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Tess Snider

@malkyne.com

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Fairy codemother. Free-range veteran game programmer and underground programming teacher. Co-owner of indie game studio Hidden Achievement.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · Apr 3

Never attribute to artificial incompetence that which is adequately explained by natural incompetence.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

We need to rewind the internet.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

I think we've learned from the proliferation of ghost pepper products that there's a market out there for dare food.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

I'd love a music service people could write their own clients for. There could be an official one for the normies, but enthusiasts could try out different clients people made.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

I don't understand why everyone is so bad at this. It's a &$@!ing music-player. It's not that hard.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

My biggest complaint is that they copied the Spotify interface too closely. There were improvements I would have liked, and they mostly just copied it and stopped there.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

I use Tidal, and I did indeed transfer one of my Spotify lists.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 2h

Well played. Well played indeed.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3h

A lesson I have had to learn scores of times.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

Noooooooo. The pipeline must flow!

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

Krita is pretty much everything I wished GIMP had been -- to the extent that I'm now convinced that anyone still encouraging the use of GIMP for painting doesn't actually paint.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

I feel this in my bones.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

As I was recently reminded while migrating all my old art files to a new machine.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

My general policy is that NO ART SOURCE FILES GO INTO THE CODE REPO EVER. I worked on an MMO where I had to wait to download everyone's Zbrush files, and I know Zbrush, and I use Zbrush, but downloading all those red waxy sweetlings should not get in the way of fixing bugs.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 20h

Absolutely! And there are a lot of specific areas that need more money and support. Brain tumors are usually left out of cancer drug trials, so researchers need money to do separate trials for anything that seems promising.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 22h

Microcomputers are useful in research today, but it would have been patently silly for Jobs and Woz to say they were “curing cancer.”

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 22h

Cancer research is not at all at a frustrating impasse that demands some kind of new, extremely expensive quantum leap in technology to overcome. They’re making the greatest progress I’ve seen in my entire life right now.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 23h

Don’t ever let a tech CEO tell you they’re “curing cancer.” If you donated all that investment money to actual cancer research, it would most likely get us way closer to that goal than whatever tech they’re pitching.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 1d

“Deployed update late Friday.”

jason 👀 @singingpigs.online · 1d

“just played this game…”

Books Schwartz 📚 @sunshineduk.bsky.social · 1d

"We're going to pivot--"

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 1d

I'm generally not a fan of the whole JRPG-style stand-in-a-line and jump-forward-and-swing style combat (I prefer iso, like BG3), but I decided to give it a chance, because it was getting such excellent word-of-mouth.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 1d

I'm about halfway(?) through right now. I'm bad at dodging/parrying, so I feel guilty that my little crew is suffering due to my incompetence, but I'm otherwise enjoying it.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3d

My "Require alt text before posting" setting got randomly cleared, at some point. If you use this setting, you may want to make sure it's still turned on.

A picture of the Alt text settings in the Accessibility section of BlueSky's settings.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3d

When you think about it, rich people have always been doomsday prepping. They've always built bomb shelters and panic rooms, etc. The only difference now is that these billionaires have so much money that they can substantially scale up their fantasy post-apocalyptic hardholds.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3d

Oh, I'm not assuming anything nefarious here. It was probably just some missed data during a migration, or something.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3d

If anything, they tend to be really out-of-touch.

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 3d

My "Require alt text before posting" setting got randomly cleared, at some point. If you use this setting, you may want to make sure it's still turned on.

A picture of the Alt text settings in the Accessibility section of BlueSky's settings.