Anaminus.Blog

LiveBind: A quick and dirty plugin to make tag bindings to aid with development.

In Roblox Studio, Ctrl+R “rotates” around the normal of the focused surface.

If you need to simulate something, such as an assembly, you can call RunService:Run() and :Stop() from the command bar.

Roblox Studio’s interface should be more like Blender’s.

Comparisons of performance between libraries are completely meaningless.

Preemptive FAQs are not FAQs.

Latest obsession: building houses realistically.

Remotes effectively break the Signal pattern, so the only thing you should be doing with them is :Connect()ing exactly one listener.

If a language benchmark requires sacrificing readability to achieve performance, then it isn’t an accurate measurement of the language.

Wrote a script to display luau --coverage in a readable format.

Polyfill for Roblox’s task library.

Fun idea: A protocol that programs can implement to allow their plugins to be managed by the system’s package manager.

What tests the testing framework?

Luau: > Barges into output > 'Type { @metatable Foo, { } }' could not be converted into 'Foo' > Refuses to elaborate further > Leaves

What is the name of the thing I am doing here?

thinkin bout tests n benchmarks

Experimental library for lifetime management and value scoping. https://github.com/Anaminus/roblox-library/tree/master/modules/Scope

.git/info/exclude lets you gitignore things locally without modifying a .gitignore that exists remotely.

Function to connect a listener to a signal serially. task.cancel continues to be MVP.

If downtime is inevitable, then it might as well be on schedule.

Here’s a module for requiring modules without caching, and monitoring Source changes.

Have GuiButtons always passed mouse movement inputs or am I crazy?

Boring Facts: If Destroying is used to add a child to the destroyed instance, that child wont be destroyed.

“According to our analytics, no one was using the setting to opt out of telemetry, so we decided to remove it.”

Certain input types have to be handled in certain ways.

Boring Facts: The Position of a Keyboard InputObject will update with the position of the mouse while the key is held down.

Boring Facts: Keyboard InputObjects are reused per KeyCode, but only while the current source (e.g.

Widget to visualize how InputObjects are produced.

A unique advantage of ScrollingFrames over a custom implementation is that the scrollbar can track the mouse across the entire screen, not just the viewport.

Fusion widget to help narrow down what StudioStyleGuideColor a studio element is using.

A port of my “lattice” container GUI to Fusion.

furiously begins authoring the “If-Expressions Considered Harmful” paper

The Roblox API Reference hasn’t been updating since the start of June, but it should now be working normally again. https://robloxapi.github.io/ref/updates.html Definitely kicked up some dust trying to fix it.

Part I - The Plugin Compensation Model You are developing a game on Roblox.

Game: depicts hand-holding Roblox: this game is rated 17+

Operation Radio Silence to Improve Chances of Securing my Discord Username was a resounding success.

The -> operator is unergonomic to type and almost always looks like shit but new languages will always find an excuse to include it because teehee it’s an arrow.

stop [clap] using [clap] child [clap] indexing The entire problem is that the operation isn’t forward compatible.

At this point, I’m just gonna call it: VM with GPU passthru is dead.

Surely we’re past punishing users for playing our games in ways we don’t like.

Theory: The reason player characters move at different speeds from NPCs is because the PC has been calibrated on the player’s perception.

Instead of trying to work out a good-but-hard design from scratch, just start with a bad-but-easy design.

Hot Take: The table.clone-type immutable data libraries that people keep making are actually just table utility libraries with immutability add in for vague reasons.

boolean := "true" | "fake" boolean := "right" | "false"

Been rewriting rbxfile.

Tip for using WireframeHandleAdornment: The Color3/Transparency of the adornment only affects newly added lines, so you only need one adornment to draw lines with any appearance.

The screen/viewport split was one of the biggest blunders Roblox ever made.

Visualization of an r-tree.