Brian LaClair
@brianlaclair.com
developer, musician, very amateur photographer, friend to all 💖
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I said "Increases my bus-hit-ability" today in a meeting at work and got a bunch of blank stares...
Followed it up by explaining that implementing the new deployment procedure I was talking about would significantly reduce the amount my fellow devs would hate me (but only if I got hit by a bus)
Followed it up by explaining that implementing the new deployment procedure I was talking about would significantly reduce the amount my fellow devs would hate me (but only if I got hit by a bus)
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I said "Increases my bus-hit-ability" today in a meeting at work and got a bunch of blank stares...
Followed it up by explaining that implementing the new deployment procedure I was talking about would significantly reduce the amount my fellow devs would hate me (but only if I got hit by a bus)
Followed it up by explaining that implementing the new deployment procedure I was talking about would significantly reduce the amount my fellow devs would hate me (but only if I got hit by a bus)
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INCUP (Interest, Novelty, Challenge, Urgency, and Passion) - A helpful framework for understanding motivation for people with ADHD. Also, a deployable framework of known exploits and attack vectors for penetrating ADHD brains.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
INCUP (Interest, Novelty, Challenge, Urgency, and Passion) - A helpful framework for understanding motivation for people with ADHD. Also, a deployable framework of known exploits and attack vectors for penetrating ADHD brains.
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Hey gang, if you're around Burlington, you're invited to my birthday party! Lots of fantastic music, lots of my greatest friends, plus my new 7 piece band's first outing :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey gang, if you're around Burlington, you're invited to my birthday party! Lots of fantastic music, lots of my greatest friends, plus my new 7 piece band's first outing :)
I want to become heavily invested in Murphy beds.
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I want to become heavily invested in Murphy beds.
Slowly, but surely, with each day I grow closer to understanding what The Killers meant when they pondered
"Are we human? Or are we dancer?"
"Are we human? Or are we dancer?"
April 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Slowly, but surely, with each day I grow closer to understanding what The Killers meant when they pondered
"Are we human? Or are we dancer?"
"Are we human? Or are we dancer?"
For those #GameMaker ers out there...
Here's another fun project I spun up recently!
gmDB 🗃️
A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for your projects - implemented in fully native GameMaker Language (as a treat)
#gamedev
Here's another fun project I spun up recently!
gmDB 🗃️
A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for your projects - implemented in fully native GameMaker Language (as a treat)
#gamedev
GitHub - brianlaclair/gmDB: A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for GameMaker
A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for GameMaker - brianlaclair/gmDB
github.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For those #GameMaker ers out there...
Here's another fun project I spun up recently!
gmDB 🗃️
A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for your projects - implemented in fully native GameMaker Language (as a treat)
#gamedev
Here's another fun project I spun up recently!
gmDB 🗃️
A lightweight, fast, in-memory, and schema-aware database for your projects - implemented in fully native GameMaker Language (as a treat)
#gamedev
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I did a talk that was supposed to be funny but it came out all honest and vulnerable and slightly traumatising instead. (Content warning for mentions of childhood trauma.)
youtu.be/fL2poAw2cb0
youtu.be/fL2poAw2cb0
Locknote: Confessions of an Imposter - Rendle . - NDC London 2025
YouTube video by NDC Conferences
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I did a talk that was supposed to be funny but it came out all honest and vulnerable and slightly traumatising instead. (Content warning for mentions of childhood trauma.)
youtu.be/fL2poAw2cb0
youtu.be/fL2poAw2cb0
Reposted by Brian LaClair
Reposted by Brian LaClair
On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
On the right, that page tonight
On the right, that page tonight
February 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
On the right, that page tonight
On the right, that page tonight
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January 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Brian stands for Big Really Incredibly Annoying Nerd, actually
January 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Brian stands for Big Really Incredibly Annoying Nerd, actually
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January 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is me desperately willing into existence a @hplemke.bsky.social / @stupidmassive.bsky.social world tour together
January 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This is me desperately willing into existence a @hplemke.bsky.social / @stupidmassive.bsky.social world tour together
And I've already released two updates this week 😴 this has been fun!
Truly thank you for all the love ❤️
#GameMaker #gamedev
Truly thank you for all the love ❤️
#GameMaker #gamedev
Hey #GameMaker friends 👋
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
GitHub - brianlaclair/gm-http: an easy HTTP server implementation for GameMaker projects
an easy HTTP server implementation for GameMaker projects - brianlaclair/gm-http
github.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
And I've already released two updates this week 😴 this has been fun!
Truly thank you for all the love ❤️
#GameMaker #gamedev
Truly thank you for all the love ❤️
#GameMaker #gamedev
Hey #GameMaker friends 👋
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
GitHub - brianlaclair/gm-http: an easy HTTP server implementation for GameMaker projects
an easy HTTP server implementation for GameMaker projects - brianlaclair/gm-http
github.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Hey #GameMaker friends 👋
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
In 2020 I created the first GameMaker HTTP server, simply called "VSWS". It was hacked together and immediately bloated, but it lead to my first real software dev job!
This weekend, I built a spiritual successor, in a more manageable format...
🚀 introducing GM-HTTP!
I knew I could count on those "hot singles in my area" to follow me on Bluesky!
They've always had my bot - whoops - BACK, they've always had my back.
They've always had my bot - whoops - BACK, they've always had my back.
December 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I knew I could count on those "hot singles in my area" to follow me on Bluesky!
They've always had my bot - whoops - BACK, they've always had my back.
They've always had my bot - whoops - BACK, they've always had my back.
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📝 I know it's the end of year and I should be doing a yearly wrap up post but this one aspect of #CSS has been noodling at me for awhile now.
daverupert.com/2024/12/css-...
daverupert.com/2024/12/css-...
CSS wants to be a system
I’ve realized something obvious again, this time about CSS; that CSS wants to be a system. At the core of CSS is a series of cascading rules and classes marrying and mingling in an elegant symphony of...
daverupert.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
📝 I know it's the end of year and I should be doing a yearly wrap up post but this one aspect of #CSS has been noodling at me for awhile now.
daverupert.com/2024/12/css-...
daverupert.com/2024/12/css-...
Went *way* out of my comfort zone today and shot a wedding for the first time!
It was very impromptu and very small, but beautiful (and I think I did a great job!)
#photography #videography
It was very impromptu and very small, but beautiful (and I think I did a great job!)
#photography #videography
December 8, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Went *way* out of my comfort zone today and shot a wedding for the first time!
It was very impromptu and very small, but beautiful (and I think I did a great job!)
#photography #videography
It was very impromptu and very small, but beautiful (and I think I did a great job!)
#photography #videography
Haven't really found new pals on here yet, so if you're just seeing this...
Hi 👋 I'm Brian!
I'm a software #developer living in #Vermont and making software for pediatricians (and other projects too).
On the side I make #alternative-rock #music with my band Better Things and do #photography
See👇
Hi 👋 I'm Brian!
I'm a software #developer living in #Vermont and making software for pediatricians (and other projects too).
On the side I make #alternative-rock #music with my band Better Things and do #photography
See👇
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Haven't really found new pals on here yet, so if you're just seeing this...
Hi 👋 I'm Brian!
I'm a software #developer living in #Vermont and making software for pediatricians (and other projects too).
On the side I make #alternative-rock #music with my band Better Things and do #photography
See👇
Hi 👋 I'm Brian!
I'm a software #developer living in #Vermont and making software for pediatricians (and other projects too).
On the side I make #alternative-rock #music with my band Better Things and do #photography
See👇
Installing XAMPP on Linux feels like a crime, yet here I am...
November 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Installing XAMPP on Linux feels like a crime, yet here I am...
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optimist: the glass is half full
pessimist: the glass is half empty
game industry executive: I noticed another company doing a mug so we'll be pivoting from a glass to make ours a mug, a mug isn't that different from a glass just add a handle, gotta still have it released by Christmas of this year
pessimist: the glass is half empty
game industry executive: I noticed another company doing a mug so we'll be pivoting from a glass to make ours a mug, a mug isn't that different from a glass just add a handle, gotta still have it released by Christmas of this year
November 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM
optimist: the glass is half full
pessimist: the glass is half empty
game industry executive: I noticed another company doing a mug so we'll be pivoting from a glass to make ours a mug, a mug isn't that different from a glass just add a handle, gotta still have it released by Christmas of this year
pessimist: the glass is half empty
game industry executive: I noticed another company doing a mug so we'll be pivoting from a glass to make ours a mug, a mug isn't that different from a glass just add a handle, gotta still have it released by Christmas of this year
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Reposted by Brian LaClair
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
HUMANS!
HUMANS!
November 15, 2024 at 1:59 AM
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
HUMANS!
HUMANS!
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Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
November 15, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing