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Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Great work from you and everyone on the team! This looks great, really excited for it, I’ll definitely be trying out the alpha.
As for the logo, I think it looks okay, especially in context with all the other Muse group logos. But I do agree that it could do with getting the waveform back!

Tantacrul @tantacrul.bsky.social · Oct 5

Fun times. It's going to be a busy week 🙂

For those wondering, this is exactly the reason I wanted to soft-launch the branding: to give me time to deliver the feedback to the creators. Beyond that, I'm incredibly pleased by the reaction to my own team's work.

www.theverge.com/news/792368/...

If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great

Over 25 years Audacity has gone from simple audio editor, to a UX nightmare. If you can get past the terrible logo, version 4 looks like it might fix that.

www.theverge.com

October 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Quite Interesting

@qi.com

Scientists know of nine species of shark that can walk across land.

September 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

I’ve had this #FPGA dev board I got from aliexpress for over a year now and can’t find the right software to program it. Anyone know what I’m missing?
#electronics #FPGAdev

September 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM

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Aquatic Games

@aquaticgames.co.uk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=THan... Building a SpaceBox sign, in SpaceBox!

A SpaceBox sign, built in SpaceBox.

YouTube video by Aquatic Games

www.youtube.com

September 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Starting to get my new game engine together. Looking forward to making my game with it! #EngineDev #GameDev #GameEngine #dotnet

April 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Is it bad that I quite like the #NintendoSwitch2? I can understand the console the prices, do not agree with the game prices though... Oh well. I have barely used my switch in 5 years but I have no ability to control how I spend money so I want one

April 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Peebs

@peebs.bsky.social

Today I discovered that Tim Follin has uploaded their collective works to archive dot org.

It's like a discography of chiptune music.

Take a break, and enjoy some hot jams from games you've never played or heard of.

There are bangers to be found everywhere!

archive.org/search?query...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

March 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Anyone know how to get FL Studio running properly on Linux? It's annoying needing to dual boot just so I can use FL studio. Doesn't seem to play nicely with WINE though.

March 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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buckwoodymsft.bsky.social

@buckwoodymsft.bsky.social

<Developer> (shrugs) Works on my machine
<DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine

<Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born

February 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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well, that’s justin sane

@justininpost.bsky.social

Me 2 days ago: oh just setting up a lil home Plex server on my Mac mini for my husband and dog

Me today: I need a 4 bay NAS that can handle multiple transcoding sessions for about 20 family and friends.

February 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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Dylan Perks

@perksey.com

Our SDL3 bindings are on our experimental feed, and @aquagoose.com is already making good use of them! Here's a sneak peak of what SDL3's GPU APU looks like in 3.0.

using Silk.NET.Core;
using Silk.NET.SDL;

if (!Sdl.Init(Sdl.InitVideo | Sdl.InitEvents))
throw new Exception($"Failed to initialize SDL: {Sdl.GetError()}");

WindowHandle window = Sdl.CreateWindow("Test SDL", 1280, 720, 0);

if (window == nullptr)
throw new Exception($"Failed to create window: {Sdl.GetError()}");

GPUDeviceHandle device = Sdl.CreateGPUDevice(Sdl.GpuShaderformatSpirv, true, nullptr);
Sdl.ClaimWindowForGPUDevice(device, window);

bool alive = true;
while (alive)
{
Event winEvent = default;

while (Sdl.PollEvent(winEvent.AsRef()))
{
switch ((EventType) winEvent.Type)
{
case EventType.WindowCloseRequested:
alive = false;
break;
}
}

GPUCommandBufferHandle cb = Sdl.AcquireGPUCommandBuffer(device);
GPUTextureHandle texture = default;
Sdl.WaitAndAcquireGPUSwapchainTexture(cb, window, texture.AsRef(), nullptr, nullptr);

GPUColorTargetInfo targetInfo = new()
{
Texture = texture,
ClearColor = new FColor() { R = 1.0f, G = 0.5f, B = 0.25f, A = 1.0f },
LoadOp = GPULoadOp.Clear,
StoreOp = GPUStoreOp.Store
};

GPURenderPassHandle pass = Sdl.BeginGPURenderPass(cb, targetInfo.AsRef(), 1, nullptr);

Sdl.EndGPURenderPass(pass);
Sdl.SubmitGPUCommandBuffer(cb);
}

Sdl.DestroyGPUDevice(device);

Sdl.DestroyWindow(window);
Sdl.Quit();

February 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Thoughts on the new Discord redesign: Looks okay. Title bar doesn't integrate into KDE yet so there's just a giant useless bar at the top. Server icons are a bit small. They're also rounded rectangles instead of circles now for some reason.
Oh and the new message box. Yeah n o

February 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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DarkViperAU

@darkviper.au

DarkViperAU $6000 Giveaway To Celebrate PC Upgrade (2x$3000) gleam.io/ofAN3/darkvi...
To celebrate upgrading my system so I can record and upload content in 4k, I am sharing the love with a giveaway. Same way to enter as the last 30 odd giveaways, best of luck everyone!

DarkViperAU $6000 Giveaway To Celebrate PC Upgrade (2x$3000)

As I am going to be upgrading my system with the newest 50 series graphics card so I can better produce my content in 4k and I figured I'd take the opportunity to share some love and do a giveaway. I would just give away a graphics card, but giving money is easier and people can just spend it on whatever they want. There will be two winners, each recieving $3000 USD. You will recieve the equivalent in your chosen currency e.g 3000 USD is 4,745.41 AUD. You will be contacted via email and social media. I will track you down based on the info you give basically. The money will be sent preferably via Wise or Paypal, but I will organize it with the winner via whatever means necessary due to the large amount. Winner will be announced publicly via community post, discord announcement, and Twitter/Blue Sky post.

gleam.io

January 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Been seeing people say that the new switch must have an OLED screen, and that a “LCD is unacceptable in 2025” But like - I genuinely don’t get the hype over OLEDs? Give me an LCD any day of the week, honestly. Better brightness, no retention issues, no ghosting, etc. I just don’t get it. IPS ftw imo

January 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Pirate Software

@piratesoftware.live

Having now fully swapped to the AMD machine I am amazed at how much that bad Intel 14th gen was impacting everything. No more hanging when starting every program, no more audio errors with zapping noises, no more random crashes or bsods.

Not going back.

a cartoon character wearing sunglasses is looking at a computer monitor

ALT: a cartoon character wearing sunglasses is looking at a computer monitor

media.tenor.com

December 31, 2024 at 7:36 AM

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Pirate Software

@piratesoftware.live

I'm sorry to announce I've lied to you all.
Underneath all of this hair, I am bald.

Truly sorry.
Also, Merry Christmas.

a close up of a girl 's face with green eyes and orange hair

ALT: a close up of a girl 's face with green eyes and orange hair

media.tenor.com

December 24, 2024 at 5:43 PM

Aqua

@aquagoose.com

Why is there a part of me that wants to do exactly this except build a microcontroller into it and do all the things mentioned in the video to make it safe and support multiple power ratings etc
Sounds like a fun if not somewhat dangerous weekend project.