Ric

ric@mastodon.qweb.co.uk

Proprietor of QWeb Ltd, an award winning <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#design</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#development</a> agency in <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/Yorkshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Yorkshire</a> since 2013. I've been a software and game <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#programmer</a> since 1996, and a <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/tags/developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#developer</a>

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@gilesgoat@toot.wales @llamasoft_ox@toot.wales @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place @psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place I even have my mail folders in there, so if my laptop dies I can just spin up a new one, install Dropbox, and everything reappears including my mail. I don't have to do periodic backups or anything. That's a Linux Maildir thing though. Windows is 1 file per mail folder instead of 1 file per email, so when you receive a new email on Windows it changes a ~5Gb file which do...
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Finally ordered the tonne of soldering toys. Now I&#39;m just a few days away from no longer having an excuse for not finding out how rubbish my soldering skills are. 😬 Also ordered a replacement phone button, which probably won&#39;t be quite the right one but I&#39;ve already wasted the only day at home I&#39;ve had this week, scrolling through a zillion pages of aftermarket buttons and can&#39;t cope with any more of them!
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As if the power button falling out of my phone wasn&#39;t bad enough, I&#39;ve just run out of Aberlour A&#39;Bunadh. Today isn&#39;t acceptable. Who do I see about a refund? #Aberlour #Whisky / #Whiskey
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RE: https://gardengate.earth/@KateMinervaHarris/116539503137921100 As much as I hate being in photos, I suppose I should boost this 🙄
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Considering I started building this 3 days ago and had to break off to build an entire client website so this is really only about 12 hours work, I reckon my new #retro game engine is coming along nicely! 😁 Framebuffer working, scaling without pixel skew working, individual pixel draws working, sprites working, full screen toggle working. 💪 https://development.qweb.co.uk/qjerg-demo/ (yeah yeah, I know, this is too colourful for retro. Real games will have more restricted palettes I promise!)...
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If you haven&#39;t spent all morning painstakingly recreating the ZX Spectrum font as a Javascript array of sprite strings, what are you even doing with your life? 🤷‍♂️
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Despite driving to Newcastle and back yesterday, and Glasgow and back today, I still found time to implement text rendering into my little retro game engine 😁 Doesn&#39;t yet have the option to only line break between words though. #retro #retroDev #gameDev #ZXSpectrum #font
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RE: https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/@ric/116185013324409578 I 100% know that this was a stupid idea - I didn&#39;t really intend it to be a serious suggestion - but also... I&#39;ve kind of had the urge all night to actually buy a cheap mouse and try it. 😆 I&#39;ve no idea whether it&#39;d comprise the sort of triggers I could feasibly break off from the PCB tracks and rewire back to the controller. I don&#39;t currently own a soldering iron. I don&#39;t even like using mic...
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I don&#39;t know why I bought this 🤷‍♂️
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Right. I&#39;m finished being 6 now. Maybe.
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RE: https://mastodon.qweb.co.uk/@qweb/116172538685150925 I accidentally spent 3 whole days writing this, so it damned well better be useful to somebody! 😆