ash taylor?! 📀 @estroBiologist@shrike.club

man it is depressing as fuck to work on a programming project for months and see several Similar Things come out in the meantime lmao. anyway comune development's still going well

FINALLY finished the comune refactor from hell. now it's time for proper qualified types baby

engaging in Shenanigans

well uh. it's Almost building stuff correctly again

i did it. i solved depression

getting banned from cppcon for challenging bjarne stroustrup to hand to hand combat 38 seconds into my talk entitled "I Told You About ISO Committees Bro. I Warned You Dog"

i sure as hell can't ever apply to a C++ conference i'd just pick fights with like everyone

hey hypothetically do you guys think "i made a language to slay C++ inspired and powered by Rust, here's how that's going" would be an acceptable and also interesting topic for a Rust conference or,

rustconf you say.......

thank god i learned about `Iterator::zip()` before this at least. this could've gone so much worse

ash taylor writes "worst refactor ever", asked to leave mastodon server

indie gamedev tip: chances are, you don't need to write that system yourself. someone has done it before, and done it better.

yes, it would be fun to write. no, that doesn't mean you should. you don't need to prove how smart you are by doing everything from scratch. you'll never get anything done that way. just take the existing thing and learn how to use it.

i am warning you, ash taylor. do not write another FUCKING dialogue system or so help me GOD

say what you will about Psycholonials but i will defend that thing's presentation to the grave. the crunchier it looks, the mixier the mixels, the more jarring the gradient mapping, the more i love it. it's like viewing a faint, garbled memory of another world. noirstalgia!

there's something about the aesthetics surrounding Andrew Hussie's work that really strikes a chord with me. it's this weird je ne sais quoi, this ability to evoke an incredible sense of atmosphere with little more than a crappy gradient-mapped JPEG and a good song. maybe im just rambling but when Doctor comes on i am lying down and letting the LoWaS atmosphere wash over me bro

i call it.... noirstalgia.

Flare, Three in the Morning, Serenade, these fucking songs have such a strong sense of nostalgia to me. combined with the noir-y atmosphere they evoke and that shit's a recipe for Making Ash Taylor Cry For No Apparent Reason