samanbb

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Making video games. Equal parts artist / designer / programmer.
personal sitehttps://trashmoon.com/
wilderplacehttps://wilderplace.place/
samanbbJun 12, 2025
Ingrid BurringtonJun 12, 2025
more blogging, today about the prehistory of map tiles https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile
Notes on the history of the map tile - Placing Technologies

Web map tiles—the storing of geospatial data at different zoom levels in x/y/z indexed squares of raster (and later, vector) data for efficient

samanbbApr 11, 2025
A few friends and I made an interesting strategy/puzzle/adventure prototype called SUB-SURFACE a few weekends ago, just put it up on itch: https://trashmoon.itch.io/subsurface
SUB-SURFACE by trashmoon

Figure out how to reach the surface, avoid death, and make a friend

itch.io
samanbbDec 7, 2024
I finally got around to writing about this terrain renderer demo I started over a year ago on my blog. Read about my CSS and HTML crimes: https://trashmoon.com/blog/2024/terrain-renderer-with-react-and-dom/
Why and how I made a 3D terrain renderer with React + the DOM

I just finished polishing this DOM-based 3D terrain renderer and figured now would be a good time to write about it. Click or use arrow keys to move around, and click-and-drag to rotate:

samanbbNov 22, 2024
smestorpNov 21, 2024
Hey! I've announced my next game and I am asking for money already so I can finish making it. :)
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/michael-brough/868-back
868-BACK

The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.

BackerKit
samanbbOct 24, 2024
What's up with headphones all having gesture controls? I have only ever used them accidentally. I am afraid to touch my headphones now. Am I just old or has this always been a bad idea.
Show threadsamanbbOct 22, 2024
There are some interesting ideas in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06646
samanbbOct 22, 2024

Generative AI is exciting and cool and I use it every day and I also 100% believe the statement on this page is true: https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/

How do we go from here, to a future where AI tools track attribution and pay royalties? Seems like an enormous uphill battle but not impossible. Would require imaginative reform in copyright law, and coming up with the technical framework for maintaining attribution in models, which no big AI company is incentivized to figure out.

Statement on AI training

An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.

Statement on AI training
samanbbSep 22, 2024

As a programmer:

Bug existing - bad!
Users experiencing bugs and letting you know - great!

Now you can fix the bug. Adjusting my emotional response to these two things has helped me be better at the job. But I am burdened by the weight of untested code.

samanbbSep 14, 2024
There needs to be a book like the artists way but it’s for artists to learn how to be normal
samanbbAug 27, 2024
Show threadAnneAug 27, 2024
@maya "abstraction is a type of decadence" is a great software engineering truism tbh. no notes