From what i’ve heard of the game industry, being a gamedev is already survival horror.
I had a friend doing mobile gamedev, making near unheard-of money for their then city of residence, had everything going well for them… except the job was soul-crushing and draining, eventually giving them severe depression.
When I was getting my first dev job, they said I’d be really sorry about doing outsource, and I just thought that out of us two, I’d be the really happy one, even making much less than them.
Not really visual anymore innit
Spotlight studio
Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don’t know how he did it.
Programming happens in the mind. Whats on the screen is a pale and lifeless polaroid devoid of the moving, complex soul of real code.
That feels like that scene in Amadeus, when Mozart dictates his music to Salieri.
Well put, however I find code formatting itself has a shape, texture and smell. How the programmer weaves the patterns of formatting tells a lot about his mind and style.
Agreed; or their mind and style style.
Auto formatting is often too rigid for me and gets in the way of context driving the style.
Albino? There was an albino in my IT and the poor dude would literally be like 4 inches from the screen at all times. I guess that must be pretty close to his experience, yeah.
Yeah, I worked with an albino like that who used a handheld magnifying glass. It actually inspired me to write a magnifier application for windows (which didn’t have one at the time, this was in 2006). That then led me to write little windows apps every day for a month, which got a lot of attention.
Yeah so you gotta buy the lumafly lantern before you go in that area
I never expected a Hollow Knight reference here
But I have an LCD display
non-AMOLED devices spreading misinfo by enabling dark mode by default on low battery and it’s consequences…
Low battery mode on…computers?
Yeah. Some folk use portable computers on top of their laps. It’s weird :/
TFW when all of your bugs are like cockroaches that run away from the light but hide in the dark where you can’t see them.
This is a blessing. You won’t have to look at the spaghetti the last dev left behind.
It should play a jump scare sound when you get an exception
With a good eye-tracker and some tweaking, this might be usable…
I use an LCD monitor so there is no difference in power consumption. I preferred the old view, how do I go back?
Alt + F4
Just have to delete the system32 directory. That gets rid of the changed settings the fastest.
That’s a $10.99/month subscription
This should be considered a war crime
Coincidentally, there are writing (as in fiction, not code) apps just like this.
The animation that goes with this is pretty slick: https://x.com/Phantom_TheGame/status/1748457358521426375?s=20
laughs in IntelliJ multi cursor mode
What…. Why…?!
Is it for double speed ?
If you have multiple similar lines, you can perform the same editing on them all at once.
It does get its uses. Mostly editing similar lines, multiple methods at the same time, etc. Makes you look like a ninja too
What’s the joke? VSCode has multi cursor.
With multiple cursors, we can see more of the dungeon, uh, I mean code.
The real horror is when you discover the monster behind all those errors haunting your sleepless nights… Was you all long
