Erik McClure
@erikmcclure.com
Angry Programmer Bunny
Fundament 🜂 Software
ΘΔ Fae (He/Him)
Fundament 🜂 Software
ΘΔ Fae (He/Him)
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if you're wondering when I'm gonna release a new song, the answer is "as soon as I catch a fucking break", so you might be waiting a long time.
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
if you're wondering when I'm gonna release a new song, the answer is "as soon as I catch a fucking break", so you might be waiting a long time.
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ditching adobe is really hard when every alternative is either Flunkly™️ which is *almost* feature complete except for that one thing you do in Photoshop every single day or G.R.O.N.K., a FOSS app with the worst fucking UX you have ever seen in your life and no support for JPEGs for ethical reasons
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
ditching adobe is really hard when every alternative is either Flunkly™️ which is *almost* feature complete except for that one thing you do in Photoshop every single day or G.R.O.N.K., a FOSS app with the worst fucking UX you have ever seen in your life and no support for JPEGs for ethical reasons
I don't know what brain damage has occurred here, but if this isn't a measurement error and I actually run out of space on this ReFS devdrive, I'm uninstalling windows
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I don't know what brain damage has occurred here, but if this isn't a measurement error and I actually run out of space on this ReFS devdrive, I'm uninstalling windows
If everyone at cons actually wore masks consistently I might be able to go to them again
This'll probably gonna fall on deaf ears but I'll say it anyway.
If you're going to MFF, wear a mask if you can. Given the time of year, packed in location, and attendance size, that con is pretty much furry's biggest super spreader event each year. #MFF
If you're going to MFF, wear a mask if you can. Given the time of year, packed in location, and attendance size, that con is pretty much furry's biggest super spreader event each year. #MFF
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If everyone at cons actually wore masks consistently I might be able to go to them again
The quintessential experience of friendship is telling someone about a terrible, awful idea you had and their response is simply "I know how to make that even worse"
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The quintessential experience of friendship is telling someone about a terrible, awful idea you had and their response is simply "I know how to make that even worse"
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instead of shipping debug symbols, games should ship entire debug branches. Or just be source-available. I bet a lot of games would be source-available if we could get a good, easy to use, source-available license suitable for widespread use, like Creative Commons but for source-available.
PLEASE DO NOT…
… in your general release build. Make it an external download! PDB files can quickly get massive - Satisfactory‘s install size was 40% PDB files last I checked which were completely unnecessary for the game itself. Now to be fair, it‘s a UE game so a bit if an extreme example.
… in your general release build. Make it an external download! PDB files can quickly get massive - Satisfactory‘s install size was 40% PDB files last I checked which were completely unnecessary for the game itself. Now to be fair, it‘s a UE game so a bit if an extreme example.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
instead of shipping debug symbols, games should ship entire debug branches. Or just be source-available. I bet a lot of games would be source-available if we could get a good, easy to use, source-available license suitable for widespread use, like Creative Commons but for source-available.
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barotrauma my beloved
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
barotrauma my beloved
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Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
finally added a dark theme to my long neglected blog
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
finally added a dark theme to my long neglected blog
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Paul Rudd is in talks to create a world in which bunnies are giant and they are our friends and you can ride around on them like horsies
(Source: tinyurl.com/4ac25cne)
(Source: tinyurl.com/4ac25cne)
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Paul Rudd is in talks to create a world in which bunnies are giant and they are our friends and you can ride around on them like horsies
(Source: tinyurl.com/4ac25cne)
(Source: tinyurl.com/4ac25cne)
I have a theory that programmers try to reframe all problems with open-source as "engineering problems" because those are the only kinds of problems they actually know how to fix.
None of them know how to resolve a fundamental conflict of values, or even recognize that there is one.
None of them know how to resolve a fundamental conflict of values, or even recognize that there is one.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I have a theory that programmers try to reframe all problems with open-source as "engineering problems" because those are the only kinds of problems they actually know how to fix.
None of them know how to resolve a fundamental conflict of values, or even recognize that there is one.
None of them know how to resolve a fundamental conflict of values, or even recognize that there is one.
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Admin: "You should schedule exams and/or major assignments for the class day before break to ensure students show up."
Me: "You should stop making calendars that suck ass and require punitive enforcement."
Me: "You should stop making calendars that suck ass and require punitive enforcement."
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Admin: "You should schedule exams and/or major assignments for the class day before break to ensure students show up."
Me: "You should stop making calendars that suck ass and require punitive enforcement."
Me: "You should stop making calendars that suck ass and require punitive enforcement."
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In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
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thesis: thing good, antithesis: thing bad
synthesis: I'm going to McFuckin' lose it
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synthesis: I'm going to McFuckin' lose it
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If by degrowth… | lunnova.dev
Both sides of the degrowth debate are right, and I can prove it
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November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
thesis: thing good, antithesis: thing bad
synthesis: I'm going to McFuckin' lose it
lunnova.dev/articles/if-...
synthesis: I'm going to McFuckin' lose it
lunnova.dev/articles/if-...
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C++ is for little worms
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
C++ is for little worms
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What that means is _you_ will be left. The people with passion will be left, everyone else will be chasing the next boom and bust. Because these people never cared about software, they cared about the money they made from it.
I can't be more happy to see them leave, I rather work with you.
I can't be more happy to see them leave, I rather work with you.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What that means is _you_ will be left. The people with passion will be left, everyone else will be chasing the next boom and bust. Because these people never cared about software, they cared about the money they made from it.
I can't be more happy to see them leave, I rather work with you.
I can't be more happy to see them leave, I rather work with you.
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That literally is just a deer.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
That literally is just a deer.
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we should feed everybody actually
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
we should feed everybody actually
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
all the time
there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
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please don't, i avoid them too - after my stunt in minecraft modding i wish to never deal with a funny license for something important ever again
when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
please don't, i avoid them too - after my stunt in minecraft modding i wish to never deal with a funny license for something important ever again
Please only do this if you don't want *anyone* to use your code, or it isn't a library. There is no way for me to vet every author of every dependency I use, and even if I did, what if they go crazy in 10 years? Actually fixing the open-source license ecosystem should involve lawyers, not memes.
when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Please only do this if you don't want *anyone* to use your code, or it isn't a library. There is no way for me to vet every author of every dependency I use, and even if I did, what if they go crazy in 10 years? Actually fixing the open-source license ecosystem should involve lawyers, not memes.