Dave Frampton
@majicdave.bsky.social
I make games, mostly single handedly. Here on bluseky I post gardening pics and random rambles.
Tui open source scripting language: https://github.com/mjdave/tui
Sapiens on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060230/Sapiens/
Tui open source scripting language: https://github.com/mjdave/tui
Sapiens on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060230/Sapiens/
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Dave Frampton
@majicdave.bsky.social
· Apr 28
GitHub - mjdave/tui
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Today I am officially announcing and open sourcing tui! Tui is a small, cross platform, open source embeddable scripting language and serialization library for C++ github.com/mjdave/tui
It occurred to me over breakfast that the social consequences of many people believing that LLMs are intelligent might have a lot of similarities with what has happened with many believing in a god, and it ruined my day honestly.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It occurred to me over breakfast that the social consequences of many people believing that LLMs are intelligent might have a lot of similarities with what has happened with many believing in a god, and it ruined my day honestly.
Reposted by Dave Frampton
Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Heli vid from last night of the fire at Mangatepopo in Tongariro National Park.
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Devastating in our premier national park.
Please stay away so firefighters can do their jobs...
#RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4 #Tongariro
Smoke from the Tongariro fire is getting blown west over Hawkes Bay
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Smoke from the Tongariro fire is getting blown west over Hawkes Bay
I love gazanias. These don’t even look real
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I love gazanias. These don’t even look real
Probably they just see I’ve left facebook and are checking I’m not dead
October 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Probably they just see I’ve left facebook and are checking I’m not dead
I sent off an email to an old friend earlier this year and since then I’ve had 3 other old friends send me emails. Not sure if we’re all going through mid life crises or the world is going to shit and we’re looking back, but it’s nice to reconnect either way! Leaving facebook might have helped too.
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I sent off an email to an old friend earlier this year and since then I’ve had 3 other old friends send me emails. Not sure if we’re all going through mid life crises or the world is going to shit and we’re looking back, but it’s nice to reconnect either way! Leaving facebook might have helped too.
My trello board has devolved to a series of lists named “top priority“ in chronological order
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My trello board has devolved to a series of lists named “top priority“ in chronological order
Wreck it Ralph but the game characters rise up and rebel against the game developers for having tortured them relentlessly in all sorts of horrific tests during development
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wreck it Ralph but the game characters rise up and rebel against the game developers for having tortured them relentlessly in all sorts of horrific tests during development
I’ve started commenting things when I come across them in my code like “//this is a bit fucking strange dave” and it’s an excellent trigger to fix things. 9 times out of 10 I’ve fixed the issue and deleted the comment within a few minutes where I would have moved on and forgotten otherwise.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’ve started commenting things when I come across them in my code like “//this is a bit fucking strange dave” and it’s an excellent trigger to fix things. 9 times out of 10 I’ve fixed the issue and deleted the comment within a few minutes where I would have moved on and forgotten otherwise.
I’ve made it so multiple tribes can be simulated in single player too, so you can play hotseat multiplayer, queue things up and hand it over, and it works really well! Turns out Sapiens is a turn based real time strategy game haha.
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’ve made it so multiple tribes can be simulated in single player too, so you can play hotseat multiplayer, queue things up and hand it over, and it works really well! Turns out Sapiens is a turn based real time strategy game haha.
My todo list probably looks a little different to yours
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My todo list probably looks a little different to yours
Stunning NW arch out there today
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Stunning NW arch out there today
Reposted by Dave Frampton
This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes
I don’t doubt we are spending less, but this only counts spend at NZ based merchants. How much of this is due to a shift to offshore spending eg Temu, Spotify etc?
Same data but just for September months. Completely unnecessary self flagellation. It's like all the lessons learned on the need for fiscal kick-starts are being roundly ignored. Small island, housing ponzi, rogergnomics, 8-wire, whip the poor exceptionalism. (2/2)
October 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I don’t doubt we are spending less, but this only counts spend at NZ based merchants. How much of this is due to a shift to offshore spending eg Temu, Spotify etc?
It’s starting to get tricky to find what I’m looking for in the Sapiens lua code, so I thought I’d run cloc and it’s past 150k lines of lua now! Getting lost occasionally is probably excusable 😆
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s starting to get tricky to find what I’m looking for in the Sapiens lua code, so I thought I’d run cloc and it’s past 150k lines of lua now! Getting lost occasionally is probably excusable 😆
It’s a beast, hopefully it produces nice avos
October 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s a beast, hopefully it produces nice avos
This is just under 1 year of growth. That avocado tree in particular has done well! 🌱
October 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is just under 1 year of growth. That avocado tree in particular has done well! 🌱
Saw Graham Norton last night, Taylor Swift mentioned how she found side passion projects helped her get through the hard work, and I couldn’t agree more. You can’t just grind your way in a single direction forever, it’s bad for you and bad for what you are creating.
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Saw Graham Norton last night, Taylor Swift mentioned how she found side passion projects helped her get through the hard work, and I couldn’t agree more. You can’t just grind your way in a single direction forever, it’s bad for you and bad for what you are creating.
I’m missing working on Tui and Waraki, they still have so much promise, but Sapiens is getting all my attention at the moment. Conflict is feeling like a keystone feature, it’s bringing everything together.
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’m missing working on Tui and Waraki, they still have so much promise, but Sapiens is getting all my attention at the moment. Conflict is feeling like a keystone feature, it’s bringing everything together.
“The center of gravity in gaming is shifting from market dynamics to geopolitical power plays.”
Out of the frying pan into the fire we go
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...
Out of the frying pan into the fire we go
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...
How the EA buyout diverges from the playbook
Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.
www.gamedeveloper.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“The center of gravity in gaming is shifting from market dynamics to geopolitical power plays.”
Out of the frying pan into the fire we go
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...
Out of the frying pan into the fire we go
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-ga...
The pressure on families and kids to attend national competitive events in other cities Is too much. It’s expensive and wasteful, and very difficult to avoid. Seeing businesses boast about all the money they make from the visiting families grinds my gears.
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The pressure on families and kids to attend national competitive events in other cities Is too much. It’s expensive and wasteful, and very difficult to avoid. Seeing businesses boast about all the money they make from the visiting families grinds my gears.
If you chop up soft licorice and dark chocolate, and mix it with tamari almonds, the result is an epic snack, but not too moorish. That is my recipe tip for the decade
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you chop up soft licorice and dark chocolate, and mix it with tamari almonds, the result is an epic snack, but not too moorish. That is my recipe tip for the decade
It was really tricky to find rivers to place the tribe locations, given how the rivers are generated. I managed to get quite close algorithmically, but I can't reverse the perlin noise based offsets, so it takes a few iterations heading downhill too.
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It was really tricky to find rivers to place the tribe locations, given how the rivers are generated. I managed to get quite close algorithmically, but I can't reverse the perlin noise based offsets, so it takes a few iterations heading downhill too.
Never. I mean WTF. What kind of monster would even suggest it
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Never. I mean WTF. What kind of monster would even suggest it
The guitar hasn’t been allowed in the office this week and I’ve definitely got more work done. It’s just too easy to lose an hour all of a sudden.
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The guitar hasn’t been allowed in the office this week and I’ve definitely got more work done. It’s just too easy to lose an hour all of a sudden.