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Tom
@thope.xyz
Game programmer specialising in engine and tools 🔧. Based in Dundee, Scotland.

📆 Available For Hire!

Working on an arcady, drifty, driving game, title TBC. Follow for updates ⭐️
Everyone is talking about the sprouts but what will happen to all those raspberries???
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I listened to the whole episode today and really enjoyed it!
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
red-black trees, b trees, content addressable storage, Rich Hickey, functional programming, NERF, so much stuff to dig into. Especially when Alex is talking at 2x speed lol #gamedev
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Not a direct reply to your original point, but another option could be to gift it to a housing cooperative?
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
thank you, I’ve been trying to remember the name of this!
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Made a blog post about it thope.xyz/2025/nmb/ind.... #c #foss
Releasing a C Library: Native Menu Bar
A cross platform C API for adding menus to your desktop game or app.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Maybe not what you mean but I'm glad I signed up to the Reuters Daily Briefing. Think it gave me a more healthy relationship to current events and curbed the random doom scrolling I was doing before
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
update. Added backends got GTK2 and 3 (might drop 2 support later, we'll see)

Also added support for creating the default App and Window menus on MacOS
September 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thanks!
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Inspired by the article by @rystorm.com rystorm.com/blog/transla..., my dissatisfaction with ImGuizmo (sorry), and the fact that I just like gizmos

Maybe this will turn into a library when I'm done
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Is it even possible to steel man this? Is there anything good or even new about the new setting app??
September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Do you know if getting my domain marked as spam would pose a risk to a website hosted on that domain? e.g. de-ranked in search or something?
September 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dithered shadows + bsky compression makes it hard to tell in the video but trust me this is much improved
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM