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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h

In case you’re wondering, yes, all three maps in the release version can be beaten. I know because I beat them.

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I think the most important metric here is that I’m playing the damned game myself right now, with my ability to generate infinite custom maps rather than the pre-seeded ones in the release. It’s…alarmingly fun.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

This is the first time I’ve ever finished the #LDJam compo! ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/60/$435… You can play the game directly on my website: bauxite.tech/games/ldjam-60.html It’s a #picotron game. #gameDev #SoloGameDev

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

And now we have resource management and extraction. All that’s left now is to implement the logic to let the player go back to town and then build the aqueducts. Plus a main menu of some kind. Maybe I’ll make a high score table as a stretch goal. Oh, and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A screenshot from my kid I’m dare game where you can see a colorful map with various resources spread out. There is a path of destruction from where resources have been cleared away.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#LDJam progress: we have resource distribution! I need to figure out how I want to handle game/food now. And then player controls. And then tile laying mechanics. Maybe I don’t need to build a tiling engine, but I’m still going to. :X #picotron

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Further #ldjam progress: I’ve made the board not the whole screen, to make it, you know, actually fun. Hopefully you can see that it’s a height map. I need to play with the tile designs. Next up I need to start adding resources to the board, then figure out […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A grid filled with various colored squares, including shades of blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and a few red squares, set against a dark background.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Looks like, once again, ldjam is on hold because of life events. Wife is sick (still and/or again?), so it’s “caring husband” day instead of “frantic game developer” day.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Now, this was a very large slope. Here's a much better version with a lower slope.

A chaotic rainbow gradient, with lots of swirls and stuff.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#LDJam progress from tonight: I have my height map working! #Picotron is a massive upgrade from #Pico8.

A nice rainbow gradient, rendered in chunky "pixelated" bands.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I think I’m going to do a sort of “tile laying puzzle strategy game” where you have to build aqueducts to get water to your people. How’s that for old tech?

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meh. I’m still going to do #ldjam. Mostly because “old tech” is mybkryptonite

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Since inflation is up, can I put in a plug for the poorly named TVP (textured vegetable protein) ? Very cheap, perfectly shelf stable, easy to work with. It's a byproduct of soybean oil production and much more environmentally friendly than real meat. It tastes like whatever flavors you add.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social the thing is, you’re right. And it’s why I point it out. Instead of wasting money on the latest tech grift, we should be building schools. And public transportation. And helping people. Evangelizing the use of AI tools, which are already becoming prohibitively […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

So half the posts on #LudumDare are “I’m in and I’m using AI” Sigh. I don’t think I’m going to participate this time. It’s already barely a competition. If I wanted to “compete” with Claude, I’d just do it myself.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social you’re doing what special needs teachers already do. So while it’s great that there are upsides of AI use, I don’t think it’s a stretch to point out that we could just be spending the billions of dollars we’re spending on AI on our teachers and education systems […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Daily mindfulness exercise: I will be mindful of all the absolute shit that’s going on in the world, and how it’s affecting my mood. There, I did it. I accepted that the world sucks and it makes me mad. Time to go try to make it a better place.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It’s another restless morning for me. Up at 4 am to the last vestiges of this ill-behaved plague. A little bit of mindless vidya accompanied by a good audiobook. Kiddo found me at the computer and begged for food, some three hours later. He’s playing his own vidya while he relaxes before going […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

So, uh, I’m reading Brandon Sanderson’s latest book. It is the most politically-charged book he’s written. Real-world politics. And it’s…startlingly progressive. This isn’t a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to his stories on the past, from a conceptual perspective. Generally, though […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Work slack, lately; “My Claude said this” “<overly written post in response> sent with Claude” “Grok says this instead” “<overly written post in response> sent with Claude” Sigh. I’m very glad I won’t be here in two weeks.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Not to brag, but I was just told I’m the best dad in the world. He also says he wants to play this game forever and ever. #rollerCoasterTycoon

A kid playing roller coaster tycoon on an ultra wide monitor at a somewhat messy desk.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

How did I miss that ghidra has its own debugger now? How new is that? … 2021?! I mean I love me some gdb, but having it right there in the interface is slick.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Gosh, the controls for Kerbal Space Program on Xbox are _phenomenally_ bad.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Blegh. We are on day # “just use a dirty tshirt as a tissue” of whatever novel plague we have. 😭

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

So…I let the HR department know I’m leaving in about three weeks, and moving to another job I haven’t heard back from them yet. Uhhhhh.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I am disapppojnted that there are no metal covers of Danny Go songs. I guess I need to buy an electric guitar.

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Lenny @f09fa681.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

(Boosts welcome!) Hi there! @theova and I are two software engineers with a combined 11+ years of experience building privacy-focused communication systems at @threemaapp in the Protocols and #Security team, now looking for our next opportunity. Our background spans protocol design, applied […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

So, uh, job search update: About a month ago now, I pleaded on mastodon for help. I didn’t really have a goal in mind. I was just miserable at work, not getting paid enough to do too much work. I posted a big long, rambling post that ended with, effectively, “will someone please help me” A […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Well, they opened a Dublin next to the highway, and now our local coffee shop is closing down. They were doing fine until the county decided to let them build a bunch of fast food at our exit. Good job America. Great job. 👏

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Gotta say, I’m liking Theo of golden well enough. It’s a little pretentious, and generally I prefer my pretentiousness with a heaping helping of space lasers and shamelessly stereotyping whole alien species to fit exactly one group of earthlings to make a point. But it’s well written and […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

So, since I’m behind a day, I decided to go with “miniature effort” on a miniature horse for day 3 of #inktober. This is the best work I’ve ever done in less than five minutes.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Aaaaand colored in. I definitely need to borrow wife’s brush tips for these large fields next time. I tried to hid as many crimes as possible with some ad hoc trickery, but I’m not nearly good enough to do that effectively. #inktober #alcoholMarkers #spooky #relic

Hand-drawn map in black ink and alcohol marker, viewed from above, labeled "Inktober 2026 #2: Relic." A bright green field is crossed at the top by a long perimeter fence. A dirt road enters through a gate past a guard booth, a gray watchtower, sandbag walls, and anti-vehicle hedgehog barricades. It opens into a brown dirt staging yard with a row of parked cars, a white fuel tank, olive-green supply crates and a tent, and a truck beside white trailers with blue windows. From the yard, the road sweeps in a wide curve and spirals down into a deep, terraced excavation pit, its tiered earthen walls shaded in tans and browns and dotted with gray boulders. On the pit floor, among green crates and a small work site, a huge white skull lies half-unearthed, its dark cross-hatched eye sockets and nose cavity staring up, dwarfing a tiny figure nearby. Scattered trees, bushes, and an overgrown crater dot the surrounding grass.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Like, if you wanna draw a cool apple, or a picture with an actual apple in it, that’s great! But I don’t draw too good, and I like drawing maps anyway.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I’m catching up on #inktober. This is day one. I kinda…screwed it up by trying to add texture to the roads. My wife looked at it and didn’t understand why it was on-theme. Maybe I’m just weird, but i dislike taking themes literally.

A top-down map of an orchard at harvest. Rows of apple trees, gaps where trees died or were replanted, a tractor hauling bins down one lane, and a farm building by a gravel lot. A fence surrounds all of it, and an automated gate closes the only road in. Seems like a nice place. Nobody's said why the gate is there.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I don’t know if I’ve complained about this specific thing on mastodon before, but I bet it’s something that resonates with a lot of folks on here: You don’t have to be a serious person. Hold on, that’s not the whole thing. You don’t have to be a serious person to be…serious. Let’s preface […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

And this is why everyone should read #DungeonCrawlerCarl. It is an unserious series with a very serious message. That’s right, mofos, this was all a ruse. It was an ad. I finished the most recent DCC book last night and wanted to bait you into hearing about its thesis. Suckers! Can’t stop […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I rambled a little bit here. Let’s come back to the point. I have been surrounded by “serious role models” my entire life. Mostly white, mostly male, very serious-seeming people who are supposed to be the epitome of good citizenship, of professionalism. Fuuuuuuck that. My kids will never see […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Yall. This call was thrown together by a bunch of Very Serious Professionals™️, effectively for the express purpose of blaming my team for thousands of people not being able to get home. Not a single one of these oh so serious “professionals” thought to themselves “maybe I should check the […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There is a group of people who I call “the unserious serious”. These are people who react with nothing but the utmost seriousness in, well, serious situations. Now I know what you’re thinking: that just sounds like a good idea a lot of the time. And you’re right! If you’re in, let’s say, a war […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I was in an interview recently at a shop that cannot use AI, and they…I dunno if the right word is “enjoyed”, but they were certainly interested in hearing about the types of nonsense I had to put up with on the wider industry. There were a lot of knowing half […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@jordan “gotta make sure we serve that static content from our cdn from a react hook, instead of…serving it from the server that just served the static page react wrapper”

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Listen, if you can’t mosh to super Mario world EDM remixes, we can’t be friends.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[B4ux1t3 gets introspective again] I figured out the commands again. Kiddo wanted to go dragon hunting in creative mode. By the gods we will slay this dragon.

The image displays an in-game inventory screen from Minecraft, showcasing various items. Prominently featured is an enchanted bow labeled "Avilicious's Kickass Bow," with attributes including Power V, Flame, Punch II, Unbreaking III, and Infinity

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[B4ux1t3 gets introspective again] Yesterday I finally sat down and setup the Minecraft server again for family and friends. This time it’s a properly proper, permanent server, complete with actual world backups, multiple worlds via multiverse, and geyser/floodgate to play from any device in […]

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