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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 16/09/2026

I blogged a bit about my experience with doing 3D game development with #Godot. This time, I focused on creating character models.

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3D Game Development and Godot, Part II: Models

Facing an Uphill Battle

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 16/09/2026

Playing through Fallout 3 for the first time in ages and…God damn, I forgot this one was so dark and depressing. It’s a lot more somber compared to the later games.

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 24/08/2026

I’m really excited to see the new Blacksky.cash from @blackskyweb.xyz come together. Community controlled money is an important step towards autonomy and self determination.

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Home - Blacksky Cash

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 25/08/2026

Please, please check these people out. There's some really amazing musicians with great personalities that are involved.

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Roundabout @roundabout.town · 21/08/2026

Roundabout, our local community app, is going to power chicago.org, allowing millions of Chicagoans to connect and share with each other. Here’s more about what we’re up to, including what sets this apart from messy, noisy, profit-driven social media apps: newpublic.org/chicago

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Chicago Public Media and Roundabout partner on chicago.com

One of the country's largest public media organizations is teaming up with a nonprofit digital platform to host online communities in Chicago.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 22/08/2026

Another day, another learning moment. Here's animation retargeting in Godot. #GameDev

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 22/08/2026

Hair systems in Blender are absolutely wild. This is a plugin called Hair Tool, and I'm just starting to get the hang of it. It feels super complicated at first, but the idea of really digging deep and making super custom assets for characters is really interesting.

Screenshot of Blender, showcasing a Caucasian male with blonde-brown hair and highlighted strands for the editing process. Parts of the hair layer are missing or bare skin, as I'm still learning how to do different layers with varying lengths.

Developer honesty. Here's the side of the face that's kind of messed up, because I haven't figured out how to do skin fades yet.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 20/08/2026

The rain is pouring down hard in Mesa, Arizona tonight. This song feels perfect for a storm. #NowListening

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Any Way The Wind Blows

YouTube video by The Mothers Of Invention - Topic

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 18/08/2026

I thought it'd take a few weeks to get @divine.video fully launched when we announced it in November, and it took 9 months, but were here! www.engadget.com/2239070/vine...

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Vine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required - Engadget

Divine now has more than 2 million videos from Vine's original archive.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 19/08/2026

One kind of maddening double edged sword of open source projects: occasionally, you find one that's really cool, but the author disappeared, the code is unfinished between V2 and V3, and you're left trying to understand what this person was doing.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 11/08/2026

Another step closer to release! The official website is now live at littlefedi.org with documentation and project details. Take a look and let me know what you think! #littleFedi #Fediverse

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littleFedi

A small ActivityPub server written in Go. One binary, no runtime, no external services.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 15/08/2026

I'm not gonna lie, my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 has been an absolute journey. There's so much game in this game. But I'm finally at the Raphael fight, after haphazardly breaking into Hell after a sketchy portal-opening ritual, and I'm in awe.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 12/08/2026

> Look over at dog. > Dog meets my gaze > Wags his tail Life is good.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 12/08/2026

There is nothing like coming home to your own bed, and nothing like coming home to your dogs. I slept so good last night.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 06/08/2026

The PA system at this airport has the same automated voice from the Xtranormal meme videos. You know, the "NodeJS is Web Scale" voice.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 06/08/2026

My kingdom for a proper mobile-friendly view of @nextcloud.bsky.social Office documents. I thought it was going to be comparable to Google Docs, but I was wrong.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 06/08/2026

My heart and love goes out to my friends attending #FediCon. I'm in the airport heading to California today, dealing with a family health emergency. Please be excellent to one another.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 04/08/2026

So, Arizona got its first Buc-ees recently. It's 74,000 square feet. My wife and I visited yesterday, and listen: this place looks like an AI-generated fever dream. It's like the shop part of Cracker Barrel plus a food court plus a grocery store plus a gas station.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 01/08/2026

I should probably first fix the animation stuff before I start developing an entirely new feature... Trying to adapt a 3D model to work with custom animations sucks so much, though...

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Clinton Bowen @torrho.com · 31/07/2026

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 01/08/2026

I swear, every time I step back into the AT Proto ecosystem, I feel like apps and frameworks and data have advanced ten times over. People are building really crazy stuff over here. I feel like it's way over my head, which is kind of exciting.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 31/07/2026

I am 36 years old today. Feels gross, man. 😬

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 31/07/2026

While I have nothing to show for it visually yet, my #Godot game now supports per-Actor inventories and items! This part was pretty easy; every Character has a dynamic array of inventory items, with methods to add, remove, or transfer. The harder part will involve building the representative UI.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 27/07/2026

From a hobbyist perspective, #GameDev is all about learning a bunch of different things all at once. This has been especially true in my transition from 2D to 3D game development.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 27/07/2026

I'm getting closer to getting animation retargeting to work for my character models in Blender, but dear God, it's painful. So much of this is trial and error just to figure out the "right" way to do things. Hopefully by tomorrow, I'll get a bunch of animations working for my Godot game.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 25/07/2026

My mother in law, a very sweet human being, is finally joining Mastodon. This is all fine and dandy, but the cherry on top is that she called it "MasterDom", which sounds like the FetLife version.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 07/07/2026

Weird 3D #Gamedev question: when designing 3D environments for your game, how do you put it all together in your engine? Do you design it all it Blender or a similar tool, before exporting the whole thing, or do you assemble it piecemeal in your game?

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 05/07/2026

I'm so tired of being sick all the time. Especially on my days off. 😞

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 02/07/2026

Slowly making progress on 3D stuff with Godot engine. Today's experiment involved staging elements to go in different rooms. Kind of janky, but I learned some new things today. There, uh, were supposed to be walls, but that part didn't work with the Blender export! 😅

A bedroom with the walls missing in a test level. I'm looking at a poster of some green hills, floating over a dresser with a plant and a record player on it.

Looking around in my "wall-less" room, this time I'm in third person and facing the bed.

Facing the bed and living room, but from behind.

First person view, glancing down at the TV next to a coffee table.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 25/06/2026

Trying to work through random Docker issues has me feeling very dumb today.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 17/06/2026

Ugh, god, why are dogs so cute? 🥺

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 11/06/2026

The sheer amount of spam emails I get from AI startups trying to sell products to my nonprofit org is insane. What's up with that? Do you just get added to a list or something if you register a corporation in your state?

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 10/06/2026

> Think about redesigning my site > Realize I have to either pay for a theme that doesn't do everything I want, or write one from scratch > Start reading about Ghost > Start mocking up design ideas > Realize this all feels like too much work Every time.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 09/06/2026

Hey, an informal announcement, but my budget is tight and I’m a full-time student. I figured that I’d post here that I’m looking to do freelance work, particularly when it comes to writing. What I specialize in: open source, exploring technology, how-to guides, interviews.

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☀️ @stel.energy · 27/05/2026

its really funny that atproto publishes a list of every problem anyone has ever had with anybody

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 20/05/2026

I'm not going to sugar coat it. Black Mirror episodes like this make me want to blow up corporate buildings.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 18/05/2026

Everybody wants to build decentralized Tiktok, but all I really want is to watch all the time-wasting crap I love on Tiktok there. Bring me Monty Python, 8 of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Graham Norton, and Columbo clips to Loops and Skylight and I'll watch it forever.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 18/05/2026

I'm not sure how else to say this, but... I need to take a break from writing about the Fediverse for a long while. It's why I publish really slowly now. I know too much inside baseball, I'm too dialed in on some really negative community stuff, and it's too much for me right now.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 16/05/2026

It's the weirdest thing, I don't remember updating my Linux distro to be so complicated and difficult. Seems like it used to just purge external repos and overwrite any core stuff that was replaced by external packages? Now I'm doing a bizarre song and dance just to make the upgrader not crash.

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FediCon @fedicon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨 The Fediverse is gathering in person once again — and we’re inviting the community to take part! FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web — and we are now accepting session proposals! We're looking for: • Talks • Demos • Lightning […]

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Original post on techhub.social

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 16/05/2026

Time to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu. Already, it’s like pulling teeth. 😑

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 11/05/2026

All done with finals! Thank goodness, this was a really tough semester. 😅 I'm so tired. 😭

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 11/05/2026

You know, a lot of those survival / crafting games never account for situations where you, someone who probably never lived off-grid, accidentally eat the wrong mushrooms or seeds. Imagine a crafting system that just lets you make fatal mistakes like that.

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FediForum @fediforum.org · 05/05/2026

The recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now online. fediforum.org/2026-04/ In our own twist on the "+1 strategy", we are publishing the PeerTube playlist first, and YouTube later.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 01/05/2026

Every now and then, I get accused of using AI in my writing. It’s weird, because I go through great pains to write and compose everything the old-fashioned way? Any time I write an article, there’s a huge amount of research that goes into it.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 28/04/2026

We Distribute's hosting provider is offline at the moment. Their team is working through it, but I basically can't access any of our subdomains or email for the time being. Guess I'll just hang out here for now.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 23/04/2026

My favorite thing about dogs is that they're really like small children. If I turn a corner while eating a cookie, one of them is bound to stare at me and ask for treats, too. "C'mon, dad, you're having a snack! I'm hungry too!"

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring. Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.com · 15/04/2026

I can't wait for millennials and Gen Z to become elderly. I'm going to milk it for all it's worth. "Hey everyone! Gertrude here is fixing to immanetize the eschaton!"

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