Sheargrub
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writing code and looking at bugs (and other critters)
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· May 16
Commando, the Cornered Gunslinger from Risk of Rain, is out now in Rivals of Aether! Fight your way out by any means necessary with this aggressive all-rounder, and grab highly variable Items to change the way you play. Luck is on your side.
Link below!
Link below!
He's finally out! Mallow and I have been putting a ton of love into this character over a long period of time, so please consider checking him out!!!
#rivalsofaether #riskofrain #gamedev
#rivalsofaether #riskofrain #gamedev
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Due to the way the piklopedia in P2R is structured, the 9 snoot enemies are all perfectly organized
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Due to the way the piklopedia in P2R is structured, the 9 snoot enemies are all perfectly organized
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TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API
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it's not good for anybody to be referred to as a genius or wizard; they may come to think they are an actual genius or wizard
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
it's not good for anybody to be referred to as a genius or wizard; they may come to think they are an actual genius or wizard
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I really do not get the general urge among online academics to dunk on X area for discovering what Y area has known for decades. There are many reasons why this is unscholarly. To name a few:
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I really do not get the general urge among online academics to dunk on X area for discovering what Y area has known for decades. There are many reasons why this is unscholarly. To name a few:
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.
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fantasizing about having enough money to put together a ragtag team of linux devs to recreate the functions and user experiences of every single ancient windows-only software that's still integral to my current workflow
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
fantasizing about having enough money to put together a ragtag team of linux devs to recreate the functions and user experiences of every single ancient windows-only software that's still integral to my current workflow
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I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...
New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
The illegible nature of software development talent
Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...
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Business leader: Our user persona? Well we don't want to constrain our customer base, this product is for everyone
Designer: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
Business leader: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
Designer: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
Business leader: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Business leader: Our user persona? Well we don't want to constrain our customer base, this product is for everyone
Designer: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
Business leader: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
Designer: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
Business leader: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
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September 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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@'ing the majority of Fighting Game Community pros & content creators who keep accepting money from the Saudi government for the sake of "esports & hype", completely disregarding their own queer & female peers
"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@'ing the majority of Fighting Game Community pros & content creators who keep accepting money from the Saudi government for the sake of "esports & hype", completely disregarding their own queer & female peers
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I cannot overstate how important it is, right now, to think of information as a) something you transmit and pass along instead of just receiving; b) something that is more useful to others when passed on for its own sake than when wrapped in media or Discourse criticism.
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I cannot overstate how important it is, right now, to think of information as a) something you transmit and pass along instead of just receiving; b) something that is more useful to others when passed on for its own sake than when wrapped in media or Discourse criticism.
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you have to be bold enough to steal a characters full name
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
you have to be bold enough to steal a characters full name
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I hate when people make bad arguments for the sake of good conclusions because we can just make good arguments for those conclusions instead but everyone acts like it doesn’t matter
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I hate when people make bad arguments for the sake of good conclusions because we can just make good arguments for those conclusions instead but everyone acts like it doesn’t matter
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I've been told a couple of times in tech to not use the term "empathy" because some groups dislike it which is hilarious because that's asking me to....have empathy.....
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've been told a couple of times in tech to not use the term "empathy" because some groups dislike it which is hilarious because that's asking me to....have empathy.....
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I swear to god I'm going to end up with a t-shirt of this quote -- it's come up basically every other day since I first saw it, including in non-computing contexts 😭
"… some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes." - Dijkstra
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I swear to god I'm going to end up with a t-shirt of this quote -- it's come up basically every other day since I first saw it, including in non-computing contexts 😭
A lot's been said about indie devs being discouraged by Silksong. I don't want to invalidate those feelings, especially in such a stressful time, but I do want to quickly speak to another side of it. (1/)
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A lot's been said about indie devs being discouraged by Silksong. I don't want to invalidate those feelings, especially in such a stressful time, but I do want to quickly speak to another side of it. (1/)
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Go to your local fighting game tourneys you will meet the coolest transfems of your life
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Go to your local fighting game tourneys you will meet the coolest transfems of your life
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In order for your design to be successful, you have to get me to log in.
Designers who don't understand that the job is to change behaviors will build the product first, get upset when no one is using it, and bully the user into it after the fact. It will be bad UX by definition.
Designers who don't understand that the job is to change behaviors will build the product first, get upset when no one is using it, and bully the user into it after the fact. It will be bad UX by definition.
August 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In order for your design to be successful, you have to get me to log in.
Designers who don't understand that the job is to change behaviors will build the product first, get upset when no one is using it, and bully the user into it after the fact. It will be bad UX by definition.
Designers who don't understand that the job is to change behaviors will build the product first, get upset when no one is using it, and bully the user into it after the fact. It will be bad UX by definition.