Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

@KeefJudge TBF our game has procedural levels so it’s only the hub we’d use it for. And there are only 2 of us. So for all the generated filename weirdness added by 1FPA it doesn’t really make sense for us.

A lot of the other UE5 stuff is predicated on the offline pre-processing of meshes, but we have procedural world geometry so can’t use much of it. Everything is so tied together on that requirement we mostly end up using UE5 like UE 4.5

You can’t tell it to remember the OK for an app to use the key for more than 24h (or technically until the 1Password app is restarted, which if you suspend is a workaround, but then seems too long). I’d like to say “ask when the app changes signature” but that doesn’t seem to be an option

I tried using 1Password’s SSH agent and there’s a lot to like about it. Having a nice prompt to let you know when an app has requested the use of the key is reassuringly affirmative, making you feel in control.

But damn, it’s annoying to do unless presumably you’re using biometric authentication. I don’t mind typing my passphrase when I’m actively looking up a password, but when I’m asked to do it reactively at hard to predict times it becomes irritating 🫤

@scrivolical these sound like ice creams; I’ll take one raspberry flavour Armageddon Swirl please

@stephensmith I bought a compilation of his work a while back, read it and thought it was such garbage I gave it away. Maybe 2 short stories in the whole thing were any good.

He had some interesting ideas that other people have executed better on. He was a pretty terrible writer (and not a very nice person)

@KeefJudge it’s fine, because like most of UE5 we don’t use 1FPA 😜

I know Linus means well but sometimes his tools are used by non-nerds and we need to make compromises (from my magic "get latest" script for artists to pull the latest UE project changes, merge their own changes & build)

@psychicparrot42 Bleh, I only keep it because I forget people's names otherwise. Which I could honestly probably live with, other than the awks when I can't remember the name of someone I briefly worked with 15 years ago

It turned into a place for the ultra biz bro try-hards a while back, everyone trying to be a thought leader and smash those KPIs or some shite

Wow, I went to LinkedIn for the first time in ages in response to a message and they want you to "verify" yourself now, by uploading your passport or other government ID? Get lost mate, another good reason to never use that website

Does your shop music go this hard? If not, why not? https://cherof.bandcamp.com/track/shop

@jonikorpi I've never seen it not be a train wreck that everyone in that ecosystem bizarrely seems to be fine with

@mvu it's insane, you have my condolences ;)

Also gives me an excuse to try out Jetbrain's Goland, I always used VSCode previously

Maybe I'll try writing this Masto->Bluesky cross poster in Go instead. I haven't used it in years but I did enjoy it a lot when I did (I worked on git-lfs), and it should have all the stdlib support needed without instantly constructing a dependency hell

@NohatCoder everything else I've looked at was so over-engineered, this being a nice 1-file source project I thought it might be doable but this whole system is just cursed

@eviltrout Lucky escape IMO

@JeremiahFieldhaven Nice!

I mean just listen to this https://cherof.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-core-original-soundtrack

I'm writing "Aaron Cherof" into my composer wishlist right fecking now

Ha, tried noodling around a Node project that was only written in the last 12 months and trying to build it resulted in a ton of deprecation warnings, security flags (some serious) and "you should no longer be using f00b4r, migrate to l33tf4rt instead". Plus despite being a supposedly simple main.js with like 3 imports it pulls in a zillion dependencies (in which these problems exist). Who can possibly work in this dumpster fire of a dev environment? I'm noping right out

Finally got around to playing Cobalt Core. Lovely game but my goodness that soundtrack goes above and beyond *chefs kiss*