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Richard Meredith
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Game developer @foldedfox.games | Previously: Bad North, Little Nightmares, LittleBigPlanet | He/Him
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Tiny kitten staying with me right now. He's very sweet but Loppan has opinions

#CatsOfBluesky
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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After all these years I'm still haunted by

"Class A (Legal) : "PS" and "Vita" must not be separated by line breaks [MUSTFIX]"

(we did not have support for non-breaking spaces in our game 😰)
A code snipped that says PS Vita Which, in html would produce the term "PS Vita" and make the space between the words unable to break over lines
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I had to look up CSS modules and is this what you're talking about?? Because if so, yeah that also sounds like a nightmare
Excerpt from an online article: CSS Modules takes a different approach. Instead of writing plain HTML, we need to write all of our markup in a JavaScript file, like index.js. Here’s an example of how that might work (we’ll take a look at a more realistic example later):
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I'm constantly surprised by how no-one doing web development knows what css is *for* or how to use it

This is just styling the html inline with extra steps. Absolute clown shit
A screenshot of an html tag with extremely poor class structure <footer aria-label="Site Info" class=" d-flex flex-column justify-content-center text-muted flex-lg-row justify-content-lg-between align-items-lg-center pb-lg-3 " >
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Autumnal adventures
#CatsOfBluesky
A fluffy white Angora cat is sitting at the base of a a tree in a graveyard, surrounded by fallen yellow leaves. She is staring intently at something off camera
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Kitties hanging out. The white one is my cat, Loppan. She loves to hang out there because she's on top of the AV receiver which is warm as fuck. Black one is her brother, Baggis, who is visiting and very nervous, so he's being brave just hanging out in the open
An image of a teak TV bench in a retro, maybe 70s style. A black fluffy Angora cat is laying on top, and a white fluffy Angora cat is hanging out from inside an open door
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Aaaaand they crashed #CatsOfBluesky
3 of the four kittens from the previous video are sleeping together in a pile on a rug. Their mum is watching over them
October 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I'm watching these four adorable kittens on his #Caturday
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Came home to a crime scene this evening. But who has murdered my plant?

Luckily detective Loppan is on the case and I'm sure has no biasses in this case
A potter plant with most of it's leaves torn off sits on a coffee table a white cat is sniffing at the removed leaves
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Rider autocomplete has gotten *significantly* worse from 2024.x to 2025.2. It's now adding autocomplete recommendations at the end of lines, so hitting Enter doesn't go to next line, it spaffs out nonsense

I've got all the GenAI bullshit switched off, but I'm betting this is LLM madness creeping in
October 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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As a weird industrial design project, or a movie prop, this could be kinda cool, but this is being sold as a genuine survival tool, but also pictured like you could be real world wolverine maybe 😂
The same claw in isolation, with a rainbow tether attached Gloved hand holds the claw in such a way that it runs along their knuckles, I don't think that any use could be made in the grip Someone with fingerless gloves is brandishing a claw in each hand, held between their index and middle finger Someone holding 2 claws between the fingers of one hand. No glove and it's unclear how secure the hold is, but it's definitely designed to remind you of Wolverine
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Have YOU considered whether you have enough RAPTOR utility in your life? For survival AND construction - the two domains we all associate with RAPTORS
A photo of a hand in some kind of tacticool glove holding a curved blade that maybe looks a little like a velociraptor claw. The point of th blade is held against some kind of small glass porthole in the ground. Maybe it's an outdoor light? The glass is not damaged in any way. Text reads DAILY RAPTOR UTILITY Instant Glass Shatterer It can pierce through double-layer tempered glass, making it highly suitable for both survival and construction scenarios.
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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The "yeah my client is a murderer, but who cares?" is probably a really stupid line to take when your client is spending hundreds of billions to try and wash their murderous reputation with entertainers like yourself

Also your client is a murderer, don't embarrass them publicly maybe?
"One reporter was killed by thegovernment - unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I'm gonna die on, Jim Jefferies said on Theo Von's podcast inAugust, arguing it is for the greater good that "freedom-of-speech machines' such as himself bestow their "edgy" material on the kingdom and its subjects. (Since making the comments, Jefferies has since disappeared from the festival's lineup; his representatives did not respond to inquiries about this.)
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I have no useful input but
An altered @dril tweet badly edited to read Turning a big dial that says "Gay" on it and constantly looking back at the audience to ensure all the fascists have gone away
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The cpp integration is pretty nifty too - you can throw exceptions to BP users and let them know what's up
A promotional image for the RTM Blueprint Exception's plugin. It shows a simple Unreal Engine Blueprint node called "Small Number Handler" with the number 9001 passed in. The node is breakpointed with a small yellow bubble underneath that reads "Exception Raised 9001 is not a small number! Only numbers 0.9 please" There is the code to generate the node as follows ``` UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category="Test", meta=(RTMCanRaiseException)) static void SmallNumberHandler(int number) { // RTM_BP_ENSURE() macro gives elegant error handling with notification to designers if(RTM_BP_ENSURE(number >= 0 && number < 10, TEXT("%d is not a small number!\nOnly numbers 0-9 please"), number)) { HandleSmallNumberThings(number); } } ```
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I probably can't adopt Astrid, because Loppan HATES other cats and gets extremely jealous if I interact with other cats, which would make it a bad situation for everyone involved
A fluffy white Angora cat is snuggling
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Still thinking about the kittens that I visited 2 days ago. Especially Astrid, who I am told is a "nightmare" and a "terrorist" by her owners, but who I experienced as a sweet, sweet, little baby
A tiny tuxedo kitten is snoozing against my leg. Some other kittens are in the background The same tuxedo kitten is lying on her side and getting belly rubs. She has really big eyes and white whiskers. There are 3 more kittens cuddling in the backgound
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Just to be clear, Lillemor (the mother) was around and very attentive to her babies
A tabby cat sits on a sofa with an ambiguous number of kittens in a pile behind her.
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Get in loser, we're having a cuddle pile

#CatsOfBluesky #Cat
Four kittens, 4 weeks old are bundled up in a cuddle pile. 2 tuxedos and 2 tabbies. They all have white socks
September 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Took a while to work out how to get them displaying properly standalone, so there's a gist here if you're interested gist.github.com/rtm223/329b4...

It also allows for inserting a material node into any slate hierarchy and all the tooltips and stuff just work, which is neat
The same node as the previous post, but it's now in an editor window. The tooltip for the input "Distance" is displayed
September 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Alongside this plugin is trying to automate good documentation for material functions, including
- Generate markdown with all the node details
- Render out previews of the outputs

See at: github.com/rtm223/RTMSD...

But now I can render out the Node Widgets too! So need to work that into the pipe
An unreal engine material node, called SDF Glow Mask
September 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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I've just released version 1.1.0 of my #UE5 SDF Plugin. Now featuring some extra material functions, some basic materials and this nifty interactive explainer / examples / tutorial window

Windows binaries for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 up in github github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

#gamedev #UnrealEngine
September 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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During my gap year, I worked at a small family-owned engineering firm that mostly made comoressors and vacuum pumps. The old boy who founded it once tried to branch out into the miniature train game. Huge commercial failure but they had a few of them still around the office
A yellow miniature steam train with a middle aged man sitting on it
September 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Plant inspector checking in
A white cat loafs on a large shelf next a plant pot with a Calathea. There's a several other plants around her and she's looking up curiously at them
September 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Everything is integrated with the built in UE import pipelines (both Interchange and Legacy) so it's as simple as naming your SDF sources "{MyFile}_SDF.png" and it'll generate for you, with various settings to fine tune generation

You also get these real nice thumbnails in the Content Browser
View of the unreal engine content browser with a selection of SDF icon textures. The thumbnails have been visualized to show the icon in purple, on an orange background, with visuals for showing the range of the distance fields. They are all tagged as "SDF" or "MSDF"
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM