Spitko

Spitko

@spitko.bsky.social

Game developer, tinkerer, writer of bad code

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Rare Spitko of the past W

Spitko@spitko.bsky.social

Me, in 2000: "I'm going to make a website with PHP and MySQL and all this cool scripting!" Me, in 2025: "Right so my website is a bunch of markdown files that get templated into nothing but static HTML and CSS." Modern webdev has made me return to monke and it's great.

Been trying to build a DIY speaker. "How hard could it be?" Hard. Managed to get something sounding halfway decent, after throwing an ADAU1701 at it and rebuilding the shell several times. Spend about 4x the cost of a comparable sounding speaker though, and it still needs work.

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After over 60+ hours of Demonschool QA, this soundtrack haunts me even when I close my eyes to sleep (complimentary)

Necrosoft Games@necrosoftgames.com

Demonschool's soundtrack by @icechoir.bsky.social is extremely extremely good, and there's a bandcamp page up now with two tracks to preview! It's 37 tracks, almost 2 hours of music with 70s-appropriate synthesizers. You'll also be able to buy it on steam. kurtfeldman.bandcamp.com/album/demons...

This week in "Cursed objects I've brought into this world": A Compaq portable from the 90s with PS5 guts courtesy of a crypto mining card. This was a good chance to learn FreeCAD. Lots of little 3d printed brackets. A non-trivial amount of hot glue. A lot of wiring. Now it can finally play quake.

X Error of failed request: BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this connection) Major opcode of failed request: 145 () Minor opcode of failed request: 3 Resource id in failed request: 0x65dc110 Serial number of failed request: 23655102

Invalid signature for function ?sdl@show_open_file_dialog : PPA_vOXsdl_window_Xsdl_gl_dOBi_bi?ib_Db_v required but PPA_vXsdl_window_DOBi_b_v found in hdll

Was just thinking I should let my landlord know I'm moving soon, only to find an email from him in my inbox today... about raising my rent again.

"program database file has an obsolete format, delete it and recompile" This just compiled a few minutes ago. No updates have installed, VS hasn't even been restarted.

Realizing LD is tomorrow and I forgot to actually... assemble a team. Somehow managed to find an artist but I guess it'll be public domain music again.

Woke up to two loud bangs and the breaker blowing. It seems the "cheapest modular SFX Power supply on amazon" was not built very well. Who could have guessed! Why spend pennies on fuses when breakers exist? The best part is that the computer wasn't even on, just sitting in sleep mode.

Spent the last day trying to figure out why my SASL code wasn't producing correct outputs. Turns out my HMAC signature for the client key was "Client key" but it's supposed to be "Client Key".

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Today in "How did this ever work?!" A decades old psql implementation for Haxe which is little endian. psql protocol has only ever supported big endian. The author claims it worked and there are other users filing bugs that similarly imply it worked.

Me, in 2000: "I'm going to make a website with PHP and MySQL and all this cool scripting!" Me, in 2025: "Right so my website is a bunch of markdown files that get templated into nothing but static HTML and CSS." Modern webdev has made me return to monke and it's great.

Spent some time last night thinking about ways to add comments to my new, entirely static website. Found some options, started implementing them... then I had a moment. Why? Seriously. When has a comments section on some random website been a good idea? What was I thinking?

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