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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I don't go on Reddit almost at all anymore but being blocked from content in mobile view while being able to view it in desktop view feels skeezy as hell. Why are they """protecting""" mobile users from "unreviewed content" but not desktop viewers? […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Mobile Firefox view of Reddit: Unreviewed content. This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue. Buttons are: View in App, or No, take me to Home.

The Achaea subreddit on Mobile/Firefox but in Desktop view.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

My no soliciting sign fell off my door and I'm getting tired of all the doorbell ringing so I made a new sign.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Maybe I can try to play through Broken Reality again and this time NOT break the game.

A screenshot of the game Broken Reality where it shows a very vapor-wave-y aesthetic.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I need a decent image editor on Android that isn't full of ads or subscriptions. I want to make more of these but not have to sit at my computer. x)

A "steal his look!" meme, Lord Twilight just wears a cloak, you can't see his face, and he has red eyes. The fashion items I found are just a black cloak and round red sunglasses.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

To cope with three dogs I've been watching DBZ during my living room sleep times.

Photo of TV, showing Gohan in Saiyan armor

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I just feel this a lot while listening to people talk about their AI use.

$"Look what they need" meme. Top frame: the jets are "People thinking they need AI to be productive", the old guy is "Neurodivergent people". Second frame: "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."$

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I am hoping that after I give my talk on Open Source alternatives next week that my workload lightens up. I've been putting in long hours of hyper-focus to catch up on grading, presentations, reports, emails, and so on. I'm fucking exhausted.

Hand drawn poster: Tech sucks, but it doesn't have to! R.W. Rambles about free & open alternatives. Say no to ads, surveillance, and exploitation!
When: Thursday, Oct 8, 12:45 - 1:45 pm. Where: Redacted.
Open to everyone! Snacks and refreshments!

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I could just style the orgmode HTML output to look a bit like Google Docs.

Screenshot of a template webpage that has been styled with CSS to imitate the layout and look of the Google Doc editor/reader.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I see no obvious way to get a list of all of the "Color and Contrast" accessibility issues in Microsoft Word. Just the little "previous/next" button, and any time I come back to it, it starts me at the beginning. Clicking "next" in this chunk of […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A screenshot of Microsoft Word with the Accessibility review tool open, showing Hard-to-read text contrast. 405 results, but only a previous/next button to click through.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Something I'm noticing this semester since I've moved my class content to a Google Doc (from the original orgmode -> HTML or orgmode -> PDF format I was doing) is that I've had several students now say they can't "find the textbook", thinking that this […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Screenshot of the Google Doc format version of notes on "General Debugging".

HTML page format version of notes on "General Debugging"

PDF version of notes on "General Debugging"

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I managed to give myself time to meal plan and go to Aldi, trying to make stuff like "slop bowls" (cava or chipotle style bowls) or pasta dishes, breakfast things, just using stuff at Aldi. Like using those microwave packs of flavored rice as a base.

Chickpeas, mushrooms, corn, tomatoes, rice, quinoa, tzaziki sauce.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Decided to do the freehand day planner idea in a smaller format, and figured even if it's for next year I can already use it for meal planning. (Will edit to add alt text from my PC)

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Honestly what if I didn't buy any day planner and just kludged a scrappy, freehand day planner on my own? It would at least have some personality then. 😂 Plenty of food cardboard I could use as a cover. At the end of the year I could see a binding to it. :P #dayplanner #organization

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Just annotating academic research papers with emoji lol.

A paragraph about AI chat bots as mental health support for students. The emoji I drew in the margin was 😬

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

It's funny that 4 out of 5 of my top performing videos in the last month are related to the terminal or otherwise very text heavy, non GUI things. Achaea (MUD), Gopher and Gemini protocols, Aardwolf (MUD), and another Gemini protocol video. 😜

Character creation & tutorial (Achaea).
Gopher and Gemini
Mastodon
Aardwolf
Gemini capsule

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Working on the outline for my talk "Software is Political" that I'm giving to faculty & staff next week during professional development.

1. Introduction

1.1. Two

2. Bugs that kill

2.1. Therac
2.2. Boeing 747 MAX MCAS

3. The advent of big data & surveillance culture

3.1. Teacher Value Ranking
3.2. Period Trackers
3.3. Crime

4. When we trust big tech: a look at Meta's misbehaviors

4.1. Ad exclusions
4.2. Inflated video metrics
4.3. Traumatized content moderators
4.4. Genocide in Myanmar

5. Crypto & NFTs: the nascent model for the grift

5.1. This is the future, don't resist
5.2. Celebrities and companies jump on the NFT bandwagon
5.3. The failure of the Crypto & NFT grifts

6. "Hoverboards" with wheels: the modern grift of "AI"

6.1. The Cultural Baggage of the Term "AI"
6.2. False promises and reliance on Big Tech
6.3. "Hoverboards" vs. "AI" vs. the DotCom Bubble

7. See also

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I will also be teaching Introduction to Statistical Programming for the first time so that will be interesting.

DS 240 Introduction to Statistical Programming (3 Hours)

Students in this course will use a statistical programming language to perform effective data analysis. Students will acquire programming skills including reading data, accessing statistical packages, writing functions, debugging, profiling code, organizing code and commenting code.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

My frog in Achaea is attempting to become EVIL.

Emoji Kitchen sticker for 😈 emoji and 🐸 emoji

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Rai showed me this blurb and... "Varmilo comes from Esperanto 'Via' 'armilo', which means the unique keyboard customized for you." Which... If you told me it's #Esperanto I would have read it as varm-il-o: Warm-tool. If you want via-armilo, it means […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Varmilo comes from Esperanto 'Via' 'armilo', which means the unique keyboard customized for you. We were born to meet customer's personality and variety as well as keep good craftsmanship and stable quality. Varmilo is aiming at beautifying your desk setup by the endless improvement and boundless innovation! By keyboard artist Varmilo

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I'm going to be teaching 4-6th graders. These lessons are just "we created templates, you step-by-step add in code where we put comments".

A video showing a bunch of pre-written code and then comments for where the kids will enter in code they're instructed to put in, line-by-line.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Like I just am not a believer in "follow along with a bunch of stuff without understanding it" style workshops. I at least try to build lessons by scaffolding concepts up and up so they eventually understand what is going on and what the syntax means.

The instruction says to have students try to write the following line of code

25 local humanoid = touchedPart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

kidpix.app As a reference, the Kid Pix JS app is laid out sort of similar to the old way but also has modern features.

Kid Pix JS app with the old icons on the left for tools but then selections on the top, and also a more modern color chooser.

Older screenshot of Kid Pix I found online. Left side toolbar, bottom is selection options.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Now I could try to keep to the original template ...but I could also make it a bit more like my Fin 'n' Kit level editor where it's kind of a tab view that can be expanded and collapsed... ...Or Christmas Horse 5 tabs along the bottom... We tend to […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Rough layout of Open Storybook imitating Storybook Weaver's left-side toolbar with icons for different items (backgrounds, stamps, music, sound effects, page turning).

Fin N Kit tab view with four button tabs, plus the right-side foldout has a collapse option to hide it.

Christmas Horse 5 has a bottom section with tabs for "Food", "Toys", "Health", and so on, and different buttons within each tab.

Original Storybook Weaver Deluxe had floating windows that were as wide as the parent window (640 pixels or so) where you could scroll horizontally through background and stamp options.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Trying to set up a layout for a web view for my Storybook Weaver clone. I'm not going to use the original art, was just using it here for reference while building the layout. I'll probably make "remakes" of a bunch of the old art plus adding new things […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A really rough layout showing a left bar with just one button, but a top and bottom background image drawing in the main view.

A screenshot of the original Storybook Weaver Deluxe running in a small 640x480 window on a Windows 98 virtual machine.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Ew. I logged into LinkedIn to check in on my contacts and this was on my feed. I saw this so you have to also. I've also added detailed alt text.

A graphic generated with AI, the title is "10 types of AI users", with a robot with "deal with it" pixel sunglasses saying "Which one are you?" while holding a "World's Best Co-pilot" mug.

1. The Natural, a white boy with short brown hair with an "AI Fueled" mug and hoodie.

2. The Purist, an old white man in a purple turtleneck holding a magnifying glass next to some books that have gibberish titles like "Common eure" and "Since foreier". The man is thinking "Hmm... Too generic."

3. The Worrier, a scared white man with a mug that has gibberish on it ("I hoe tef eld divdsf" and a newspaper whose headline says "AI will take our jobs! (again! Experts panic)"

4. The Editor. A blonde white woman with glasses looking excited. Her mug looks like it's suppose to say "Grammar Police" but it's garbled. The post-it on her laptop garbled-says "Make it better". She has a sheet of paper on her shirt? Her word balloon just shows a green checkmark.

5. The Analyst. A white man or maybe Asian man (they're all cartoony) with a magnifying glass looking at his computer, but the monitor display is facing the camera and not him. The monitor shows pie charts, and there is a drawing of a bar chart and a line going up to the side. His word balloon says "Show me the insights!"

6. The Googler 2.0. Assuming this is also an Asian lady, holding a phone. Her word balloon says "Ask AI first, Google later." and then the cartoon dog next to her has a thought balloon that says "Even I ask AI now."

7. The Researcher. A white man holding a large mug that has garbled text that appears to say "Caffeine and Curiosity". On his forehead is a post-it note that has "TL DR" written. He has a stack of papers with plaques on them with garbled text that appear to say "80 pigs", "47 studies", "1 deadline".

8. The AI Therapist. This shows a white lady happily hugging her pillow. Her bunny slippers are on the desk, I think. Her mug has illegible text. The laptop shows a happy face on it, an the word balloon seems to be coming from the laptop, which says "Thank you for understanding me, AI". The girl also has hearts around her head.

9. The Collaborator. Another white man in a green hoodie, but this time with sunglasses on, is sitting at a desk with post-it notes with illegible writing and an upside-down drawing of a lightbulb. His slightly-garbled word balloon says "Teamwork makes the dream work", and he is fist-bumping a robot that is wearing a little gold crown. The robot has a laptop in front of him, and a post it note that is garbled but appears to says "Ideas loading".

10. The Skeptic. An angry looking white man with bags under his eyes and wrinkle lines folds his arms. His word balloon says "I'll pass". This laptop has a post-it that says "NOPE" and also writing in white that says "Not today, AI". His black cat next to him has a word balloon with garbled text reading, "Until tomorrow."

The bottom label says "Which type are you?" with a happy face emoji. The bottom banner reads "Different people. Different vibes. Same AI Revolution."

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

It's also really hard to add alt text when I can't actually see the image. #Mastodon ...

The alt text editing box, the image preview is mostly faded out except for the focus circle that you can set for the post. Can't see shit to remember the details of the picture as I'm trying to write alt text.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

When the damn error message doesn't say what's wrong so I have to go into the Network traffic and look for the actual error. -_-

Error message just says, "Oops, something went wrong!" "An unexpected error occurred." Looking at the network traffic and a not-200 return, the error is "The file may not be greater than 15000 kilobytes."

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

A perk of not drinking alcohol is sometimes I get drinks for free.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

"Are you enjoying the beach?" "I can't. This is important." "What?" "Someone is WRONG in PRINT MEDIA."

A point of view photo with a book in the foreground in focus. Unfocused is a beach chair holding a bag and a notebook, and further still is a beach and the waterfront.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Starting to read "The New Age of Sexism" but the introduction has several errors that are bothering me. 1. Pre-social media there were publishers posting content, and perhaps to a layman that seemed like "largely" what the internet had to offer, but a […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Before social media, the content of the internet was largely created by publishers and companies. Then social media exploded into our lives, and suddenly everyone could be a cre-ator, with both hugely beneficial and gravely harmful results. Similarly, until the recent explosion in open-source AI, applica-tions were mainly being built by a handful of wealthy companies, but now anyone can create their own model, bot, or AI app. While this opens up hugely exciting possibilities, we don't yet have sufficient safeguards in place to prevent the harm that will come alongside them.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

A pancake burrito and hashbrowns with onions, cheese, and gravy. Very US-ian. I cannot eat all this. 😭

A rolled up pancake surrounding eggs and bacon, with a side of hash browns, covered in gravy.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Annoyed that these Windows 11 computers don't show the Desktop as a quick selection in the file explorer. Just makes it even harder to explain things to novices about how to navigate the filesystem. I was downloading their class files to the DESKTOP […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A photo of a computer screen, the file explorer shows quick links to Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, and Videos but not the Desktop.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

I made a very simple text adventure engine in JS for the kiddos to use tomorrow. Play: courses.moosadee.com/CreativeComput… Code: codeberg.org/rw-courses/2026-Creati…

Classroom

This classroom has gray walls and lines of computers.

Exits:

out

You see:

teacher

mouse

You have:

spoon

Info:

>> use spoon on mouse

Try as you might, you cannot eat the USB mouse.

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Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Still getting comments like this 18 ish years after my old Beginner's Guide to Game Programming videos game out. :3 #gamedev #cpp #allegro #sdl

Translated: I found this playlist 16 years later, thank you so much!

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