Adam Coster 🎮

🎮 Gamedev, webdev, and bizdev @bscotchShenani｜🎙️ + Autistic｜he/him

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Bad data is always worse than no data at all.

But even good data is usually worse than no data at all.

Data-driven decisions are no better than horoscope-based decisions when the interpretation is wrong.

And it usually is.

You're probably better off with reasoning alone.

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@samreich @AlannaMode I love what you're doing with Dropout!

My studio has been making games for over a decade. Not web games specifically, but we do a lot of web stuff with our games.

We're booked up for 2024 with our current project but I'd love to help out if I can!

https://t.co/Mnp21QSkol

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

💉BOOSTED💉

Dual-wielded the COVID booster and flu shot. Wanted to go for three (TDAP) but they only let you do two shots in a visit. Maybe a one-per-arm rule?

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Also on Bluesky, so I can observe the Twitter Clones Wars first hand.

https://t.co/65C66D5d3b

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Welp, another Twitter just dropped. See you there?

https://t.co/3uIU2naDWE

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Not sure how JSON works? Here's a quick primer! https://t.co/b8QfHqrB0E

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Go learn some stuff from my amazing wife!

[J. M. Coster @jcalyst]

The video of my @GDoCExpo talk is up! Check it out here: https://t.co/cay3oarwVu

[Butterscotch Shenanigans @BScotchShenani]

A surprise Crashlands 2 livestream will be debuting around the top of the hour thanks to @Completionist! Come support us and the other lovely devs from the cancelled MIX showcase! #SummerGameFest

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Wishlist it! It's going to be REALLY good!

[Butterscotch Shenanigans @BScotchShenani]

👉Wishlist 👈 https://t.co/Z1INdtmcls

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Crashlands 2 is finally, officially, announced, so I get to talk about it! Still a long road ahead, but I'm excited to get to show what I've been up to. https://t.co/pqToq1GQMn

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

Did you know that JavaScript functions inherit the name of the variable they're assigned to? And that there's no such thing as an "anonymous" JavaScript function?

https://t.co/H8IqAfAZ7L

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@wesbos Does the VSCode "Editor > Suggest: Insert Mode" help when set to "replace"? I feel like it's been less of a problem for me after I changed that.

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

My amazing wife, @jcalyst, created something beautiful. You should read it.
https://t.co/tcXhz3cIvy

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@duckvalentine Yeah I've had these twice and the first time was extremely alarming!

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

re: building/deploying with AWS in the latest @syntaxfm:

AWS CDK has a module that can directly convert your source into Lambdas, by integrating esbuild into the CDK deployment process. Lets you stick to Typescript, and not worry about dependencies.

https://t.co/aZHm6Nr0iA

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@EnderAgent @kentcdodds @BScotchShenani We use Sparkpost, but send all emails via their APIs and manage our email list ourselves. It's pretty cheap for that use case.

Deliverability optimization was still a challenge, so if I were to do it all over I'd still use a 3rd party service

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@wesbos Same. I was diagnosed 2 years ago and before that never even suspected. It explains a lot, in retrospect!

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@wesbos congrats on your ADHD diagnosis! And thanks for using your platform to talk openly about it. You'll help a lot of people finally get tested by increasing awareness and reducing stigma

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@syntaxfm re: programming-adjacent games for learning logic, check out the level editor in Levelhead. Lots of logic gates and dynamic components.

(full disclosure: I'm one of the devs)

https://t.co/XUUHjwv383

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@HokeyBones I love this color palette!

[Adam Coster 🎮 @costerad]

@wesbos The "don't use `any`" rule is a non-nuanced variation of the actual rule:

"Use the narrowest type you can."

In this case you literally want *any function*, so the narrowest type for that is exactly what you've got!