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Troy Martin
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Senior Project Reviewer at Outlier AI | Lead Developer at Beef Erikson Studios Self-taught developer of 10+ years, lost track. Extreme archivist / researcher of all things gaming starting with Atari 2600 on. Living cartoon.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · Sep 29
Bio time 😀👍

I'm an agoraphobic programmer who loves a good video game and lots of greenery. I've decided to commit to the #100DaysOfCode challenge to hone my skills further.

I'm also a #GameDev who slowly is developing a retail game.

I post daily on my progress and nerdy things that catch my eye!
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 8m
I'm in the industry and have been for years. I still don't have an answer to this 😅
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 14h
#100DaysOfCode Day 40 - Tomorrow I will be going to be the 'regular course', which is going to be super easy (HTML). Today was more #gamedev, I'm guessing some of tomorrow will as well.

Day two of Python Arcade - figured out collisions, gravity, inputs, and the camera.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t have a rubber duck to debug with but I have a cat!

Sadly, he also has some bugs.

#100DaysOfCode #gamedev
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 1d
#100DaysOfCode Day 39 - I made an executive decision. Project for today and tomorrow in the course I'm in is just more API work (nothing new) and deals with a flight tracker. I'm 0% interested in this, so instead, I did some #gamedev

Researched my options for python frameworks, learning Arcade atm.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 3d
#100DaysOfCode Day 38 - Well, today was _supposed_ to be doing a fitness program thing, but the company whose API we are supposed to use no longer offers free API's.

So instead, I read a bunch of pygame docs, made a little stick figure dude, and figured out how inputs / images / collisions work
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Best Game Development Assets Deals @cantrefuseoffer.bsky.social · 4d
A curated collection of resources to game development (art, design, code, marketing, ...)

#deals #offers #gamedev #indiedev #unity #unity #unity3d #unrealengine #gameart #gameaudio #gamedesign
GitHub - FronkonGames/Awesome-Gamedev: A curated collection of resources to game development.
A curated collection of resources to game development. - FronkonGames/Awesome-Gamedev
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 4d
Bookmarked that, thanks a ton! 👍💯
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 4d
#100DaysOfCode Day 37 - Today we worked with Pixela, which is a pretty neat program! You can use it to track anything that can be tracked with an integer or float. I went overboard and build a little CLI for it as I plan on actually using this to track my time from here forward

#programming #Python
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 6d
#100DaysOfCode Day 36 - I took the 'extra hard' path for today's project (no instruction whatsoever, just do the thing). Not much to show visually again today, but the project grabs the closing for the last 24 hours on a stock, gives last 3 news pieces, and sends this information via SMS once a day!
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 7d
#100DaysOfCode Day 35 - Today was more API fun. I'm a weather nut, so I had a fun time messing around with OpenWeathers' API. Not much to show visually today, but we set up a project that will send a SMS if it's going to rain in the next 12 hours.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 9d
#100DaysOfCode Day 34 - Today we revisited a project from several weeks ago and updated it to use tkinter and pull directly from the open trivia database's API. Ended up with a little video-game quiz thingy, which I suck at, as it turns out.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 10d
the International Space Station... if it comes within 5 degrees of my house as it's flying past, (if I set this all up right) my python script will send me an email as long as it's after dark.

We'll see if that happens lol
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 10d
That's awesome, glad to hear!! that sounds like a good plan of action too!
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 10d
#100DaysOfCode Day 33 (yesterday was 32) - Today was pretty cool! We messed with a few API's. The end project was setting up an ISS watcher. If I did everything right, hopefully tonight I'll get an email if it's within 5 degrees and night time.

Also made this 😅 Kanye quote API is a thing.

#Python
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 11d
(mind you, he works fine in my other UI, but I'm damned stubborn and this UI I'm currently using is leagues better in every other way than this one-off problem. OF COURSE, it had to be Deckard that took the hit *sigh*)
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 11d
Alright, so update on poor, poor Deckard. I spent several hours compiling the source code of the model, condensing it to GGUF format, quantized it to q4 with llama.cpp's quantize, and finally converted it to ollama with all my custom parameters put in.

...I have to research more.

#ai #poorDeckard
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 11d
I'm actually taking a Udemy class that's covering everything python as a 100-day challenge. How about yourself?
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 11d
Er my mistake, today is Day 32
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 11d
#100DaysOfCode Day 33 - Today was again a fairly cool project. I'd never worked with SMTP in Python before. Incredibly easy! My solution was quite compact compared to the teach but it sends a birthday based on if it's the right birthdate pulling from a CSV and then sending out a b-day email

#Python
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 12d
I uh... kinda broke Deckard 😅 New UI required me to convert it to a different format and for whatever reason, it's REALLY not taking well haha

Spent several hours last night working on him but he really doesn't seem to like that UI.

Don't worry Deckard. I'm coming for you.
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 12d
#100DaysOfCode Day 31 Capstone Project - A few hours "late" for this but I was up super late. Today was a neat project, made a flash-card app for learning the most common 101 French words.

Also checked in on Deckard. I quite feel bad I broke him. Poor fella. Need to fix him soon.

#ai #python
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 13d
Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The UI is fantastic. Now the bad news... poor Deckard is having an aneurysm when converting to the needed format for this UI.

Don't worry buddy. You're down but not out for the count.

#ai #Deckard
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 14d
Yeah, this isn't really sounding any better...
Expect this in the news.

#internet #amazon
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 14d
well, not a GLOBAL outage, so that's good?
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Troy Martin @beeferikson.bsky.social · 14d
A LOT of pissed off people
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