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Lauren 🌱
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Game, software and web developer! Creator of Drowning In Dreams Studios, gamer, artist. ❤️ cats and dogs too

☕ Coffee makes the dream team ✨

Looking for a job as a entry level web developer or UX designer, as well as software/game developer!
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Serif or sans serif? Who would have thought that choosing between the two could become political? Yet here we are.

If you're not sure about the difference, here's a CSS comic that illustrates it 😉
comicss.art/comics/190/

#css #webdev #fonts
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Loftia’s Study Cafe is back!! 📚☕️

This time our UI/UX designer Erika will be showing us how game UI comes to life!

📆 Friday, Aug 8, 9am PST | 12pm EST

Come join us on Discord for a morning of chilling, chatting and learning 😊
August 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Five User-Friendly Rulesets for Tabletop Roleplaying Games

Not every gamer finds joy in wildly complicated, esoteric, hard-to-learn rules...

reactormag.com/five-user-fr...
Five User-Friendly Rulesets for Tabletop Roleplaying Games - Reactor
Not every gamer finds joy in wildly complicated, esoteric, hard-to-learn rules...
reactormag.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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TIL this is how UX designers talk
August 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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What makes a landing page convert?

We created a simple cheatsheet that breaks down the nine core elements of a high-converting landing page in 2025. It’s based on real observations from hundreds of sites.

#landingpage #conversionrate #uxwriting #copywriting #productdesign
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This looks so good, I'm hooked. youtu.be/7Gj9vincgw4?...
Grave Seasons | Official Gameplay Trailer | PC Gaming Show at Summer Game Fest 2025
YouTube video by Perfect Garbage Studios
youtu.be
August 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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100%. I learned a ton about being a manager from restaurant work that I apply in my UX design work.
People who call fast food or retail workers "low skill" would absolutely die if they had to work a single Saturday night 3rd shift at Waffle House.
July 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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every SSO app has a checkbox that says "keep me signed in". the purpose of this checkbox is to drive you insane
July 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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A brief history of computer science
July 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Issue #600 of Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter about Green Web Game Jam, turn-based RPG battle system, and Cat Dog War is out - go check it!

gamedevjsweekly.com/600

#HTML5 #JavaScript #gamedevjs #gamedev #weekly #newsletter
Green Web Game Jam, turn-based RPG battle system, and Cat Dog War
Check out issue #600 of Gamedev.js Weekly — the free, weekly newsletter about web game development.
gamedevjsweekly.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lifeskilling, bosses, parkour, customization, a ton of weapon types, flying on owls AND multiplayer!? Count me in! #farever

youtu.be/fvIuM3Cr8iw?...
Farever | REVEAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Shiro Games
youtu.be
July 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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now public for everyone!

what happens when devs stop ignoring that voice that says, “you could automate this ten second task with a few hours of coding”?

Give in to your worst developer urges · Web Dev Challenge S2.E5
youtu.be/YQ41RpkuhRA
Give in to your worst developer urges · Web Dev Challenge S2.E5
YouTube video by CodeTV (formerly Learn With Jason)
youtu.be
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Wrote a post about CSS if()!

You can now write inline CSS conditionals for:

- style queries
- media queries
- supports queries

Read on:
developer.chrome.com/blog/if-arti...
CSS conditionals with the new if() function  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Learn about the new CSS if function, which enables a cleaner developer interface for dynamic styles like style queries and media queries.
developer.chrome.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
Cloudflare wants AI companies to get permission to crawl websites.
buff.ly
July 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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you guys win
achievements patch 1.0.1 lets you eat glue #gamedev
June 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Please don't 🥲 ... over scope 🫠
#happytuesday 🌲❤️

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November 19, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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I want so badly to enjoy mobile games but the ecosystem they occupy apparently forces them into being annoying to play unless you are constantly purchasing magical coins at bizarre denominations that I refuse to understand.
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Finally a good platform! A bit about me if you want to follow (I mostly repost tbh but you might see photos of my pets):

🎮Video games
🐱Cats and 🐶dogs
🌱Plants
🍰Food
💻Drowning In Dreams Studios (my own company attempt for video games and art)
🎨Art
a cat is peeking out of a wooden door and says hi .
ALT: a cat is peeking out of a wooden door and says hi .
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November 16, 2024 at 6:49 PM