Daniel Jennings

Lead Programmer at @CoconutLizard a @KeywordsStudios studio, ex Ubisoft

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

I'm sure goto being bad is about a Dijkstra quote/article when it was overused. It's jmp all the way down anyway.

[GunBoat Diplomat @GumboatDiplomat]

@htmx_org Mate, at this point I'm starting to question if GOTO is actually bad or if I have just been hoodwinked?

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@Dachsjaeger "Oh hey we built a new UI on the old UI so now there are 5 buttons for x instead of 2."

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

It's really fucking sad how older devices become less capable purely because of some software update fake manufactured issues and not because of some actual physical degradation. Humanity does not deserve technology...

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

I'm looking for a talk which I suspect is behind a @Official_GDC paywall. It was a @valvesoftware talk about the water flow in left 4 dead. #gamedev #gdc

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@t3dotgg Sounds better than JIRA

[crypticsea @crypticsea]

How I make games in C:
-hardly ever use pointers
-no pointer arithmetic
-all source files are included in main.c
-most systems are global arrays of structs
-use an int index instead of pointers to other entities
https://t.co/MOF6uqORQs

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@rev4324 @SheriefFYI It was good - that's why 🤦

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@SheriefFYI 😂

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@FreyaHolmer So many programmers go without teaching, other than half arsed mentoring, their entire careers. Thank you for being one of the good ones so early on. I need to do better myself - 16 years in games and nothing much contributed.

[MG @_MG_]

And a lot of it has a belief that USB-C is somehow anti-Apple.
Reality: Apple (& Intel) designed USB-C.
The USB-Implementers Forum is responsible for USB-4, USB-PD, and many others. There are a lot of companies on the USB-IF, including Apple!
🧵4

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@cmuratori @bryan_caplan You need some founding father "young, scrappy and hungry" energy rather than "old, grumpy and senile".

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@Donzanoid Used to be very common to see
catch(Exception ex)
(Or w/e)
At some level all over the code.

[PERMANENTLY MOVED TO THE OTHER PLACE @okonomiyonda]

@bmcnett Thanks for the free idea, sucker! My next console will only render snarky messages and will support up to 512 spites on screen at once.

[Daniel Jennings @Paperweight_Dan]

@SheriefFYI We need new terms AI and AGI are a mess. Even a terrible AGI is very far off. What we have isn't even AI other than in the game sense (a crap imitation).
LLMs are a puzzle piece in a 1000 piece puzzle.

[Live++ @liveplusplus]

It's finally happening: we have a launch date!
Live++ for PlayStation®5 will arrive on April 29, 2024.

We also want to take this opportunity to thank the brilliant people from @sn_systems for their fantastic support over the years.

https://t.co/539Q6La4wg

#cpp #gamedev

[Tony Gowland @Tony_Gowland]

XNA was ace. Write games and deploy them to your retail 360!

[Layla Mah @[email protected] @MissQuickstep]

"Why am I responsible for my game crashing?" is hard for me to hear. It feels like an insult to decades of hard won technical excellence. We clearly need to do a better job of teaching the fundamentals to the next generation. But I get it. "Why do I need to pick up my things?"

[Sherief, FYI @SheriefFYI]

This is hands down one of the stupidest software metrics I have ever seen in my entire life.

[Pierre Terdiman @PierreTerdiman]

"It's only 50Mb, no big deal!"

Sick and tired of modern software.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

If you feel like you are being a Corporate Slave, consider doing Recreational Programming. It will Empower you and set you Free. You will thank me later.