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freddie.wtf
Australian software engineer living in California with 5 small dogs and a screamy cat. I read books or write code for fun. Yes, I'm a real hit at parties. I make WoWthing I guess? https://freddie.wowthing.org
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ok its offical if i see you playing any harry potter games im fucking blocking you

Any Hexcells wizards out there? Ran into this as a generated level in Hexcells Infinite and I have absolutely no idea what a next move might be 😞 Doesn't seem to be enough info!

i am not sure developers realize I would literally rather have a stick figure with the words of what they're supposed to be scrawled across them, then AI generated content Legit a square that says "PLACEHOLDER FOR NOW SORRY PRETEND THERES A COOL SHOPKEEPER HERE" is 100x better than any AI "art"

Another app declined, another reminder that if you need an Unreal systems designer with nearly two decades of design, QA, and leadership experience, I need a creative outlet and a paycheck. Hire me!

Murderbot is good. That’s the post.

Phew re:Eurovision

How many more times must I post that I think LLMs are ruining higher ed and other criticisms (automation, environmental, technofascism) before people stop telling me ‘I need to learn to use it,’ ‘it’s just a tool,’ ‘it’s here to stay,’ among other assorted asinine ripostes

Ah yes, pay day, the day when the bank account has more than $50 in it for a few hours. Woo!

Discord - I am not "missing out" on your overlay. I turned it off on purpose. Stop popping shit up at me, I pay you money every month already.

hellllllllllllll yeah

I hate that months later, this is still relevant enough for me to reshare it because THIS BITCH IS STILL GETTING ATTENTION SHE DOESN'T DESERVE.

Cool. The AC stopped working yesterday, organized with the usual company to come out and take a look. Tech: weird, it’s getting 120V but not 240V, maybe a fuse? <opens disconnect box> Tech: … that is not a good smell to smell At least it didn’t set fire to the house I guess?

This dog is so photogenic what the hell

Peak BfA right here

I'd really like to meet the PM at Discord in charge of deciding to TURN THE FUCKING OVERLAY BACK ON ALL THE TIME. Just to talk.

2 minutes before 1:1 with my manager he reschedules it 😅 At least he let me know this time, usually I find out by noticing the meeting has teleported to some other location on my calendar

Phew, my passport renewal went through and the new one arrived today. Really should have dealt with that MANY MONTHS AGO given that the existing one expires in a week, but hey, executive dysfunction is fun.

IMPORTANT: this dog I saw

systemd's "consistent" network interface naming is anything but, ugh. I finally got sick of having to use awful IPMIView to remote in and find the new "enp#s0f0p0" name, so now it manually names the damn thing by MAC address 😡😡😡 systemd sucks.

Okay so, how are people supposed to plan for next week (let alone their future or what they want to do with their life) with all of this *gestures vaguely* going on?

Happy International Women's Day to *all* women. And I know you know what I mean by *all.*

Ugh, networking. Wireless AP started dropping for 30s at a time last night, fiber internet went out, and the rest of the network was very unhappy about being on the backup connection 😑 Had to fully reset the AP, forget it in the controller software, and manually readopt it. What the fuck?

And here’s a video of Rory enjoying window time. We took him to the farmers market today, soooo many people 😔

Woo, two whole weeks of weights 3 times a week. And also 3 cardio days. MY LEGS HURT

Strongly dislike getting ripped off by almost every giant corporation I have any interaction with.

If I ever win the lottery (we don’t even play but hey maybe) I’m putting some chunk of it into a game publisher

I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask

Jesus fucking christ WB management is a bunch of idiots if they couldn't keep some of its most reliable game studios up and running to put out a WONDER WOMAN game!!!

Whee, another Exceeds Expectations review and promoted to staff engineer. Does this help with the impostor syndrome? Absolutely not.

flying pikachu ☁️

hey, are you doomscrolling? fuck yeah, refresh that shit, i bet there are new posts by now

Yay found some @emberdione.bsky.social

Did a mockup of what a new interface for glyphs could look like~ Ideally the dressing room would be animated to show a preview of the glyph you have selected, and either a blank background or something class flavored like the Order Halls.

Dear everyone who rolls up in my comments when I’m talking about something that is not The Current Chaos, berating me that There Are More Important Things to Be Thinking About, please, and I say this with love, fuck all the way off into the sun, I will do as I please, unfollow me if it bothers you.

Not sure what @hestiah.wtf is up to this evening but her dog has colonized my couch and this invasion is very cute ugh

hard to want to work today

Hoo boy. Urge to return to Australia at record levels