when i was a kid, you could build a simple game or application by dragging and dropping a few UI controls, and gluing them together with a few dozen lines of BASIC or Pascal. it might take 15 minutes, at most, to get your little character walking around on the screen. this is how we ended up with a lot of hilariously good and cheap shareware you could share on BBSes in the 90s.
for the past year i've been quietly working on building a software thingie that doesn't exist anymore. i've been building a software toolkit that's kinda like Visual Basic and Borland Delphi, designed for making tile-based 2d games.
i've been using it to build my own little goofy games, and improving on the drag'n'drop IDE as i figuring things out. it's not done yet, and has a long ways to go before it's ready for other people to start making their own little applications and games. think PICO-8 or ZZT if they had grown up on a steady diet of Windows 3.1 and GeoWorks Ensemble instead.
i'm really, really bad about polishing turds to infinity and never releasing them. to break that habit, i've built a mini-website for the IDE/Shareware Creation Kit. it's called Exigy, named like a bad 80s metal hair band or richard garriott game.
i'll be posting weekly blog/devlog updates there, so i don't irritate anyone with them on this account. there is an rss feed button at the top right if you hate my demonic php and css.
I REALLY don't want to join #Bluesky and love it here on the fedi. But people keep telling me I just won't find enough people here to follow and engage with.
Ich schreib das folgende #JobAngebot mal auf Deutsch, da die Unternehmenssprache Deutsch ist:
Wir suchen ab sofort (oder sobald du kannst) Entwickler:innen welche Erfahrungen mit #Laravel haben.
Wir sind ein kleines privates Unternehmen, ohne Investoren-Bullshit, welches im Bereich E-Commerce Fuß gefasst hat, aber abseits davon auch diverse eigene Web-Anwendungen entwickelt.
Wir bieten 32 oder 40 Stunden Verträge und es ist eine Hybrid-Stelle in #Berlin. Hybrid heißt hierbei theoretisch 50:50 Homeoffice/Büro, wobei es hier keine festen Tage gibt und man auch bei Bedarf mal 100% Homeoffice machen kann oder, wenn man möchte, auch 100% im Büro sein kann.
Unsere aktuellen Projekte haben Laravel 11 mit einem, welches noch auf Laravel 10 läuft. Im Frontend arbeiten wir mit Vue.js und Inertia.
Ich bin Team-Lead des Dev-Teams, bei Fragen also gerne per DM an mich. Ich vermittle dann gerne weiter, wenn es irgendwie passt.
Wichtig auch: Der Job ist LGBTQIA*-freundlich und wir wollen niemanden, der/die es nicht ist.
I’m still processing things but I just got laid off at work and so I’ll be re-entering the workforce. I’m a seasoned #PHP veteran with about 12 years in #SoftwareEngineering. I’ve also been a manager and Director of Engineering. Gonna be looking soon but figure I may as well get cracking on #GetFediHired. I can pick up other languages pretty quickly too and have a bunch of #Symfony#Laravel#MySQL and #AWS experience.
There's also a mild to moderate cold that is being passed around the family here. We suspect that Grandson_3 brought it home from school. He's been coughing and sneezing off and on for about three weeks. Grandson_4 has been exceptionally clingy and whiny, though he has only sneezed / coughed occasionally. Grandson_5's nose has been running about the same length of time, with occasional coughing or sneezing. And I'm going through my third wave of it.
So I think that's also part of what's going on educationally.
The thing is, I need to finish these programs. In the case of DataCamp, bthall paid for a year's subscription. I want to complete as much as I can before the year ends (late December / early January). The Coursera programs are being funded by New York State;s Unemployment Insurance program, even though my benefits timed out almost a year ago. I have no assurance that they'll leave the funding open forever.