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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m making a UI built around “book” because it fits the how I’ve chosen to describe the mechanics narratively 😅

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe the #godot hivemind might have an idea for me? I have a 2d atlas with dozens of individual sprites I want to use as decoration in a scene. What's the easiest way to handle that? I thought about tilemaps, but that doesn't feel amazing and leaves me with not being able to place things offgrid

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Would be so cool to see Godot start being able to target those older platforms 👀 But I know how difficult that would be 😅

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Only thing keeping me sane right now is watching folks like @edzitron.com and @doctorow.pluralistic.net talk about the absolute clusterfuck the financing for this stuff is.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've experienced this at every company I've worked at lmao Despite having product and project managers, I've been tasked with BOTH of those tasks with the managers only being there to give a 👍 on the work. It's infuriating

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The guy who taught the first class I took on programming used to say: “If you can’t explain it to your grandmother, you don’t understand it well enough”

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh man… I have been looking for exactly something like this and was about to just reimplement JS promises in gdscript 😅 glad to see someone beat me to it

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The term “fiduciary duty” will go down in history as one of the most evil terms we’ve ever invented.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Counter point: you don’t want governments controlling the on/off switch of the internet.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So uh… what does the author say are the reasons that would justify it? Only things I could even conceive of are some brand of hurting people simply for being who they are

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have some pretty crippling social anxiety… and even I would _never_ consider this shit. What is wrong with these people?

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Might I suggest looking up the word for “birth control pill”?

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How did I never notice that the file name at the top of the explorer was an input field? 🫠 Like someone else said, the right click menu for a file exists and is imo a better experience

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s called “regulatory capture” They want to be able to regulate low cost, open source, open weight models out of existence so that only their own are allowed on the market. I hate gen AI, but even I know that this shit is heinous

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of course the eastern parts voted blue 🫠

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And now I've got a little rudimentary victory screen built out! Things are really starting to come together 😌 Even came up with a nice little spin on the sphere grid system for FFX for my leveling system, but I guess that's not shown here lol #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #crpg #trpg #rpg

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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026

We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes good. Come to the *checks notes* well not the dark side Did it ages ago and have been so much better for it

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeeees I’ve scrubbed it out of my life as much as I can. So sad I can’t not use it at work

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No wonder I’m making the game I’m making 😂 lotsa RPGs on this list #my9games my9games.net/en

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hah I was playing around with agb (a rust library and toolchain for building gba games) and was thinking the exact same thing! But I was kinda thinking about a Stardew valley demake I can play on my analogue pocket lol

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I keep getting those videos too 😅 and most talk strictly about hardware and what games to play bla bla bla Only one really talks about how bad the decision paralysis of a back log is. And frankly, that’s probably my problem lol 😂

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Currently $10.25/gal here in Germany… Would love if someone in the US would actually deal with the chaos caused by TACO

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like, I keep coming back to this article posted by @unseenjapan.com about AKFG's lead singer opening up a recording studio so that young musicians have a place to fail "safely". I really wish those kinds of things existed for young folks and indies in any industry bsky.app/profile/unse...

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm tired boss and this video sums it up pretty succinctly I really wish I had the luxury to be able to just quit my job and give my indie game dev dreams a shot. But bills gotta get paid youtu.be/H0HwFqBG9KE?...

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Threatening we'll "get left behind" doesn't work when the destination is somewhere we don't want to go Like brother if the place you're going is a hellscape where everything sucks, I insist on being left behind. My ideal outcome is being left behind. Sign me up for never following you anywhere

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is my biggest pet peeve at my day job! Our backend folks (for my part of the business) don’t think about UX almost ever. As result, they build APIs and without ever asking “what UX will this produce” and I’m left hacking shit together to try and salvage something of it.

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demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

simply adore coding to me it’s like poetry, and as intimately personal and creative as any other form of writing

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh man, lead singer for my favorite band supports indies in a big way? Hell yes 😌

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I swear godot UI is a bit like black magic Anyway, I got a little turn order display mocked up! Even got some nice little animations up and running #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found JK Rowlings most hated function in godot Anyway, #transrights are human rights

A line of code in gdscript that reads:

tween dot set trans open parentheses tween dot trans elastic close parentheses

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean... it doesn't affect me, but Steam also has never required a credit card be used for payments.

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Martha Snoward (Allianz der Kolkrabenfreund*innen bsky eV) @marthasnoward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Es besteht keine Gefahr" ist genau das, was ich sagen würde, wenn ich die Gefahr wäre

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gotta love Bundesweiter Warntag 😂

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Shovelware has never been easier to produce. I'm tired boss...

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At least they give us something for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (yes, I know algae makes up the majority of the O2 that's produced on this planet, don't @ me)

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Doesn't this work as expected though? 😅 If your scaling is set to integer, then you would only see changes at integer multiples of that scale, right? So if your viewport was 400x300 (contrived), you would only see scaling effects at a window size of 800x600 (2x), 1200x900(3x), etc.

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yah, tried and fail to avoid the news this morning... did I leave another country over this shit? 😅

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've been thinking about doing this in all of my public facing repos lol That and embedding comments into things like README files that don't show up when you view them, but are fully visible as comments

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And now we've got proper turn based combat ready to go! Everything's sorta mocked up of course, so I've still got a ways to go, but it is what it is lol (please ignore that the enemies aren't doing anything yet lol) #godot #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #crpg #turnbased

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