John Kaniarz

@jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Autonomous vehicle simulation development with a side of sensor modeling. UE, Raytracing, LiDAR, and PRNG experience. Has beat Battletoads.

Anyone else enjoy Video Cola?

#blippoplus

@randahl @skinnylatte With only a little tweaking…

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Spitting up alerts and trackers and data hijackers
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just one more abstraction bro
just one more language bro I promise this one will solve all our problems
bro trust me Rust is memory safe but what if we made a language that’s MORE memory safe, like what if memory didn’t exist at all
just one more metaprogramming feature bro, what if macros could write macros that generate code that writes other macros?
what do you mean “just use Python”? bro this language has ZERO-COST ABSTRACTIONS and also zero documentation but that’s fine we’ll figure it out
Searching for help with Unreal’s FApp object. First result: Urban Dictionary… Thanks for that Google!
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

AI features in Windows are gradually becoming more widespread and inescapable.

Ars Technica
"this does not spark joy" and is therefore safe to use in environments where joy may become aerosolised.

Great post by @noelfb
which echoes a sentiment I and many friends in the space share. Hopefully people take note of how good the platform-layer/building blocks like Dear ImGui, Love2D, SDL3 are, and how reasonable it is to build a tool set suited to your tastes and workflow on top of them.

https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

A while back my friend Cass had a post in a similar vein, which is also worth reading.

https://blood.church/posts/2023-09-14-whatistobedone/

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

The Algorithm suggested this stop motion music video made from frames found in newspapers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56EG957YinM

It predates Weval's Someday by nearly 30 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wEvzqdDZg

PAPERS

YouTube

✋ Keeping good backups

👉 The Buddhist notion of Impermanence

Since "(x & (x - 1)) == 0 && x != 0" came up again, I give you: "(x ^ -x) < -x" (with an unsigned comparison)