mastodon 4.7.3Gamedev tutor and freelancer. #godotengine enthusiast. Creator of GodotOS, Morse Code Simulator, among other fun stuff!
After 2 years of waiting, the Godot pull request for transform offsets in Control nodes is FINALLY MERGED!
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/87081
This is a big deal for anyone doing UI in Godot, because it means you can finally animate nodes inside containers by offsetting them. This was my biggest pain point.
I updated my "minifying Godot export size" article to Godot 4.5, which added some extra build options. Using those, I managed to squeeze the Windows export to just 5.37MB!
https://popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minify-godots-build-size/
In case you missed it: I released a new rogue-like dungeon crawler where you shave enemies and try to defeat the witch that stole your hair! (It's free with a web version)
https://popcar2.itch.io/barberian-the-witch-curse
I'm pretty pleased what me and my team were able to do in just 2 weeks (it was part of Frenjam 2). Enjoy!
I've been working on an all-in-one file converter program, currently using ffmpeg and imagemagick in the background.
It's still VERY early but I wanted to show it off anyway! The goal is for it to be a super simple alternative to all those "convert X to Y" websites, without needing to mess with complex settings to get results.
P.S. if you're good at ffmpeg or imagemagick, I could really use help. I'm in over my head and they're frustrating to learn.
Seems like it's finally starting to happen, Firefox is adding WebGPU to its next update on Windows: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-on-windows-in-firefox-141/
This could open the door for way more ambitious webgames and experiences, but it's still a ways off from being supported by every browser on every platform. Maybe in a few years...
There's nothing quite like moving to a new Linux distro, having to log into everything again, and then getting 15 emails that there's a new suspicious login from each service.
It's incredible how Git has like 10 different ways of storing your username and password for the upstream repo but somehow none of them work on the first try.
Reminder that Canvas has begun today, which is a Fediverse equivalent to /r/place, where everybody can place pixels on a giant grid. Get in here!