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Tom
@thope.xyz
Game programmer specialising in engine and tools 🔧. Based in Dundee, Scotland.

📆 Available For Hire!

Working on an arcady, drifty, driving game, title TBC. Follow for updates ⭐️
It's checked in. Did you check it in? It's checked into git. I put it in a gist. When did you check it in? Did you pull? It's on the main branch. It's on the remote. It's in LFS. It's on the remote main branch. Did you push to the remote? You need to stash first. You need to pop the stash. You need-
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Word forces you to prioritise ;) also can move privacy policy to footer?
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Everyone is talking about the sprouts but what will happen to all those raspberries???
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I listened to the whole episode today and really enjoyed it!
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
red-black trees, b trees, content addressable storage, Rich Hickey, functional programming, NERF, so much stuff to dig into. Especially when Alex is talking at 2x speed lol #gamedev
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Not a direct reply to your original point, but another option could be to gift it to a housing cooperative?
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
thank you, I’ve been trying to remember the name of this!
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Made a blog post about it thope.xyz/2025/nmb/ind.... #c #foss
Releasing a C Library: Native Menu Bar
A cross platform C API for adding menus to your desktop game or app.
thope.xyz
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Maybe not what you mean but I'm glad I signed up to the Reuters Daily Briefing. Think it gave me a more healthy relationship to current events and curbed the random doom scrolling I was doing before
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
update. Added backends got GTK2 and 3 (might drop 2 support later, we'll see)

Also added support for creating the default App and Window menus on MacOS
September 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thanks!
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Inspired by the article by @rystorm.com rystorm.com/blog/transla..., my dissatisfaction with ImGuizmo (sorry), and the fact that I just like gizmos

Maybe this will turn into a library when I'm done
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Is it even possible to steel man this? Is there anything good or even new about the new setting app??
September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Do you know if getting my domain marked as spam would pose a risk to a website hosted on that domain? e.g. de-ranked in search or something?
September 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dithered shadows + bsky compression makes it hard to tell in the video but trust me this is much improved
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM