🌸 Fri, Dec 2, 2022 🌸

Tags: #code #coding #programming #earlyreturns

Prefer early returns in the functions. It makes your code flatter and easier to read.

auto MyClass::updateDifficulty(int val) -> bool
{
  const auto cfg = getCfg();
  if (!cfg)
    return false; // <--- early re...

🌸 Fri, Dec 2, 2022 🌸

Tags: #vi #blender #modality #ui #uxui

Modality is bad except for vi and Blender. jk, honestly, I think if you do it well, it’s okay.


🌸 Thu, Dec 1, 2022 🌸

Tags: #memory #bed

I have no memory of making the bed today, and yet here I am staring at a made bed. Somebody must have made it; I assume it was me.


🌸 Wed, Nov 30, 2022 🌸

IMO, QA should be part of the development team.


🌸 Wed, Nov 30, 2022 🌸

Tags: #games #marketing #sales #PR #steam #youtube #tiktok

So currently, for a successful game, you need an army of sales, marketing, and PR personnel, and I hate it. I am wondering if it would be possible to fix it. I want good games to bubble up magically by themselves without…


🌸 Tue, Nov 29, 2022 🌸

Tags: #realstory #fired #nothing

I was talking to my friend, and the conversation got to the point when I asked:

“Have you ever been fired?”

“Yes,” he replied.

“For what were you fired?”

“For nothing.”

“For nothing?”

“Yes, I had been doing nothing in that firm for two yea…


🌸 Tue, Nov 29, 2022 🌸

Just keep swimming


🌸 Mon, Nov 28, 2022 🌸

Tags: #grammarly #language

Grammarly just sent me a report:

MASTERY

You were more accurate than 27% of Grammarly users.

This is why I am using Grammarly, I cannot grammar even if you put a gun against my head. 😂


🌸 Mon, Nov 28, 2022 🌸

Tags: #parenting #parentalcontrols #design #law

Parental Controls systems are usually garbage. They are poorly implemented, kids find a way how to break them, and that systems are horribly designed, sometimes tightened by a law forcing them to in optimal designs. At some point, …


🌸 Sun, Nov 27, 2022 🌸

Tags: #UnrealEngine #CPlusPlus #NavMesh #GameDev #AI

Pawns can avoid other pawns in the path-finding. Just set bUseRVOAvoidance to true

Example:

auto movementComponent = Cast<UCharacterMovementComponent>(viewer->GetMovementComponent());
movementComponent->bUseRVOA...

🌸 Sun, Nov 27, 2022 🌸

AppImage crash: “The display compositor is frequently crashing. Goodbye.”

Just add --no-sandbox in terminal.

Example: ./MyApp.AppImage --no-sandbox


🌸 Sun, Nov 27, 2022 🌸

Tags: #youtube #mistake #recommendations

I think I made a mistake. YouTube recommendations were not good lately and I thought if I subscribed to channels I like, it would become better. I had maybe 5 subscriptions before, I just did not bother to subscribe. So I spent time and s…


🌸 Sun, Nov 27, 2022 🌸

Tags: #twitch #virtuality #twitchchat #gamedev #unrealengine Virtuality progress: hot tub LUL


🌸 Sat, Nov 26, 2022 🌸

Tags: #twitch #virtuality #windows #stats #gamedev #unrealengine

Virtuality progress:

  • Fixed connection issue in Twitch Integration plugin
  • Built Virtuality on Windows
  • Added name tags above the characters' heads
  • Fixed the issue when dropped items disappear
  • Added lights …

🌸 Thu, Nov 24, 2022 🌸

When you program in C++, never never use goto.


🌸 Wed, Nov 23, 2022 🌸

How low I fall-down in the corporation? Hear me out, I just approved PR with goto in it.


🌸 Wed, Nov 23, 2022 🌸

Such an awkward moment, then you walk on the streets and suddenly see a familiar face. You wave and say: “Hi,” and the guy replies something to you, and you reply back: “Good, how are you?” And your English brain translator kicks in and finally you understand he said: “Hi Mika, g…


🌸 Tue, Nov 22, 2022 🌸

#games #gamedev #unrealengine #programming #development #indiedev

Today’s progress: Allow address users with leading @, a…


🌸 Mon, Nov 21, 2022 🌸

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🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

How to reload a file in the Emacs buffer M-x revert-buffer. #emacs #revertbuffer #lifehack


🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

#games #gamedev #unrealengine #programming #development

Today’s progress: made a shipping build for the game, implemented allowing play…


🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

UKismetSystemLibrary::GetDisplayName() in shipping builds returns garbage. I should read the documentation more carefully: “Returns the display name (or actor label), for displaying as a debugging aid.” #UKismetSystemLibrary #GetDisplayName #shippingbuilds #documentation


🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

I wonder if such a product exists. I see battery-free mice on the market, but I wonder if there is an ultra-light battery-free wireless gaming mouse with a big mouse pad. #batteryfreemouse #gamingmouse #mice


🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

#unrealengine #twitch #gpt3 #virtuality #npc

Yesterday’s progress:

I pulled out my 7-month-old project called Virtuality. It was my attempt to make GPT-3 control NPCs. It did not work very well. So I decided to repurpose the project to Twitch chat controls NPCs.

I upgraded Un…


🌸 Sun, Nov 20, 2022 🌸

Somehow my Twitch settings reset, it switched to the white schema and logged me out from BetterTTV. #twitch #betterttv


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