J ⋯ K @jk@skyjake.fi

👋 I'm a Finnish dude born in 1980s who enjoys #programming, tech, and games. I work at #Nokia on #graphics research (#GPU).

My main hobby project is the Doomsday Engine: a portable, enhanced port of the original Doom/Heretic/Hexen.

I tend to prefer #Apple gadgets for my personal computing (fanboy since the iPod/2004).

I also play the piano and have dabbled in creating some electronic music using Logic Pro.

#introductions

zsh completing remote scp file paths over the network is quite impressive when you think about it. Extremely convenient, too.

#Lagrange v0.3 is available: https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange/releases

This time focusing on appearance customization. Also added new elements for wide layouts (site icon, current heading, scrollbar hover outline).

A new version of my little #Gemini client is available: https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange

New in #Lagrange v0.2: save to downloads, mailto links, homepage tag, macOS touch bar.

Everything you want in life has a cost, be it money, time, health, or happiness. How much are you willing to pay?

Backwards compatibility means living with your dumb design choices in perpetuity.

Getting older, I find an increasing appreciation for minimalism. Using simpler technology for more efficiency, and investing my few leisure hours into more meaningful endeavors.

#TIL that Python 3 now has string interpolation literals. Handy!

what = 'cool'; print(f"It's {what}")

Feeling really nostalgic about #Amiga 500 right now. I wonder if mine still works?

May you live in interesting times.

@tootapp How about a subtle taptic feedback when long-pressing the account switcher? Would feel nice, and be similar to the feel of the lock screen flashlight/camera buttons.

Surprisingly nice evening pastime: reinstalling and configuring Raspbian on #Raspi 3, with Xfce of course.

The old filesystem on SD card got hosed due to an improper shutdown at some point, I assume.

First ever screenshot of the new renderer running in #DoomsdayEngine. Nothing is quite right here yet...

There is still a long journey ahead. The new library has map geometry loaded, with some textures, and is drawing frames. However:

- coordinate system is messed up (map is tiny!)
- skybox uses a placeholder texture
- no entities in the map
- no light sources (needs entities)
- no dynamic updates of entity/plane positions
- some menu/HUD gfx still depend on old renderer

Usually it's quite vexing when your graphics code produces nothing but a black screen, but not this time! I've successfully gutted #DoomsdayEngine so it can run without the old renderer, using nothing but the server's map data.