Stuart Cameron 🦋

Principal Software Engineer. Former game dev & engine coder, now making stuff to help people. Been coding since I was 8. Usual disclaimers. Now on BlueSky.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

Find me over at BlueSky at https://t.co/sXXYFSENIM

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Holy cow!

Elon Musk’s Grok AI literally thinks Trump is a Russia asset.

“I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.” — Grok

https://t.co/zOgNslsuvo

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@Jonathan_Blow @Observer_ofyou It works if the coder understands the problem fully with all its nuances. I’d argue most don’t take that time first.

I don’t know how many times the font system got rewritten at a company I was at years ago until someone who knew the problem properly tackled it.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@SebAaltonen Looking at any sort of web tech as a game dev is a nightmare. It’s all strings. All of it. Plain text. Except they’re over SSL and encrypted at rest on disk in the browser / other client. Unless you’re the old MS Teams. Ugh.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@SebAaltonen Also if changing a password you’re probably already logged in with a signed token being sent in the header, along with the existing password and the new one. There’s well established protocols for this stuff. At a glance it looks terrible, but it’s secure and works.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@rompa69 @mcnabbd @NOTimothyLottes One of the guys at work has been writing a GBA emulator and the VRAM behaviour had him stumped for a bit ;). And intentionally misaligned reads to swizzle byte order. That was a fun architecture. But he has Duke running now!

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@Jonathan_Blow @KevinNaughtonJr Most coders don’t have the authority, time nor budget to do that in large orgs. Change means breaking things for customers. In games a simple fix can mean affecting the feel of the game, which for an ongoing license is bad news. Different problems for different folk.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@Jonathan_Blow @KevinNaughtonJr It’s gross, but it is what it is. It suddenly costs far more to do the stuff that should be simple because there’s many tentacles, and you’re restricted to certain types of changes. You can’t just “fix the lighting pipeline” because there’s a massive team of artists it’ll affect.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@Jonathan_Blow @KevinNaughtonJr It’s called tech debt. If your code is fresh and you don’t need to worry about legacy support for existing users you can move fast and break things. If you’re working with a big team in a big complex engine/codebase then big changes are risky and cost way more.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@georgebsocial Thanks, absolutely have to check this out.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

AI is out here saving families

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@darcy_sandall Ratbag was 4.5 months later https://t.co/RElzfaimUb

[🎭 @deepfates]

just found a model on @Replicate that can take apart a song into separate tracks, find the bpm and identify the verse and chorus 😳 in less time than it takes to listen the song

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@rompa69 @aaronp613 Definitely a love it or hate it thing. I’ve used one daily for years and haven’t had any issues. I don’t get the same precision from trackpads. I love the vertical touch-based scrolling, unless in Google Slides when the slightest touch switches slides 🤬.

[Gabriel @gabelbling]

Amazing graphical representation of a neural net, never seen anything like it.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@987Nabil @ohmypy Early returns just define preconditions for a function, that’s safe and defensive programming, not bad design.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@darcy_sandall Maybe I should have scribbled in another colour lol. Need to refine my programmer art skillz.

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@rompa69 @ObsoleteSony How am I not in the least bit surprised at this? 🤣

[Stuart Cameron 🦋 @doozethe]

@OneGodel @BradCostanzo @HeyGen_Official The one talking like a monotone robot and zero humanity.