Finally textured the desert, barren, ice and volcanic worlds in my upcoming 4X thanks to the amazing folks at @polyhaven.com #godot

The real reason we buy split keyboards #keyboards #cat

Can't find 5120x1440 wallpapers? Just make a 4X #godot game, simulate a galaxy, and presto wallpaper!

Pushed version 0.1.3 of gdeye, my experimental GDScript linter/formatter/LSP/MCP for Godot, fixing a few false positives and adding a new rule to automatically add typing to any project. github.com/TkTech/gdeye #godot #gdscript

GitHub - TkTech/gdeye: Eye Spy Issues. A fast GDScript linter, formatter, MCP and LSP for Godot.

Eye Spy Issues. A fast GDScript linter, formatter, MCP and LSP for Godot. - TkTech/gdeye

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We released the first balance update for Astro Protocol yesterday: store.steampowered.com/news/app/372... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #godot

Astro Protocol - Faction and Ship Balance Update - Steam News

First balance pass: faction buffs, ship tweaks, and higher late-game upkeep to keep matches fair and strategic.

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v3 of github.com/TkTech/can_ada is now available - Python's fastest WHATWG URL-compliant URL parser. Now 32% (4-6x urllib) faster thanks to @wjakob.bsky.social's nanobind. cc. @yagiznizipli.com @lemire.bsky.social

GitHub - TkTech/can_ada: Python bindings for Ada, a fast and spec-compliant URL parser.

Python bindings for Ada, a fast and spec-compliant URL parser. - TkTech/can_ada

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Chancy is a brilliant modern alternative to Celery through postgresql. Quite minimalistic but really powerful and a well designed task queue framework. Check it out: https://github.com/tktech/chancy #python #celery #postgresQL

GitHub - TkTech/chancy: A postgres-backed task queue for Python.

A postgres-backed task queue for Python. Contribute to TkTech/chancy development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Need a license-free space skybox for your next space game? Try out my procedural online generator for 16k HDR skyboxes you can drag and drop into Godot (and other engines) tkte.ch/night-sky/ #godot

Ever wanted to make a reasonably realistic Black Hole in godot 4? Wrote a guide: tkte.ch/articles/202... #godot

Weekend project - making realistic blackholes in Godot. Think it turned out pretty good! Single shader and sphere.

The Clair Obscur soundtrack is possibly one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard. And they've put the entire thing online for free, with advertising disabled. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQZ...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) Full OST

YouTube video by Sandfall Interactive

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⭐️ Opportunity alert ⭐️ We have 2 open positions to work on the #CKAN services offered by @okfn.bsky.social. 🏃🏽‍♀️ Express applications are welcome - deadline is 15 March! • Senior Developer: buff.ly/Y7sXC5b • Product Owner: buff.ly/qIr4fwS Ready, steady, go: apply now!

@lemire.bsky.social You may find the conversation in github.com/ibireme/yyjs... of interest. Assuming it's correct, Ibireme's new yy algo is a significant improvement on grisu2.

new double to string algorithm · Issue #200 · ibireme/yyjson

https://gitee.com/xjb714/dtoa-benchmark English: The source code is in this link src/d2sci/d2s.cpp/d2s_sse. Sse implementation based on schubfach, the performance is about 1.5 times that of dragonb...

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Starting the slow process of stripping America out of our family's life - tkte.ch/articles/202...

Chancy 0.18 is live and now "semi-stable". A highly flexible postgres-based task queue for Python with workflows, global rate limiting, a built-in dashboard, and much more. Already using Postgres and thinking of adding Celery? Try Chancy instead. github.com/tktech/chancy

GitHub - TkTech/chancy: A postgres-backed task queue for Python.

A postgres-backed task queue for Python. Contribute to TkTech/chancy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Just pushed can_ada v2.0.0, parse urls 4x faster than the stdlib with strict WHATWG compliance. github.com/tktech/can_ada ( @yagiznizipli.com )

GitHub - TkTech/can_ada: Python bindings for Ada, a fast and spec-compliant URL parser.

Python bindings for Ada, a fast and spec-compliant URL parser. - TkTech/can_ada

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We are looking into building a benchmark for URLPattern. If you use URLPattern in the real world, what is your usage pattern?

@github.com's free copilot update today has broken copilot for @jetbrains.com users with open-source maintainer access. Disable the extension to stop it from popping up a warning once a minute. @ashley.dev do you know if this will get fixed today?

Our paper, "Parsing millions of URLs per second", written with @lemire.bsky.social became one of the most read articles in Journal of Software: Practice and Experience. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097...

Software: Practice and Experience

Click on the title to browse this journal

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The final wiki.vg export is available from archive.org at archive.org/details/wiki.... This contains all pages, uploads and edit history. @minecraft.wiki has done an excellent job of importing most of the content into minecraft.wiki.

This post is for a bug report to bsky, please ignore :) I liked wiki.vg's articles.

Community is an amazing thing. Ada has pre-built binaries for almost all platforms/operating systems and supports almost all programming languages! github.com/ada-url/ada/...

update readme and add clients by anonrig · Pull Request #787 · ada-url/ada

Adds multiple clients to README. A small thank you to @lnear-dev @bungle @alperencantez @TkTech @KusStar for their incredible libraries.

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Just posted Chancy as a Show HN! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4227...

Chancy (a postgres-backed task queue for Python) version 0.15.0 released. A newer, shinier built-in dashboard and support for non-cooperative task cancellation. github.com/TkTech/chancy

If you like what's happening here, consider applying. jobs.ashbyhq.com/astral/c0edb...

Software Engineer, General

We're building the future of Python, in Rust.

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v0.14 of Chancy is out, now with a SubInterpreterExecutor built on Eric Snow's InterpreterPoolExecutor. Use Chancy workflows to mix jobs using asyncio, threads, processes, and now sub-interpreters. github.com/TkTech/chancy

GitHub - TkTech/chancy: A postgres-backed task queue for Python.

A postgres-backed task queue for Python. Contribute to TkTech/chancy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Finally released v4 of [py]yyjson github.com/TkTech/py_yy..., which among other things can now support parsing into Decimal objects with no loss of precision (inspired by @b.trl.sn's blog.trl.sn/blog/what-is... article. Inf/NaN, comments, trailing commas, JSON Patch, JSON Merge-Patch, it does it all

GitHub - TkTech/py_yyjson: Python bindings for yyjson.

Python bindings for yyjson. Contribute to TkTech/py_yyjson development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I ran into an edge case with uv (github.com/astral-sh/uv...) whose root cause @crmarsh.com identified in minutes, had PR that day, and a release soon after. Fantastic work from the Astral team.

In resolver, allow source distributions with static metadata, but no `requires-python` compatibility · Issue #8767 · astral-sh/uv

The following fails to resolve under --python 3.11, because interpreters-pep-734 has no wheels, and it requires at least Python 3.13, ostensibly to get the metadata -- however, the package has stat...

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It's finally time to say goodbye; Sunsetting The Minecraft Protocol Wiki and Notifico tkte.ch/articles/202...

@sentry.io This month is my 10 year anniversary of getting a free open-source sentry account, which is still going to this day and has worked flawlessly in all that time. This investment in open-source lead me to introduce or expand Sentry usage at 4 small companies at over $8k/USD a month.