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@catapart.bsky.social
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software and game dev; preferred languages: js, rust, c#; preferred software: Unreal Engine, Blender, GIMP, Inkscape;

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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Heard, chef! But....what if I *did* write the computer program? bsky.app/profile/cata...
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm really bummed at how much time I have spent, this year, not developing games. I hope all this time spent doing other stuff will have been worth it.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If I ask "what kind of soups do you have?" and they respond with "[...], chili, [...]", I think that's perfectly appropriate, and I'd be frustrated if they left it out on some technicality. But chili is no more soup than oatmeal is.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Ah, neat! Never got to see the genesis of a "doom on x" implementation before. Nothing left but the countdown, now.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Oh, sweet! Thanks for the rec!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
lol "I know more about AI than other devs because they won't intrude on topics with irrelevant technicalities that don't change the resolution of the discussion." classic! 😂
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It's wild to see someone with her bio out here "all lives matter"/"not all men"-ing for AI without a shred of self awareness about it.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Thank you! I've worked in AI long enough to know this contrarian is full of shit, but I was having a hard time repling while my eyes were rolling entirely out of my head at all of the "um, actually"s. I wish these people would grow up. There's technicality, and then there's pettyfogging.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Captured a beautifully golden throated hummingbird at my parents' house this morning! Just a flash, but lovely nonetheless!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Randall out here with the master class on nerd sniping!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Okay, this is a pretty cool idea: kazeta.org
kazeta.org
Kazeta - Just Play
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Princess Toadstool's letter from Super Mario Bros. 3, with a P wing power up enclosed.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
As a dev that would very much like to add server-syncing to my local-first apps, but collect as little personal data as possible, this seems like a godsend. Planned to roll up my sleeves and wade in to atproto dev, but this seems to cover all of the stuff I was most worried about! Awesome work!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Can't believe Hulk is finally gonna smash those like and subscribe buttons!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hell yeah, brother! The dream of an ideal body is worth chasing, and anyone engaged in the chase is worth celebrating!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What the hell?!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We put some in the backyard from one of those seed packets, along with some sunflowers, and that was a surprisingly nice little summer garden patch for zero effort!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I wish chronic and painful ill upon jk rowling, every day. if @bsky.app doesn't figure out how to get the account re-instated within a week, I'm out of here. If you promise decentralization, but still have the power to ostracize people I want to see, what you promised is worthless. grow the fuck up
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I think a cool idea for an alien movie would be for a type of alien that easily fucks up humans, but is woefully unprepared for other kinds of earth life, so that the story takes place in a world where the aliens are a threat, but the megafauna they've allowed to thrive are a much bigger threat.
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SpaghetMeNot @spaghetmenot.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Non-destructive car doodling with perfect normals 🏎️ #normalMagic #b3d #geometrynodes
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
every word of this upped the ante in a hand I wanted to fold from the start
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Happy for CN Teen Titans' Starfire. Glad she found a place that lets her use her voice.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
As an example, look at marvel- early movies had clear hooks for each movie, newer movies are OVERFLOWING with hooks. It's so many that mass audiences just tune out. They'll watch "person becomes superhero", but they care less about "so and so fights such and such" and "every character is there!"
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
You CAN write multiple hooks, and that can work, but there are diminishing returns with marketing. Muddying the water can be just as bad as saying nothing. I empathize with how frustrating it is, but if you can't describe a hook, or the hook is too niche, you won't make sales. Simple as.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The "hook" advice is not about limiting anyone or changing your game. It's marketing advice and it is as absolute a fact as they come. It means "your game should be explainable in a way that gets people excited". If you can't describe it that way, how would anyone else (like your marketing)?
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
media.tenor.com
a little girl wearing a purple shirt and a black seat belt
ALT: a little girl wearing a purple shirt and a black seat belt
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is standing in front of a house holding a cup of coffee and talking to someone .
ALT: a man is standing in front of a house holding a cup of coffee and talking to someone .
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
makes sense to me; the quoted exclamation was being questioned by the speaker. sharp!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Standard commode-class command module on an unspecified bipedal mechanized gun platform.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I write JS like C# and it's literally so 1 to 1 that I can port it from one to the other with regex. If anything, CSS is the real horror story of the web platform. But I love CSS more than any other UI solution. Followed closely by DearImgui.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Tiny Glade, once again, serving as an incredible blueprint for how editors should be made!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Can't count the amount of "sorry it's been a while since my last update, but..." I've deleted. Turns out, no one has ever needed to read that and so no one ever needs to write it! I'm clearly egotistical enough to think it and even write it out. Only just barely enough awareness to hastily drop it.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
As someone with a dispassionate eye on the heat death of the universe as our inevitable fate, it would be a great honor to be remembered not as I was, but as an inaccuracy that has infinite practical use. Would serve as a fantastic contrast to the short, pointless[complementary] life I'll occupy.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is my favorite framing even for just a billion dollars. "Would you consider yourself rich, if I gave you a thousand dollars every single day of your life?" "What if I started when Jesus was born? Do you think any human should have that much money?" "Okay, that's not even ONE billion dollars."
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Love that Momo jumps into the photo, rather than just appearing!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
make way! 10x dev coming through!
A tiny render of a 3D cube on green ground, under a blue sky, in direct sunlight.
A single code test titled "should render open field" is listed below, with a single-word result: "Passed".
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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
every year I become slightly more convinced all professional software needs customizable popup menus + accelerator keys because only when you have instant access to all tools using software stops being such a chore and you can start playing with it like a kid
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A related thought: I've been telling anyone who would listen that productivity software should act like games. Games already did the hard part - making an intuitive/fun/straightforward UX. Let me export the city I make in Cities: Skylines. Make a character modeller work like a character creator. etc
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Kill it, if you have to." And then they undid that movie and kept right on making 'hey, remember this!?' spinoffs. I empathize with your frustration but I can think of no deafer ears for it to fall on than those on the mouse cap.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Edgar Wright doing The Running Man? Now that's a movie to return to theaters for!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I'm surprised that you needed correction in the anchor spawning step, as I assumed that a pedestrian graph would cover the needs for that! Interesting to see how your design offers some flexibility there!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is so awesome! I've been working on something like this, but I started from the opposite end with advanced schedules and tasks that LOD down to probabilities when you're far enough away. I never thought I could actually track 1m entities in real time! I'm so glad that you've proven me wrong!
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Ugh. same declension, not conjugation. out here shitposting too early.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Ah, I see! So it conjugates the same as knickular knackular, then?
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Etienne Pouvreau @smolware.dev · 20/06/2025
quick update on snope 🐍🪢: death and start screen are done! #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev i'm blown away by the reception of this dumb little idea, thank you every one for putting a grin on my face ❤️
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Rrrroooste-chicken!?
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's a solid theory, but I don't think there was ever any "mint" stuff in the freestyle machines. So you still have to explain how that got in there.
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Is there a sci fi set a few thousand years after humans have colonized galaxies and the protagonists who look like modern day humans deal with ancestor species of humans that have adapted to non-earth planet conditions like heavy gravity or breathable oceans or whatever? That feels very familiar...
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
haters will say its greebled
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catapart @catapart.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
media.tenor.com
a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and the words wow !
ALT: a close up of a cat 's face with big eyes and the words wow !
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