Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️

Father of a conqueror. Coder of games for over 30 years. Holder of a national championship title in 9-ball. Magician.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

This deck of cards has a bar code printed on the edge of each card. Scanning these bar codes would reveal where every card is (or isn't - if cards are missing.)

Think card magic.

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[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

…Suave

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

Do you play the @indictmentsonly drinking game? Or is it just me?

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

Tabs or spaces?

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

The Father’s Day card from our 5yr old included money!

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

@TheHyyyype Here ya go, from Photoshop (Beta).

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

Curious if @DuvalMagic has similar experience.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

I don’t care what they say.

Out of hundreds of decks, most of the Blue decks faro smoothly once broken in. I’ve had maybe a handful of Red decks that be made to faro as well as the Blue decks.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

@brunopittini I’m not afraid to try (I’ve done SMD soldering before) but some of these parts are plastic components with 0.2mm pitch pins. Melting is a real risk.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

Hey Dallas peeps -

I’m in need of a reflow oven for a custom circuit board. Does anybody know where I can rent/borrow/use one? I’ve checked a couple marker spaces and an electronics rental shop, but no luck so far.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

@SheriefFYI Not a crazy idea. It is a common tactic in copy-protected programs to validate, via a hash or checksum, that the program hasn’t been modified/cracked.

[Randy Pitchford @DuvalMagic]

You may already know our Borderlands Science project has become one of the most successful citizen science projects of all time. To drive our future of using our platform for other public-good initiatives, today we announce our new charitable foundation, Gearbox Gives. https://t.co/ToFWNUGuTW

[matt swoboda @mattswoboda]

released a new demo this weekend after 5 years out of the demomaking business. mechasm by fairlight came 1st in the PC demo competition at @revision_party 2023 (competition with 41 entries.. damn! that was long).
music by @gloom303, logo by @m4de.

video:
https://t.co/1tq03aWjE9

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

@RichardGarriott - Ultima ][ was the game that inspired me to get into game development. I was 15. I shipped my first title when I was 19. Now, 35 years later, I’m still making games.

[Richard Garriott @RichardGarriott]

Congratulations on your defeat of Exodus, the last of the triad of evil. Now we seek one who will walk the paths of virtue. Not through some alter ego character, but as themself, their avatar, to become the avatar of virtue. I say that thou art worthy! Onward to Ultima IV! Lord British

[Xor @XorDev]

I wanna share some neat numbers I use all the time and what I use them for.

Starting with sqrt(0.5), 0.7071...
The point on a circle at 45 degrees is at (r*hr, r*hr) where r=radius and hr=sqrt(0.5).

To rotate 45 degrees, you can use this 2x2 matrix: mat2(hr, -hr, hr, hr)

[Blue Limousine @BleuLimousine]

@kayleighmcenany

[Sam Winkler @ThatSamWinkler]

You’re not the boss of me! But you could be! Come be my boss! I’m a menace! I’ve shaved years off so many people’s lives with my shenanigans! It’s untenable! Apply now! https://t.co/4q6pHvutes

[Julien (inactive) @Zavie]

A ridiculous number of years later, here's a third part to this series of articles on the making of a 64kB intro.
This time: procedural mesh generation.
https://t.co/TvgrAeCWI5

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

@dadmann_walking Sent my wife this pic of our daughter when she was a baby, falling asleep on my shoulder.

[Paul Nettle ⌨️🎱🧙‍♂️ @CoderMiddy]

This is a case of flawed logic.

While this may sound reasonable, most accidents on freeways are caused by two vehicles going different speeds. Sure, a kinetic limit would reduce impact energy, but at the cost of increased accident rates.

[Bram Stolk @BramStolk]

Ok, hear me out… we should abolish speed limits on roads.

But replace them with limits on kinetic energy.

½mv²

Half the weight means you are allowed to go √2 times faster.

Honda civic can go 50kph, bicycle 200kph, Ford pickup 30kph.

All have same energy when colliding.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

The first 6 stages of debugging:

1. That can’t happen
2. That doesn’t happen on my machine
3. That shouldn’t happen
4. Why does that happen?
5. Oh I see
6. How did that ever work?