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  It is once again #BandcampFriday (artists get a bigger cut). Good time to nurture a local music library instead of using Spotify. This time I’ll recommend a black metal Elden Ring fan album (!) by Noctule. https://noctule.bandcamp.com/album/extinguish-thy-flame

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  Fellow web folks, especially Finns, give it to me straight: how bad is the job market for design and front-end dev right now? Are there any decent jobs? Is AI use mandatory? It’s been my backup plan for if/when indie gamedev goes nowhere, and I haven’t had the time or energy to keep up with it. If it’s gone bad, I need to know to reevaluate my situation.

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  why is everything like this

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  Oh wow, there's a ton of explorable levels on https://noclip.website these days, from World of Warcraft, Ragnarok Online, Dark Souls, NeoTokyo, Skyward Sword…. Learning a bunch from just floating around in these.

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  If you saw a game described as "a turn-based tactics battler", what would you imagine it to be like?

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  It is again #BandcampFriday (more money goes to artists) and a good day to nourish your local music library. It feels nice to own your music. This time around I'll recommend tiger & water by aivi. https://aiviwave.bandcamp.com/album/tiger-water

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  Hell yeah, Scarlet Deer Inn is out. Embroidered sprites, banger trailer song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AlNT7rtnMY

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  Wife and I were pleased to finally hear this, and there must be a few other couples out there who will be too, so: Civilization VII has added hotseat multiplayer.

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  These 3 font foundries price licenses by amount of employees in your company. So no subscriptions, domain restrictions, or anxiety about how many “views” your product is getting. Simple and obvious, I love it. https://mass-driver.com/licensing https://www.arrowtype.com/licensing https://www.arcanetype.com/licensing What other foundries do this?

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  Starting a side project for the first time in ages: making a font using Fontra. It’s an extensive open-source editor built around variable fonts. https://fontra.xyz Not exactly the most intuitive app ever, but the €300 alternatives aren’t either. Fonts are hard. The first tutorial video here gives a good overview. https://docs.fontra.xyz/tutorials/

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  Neat thing I didn’t know about fonts: they use integers! Each glyph in Fontra uses a 1000x1000 canvas by default, but you can change it. At ~16x16 it feels like a fun little puzzle. Low-poly modelling with integer positions, but the vertices are actually cubic spline control points.

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  No idea what I’m doing but the overall shape of this glyph feels pretty neat. Maybe there’s something there if I can just redraw it with curves. “Now draw the rest of the owl” vibes….

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  Testing angular repetition + typography. Fun!

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  More people need to know about lit-html. (It’s not a framework or a web components thing.) https://lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/ You get to render HTML like this: ``` render( html`<h1>Hello</h1>`, document.body ) ``` and then to update it like this: ``` render( html`<h1>Hello <b>world</b></h1>`, document.body ) ``` It takes care of all the diffing, patching, and memoizing. The performanc...

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  Just want it to be known that @ivory is a nice piece of software and I appreciate the care put into it. It starts and closes instantly, always runs silky smooth, never forgets UI state, follows OS human interface guidelines, uses sensible typography…. It just works.

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  This game’s not for me, but the demo was so well put together I wanted to post it, in the hopes that the right people see it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/Songs_of_Glimmerwick/

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  Some neat artwork I found browsing https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search. (Credits in alt texts.)

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  Wild the #Artemis2 streams are running perfectly smooth with 3.5M+ people watching. That’s a silly amount of bandwidth. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A

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  Might be slightly controversial to say, but I’ve started enjoying Mastodon more after accepting it as a social network mostly for neurodivergent people. It’s small and probably going to stay that way, but I honestly like having a place mostly just for us. It’s like the early internet again, but this time we know why we are the way we are.

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  Lake waves slowly shaking spring ice apart. Not sure if it’ll survive the video compression, but the cracked edges glint prettily.

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  spectacular terrain rendering bug #gamedev #screenshotsaturday