Jim Jams
@jimjamscodes.bsky.social
Making indie games and tools for content creators. Previous Works: Creator & programmer - Open Net Battle Co-producer - Lunar Lux https://github.com/TheMaverickProgrammer
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
It should be considered fraud to run a campaign as a politician and then break all promises once they are in office. In any other industry there would be serious consequences for such behavior. #voting #politicians
You know math is getting serious when the author stops drip feeding you equations and pulls out the commutative diagrams
i still currently believe that free and open-source software bundled with self-hosted options are the only sustainable path forward for content creators longterm we should be educating and sharing knowledge on these tools now more than ever
So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?
16/200 pages read in a paper on modern encryption schemes. I wish I read papers faster. It took me an hour to wrap my head around the last page for tonight.
I don't know if my disposable income having disproportionately gone more toward books instead of video games this past year for the first time in my life says more about me or the current dire state of the video game industry, but uh.....yeah. lmao
My custom lua runtime now accepts code on the fly from command line. It’s shaping up to be a true lua interpreter!
If veggie burgers keep being this tasty and high in protein, I might make the switch permanently
Learning that Duck Duck Go let's you block specific sites from search results is a game changer for when you are looking for things and you don't want the first 10 results to be Amazon.
I’m not saying we’re in a recession, but I just saw a commercial for Eggo waffles that prioritized not its taste or nutritional value, but the fact that each one costs 40 cents.
I’m very happy to add metatables and meta methods support to my custom lua runtime! I’ve learned so much during this project writing it from scratch. On the left is my script and its output. On the right, my std print implementation details making use of __tostring lookup. 😺 #lua #compilers #pl
Coroutines and tail calls are best implemented when you have bytecode for your language runtime, but I’m still going to waste my time trying to implement it anyway in a recursive descent parser, in spite of the native execution stack. #interpreters #pl #programming
I am tired of reading something that is very fluent, then halfway through realising that I just read a paragraph that makes no damn sense because it wasn't written by a person. Extruded prose is a consent violation. I don't know why more people aren't viscerally disgusted by its publication.
I have fond memories growing up with my family discussing the Jacobian conjecture gathered around the dinner table. #math #jacobian #conjecture
I wrote a lua interpreter from scratch and I came across some interesting edge cases I missed. Multiple return args only fill one value at a time unless it’s the last expr in the evaluation order. Stranger, lua does not support multi-assignment as return values in group exprs. #lua #interpreters
Sometimes I remind myself I don’t need to have a strong opinion on everything.
Prime numbers as a classification of unique composability of objects can be applied to reduce a polynomial. According to the Prime Number Theorem, the odds of finding an irreducible polynomial with degree N is the same as finding a prime with N digits which is approx 1/N. #math #cryptography
I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.
People start things and rarely finish them. I’m glad that I committed myself to say working on this project until it is done. I’m the primary and lead programmer for ONB. I will be retiring from the project this year after release of the next and final version.
ONB@opennetbattle.bsky.social · last mo.onb.frameskip.net ✨🥳🎉 Open Net Battle's 2.1.6 release is now available on: - STEAM DECK - ANDROID - LINUX DISTROS* - WINDOWS *under flatpak Get mods here: onb.keristero.com/mods or here: milk.pet/mods #mmbn #steamdeck #android #gamedev
A gentle reminder: “Reading to children, even before they can understand words, teaches them to associate books with love and affection.” (Princeton Book Review)
