#Computer developer

[yourdailyqueer]

maia arson crimew

Gender: Non binary (it/she)

Sexuality: Bisexual / lesbian / queer

DOB: 7 August 1999

Ethnicity: White - Swiss

Occupation: Computer developer, computer hacker, entrepreneur, activist

Note 1: Known for leaking source code and other data from companies such as Intel and Nissan, and for discovering a 2019 copy of the United States government's No Fly List on an unsecured CommuteAir server.

Note 2: Is autistic

[numbpill]

RANDOM/SEMI RANDOM COLLECTION OF TILED BACKGROUNDS FOR YOUR WEBSITE / BLOG <3

(ko-fi)

[prokopetz]

I think the real reason most websites are janky as hell to use these days is because web developers have become so specialised that nobody really understands how anything works anymore. The other day I had to explain why hosting critical Javascript libraries on a third-party CDN is a bad idea to a "lead developer" who genuinely didn't know the difference between server-side versus client-side scripting.

[computer-nerd-girl]

[canmom]

The game I've been working on for almost two years is now in open beta if you wanna try it out!!

Boom Boom Hamster Doom is a VR game about commanding teams of hamsters fighting across a completely destructible island. If you want an X-meets-Y description, it's much like Worms, but at tabletop scale. It's toyetic as hell - you lead them around on leashes with your little crab claw, and pull back like a catapult to aim missiles or boxing gloves, throw an airstrike like a paper plane, or fly them around in little jetpacks.

I've worked on pretty much every corner of this game - in particular, shading, animation, UI, gameplay and the procedural generation of the islands. And like, you know me, I want to tell you all about it. I'm writing a whole lot more diving into how just about every aspect of the game was built, from voxel meshing and networked physics to ocean rendering, bot AI, and obscure DOTS optimisation headaches... which will all be appearing right here. I'll keep you updated.

We'll be moving into full early-access soon, but you can already jump in the beta here, and play against other people or bots in the forest and ice biomes. You'll need to have a Quest 2 or Quest 3 headset - but if you have another headset, don't worry, we are planning on a Steam release down the line. I'll keep you posted.

All feedback is extremely welcome! I'm nervous/proud/excited for the game to finally see the light of day.

[nixcraft]

start them young

[wikinley]

Does a USB drive get heavier as you store more files on it?

Nope. Paradoxically (and theoretically), the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets.

USB drives use Flash memory, which means the the ones and zeros of the data are stored on transistors.

When you save data, a binary zero is set by charging the float gate of the transistor, and a binary one is set by removing the charge.

To charge it, we add electrons, and the mass of each electron is 0.00000000000000000000000000091 grams.

This means that an empty USB drive (which mostly holds zeros) weighs more than a full USB drive (which has ones and zeros). Add data, reduce the weight.

[kaiserouo]

Tired Ghost

[mlembug]

the current landscape of webdev needs to know that I don't need web applications that scale up to millions of users, I need web applications that scale down to 5 users or less

[blur-from-the-north]

November 1, 2001. Oulu, Finland. Agfa ePhoto CL18.

This was my workstation at the software development job I had at the time. As you can tell from the amount of caffeine implied. This office was at Technopolis in Linnanmaa. The company isn't there any more. It's nowhere.

[nuggets-wurld]

some skeleton gifs found off of GifCities !! none of these are mine I just found them archived :33

[prokopetz]

I fully understand that the problem is corporate-mandated crunch time, not "programmers being lazy", but at some point it became acceptable for games to spawn a popup on start scolding you for not installing it on an SSD rather than implementing a texture caching pipeline, and I don't care for that at all.

[electricxangell]

dev process of my submission for hackapet by hack club!!

drew all the assets, wrote all the code, consumed all the energy drinks xD

overall an incredibly fun experience!! learning pixel art and ignoring my psychology tests were the biggest highlights :3

now onto the final push to submit on time >:D

[tass3l]

it was only a matter of time, unfortunately

doodles regarding my tadc oc. sorry for falling back into the oc x canon mines 😔

i like to think that hassel befriends caine simply bc hes so fascinated and wants to know the inner workings of the circus and also just how advanced caine is as an AI. sure the friendship started out as one-sided and an attempt to get information n maybe to find an exploit of some sort but it soon becomes a real, genuine friendship.

gif unrelated

[omeletcat]

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