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My local news on balloons: Here’s some old information that we repeated yesterday and the day before.

Roblox allowing things like profanity will actually make the writing of angry characters worse.

Renamed enum items are “removed” from the API, but still stick around as an alias to whatever replaced them.

And on the sixth day God rested, for the damn servers were down anyway.

Hipsters, soon: I only consume works from meat-based authors.

Investors: How make number go bigger?

Methods Certain methods on CFrame have an equivalent operator-based expression, which can be useful for understanding how they work: Method Expression A:ToWorldSpace(B) A * (B::CFrame) A:ToObjectSpace(B) A:Inverse() * (B::CFrame) A:PointToWorldSpace(B) A *

In Roblox, the CFrame type has several “Vector” fields representing the directions of various axes of the CFrame.

Write good code to write good code.

There goes a productive day.

ProximityPrompts make for great general proximity detectors.

Using :Once() on a RemoteEvent will cause the first queued event to be received and all other queued events to be discarded.

Random graph generation.

A problem with streaming on Roblox is that a client can just move the camera anywhere, and the server will happily stream whatever is at that location, even if the player is not meant to be there.

Having some fun with LÖVE.

First AI came for the writers And nothing was said about the writers because they didn’t make any pretty pictures to look at.

You can’t spell futility without utility!

I have particular preferences about how I want my projects to be structured, and I will bend my tools to make it work.

Hope you check dependency diffs before bumping them.

Maintainers Not So Impressed After Influx of Bug Reports Deriving From Copilot Having No Idea What It’s Talking About

It’s current year and we’re still hell-bent on punishing players for not playing our games correctly instead of just shoving them into their own world where they can play however they like.

It seems like AI is really good at appearing correct at a glance.

If you’re not indoctrinated into the cult of The Cloud™, then managing assets on Roblox can be a pain.

For future reference, my blog is just a git repo, so any changes will be visible at https://github.com/Anaminus/blog

I’ve been thinking about an implementation of the binary rbxl format where chunks can decode in any order, and empty space is allowed between chunks, which would enable efficient partial modifications to files.

I have reservations about using retweets/boosts/likes/favorites, but Mastodon seems to be less psychotic about them, so I might use them more there.

Instances in Roblox replicate.

When a software’s design is poorly understood, the only thing users have to go off of is whatever they’re allowed to do.

Janitor/Maid/etc are different conveniences built on the same core principal: finalization is established near initialization.

I normally do PascalCase for public, and camelCase for private.

Lately I’ve found that Blender has been making up for shortcomings with other software that have nothing to do with modeling.

I’m in the middle of rewriting rbxfile.

A perfectly correct but dead project is better than a mostly correct but living project only if the project is already completely finished.

So much software to write, so little brain to write them.

parody?

On my desktop, writings have to be technical, detailed, and correct.

Most posts I write will never be published.

Why do we use immediate mode libraries on top of retained mode APIs on top of immediate mode graphics?

my favorite part of roact is how you can instantly tell when it’s being used by the complete lack of keyboard support and the general feeling of sluggishness It would run much better with a proper component implementation.

My beef with transpiling is writing in one language and receiving errors in another language.

I feel like a problem with modules is that a module’s namespace can’t be divided further than one ModuleScript.

Rewriting Binstruct to be more ergonomic.

Type smuggling: type T = typeof(require(...))

I was thinking of a Fusion-like way to select children based on a predicate function.

Ripped a standalone version of @Quenty’s Rx module out of Nevermore.

In response to Metatables suck.

In no particular order: lens flares lowercase archivable property hidden attribute types data transfer over physics Instance.Lock/Unlock /sc == ROOT DebugId can overflow UniqueId epoch roblox.xsd <External> tag true purpose of Geometry service preliminary…

How poorly do metrics have to be misinterpreted to reach the conclusion that a developer is creating an entire new game from scratch every single time they open the baseplate?

Today on roblox dev: everyone learns the difference between inventions and discoveries.

Protip: task.delay returns the delayed thread, making cancelable delays trivial. local thread = task.delay(10, print, "Hi!")