Sander in 't Veld

Game developer, programmer, he/him 🏳️‍🌈

Working on weird games and programming languages.
Made @EpiciniumGame with @abunchofhacks.
Avatar: @makowwka

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@jchmoe If you replace the "nor is one cup higher than the other, ..." with "nor is one cup angrier than the other, as both have a stable income", does it respond with "because of the financial stability of both cups, the observer cannot see any difference in the mood of the cups"?

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@jchmoe Cool experiment! On first read I thought its answer was impressive, but then I realized it's mostly rephrasing the question. As happens a lot with AI, it learns not what we want but what we measure: it's really good at bullshitting us, like a fortune teller (or a politician).

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@Jay2007V Ja, VS Code met Rainbow CSV highlighting. Maar dat is een keuze van de RTL-journalist of hacker, niet van de onervaren appontwikkelaar.

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@Jay2007V @collapsologist @danielverlaan @jblokzijl Lijkt me gewoon de syntax highlighter op de computer van de RTL-journalist. Dat zegt verder niets over hoe de data was opgeslagen.

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@KyleTheRacinFan @bnorry @adamliaw If you can't taste test the MSG, why bother adding it?

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@WritNelson Move over Descartes, "software development is hell, and we are also the demons."

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@xkcd What's also funny is that for consonants you don't even need the extra axis: that table already comes with the ominous warning "areas shaded grey indicate articulations judged impossible."

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

I've never been able to articulate my dislike for Unity beyond "shareholders bad, open source good", but... *gestures broadly*

Unity mgmt is either stupid or evil, gets a fat bonus and acts surprised if 5 years from now its discovered that indie games ship with cryptominers.

[shana 😋 (andreia gaita) @sh4na]

A game engine is the thing that you use to build and distribute games to devices. The vendors of those devices, like Apple, need to trust that the engine is not bundling bad things along with the game. Merging with a company that specializes in bundling malware is…

[shana 😋 (andreia gaita) @sh4na]

Wait what, Unity is merging with the company best known for its malware delivery system, so popular that it has its own entries in VirusTotal, was blacklisted on Windows by MS, and was used to spread fake flash installers through the Equifax site?! What??

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@leinweber Cursed. It came to me again and I just spent half an hour searching for it. I almost started dreading that it had come to me in a nightmare.

[Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton_]

Hey everyone, if you could just stop talking about From's games Vs accessibility Vs difficulty, that would be great. It's boring. There is nothing to say that has not already been said. All that's left is toxicity.

[SightlessKombat #Accessibility @sightlessKombat]

Want to provide #accessibility feedback on a turn-based tactical strategy game, specifically around screen reader support? DM @sanderintveld for details!
#accessibility #blind #videogame #A11Y #GAConf #GAConf22

[Lauren Budorick @lbudorick]

I am super excited that I get to share my birthday with the 0th birthday of my favorite thing I’ve worked on at @figma ever — R̶T̶L̶ bidirectional text support! What does it take to adapt a text layout engine for text that reads in both directions? WELL: 🧵

[Activatica @Activatica]

Два слова - и ты в автозаке: сколько нужно секунд, чтобы тебя задержали на Манежной площади. Спойлер: полторы #StopPutin #StopWar

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@GameDesignDan Wah... this looks amazing!!

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@GameDesignDan (But the for-real solution is of course version control.)

[Sander in 't Veld @sanderintveld]

@GameDesignDan I like to pretend I might add backwards compatibility in the future:

if true
{
...(new code)...
}
else
{
...(old code)...
}

and then never do, until I throw it away when the old code stops compiling after a refactor.