Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
A pharmacy just texted me a link to a webpage that is only designed for desktop.
People really don't think these things through, do they?
You can always tell when someone takes #GunSafety seriously. Sometimes they even break character because handling guns safely is so important that it becomes an automatic reflex.
Note: Drew Carey delivered his line seamlessly while performing this maneuver, but then again, he is a former Marine.
Ah, so apparently the Federalist is writing guides on how to be the racist uncle at Thanksgiving now.
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When I was young, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, I was brought up to believe that we had defeated Fascism. Now I am old, I realise that those battles have to be fought over and over again. Never in my lifetime have I felt so despondent about the future.
Strongly recommending the game #HighFleet.
I usually hate anything resembling a "bullet hell" game and sidescrollers aren't usually my preference, but this game is so singular and unique it needs to be experienced.
The premise is that you're in charge of a small fleet of gargantuan black-smoke-belching rocket-powered mountains of machines to run a guerilla war against a far superior force.
The graphics and sound design are superb, but the game itself is a masterclass on proper scoping. Everything that's included plays a vital part in making the game what it is and there's nothing extraneous.
The game is two-layer, much like XCOM. Half of it is frenetic dogfights between these massive rocket ships and the other half is a very challenging strategy/story layer about building your resistance.
Anyway, if you're a #gamedev and you want to see an example of an indie game done right, don't sleep on this one.
I don't care how "clean" you think it makes your app look, add fucking borders to your windows.
Wow, so StackOverflow took the questions that are their entire purpose off their homepage?
Seems foolish.
Was roughhousing with my dog this morning and after a brief accident, I now look like a video game character who just defeated a wyvern.
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My husband and I don’t fight very often, but one thing we do fight about is how he calls aluminum foil "tin foil" and he's like "IT'S THE SAME THING!" and I’m like "bruh, they are completely different metals, so please go consult the periodic table I've hung over our bed."
Why does every news organization insist on reporting things like this that aren't news?
Maybe that's why they're bleeding money.
Wow, that new Musk lawsuit is absurdly frivolous and thin-skinned. At several points, it even gives up the game by admitting that what Media Matters reported was true by trying to hedge it with "extremely rare".
Looking forward to actual lawyers tearing it apart in the coming days.
I wonder what percentage of White Castle's business in 2023 is still driven by stoners watching Harold and Kumar...
Why is every single business in America constantly changing the menu options on their automated voice system?
Do any #DotNet folks know why we still can't create static indexers for classes in C#?
It's gonna be nuts when these guys get hit by ransomware.
Introducing the EU Digital Identity Wallet. This revolutionary tool brings effortless access to private and public services, allowing you to open b...
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Today I built a silly webpage by hand in a couple of hours. (I’m not going to tell you what it was, except that it was frivolous af.)
I started out by looking for a template, but everything I found was way too involved, so I ended up writing the HTML and CSS from scratch, throwing it in a cloud-hosted directory, and nudging the DNS settings to point there.
This turned out to be a ridiculously nostalgic experience. I built a lot of weird little websites like this when I was about eleven years old, saving the HTML of sites that I liked so that I could access them when the phone line was being used by someone else, and changing pieces around to figure out how it all fit together.
It struck me that:
a) by this measure I’ve been doing web dev for almost a quarter-century now 😳
b) there is nothing stopping me from making websites this way. I can still write HTML and yeet it out there if I want to, no matter what it’s for. Pages load quickly. It’s not fancy. It works. Underneath it all, the web is still there.
If you feel so inclined, I can highly recommend seizing an afternoon, taking a silly webpage idea, and having a play.
I'd like to nominate this as 2023's most useless toot.
NBC poll finds Biden behind Trump for the first time in a hypothetical general-election matchup, although the deficit is well within the poll's mar...
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
