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Joe Hocking

@joehocking.bsky.social

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I'm a software engineer who develops games and XR using technologies like C#/Unity and JavaScript/WebGL (while increasingly Godot-curious). I wrote the book Unity in Action! website: www.newarteest.com

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm currently writing a book about programming a character customization system in Unity. Both 3D characters and 2D animated in Spine!

Includes UI development, saving JSON data, loading Addressables, etc. jettelly.com/store/charac...

#unity3d #spine2d #gameprogramming

Character Customization with Unity 6

jettelly.com

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 5h

"Vote blue no matter who!"

"So are you gonna endorse Mamdani?"

"lol no"

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 6h

There's one level near the end that I think about a lot. Most levels in that game spanned a pretty large area, but this one level was just a single room that you had to keep crossing back and forth on like tricky gantries and stuff, the change to scale was brilliant level design.

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Benjamin Reed (aka Raccoon Fink) @rangerrick.bsky.social · 1d

"Stars are beautiful!"

"Due to the huge distances involved and the speed of light, many of those stars are probably already dead."

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 2d

Another favorite is Postmodern Jukebox www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_0...

Blank Space - Vintage Cabaret - Style Taylor Swift Cover ft. Ariana Savalas

YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 2d

So I was just thinking about cover bands that recast popular music in different styles, and that reminded me about Metalachi. Haven't listened to this in years, it's so good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxzg...

METALACHI - Sweet Child O Mine

YouTube video by Aladdin Sane

www.youtube.com

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 2d

and my daughter copies everything her older brother does, so of course she drew his sculpture

my daughter's drawing of my son's sculpture of kirby in a mario hat

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure if it affects reposts or only your posts, but there is a setting to require alt text when you post, so you can't forget to do that. As in, it won't let you submit the post until you've added alt text. It's in Settings > Accessibility > Require ALT Text

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 3d

Somewhat confusingly the button says Subscribe, but when you click on it you get the Block All option.

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 3d

lol my son sculpted kirby in a mario hat

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 4d

This interaction in that thread made me guffaw bsky.app/profile/alan...

Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 4d

I'm hearing apparently that no, Katie, it is you who is wrong on this occasion.

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, it's a revelation in the same sense that every basic income study finds that giving people money improves their lives.

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e.g. Alice Lastname @xmissedthespot.bsky.social · 4d

This aspect of the story isn't being discussed enough.
Beyond the dumb stuff you get OUT of LLMs, you should not be putting classified info INTO them.

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · May 20

from "i hate when my grandparents think i'm tech support" to "i hate when my grandkids think i'm tech support"

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 4d

The information was always *available* but the problem is students didn't know what information they needed to look up.

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 4d

That does suggest a future where the main job of teachers is to tell students what questions to ask AI. Basically, teaching them what prompts will give them what they want, rather than, y'know, the actual facts themselves.

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 6d

omg the pope (a sox fan) heckling back to a cubs fan

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 6d

bsky.app/profile/joeh...

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 6d

They just put the wrong clip in that post. The Bulwark deleted that post and then posted the correct clip here bsky.app/profile/theb...

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 6d

They just put the wrong clip in that post. The Bulwark deleted that post and then posted the correct clip here bsky.app/profile/theb...

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

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TayaSigerson @tayasigerson.bsky.social · 19d

Four ways to avoid taking damage in FF6

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 7d

Reading this thread reminds me of the noodle shop I used to eat at a lot. It was a Thai restaurant where the walls were lined with 50s Americana (Elvis dolls, stuff like that). The place just screamed "immigrants who love America".

Egg @patob.bsky.social · 13d

Speaking of diversity being American, I was at the bar last Friday and this lady was trying to show her like leftist bonafides or some shit I guess, and was talking about how the US isn't as diverse as other countries she's visited and its just like...what fucking countries are you visiting lady?!?

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 7d

lol "warning"?

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 7d

lol I hadn't read the article when I wrote that, the very beginning says "the popular trilogy of video games that came out from Harebrained Schemes in the early 2010s".

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 8d

It would go over four words, but this story is completed by git blame saying that was written in 2011.

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 8d

Oh sure I stick to team standards, I'm just saying I don't find them useful. And I'm not just talking about reading my own code; when trying to grok a legacy codebase, I find higher level docs much more useful than the comments.

Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social · 8d

For example, I'm currently working on a project for a client where they linked me to a Confluence page listing all the dependencies I needed to download before the project would run. Boy do I wish every place wrote down stuff like that!