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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I followed a github link on a website and then wanted to have a look at the commit history. Two clicks 🙃 I see #github is having a normal one once again.

github telling me to wait because of too many requests

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

3rd try the charm. Finally have a minimal sway setup running. There's still issues with my NVidia 3080 to sort out though. But at least I have a working browser, terminal and vim.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Failure on 1st try, changing to the open source nvidia drivers I managed to fuck the boot partition somehow. Lets do this again.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Wife and kid are visiting the father in law and I get 4 evenings/nights of me-time. Of course I use it to nstall #gentoo on my workstation.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@michaelhart… My definition of „fun“ is probably not very mainstream in this day and age 😅

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Since I stopped using LSP assistance and went back to ctags/grep and the sdl3 cheat sheet about 6month ago I find myself being able to type more while making less mistakes for some odd reason. It's as if these auto-complete popups for functions/variables had a slightly distracting effect on my […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The reasonable part of me thinks if I ever want to ship a game myself, I should probably pick up godot. The fun seeking part of me kind of doesn't care about shipping anything and just wants to learn all the things lol. In other news, I am failing to get sdl3 ttf gpu font rendering to work […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@michaelhart… Started my Dune re-read, sth. like 25y after my first read. Now my brain is mixing up all the actors of the movies. It defaults to Kyle MacLachlan for Paul, but Rebecca Ferguson for Lady Jessica, then again Patric Steward […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Working on scaffolding a smol 2D game for the purpose of learning more about graphics programming using #SDL3 / SDL3 GPU and things are slowly clicking together. I have a very basic renderer with shader and texture atlas hot reload. Once I get GPU font rendering I am set for some exploratory […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I think I need to setup a list here because visiting my home feed increasingly feels like doomscrolling instead following some cool people on the Internet. At least my home feed could be a place to escape the omnipresent AI discourse, but not everyone is using content warning on this topic […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Lol, it takes a whopping 20sec for Win 11 Disk Management to show me my drives / partitions. Maybe someone needs to remote into my machine from Redmond to figure this stuff out.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Somewhat depressing that suspend on a regular regular amd ryzen from 2020 or so still does not reliably work out of the box on #linux, pretty sure it's related to the Geforce 3080 though.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

After re-reading The Hobbit and #LOTR I finally finished the Silmarillion. Going through it in 30min chunks right before going to bed made it a lot more difficult than it needed to be. But it was great to read about all the characters that aren't in the movies and don't have to "see" the […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Oh my, I queued up for a #steammachine in the hopes that the AI bubble would burst in time for the price to normalize but that didn't happen. Not sure I can justify the price 😔

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

The "Save" and "Submit" buttons in P4V should really not be that close to each other. #bl00p #gamedev

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

It's interesting how I am able to take my personal projects way further and remain invested since I turned to C than anything I started using CPP in the past. Removing that forest of abstraction possibilities from the equation seems to help my brain focus on actual problems. It's liberating in […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Regretting not getting a #playdate when they where still in stock a couple weeks ago :(.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Waiting For The Sky To Empty (2026) From two nights ago. More context & time lapse: mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/1170998316567… #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongExposure #Alps #Lake

Wide-format long exposure photo of a large lake near the mountains in the background. The silhouette of a forest in mid distance. Behind it the orange glow of a small town (center) and the illuminated castle Neuschwanstein (left, castle itself not visible). Gray-bluish-purple starry sky. The water surface of the lake is smoothed by the long exposure, but the ripples caused by some wind near the forest is emphasizing the horizon line.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

[AI] Visiting my fam over the weekend and as usual we have lunch with my brother coming over and the usual talk about current world events, i.e. the heat waves and drought came up. My brother isn't the most tech savvy, which is okay... buuut... he is more worried about "AI going rogue" than […]

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≽(•⩊ •マ≼ @josh.masto.byrd.ws.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

PC design peaked in this era

An old PC. Grey with CD drive etc and flashy LED lights

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Is it just me or is it a bit strange that there's people in #gameaudio that on the one hand are critical / concerned about #AI in the context of sound design or music generation and on the other hand have absolutely no problem selling their obviously vibe coded tools to their peers as sth. they […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

If I have to read the phrase "here's why this matters" one more time...

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

A software company specialising in tools for sound design running an ad campaign for their new AI tool ala „are you tired if spending hours on sound design“ and consequently alienating a good chunk of their customers is the funniest thing to wake up to.

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

[AI] Sorry I am tired. Some go out of their way to tell the averaging machine to pretty please write a blog post that doesn’t read like AI slop. Nothing of value is created. No original thought was had. Resources wasted. All of it feeds back into the machine, in the hopes that it will make […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Was trying to read the Dark Tower series by #StephenKing which was recommended to me. Throughout the 1st book the main protagonist is very concerned about this man parts. Like every 3rd page he is pondering his crotch. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and finished it. But starting book two […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

[Elon] Watching the economist interview with Musk. "10y from now money won't matter anymore" 20min later "Everyone will have Universal High Income" can't make this shit up...

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

I need to sit down and collect my thoughts on #gamaudio in engines following a more traditional object/component model vs ECS. Audio has a tendency to couple things that so they become aware of each others state that I feel is somewhat at odds with ECS or at least requires very careful planning […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Looking forward to taking all of September off to find out how close to burnout I've come. 2y into having a kid with the next one on the way, all while shipping two games is slowly starting to deplete my resilience. Still living the dream though. But somehow I managed to secure my next gig […]

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Michael Hartung @michaelhartung.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Renaming a .pdf to .png should „just work“ in 2026. Change my mind! . . . Instead I have to ask my mum to mail the pdf to me to help her out because the damn online form she is trying to fill out only accepts images… #bl00p

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