Mongoose Studios

At long last, everything is done and the videos are all out. You can now binge the tutorial if you feel so inclined. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Seeing more and more people advertising things explicitly as NOT containing AI.

Just tried to trim my mustache. Wrong guide was on the trimmer. Balls.

I've been spending a lot less time here, and on social media in general. It's awesome.

Python: we have the most obtuse package system known to dev-kind. Rust: hold my cat ears.

It's raining pretty heavily this morning. Given how quickly my upload speed degraded yesterday in similar conditions I'm going to skip today. A laggy stream is no fun for anyone.

Most companies get big and become lame. I wanna get big and become slightly more unhinged. #lifegoals

The state of the internet is such that any time I see a screen name that looks like a real person's name I automatically assume they're: 1. a bot 2. trying to sell me something 3. both 1 and 2

Infinity dollars, all the GPU's, all the data ever. Gonna cure all the diseases, solve world hunger, obsolete scarcity. Or maybe just make another shitty wearable that people didn't want the first 3 times. www.engadget.com/2267229/meta...

Me: It would be good to refactor this to not be one big package for improved separation of concerns and to make it easier to reason about. But I suspect that here there be dragons. Client: Make it so Me, scorched, clawed, and slightly bitten: Yeah, that figures.

The worst part about when the new ant colony that has just moved in discover you have water is waiting for the little bastards to take all the ant poison home and die. I now understand why the Home Depots here have infinity ant poison on the shelf.

I will never understand the clit mouse stans. The most useless human interface device that I have ever had the displeasure to use.

Shit I don't want: 1. clankers telling me if my shit is the same as everyone else 2. pretty much everything that this guy's face is on come to think of it

You either die young, or live long enough to become that old guy who answers every question with "well.... it depends..."

In #StarTrek you might de-evolve into a lemur because your neurotic hypochondriac coworker gets a flu shot. Still a better future than whatever all this shit is.

La Forge: "We want to do experiments on the critical systems of the spaceship/computer keeping us all alive." Me: gee, that sounds like something you should not do in production. Episode: *dramatic music plays, because stuff is very broken now* #TNG was so far ahead of its time #StarTrek

I had forgotten that Star Trek deals regularly with the loss of friends, parents, spouses, etc. A stark contrast to the modern era, where everything must carry 27 warning labels for an offhanded mention.

Anyone else ever get the urge to do a Worf-stache?

Every time I try to be more social I remember why I stopped trying to be more social.

It has been 0 days since investing time in #testing has saved me from a silly #database mistake in the #backend

Dug up some old media. No advertisements, no #TheAlgorithm trying to suggest what to play next. No episode summary, no discography, #nodistractions. Feels good.

Y'all ever just work on a thing to shut your brain up? Not serious effort, just wasting time, and then oopse you accidentally a thing? I may be in danger of that, brain won't shut up about it.

Been thinking a lot about #freelance work recently. The big platforms all look very "race to the bottom"-ey to me. Are there any effective alternatives to those platforms? Is there a market for back-end dev work in proper back-end languages? #softwaredeveloper

If you're conducting #interviews and you promise a followup by the end of the week, it's imperative that you hold yourself to that. If you fail to do so you're sending a very clear signal to the applicant. 1. We are disorganized 2. We don't value you as a candidate #recruiting #hiring

I spent some time watching #StarTrek TNG yesterday. I had never really directly noticed that there seem to be at least two intermingled storylines going on in each episode. I noticed it because it "felt" different while watching. Am I going crazy or is this something we no longer do in TV?

Mongoose now has wares, if you have coin. shop.mongoose-studios.com

It should be illegal to have more than two interviews for a role. 😒

Just a little reminder to all my GenX (I didn't forget you) and Millennials out there. Right now, we have the opportunity to not become the boomers. Shut the fuck up about the burritos. Learn to coach the youngs instead of shitting on them.

Has anyone ever looked at a suburb and not been immediately filled with the same sort of deep primal dread that a mouse must feel when being placed in a cage?

No streams this weekend either because I really need to work on this project. Progress is good, there's just a lot to do. Sorry for the late notice.

It's super funny that as everything becomes less and less usable because of all the AI that's been shoved into everything I'm seeing job posts demanding experience with clankers. Proompt harder lil bro, that'll fix it for sure. #fuckai

I keep hitting this disconnect where I think : "Man, I'm really not very good at front end and it's so hard." Then I read answers on SO and think: "wow, none of these idiots have any clue what they are doing or why they are doing it." Why is front end like this?!?!?! #software #developer

Unironically listening to Darude – ‘Sandstorm’ Because I have FREE WILL, LINDA!

It should be illegal to make phone numbers mandatory on job applications. I'm not giving you my number so someone can call me back to back at 4 am for the same shitty job (real story).

This is a product to gamify education for kids. They want someone to turboslop it out. #fuckai

Raw dogging American Dad DVDs on a dumb tv rn. RETVRN!

I had a dream that I hadn't checked my YT analytics in a while, so I opened up the page and had 250k subscribers. I was shocked but also relieved, in the "everything is gonna be OK now, I'm finally doing well" sort of way.

People tend to think that past humans were dumb because they didn't know about germs and had horses and boats instead of cars and planes. But they invented the pocket watch from first principles. Future people are gonna be right about us though. A lot of us are dumb as shit.

Is anyone studying how they make canned vegetables contain 25% of your RDI of salt without tasting like there's any salt in there at all? I feel like we should be able to apply this technology for good.

I've been a @jetbrains.com stan for a long time, but every patch I now have to turn off more AI bullshit, and right now their CEF browser thing is crashing constantly. The sloppified writing is on the wall. Good IDE's for Linux? Multi cursor, screen split, tabs. No vim/emacs.

The goal of this crowd is to spend the least amount of time possible playing the game, and then complain that the game is short. Getting stuck and exploring to figure out where to go is part of gaming. Learning how games generally work is part of gaming. "Limited time" is a terrible excuse.

Hot take: given the sustained push Valve is making to support Linux gaming, your indie game NEEDS to care if it runs correctly on Linux/Proton. #indiegame #indiedev

Identity verification is being forced for this platform, and none of the options are acceptable for me as a brand. Expect me to be using this platform less often as a result.

Not sure if my attention span has been harmed by the internet, or if I just want people to stop waffling on and get to the fucking point because I'm old.

Idiocracy and Office Space are the strongest argument for the feasibility of time travel. Mike Judge warned us how deeply stupid the corporate world would become. Then he told us how everyone was going to be a drooling idiot. Both things have happened, exactly as foretold.

Grifting shitlords have been solved. All the other actual problems have become more problematic with the introduction of "let's make the word maker-upper do everything" and it shows.

It's weird to see so many voices I used to respect (not always agree with, but respect) fall to the grift machine. It's enough to make me worried that I'm the asshole in this equation. At the same time I've never been more certain that I'm right as when I reject the slop.

I realized something today. Squirrelly braces look like little bat'leths in emoji form. o{ }o <-- two little warriors defending their house's honor.

Medium, and by extension telling every idiot to write Medium articles as a form of stealth marketing, was a fucking mistake.

Explicit returns (even naked ones) at the end of a function are good. They make the code more legible. I am prepared to fight every linter and code golf enthusiast on this hill.