Tristam
@trist.am
Recovering from BigTech. Procgen and 3D rendering enthusiast. Restauranteur
I actually don’t think this is entirely unworkable? Hexagon is just a 2D projection of a cube, it decomposes into 3 squares quite nicely.
Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid
Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid
October 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I actually don’t think this is entirely unworkable? Hexagon is just a 2D projection of a cube, it decomposes into 3 squares quite nicely.
Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid
Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid
This is very playable for an early access release. Some rough edges of course, but I had a good time with the first few runs - worth a look if you are into FTL/roguelite/deckbuilders
🚀 Command Deck is OUT NOW in Early Access! 🚀
Jump into the captain's seat and get ready for intense spaceship battles!
Play it now on Steam 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3084740/...
#indiegame #gamedev
Jump into the captain's seat and get ready for intense spaceship battles!
Play it now on Steam 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3084740/...
#indiegame #gamedev
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is very playable for an early access release. Some rough edges of course, but I had a good time with the first few runs - worth a look if you are into FTL/roguelite/deckbuilders
You know, I've had this blasted theme song stuck in my head for about the last 20 years, and it finally dawned on me that it's probably meant to be a heavily-synthed version of the Soviet national anthem
September 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
You know, I've had this blasted theme song stuck in my head for about the last 20 years, and it finally dawned on me that it's probably meant to be a heavily-synthed version of the Soviet national anthem
It’s wine making season once more. My neighbours make wine by the many 1,000 litres, but I’ll content myself with this one damajuana…
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It’s wine making season once more. My neighbours make wine by the many 1,000 litres, but I’ll content myself with this one damajuana…
Man, why don’t my dev tools work like this? I really have to find some time to sink into live coding IDEs…
August 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Man, why don’t my dev tools work like this? I really have to find some time to sink into live coding IDEs…
This morning was the opening day of my new cafe here in Galicia! It’s been many months of renovations and bureaucracy, but now the fun part begins. Going to have the proper inauguration Sunday afternoon, with live music, when we fire up the attached barbecue shack.
August 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This morning was the opening day of my new cafe here in Galicia! It’s been many months of renovations and bureaucracy, but now the fun part begins. Going to have the proper inauguration Sunday afternoon, with live music, when we fire up the attached barbecue shack.
I think Game of Thrones fails every single one of those? And yet HBO+ subscriptions are still purchasable by credit card.
Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge
Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge
July 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I think Game of Thrones fails every single one of those? And yet HBO+ subscriptions are still purchasable by credit card.
Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge
Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge
Oh hey, looks like we’re headed back to the early 2000’s, when the credit card companies used to explicitly enumerate the acts you could/not show in a porno…
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Oh hey, looks like we’re headed back to the early 2000’s, when the credit card companies used to explicitly enumerate the acts you could/not show in a porno…
Let chains might be the single biggest item on my wish list since… non lexical lifetimes? It’s going to let me clean up a whole lot of code
Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
Announcing Rust 1.88.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Let chains might be the single biggest item on my wish list since… non lexical lifetimes? It’s going to let me clean up a whole lot of code
Woke up to learn they defunded MITRE (the non-profit that runs the CVE reporting process). That's going to make our HIPAA/SOC2 compliance process even more a barrel of laughs than it already is...
April 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Woke up to learn they defunded MITRE (the non-profit that runs the CVE reporting process). That's going to make our HIPAA/SOC2 compliance process even more a barrel of laughs than it already is...
I've been in something of a creative rut lately, so I whipped up a quick entry for this weekend's #ludumdare. Ended up more style than substance, but it's nice to finish something quick for once - swiftcoder.github.io/fathom
Fathom
swiftcoder.github.io
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I've been in something of a creative rut lately, so I whipped up a quick entry for this weekend's #ludumdare. Ended up more style than substance, but it's nice to finish something quick for once - swiftcoder.github.io/fathom
Reposted by Tristam
We can't save the world with games, but we can be part of why it is worth saving. We can't save the world with art, but we can brighten it. We can't save the world with play, but we can be a reminder of our humanity. We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We can't save the world with games, but we can be part of why it is worth saving. We can't save the world with art, but we can brighten it. We can't save the world with play, but we can be a reminder of our humanity. We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight.
As someone who has never previously been tempted to work in the defence industry, with everything going on I find myself wondering whether us tech/engineering folks in the EU shouldn't be redirecting some of our efforts into domestic weapons development programs
March 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
As someone who has never previously been tempted to work in the defence industry, with everything going on I find myself wondering whether us tech/engineering folks in the EU shouldn't be redirecting some of our efforts into domestic weapons development programs
Maybe a decade ago, there was this really glossy website with a designer's re-imagining of MacOS, where they'd made the whole thing a set of interactive blocks that could be mix-and-matched with data flowing between them. Does anyone remember the designer/website?
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Maybe a decade ago, there was this really glossy website with a designer's re-imagining of MacOS, where they'd made the whole thing a set of interactive blocks that could be mix-and-matched with data flowing between them. Does anyone remember the designer/website?
here's a fun one: my ISP seems to be blocking cdn.bsky.app.
I can load images just fine over 4G, but on my local network although I can resolve the DNS name, I can't actually ping the CDN, and the traceroute terminates in an IP block belonging to TELEFONICA DE ESPANA...
I can load images just fine over 4G, but on my local network although I can resolve the DNS name, I can't actually ping the CDN, and the traceroute terminates in an IP block belonging to TELEFONICA DE ESPANA...
Hey, I'm imgproxy!
cdn.bsky.app
February 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
here's a fun one: my ISP seems to be blocking cdn.bsky.app.
I can load images just fine over 4G, but on my local network although I can resolve the DNS name, I can't actually ping the CDN, and the traceroute terminates in an IP block belonging to TELEFONICA DE ESPANA...
I can load images just fine over 4G, but on my local network although I can resolve the DNS name, I can't actually ping the CDN, and the traceroute terminates in an IP block belonging to TELEFONICA DE ESPANA...
