MakeAvoy
@makeavoy.bsky.social
Poor is not wanting to spend money to deploy on Vercel so you learn about docker composing a NextJS app with Nginx on Hetzer instead.
In the long run this feels much slicker anyway.
In the long run this feels much slicker anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Poor is not wanting to spend money to deploy on Vercel so you learn about docker composing a NextJS app with Nginx on Hetzer instead.
In the long run this feels much slicker anyway.
In the long run this feels much slicker anyway.
There's a bug on LinkedIn that shows all the jobs as 0 applicants. There was a time when you could actually apply for a job and not have to compete with 100,000 other desperate people. I miss those days. Applying with the bug is weirdly cathartic, like I stand a chance.
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
There's a bug on LinkedIn that shows all the jobs as 0 applicants. There was a time when you could actually apply for a job and not have to compete with 100,000 other desperate people. I miss those days. Applying with the bug is weirdly cathartic, like I stand a chance.
Behind on Halloween stuff this year so here's some PS1 ghosts I made 4 years ago. Have a BIG SPOOK 👻😱
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Behind on Halloween stuff this year so here's some PS1 ghosts I made 4 years ago. Have a BIG SPOOK 👻😱
I posted this on LinkedIn, literally just my homepage with a new shader background. I dig it but I definitely need to rebuild my website! The more content I put out there the more likely I'll get a job... Maybe...
In hindsight the dark mode button should switch the GLSL colors too, dangit
#ForHire
In hindsight the dark mode button should switch the GLSL colors too, dangit
#ForHire
October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I posted this on LinkedIn, literally just my homepage with a new shader background. I dig it but I definitely need to rebuild my website! The more content I put out there the more likely I'll get a job... Maybe...
In hindsight the dark mode button should switch the GLSL colors too, dangit
#ForHire
In hindsight the dark mode button should switch the GLSL colors too, dangit
#ForHire
What am I doing wrong, why can't I get a job? I was laid off 9 months ago. I'm tired of being poor. My wife is door dashing so we can buy some new cheap Halloween costumes for the kids. There must be a way to make money by building software.
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
What am I doing wrong, why can't I get a job? I was laid off 9 months ago. I'm tired of being poor. My wife is door dashing so we can buy some new cheap Halloween costumes for the kids. There must be a way to make money by building software.
I've been building a Rust WebGPU engine for the past 4 years and I couldn't even get an interview for a job building a Rust WebGPU engine. Didn't have to nail it, just wanted a shot. Used up a LinkedIn "Top 3" doot for it. They couldn't even bother to download my resume. 😞
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I've been building a Rust WebGPU engine for the past 4 years and I couldn't even get an interview for a job building a Rust WebGPU engine. Didn't have to nail it, just wanted a shot. Used up a LinkedIn "Top 3" doot for it. They couldn't even bother to download my resume. 😞
Coding is what will help me escape poverty. I have decades of it, I understand so much but still not enough. I need to treat it more like a business, not a passion. No one hires Rust, not easily, not yet. But everyone hires Java and C#. So my next app needs to be one of those.
October 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Coding is what will help me escape poverty. I have decades of it, I understand so much but still not enough. I need to treat it more like a business, not a passion. No one hires Rust, not easily, not yet. But everyone hires Java and C#. So my next app needs to be one of those.
On second thought maybe I'll do drawtober instead of drawlloween. It's easier to make a really polished piece every 5 days and I like their art prompts better. No one is watching this stuff anyway 😗
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
On second thought maybe I'll do drawtober instead of drawlloween. It's easier to make a really polished piece every 5 days and I like their art prompts better. No one is watching this stuff anyway 😗
#Drawlloween 2025
Day 02
"When you witch upon a star"
Got a little carried away with this one. Relearning the nuances and bugs of this engine. Figuring out better recording means for CRT shaders.
Day 02
"When you witch upon a star"
Got a little carried away with this one. Relearning the nuances and bugs of this engine. Figuring out better recording means for CRT shaders.
October 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#Drawlloween 2025
Day 02
"When you witch upon a star"
Got a little carried away with this one. Relearning the nuances and bugs of this engine. Figuring out better recording means for CRT shaders.
Day 02
"When you witch upon a star"
Got a little carried away with this one. Relearning the nuances and bugs of this engine. Figuring out better recording means for CRT shaders.
I'm going to try to do #Drawlloween 2025 with all content displayed with my game engine, Petrichor64. We'll see how many I can get done!
Day 1 "Heads Up"
(Hoping to release the latest build this month, literal years in the making 😵 )
Day 1 "Heads Up"
(Hoping to release the latest build this month, literal years in the making 😵 )
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm going to try to do #Drawlloween 2025 with all content displayed with my game engine, Petrichor64. We'll see how many I can get done!
Day 1 "Heads Up"
(Hoping to release the latest build this month, literal years in the making 😵 )
Day 1 "Heads Up"
(Hoping to release the latest build this month, literal years in the making 😵 )
Got a reply to a recruitment agency:
"No employers are looking for your skillset at this time"
You'd think I listed myself as royal slop sniffer or something.
This economy is going to devour us alive.
"No employers are looking for your skillset at this time"
You'd think I listed myself as royal slop sniffer or something.
This economy is going to devour us alive.
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Got a reply to a recruitment agency:
"No employers are looking for your skillset at this time"
You'd think I listed myself as royal slop sniffer or something.
This economy is going to devour us alive.
"No employers are looking for your skillset at this time"
You'd think I listed myself as royal slop sniffer or something.
This economy is going to devour us alive.
Worldly tip for US folks: get an out of state phone number. You'll always know a caller is a scam based on it coming from that state's area code.
September 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Worldly tip for US folks: get an out of state phone number. You'll always know a caller is a scam based on it coming from that state's area code.
Maybe my problem is I keep treating software like art. Like something beautiful. But artists are poor. I need to build like a desperate person would, and fast. I'm having trouble separating my passion no matter how critical the task is. There's a time for art, and a time for survival. We must live.
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Maybe my problem is I keep treating software like art. Like something beautiful. But artists are poor. I need to build like a desperate person would, and fast. I'm having trouble separating my passion no matter how critical the task is. There's a time for art, and a time for survival. We must live.
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🎨 I’m a veteran game artist open for new work.
I’ve been illustrating, directing, animating, and designing since 2000 -not just pixel art (though I love it).
Clients include Minecraft, WB’s Space Jam, Unity and Rami Ismail.
If you need visual worldbuilding, I’m your person.
DMs open, email in bio
I’ve been illustrating, directing, animating, and designing since 2000 -not just pixel art (though I love it).
Clients include Minecraft, WB’s Space Jam, Unity and Rami Ismail.
If you need visual worldbuilding, I’m your person.
DMs open, email in bio
June 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🎨 I’m a veteran game artist open for new work.
I’ve been illustrating, directing, animating, and designing since 2000 -not just pixel art (though I love it).
Clients include Minecraft, WB’s Space Jam, Unity and Rami Ismail.
If you need visual worldbuilding, I’m your person.
DMs open, email in bio
I’ve been illustrating, directing, animating, and designing since 2000 -not just pixel art (though I love it).
Clients include Minecraft, WB’s Space Jam, Unity and Rami Ismail.
If you need visual worldbuilding, I’m your person.
DMs open, email in bio
I hope OpenAI doesn't sue this flower for copyright infringement ✨🌸✨
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I hope OpenAI doesn't sue this flower for copyright infringement ✨🌸✨
I'd love to play around more with training small LLMs, because I hate the idea of wasting so much energy and I want to use my own local hardware. Here I'm trying SmoLLM and unfortunately it seems to not understand me well. Also it gets into these The Shining-style dialog loops.
August 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'd love to play around more with training small LLMs, because I hate the idea of wasting so much energy and I want to use my own local hardware. Here I'm trying SmoLLM and unfortunately it seems to not understand me well. Also it gets into these The Shining-style dialog loops.
It's been about 8 months since I was laid off and for most of that time development became painful to me because it was all about desperately looking for work.
But for the first time today I just worked on Petrichor and suddenly I was enjoying it again. It's like I love programming or something.
But for the first time today I just worked on Petrichor and suddenly I was enjoying it again. It's like I love programming or something.
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's been about 8 months since I was laid off and for most of that time development became painful to me because it was all about desperately looking for work.
But for the first time today I just worked on Petrichor and suddenly I was enjoying it again. It's like I love programming or something.
But for the first time today I just worked on Petrichor and suddenly I was enjoying it again. It's like I love programming or something.
I don't like self-plugging but it's been 6 months and I'm running out of money. Full-stack developer #ForHire backend, frontend, forwards backwards, web, desktop, games, 2D, 3D I can do it all. I can fix your broken vibe code app and deploy it. Small jobs welcome. Referrals REALLY welcome...
June 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I don't like self-plugging but it's been 6 months and I'm running out of money. Full-stack developer #ForHire backend, frontend, forwards backwards, web, desktop, games, 2D, 3D I can do it all. I can fix your broken vibe code app and deploy it. Small jobs welcome. Referrals REALLY welcome...
Base44 just sold for 80 mil$ and it's only 6 months old. it spits out prototypes like chatgpt but it also wires backend like psql and presumably nodejs.
The problem is it suffers from slop-shoveling like everything else. Looks shiny on the surface, bugs and jank and debug hell after.
The problem is it suffers from slop-shoveling like everything else. Looks shiny on the surface, bugs and jank and debug hell after.
June 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Base44 just sold for 80 mil$ and it's only 6 months old. it spits out prototypes like chatgpt but it also wires backend like psql and presumably nodejs.
The problem is it suffers from slop-shoveling like everything else. Looks shiny on the surface, bugs and jank and debug hell after.
The problem is it suffers from slop-shoveling like everything else. Looks shiny on the surface, bugs and jank and debug hell after.
Sometimes I leave myself little doc treats like anyone else is going to read through my comments
June 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Sometimes I leave myself little doc treats like anyone else is going to read through my comments
My cover letter from now on:
Dearing hiring people,
I'm a super cool dork, the best kind! I'm hella fire at solving problems, in fact I'm kind of annoying about it. But I'll tone it down. I mean you COULD use hardware acceleration but that's okay.
I'm sure no one will notice.
Your pal,
Nick 🫶
Dearing hiring people,
I'm a super cool dork, the best kind! I'm hella fire at solving problems, in fact I'm kind of annoying about it. But I'll tone it down. I mean you COULD use hardware acceleration but that's okay.
I'm sure no one will notice.
Your pal,
Nick 🫶
June 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My cover letter from now on:
Dearing hiring people,
I'm a super cool dork, the best kind! I'm hella fire at solving problems, in fact I'm kind of annoying about it. But I'll tone it down. I mean you COULD use hardware acceleration but that's okay.
I'm sure no one will notice.
Your pal,
Nick 🫶
Dearing hiring people,
I'm a super cool dork, the best kind! I'm hella fire at solving problems, in fact I'm kind of annoying about it. But I'll tone it down. I mean you COULD use hardware acceleration but that's okay.
I'm sure no one will notice.
Your pal,
Nick 🫶
Just going on shadertoy.com and scrolling through all the liquid glass demos at the top of the list is exactly what I expected.
June 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Just going on shadertoy.com and scrolling through all the liquid glass demos at the top of the list is exactly what I expected.
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With a lot of help from @stanislas-dolcini.bsky.social (and over 50 contributors) the Adobe Alternatives list has been updated! Loads of alternative software, and all better choices than to keep supporting Adobe.
github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...
github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...
GitHub - KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives: A list of alternatives for Adobe software
A list of alternatives for Adobe software. Contribute to KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Got turned down for a life changing 3D web developer job because I didn't have enough professional experience in 3D web development.
😮💨
How do you even get professional experience in 3D web development specifically? Or 3D period? I can't even find jobs normally.
😮💨
How do you even get professional experience in 3D web development specifically? Or 3D period? I can't even find jobs normally.
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Got turned down for a life changing 3D web developer job because I didn't have enough professional experience in 3D web development.
😮💨
How do you even get professional experience in 3D web development specifically? Or 3D period? I can't even find jobs normally.
😮💨
How do you even get professional experience in 3D web development specifically? Or 3D period? I can't even find jobs normally.