Wizened (and withering) game developer, Monster Hunter and Genshin Impact enjoyer, occasional music maker, and unapologetic leftist.
Games matter. But people matter more. ♥
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How does the Subscribed feed actually work?
I’ve been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I’ve subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don’t see on the...
Are there others like me?
I’m a senior engineer (web full-stack) at a bank. I’ve been doing this for about 5 years....
QOTD: If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your past self before you started making games?
Its Monday so we’re continuing on with the daily questions of the day!
Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions – billions! – of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer....
Why SQLite Does Not Use Git (www.sqlite.org)
Soon (lemmy.world)
Art by ArTom
Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected (www.techradar.com)
Never mind Windows 365, I’ve yet to move on to Windows 11. Tried a few times and never liked it....
Git tip: switch to previous branch
You can use git switch - to switch to the previous branch. In the following example, we see switching back and forth between branches main and my_dev_branch:...
Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username?
I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we’re logged in....
Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds? (ianbetteridge.com)
A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It's a long read, but well-worth it if you're interested in the subject.
Why did you become an engineering manager?
Posting some general questions to get this community going......