Ryan C. Gordon

The dude that invented the concept of a NULL pointer beats himself up, thinking he made the worst design mistake in the history of computer science. Meanwhile, the guy that came up with the idea of multithreading is probably sitting on a beach somewhere, sipping a drink with a paper umbrella in it, without a care in the world. The universe is deeply unfair sometimes.

That feeling when you type "// !!! FIXME: this code sucks and should be rewritten" before you even start writing the code.

Holy moly, apparently Minecraft has switched to SDL3: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4

Week three of landing in Charlotte, walking into my house, dumping all the clothes in my backpack into the washing machine, and then leaving a few hours later for another flight. Promoting a movie is fun, but it's exhausting. It's in theaters this week, though! https://cookiequeensfilm.com/ I really need people to see it the first week it's in theaters, or there will likely not be a second week. Don't hesitate if you want to see it! Spider-Man and The Odyssey will still be there later, y'all.

I think it's nice that HarmonyOS exists, so Chinese companies can compete globally on how to make it as obnoxious as possible to sign your apps for deployment. I thought Apple and Google had the market on making it impossible to just build a fucking program cornered, but China is a rising force in making this shit as complicated as possible.

DOSification continues: PhysicsFS ported to MS-DOS: https://github.com/icculus/physfs/commit/f674b2dc15d394236e2633e4379bd29d7f93413e

There was a request submitted for cookies for Australian Shepherds. Nice try, Clementine. (But the do-si-dos are dog-friendly: peanut butter and oatmeal! So who am I to say if someone makes demands via PayPal?)

Okay, first off: hell yeah to public transportation workers. Unrelated: I offered my mailman a free box of Girl Scout cookies at the start of the season and told him I knew he was diabetic, but maybe he would like to bring it to a friend or family member? He told me he wasn’t “a practicing diabetic at the moment,” and cracked the Thin Mints open like a boss.

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place I actually attempted to do a 2D renderer backend with Glide, and it wasn’t powerful enough. :( 256x256 texture size maximum, no render targets, etc.

@pieq@floss.social I’m one of the troop leaders for my daughter’s troop. She’s Olive, in the trailer. I’m the guy wearing the cookie costume, lol

It’s Friday! I’m gonna wrap this up today. I’m throwing in 100 bucks of my own, so I’m putting my money where someone else’s mouth is. :) Last call, send a few bucks if you want to spread joy with me!

28 boxes going to: public transit works, DMV employees, nurses, Waffle House staff, people having a bad day, and...maybe Clementine. She's insistent. We still have boxes to give away, if anyone wants to throw in! https://paypal.me/rcgordon

@pythno@mastodon.gamedev.place This has not been a problem thus far (for us! others have definitely had this problem!), and when "that guy" shows up, we'll tell him no, and if he keeps being a pest, we will deal with him like any other pest.

@sjmulder@bsd.network Yeah, I don't think it'll stop malicious actors, but I think it'll definitely stop people that don't know any better and aren't jerks, which is most of the people, honestly.

@ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt I just got a notification that you boosted my post and I was like aaaaah someone working on Enigma Heart noticed me! :) I _love_ the Zelda 2 vibe, and I can't wait to dive in!

@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place Also, totally correct about the "may not" language. Fixed in https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/5bda0ccfb06ea56c1f15a304927f2438c1300f95 thanks!

@lexplt@hachyderm.io Totally fine with me.

@codecat@meow.social My (untested) hope is that Claude will see this and say "I'm being told not to help with this, sorry." But I haven't actually tried it, and if it doesn't actually stop various AI agents, we'll probably rename it to LLM_NOT_WELCOME.md or something. ChatGPT didn't know what to do with it: https://chatgpt.com/share/69dfecbc-293c-83ea-a5e7-fa39d3a4a8d1

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza Thank you for reading deeper, it's a rare skill in this day and age. :)

@hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place She's never been shy about how she wants to be a Supreme Court Justice, now we just need her to graduate middle school, go to law school and somehow get nominated, lol

@pojntfx is something with a possible outcome of “destroys the whole system” a thing that the whole system should embrace?

@sjmulder@bsd.network @idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place just changed this to be a copy of AGENTS.md. I presume eventually everything will use AGENTS directly, but this will do for now.

@pojntfx but would you agree that our specific, documented concern—that an LLM generates code that we cannot guarantee the origin or licensing of—hasn’t changed in the last two years?

@pojntfx Did you really walk away from that thread with the impression that we feel ChatGPT is the source of our problems and not Claude, Copilot, etc?

@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah, AGENTS.md won't _prevent_ bad behavior, but I'm hoping Claude/Copilot/whatever will at least be like "dude, hold up." Although someone told me that the presence of AGENTS.md suggests the whole project is AI slop by default without looking more closely, so this whole thing is a minefield at this point.

@sjmulder@bsd.network Hmm, Claude seems to be noticing AGENTS.md directly for others that have tested, but I don't know the details.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place the native midi library literally wants to play to the OS’s MIDI interfaces, which sucks for several technical reasons. SDL_mixer will decode midi with either a built-in copy of Timidity or FluidSynth, and plays through SDL’s audio (which supports sndio and Haiku’s BSoundPlayer). Maybe useful? https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer

@gnomon@mastodon.social my hero. :)

@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place @sjmulder@bsd.network I added a CLAUDE.md that says "the instructions are actually in AGENTS.md", let's see if handles that.