custom Sync-portable fonts for your Obsidian and Obsidian Publish.
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I've been enjoying Obsidian lately. One plugin I like is 'Folder Notes,' sadly those notes don't behave the same on Obsidian Publish. So, here's how to mimic the behavior on your Obsidian Publish site. hoverbear.org/blog/folder-...
Folder Notes in Obsidian Publish
Wiring up Folder Notes behavior on your Publish site.
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(Playing Cosmere) "Can I get an advantage on this insight check because my character is gay?" "Yes."
Tried a ublue distro this weekend, seemed okay. Tried to use it for basic development, whew. Way too much friction for me.
BG3 patch 8 with mods is even more fun than ever. I need to spend more time with photo mode.
If you're able to, please vote in the Canadian election. Advance voting is open and it's busy!
Took some notes I had while building a new system at work, cleaned it up and wrote this piece on deterministic simulation testing building-systems.xyz/deterministi...
Building Systems - Deterministic simulation test -- the next step
Distributed systems are a hard problem, and in this article I try to combine principles of building sans-io state machines with Deterministic Simulation Testing to try and make my life a little easier...
building-systems.xyz
“It gives me so much joy that there are kids growing up who have no concept that our culture was ever at the margins. They’re growing up only with the knowledge that in this moment, it’s in the center.” Read more & watch H̓ágṃ́ṇtxv Qṇtxv Tx̌ (We’re all we got) here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘I can still hear their words’: the fight to save the Híɫzaqv language
In what is now western Canada, younger generations of the Indigenous Heiltsuk Nation are using social media to revive this ‘deeply relational’ language
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Game enjoyers, you might like: store.steampowered.com/app/1671740/...
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) on Steam
Explore 17th century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Y...
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"Why don't you post on Blue sky?" Gee my twitter and mastodon are both almost entirely private, guess what this service does not have? It's private posts.
(If you are wondering if this is me, it is! Ping me somewhere else and I can confirm it.)