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Justifying a Connect method on maids. -- Regular method. if maid:Alive() then maid.heartbeat = RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(dt) print("delta time", dt) end) end -- Method if your name is Max. maid.heartbeat = if maid:Alive() then RunService…

If you maintain a popular project, and you’re going on hiatus, are too busy, or just don’t feel like maintaining it right now/anymore, please let your users know.

Getting annoyed by projects that market themselves like they’re ready but don’t even have basic documentation.

Discord, Snapchat, Instagram: We’re sorry, all of our lawsuit reservations have been filled.

Fingerprint scanning is literally leaving your password, which you can never change, on everything you have ever touched, or will ever touch.

Playing with foliage.

An if-expression that is too long to be one-lined should just be an if-statement.

Probably, a Roblox Studio plugin for displaying the probability distributions of functions, is now available!

You want to produce meshes with simple, solid color textures.

Fun fact: You can plug a keyboard into your TV’s USB port.

Plugin development should share the same UX as games.

>“creator” dashboard >can’t create assets

When you don’t feel like uploading icons.

UI refresh allows plugin windows to be docked to the center area. +10000 points.

Last update fixed problems with studio forgetting plugin dock positions.

Plugin that displays probability curves of functions.

… Go has some performance hurdles that make it unsuitable for many real-time or time-critical applications, for example having a garbage collector.

Not at RDC, but I thought I’d gamejam anyway.

Copilot inhibits growth.

If you have tooling that makes use of Studio’s cookies, Roblox recently changed how they work in Windows.

Boring Facts: The lowercase “archivable” property can be used within a model or place file to load an instance with Archivable set to false.

Your cashier gives you three dimes and a nickel as your change.

I use passive voice for references for a formal and well-defined feeling, and active voice for guides/tutorials to feel more loose and relaxed.

DUEHs quietly so as not to wake mom and dad

DUEH

The patent for Simplex noise has expired. https://github.com/Anaminus/roblox-library/tree/master/modules/Simplex

Physically simulated grass.

Sublime snippets are amazing.

I rigged a mesh that has 85 completely independent triangles.

RemoteEvents will happily receive a giant dictionary from the client, happily deserialize it, and happily reflect it to Lua.

Boring Facts: Roblox preserves NaN values across network boundaries.

Roblox serizes both the MeshID and MeshId properties.

“I think I’ll just write my own game engine.

Infeasible particle grass.

Stupid idea: send/receive unreliable data by encoding it in physics.

The Ownership Problem: A vaguely formed idea involving the fact that instances in the game tree can be accessed by anything at any time.

Making games has less problems than making software.

The DataModel as the single source of truth is an awful one, because the engine calls all the shots, while scripts are second-class.

If you bought a brand new house in a developing neighborhood, and you want free rocks for landscaping, start digging them out now.

URL Present in Physical Book Tragically Broken by Word Wrapping

If UpdateAsync calls the update function again, the result of the previous call is discarded.

Keyword of Don’t Repeat Yourself is “Yourself”.

Sometimes you feel like spewing out a prototype, other times you feel like describing the entire thing in increasingly microscopic detail before any code is even written.

Thinking of a positioning system based off of the virtual memory technique, where “virtual” regions are mapped to “physical” regions.

When a survey is paginated, it’s probably because of some statistical thing that involves preventing future questions from influencing current questions.

This morning I was flipping out over the line *(form++) = '%'; in a C codebase.

Starting to get annoyed by Luau making features available before they’re complete.

If writing optimal code makes it unreadable, then it might as well be written in assembly.

Filtering a list can be done in-place just fine.