Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

In two days I'm going to dual boot my Windows box with Ubuntu.

I use the Windows machine *only* for gaming, so I don't think I have any data on there that I care about.

What am I going to regret not backing up?

#linux #ubuntu #TheDualbootening

#CSharp has enums, but you can cast regular ints to them, increment them, etc., giving you invalid values.

That seems to defeat the main job of enums.

C#: "We'll give you safety, but we'll also absolutely give you a duct full of buzz saws and live electrical cables if you really want to crawl through it."

@mikemccaffrey I use one a couple of times a year to make pies.

"Bob" help me, I'm currently #reading* seven books.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/currently-reading/peterdrake

*One is an audiobook and the other is a book of Go problems, but still.

Finally digging into Kistler's "You Can Draw in 30 Days". The pretest is to spend 2 minutes each drawing a house, an airplane, and a bagel. #MastoArt #drawing

The Oregon State Go Tournament will be October 28-29 at Portland State University.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhivz61OwV8tYLYzC9tSnSlQXxv3xN2mFcRoV-Z1PAZagOkw/viewform

#go #igo #weiqi #baduk #pdx #portland #BoardGames

After over two years of work, our second earthquake game (Cascadia 9.1) is finished!

It will disappear for a few months in the fall so we can run experiments on its effectiveness as a teaching tool, but you can play it on the web now:

https://peterdrake.itch.io/cascadia-91-internal-test
itch.io

Two important notes:

1) It asks you for a code at the beginning. Enter 1 if you want your character to live in an apartment, 2 for a house.

2) At the end, there's a message about scrolling down to complete the survey; ignore that.

If you find any game-breaking bugs, please let me know!

#GameDev #unity #unity3d #pdx #portland #earthquake #disaster #preparedness

After over two years of work, our second earthquake game (Cascadia 9.1) is done!

#GameDev

Important question: if you put magnetic poetry on the side of your car, would it stay on during freeway driving?

In #Csharp, you have regular structs and (fairly obscure) ref structs.

Guess which one can involve a reference (i.e., be allocated on the heap rather than the stack)?

No, that would make sense. This is C#.

"Adding the ref modifier to a struct's declaration ensures that it can only ever reside on the stack." -C# 10 in a Nutshell