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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

been baking bread on the regular for about a year and a half now. surprisingly easy to do, it just requires some planning. not as good as the hipster boulangeries in Brussels, but pretty decent and much cheaper

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

did you know? the Vs in "VVVVVV" stand for "very fucking hard"

screenshot of a difficult level in VVVVVV

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

carving a stone tool. very WIP, only showing the happy path :D the geometry of this is a bit beyond me. #bevy #paleolithic

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

playing around with signed distance fields to simulate flint knapping for making stone tools. each flake knapped off is a cone that gets subtracted from the ellipsoid. (I've been reading Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes and I'm a bit obsessed) #paleolithic #neanderthal #shadertoy #sdf

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Tonight I finished the forgettably-named "Minishoot' Adventures", a 2D Zelda-like with bullet hell combat. I think I heard about it through Tom7. Spent about 11 hours 100%ing the map (tho I didn't finish all the post-game content). I can recommend if you like […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

screenshot of the game, showing a large spaceship shooting a million bullets, and a tiny one shooting back.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

progress: now my player character can get clawed to death

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

these assets are a lot of fun :D I love how massive the attack of this creature is #gamedev #bevy

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

#bevy is cool but also I'm a bit distraught by how long it took me to make this 🫠

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

when you forget to lock rotations in the physics engine

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Discovering #LDtk, it's quite an amazing piece of software. Here's a small map I made using Minifantasy asset packs. LDtk lets you easily define rules for tilemaps so they render specific tiles depending on what surrounds them. Kinda like an automaton.

Screenshot of a small, 2D video game level in sci-fi pixel art. There are four rooms, with various boxes and computers, separated by throo doors.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

on google meet you can now ask GenAI to generate a background image for you

A text prompt titled "Generate background". In it I typed the words "Saw trap".

My nonplussed face (white, 30s, male, dark hair, beard, glasses, headphones) in front of the generated background. It is a sort of high-resolution, videogame-looking, underground and abandoned concrete room, with a sort of rusted metal contraption in the foreground.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Last week I was prompted to design a logo that represents my personality or something, as part of a work "getting to know each other" type of activity. While I found this excruciating, I have to admit that I liked the idea I came up with, so I spent some time […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

A disk split into four horizontal sections of different colors. Each section is a darker shade of orange, with a slight gradient. The delimitations of these sections are three sine waves of respectively 1/2, 1, and 3/2 periods. Overall, it looks a bit like an abstract drawing of a gas giant.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

Morning purchases for #BandcampFriday - Intuit by Ramona Falls - Jessica Rabbit by Sleigh Bells - Hollow Knight, and Silksong, by Christopher Larkin - Future Me Hates Me, and Straight Line Was A Lie, by The Beths

Screenshot of the Bandcamp app with these six album covers

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Another day, another puzzle #game recommendation. Today I played Leap Year (2024), a short knowledge-gated puzzle platformer. Took me just under 2h to complete, and was a lot of fun! Some of the platforming sections are challenging, so if you don't like that I wouldn't recommend the game.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

I went ahead and resurrected project #lopal, which is a sort of exploratory project in UI for music, but also other things. The core idea is to have an interface made of elements that compose together by nesting. Container elements can provide a "medium" for […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Apparently I'm back to prototyping a text editor 🤨

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Played Time Flies1] with [@mandooks today, highly recommend. You play as a fly that has a bucket list to complete. Reminiscent of Untitled Goose Game, but IMO better executed. Very funny, very cute, at times kinda sad 😄 1]: [timeflies.buzz

A pixel art drawing of a guitar against a wall, with a fly in the air next to it. The drawing is in 1-bit black and white.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

If you (rightfully) hate Nix's `with`, here's an alternative

Nix code:

using =
pkgs: builtins.map (key:
if builtins.typeOf key == "string"
then builtins.getAttr key pkgs
else key);

# Used like:

buildInputs = using pkgs [
"cargo"
"rustc"
some-custom-script
];

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Made seitan for the first time, using @rek's recipe (grimgrains.com/site/seitan.html) It's kinda weird, but interesting 🤔 Simply boiled I wasn't a fan, but after frying it with aromatics it's quite nice.

A glass container with fried slices of seitan and a fork next to it.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Busy week-end, so I haven't had much time to work on my #ldjam game, but this is where I'm at now. Unsure how successful I'll be at drawing the dog next 😰

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

For #ldjam I had the idea to make a game about herding sheep. Here's a very basic prototype of that 😄

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

Also LibreTranslate does *not* know what to do with this 😅

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

Since yesterday I've been working on a little game with friends for #LD57 #ldjam We're making a sort of platformer where you control the depth of focus in the camera, and this affects what can be collided with.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

Made some roti for lunch, to eat with leftover curry. Was my first time, but it turned out pretty well :>

A white left hand holding a piece of fried flatbread, with a plate and a dish of curry in the background.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

It's been a bit over a month now since I started a new routine of exercise. I've always struggled to be consistent, so I'm quite happy with myself. I hope it lasts 😅 This is the routine I'm following: www.hybridcalisthenics.com/programs I also made a […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

An HTML table showing rows of exercises with their date, number of reps, and a little face emoji next to each. Exercices include "Half Squats", "Horizontal Pullups", "Knee Raises", and others.

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Xavier @xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

Made myself a little app to track workouts on my phone and laptop, using local-first #Webstrates. It's the biggest projet I made with it so far. Was fun the do! Also for some reason the screen recorder didn't capture the metronome, but it did record the speech synthesis 🤔

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