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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Oct 21

I'm Dave, sometimes D, they, indie game dev near tokyo, nonsense poster, abstract geometry appreciator, mixolumia creator, indebted to lesbians, secret ui/ux contractor, bleep bloop musician

Core Fault EP cover in front of game screenshot

Quasar cover art sticker on the wall at Mogra in Akihabara

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 11h

I should be mostly free if you wanna do something! hit me on line or discord

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 16h

guy raised on tik toks who swipes up on wife's face when he wants her to change the subject

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 19h

saizeriya? oh hell yeah

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 19h

ikea seems to have discontinued its plant based katsu curry so that is weighing heavily on my soul at this time

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sink @sinksadventure.bsky.social · 2d

My new open world precision "batformer" Vampire's Best Friend is out now on Steam and itch with a 10% launch discount!

Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day!

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 20h

this is now a Linnea Quigley fan account btw

Linnea Quigley as Trash in The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 20h

if haven't seen it and you are down for a spooky season movie that is funny, campy, but also somehow really smart (written and directed by the screenwriter for ALIEN???) and actually existentially disturbing while never losing its schlocky appeal, oh boy you're in for a fun time

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 20h

ok people told me Return of the Living Dead (1985) was good but i didn't realize it was THAT good

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

i want to break this graph. will 999 of you help me make a 3 megabyte game

Hushcrasher Classification System graph that charts games with a credits count on the X axis and game install size on the Y

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

we need more of this

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

"what kind of music do you like?" oh, you know, anything but country and k-pop

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Sunfire @starlight.garden · 1d

the donut holes of jorts

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

finally, jegwarmers

Mannequin wearing just the bottoms of jeans

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

no shadows in the dark!!

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

considering writing a rant about the slow murder of the window title bar, send your favorite examples of apps that have customized and cluttered the title bar so much you have to pixel hunt just to move the window

1Password title bar full of buttons and a giant search bar

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

i wonder if they have any telemetry to tell them users are clicking where their ui SHOULD be

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

kde plasma is the least bad for sure. like it's kinda janky in places but not overly offensive

davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

i've been getting kind of bored of ux work and i'm realizing it's because i'm not drinking enough haterade

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

did you answer "click the unlabeled icon in the top left corner, whereupon a search field will be revealed at a completely different location"? good job!

clicking the search button (it has a tooltip on hover!) reveals a search bar in the center of the app under the main navigation

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

ok sorry i need to rag on gnome a little more. let's say you want to install something from the app store. the #1 action someone is going to take when opening this is searching for an app. you would expect a big search bar front and center with your cursor already in it, right? where is it?

gnome app store. the search function is located under a small magnifying glass icon with no label in the upper left corner far away from everything else

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

the main question every linux desktop environment designer asks themselves is: how much padding should i put around icons? an insanely excessive amount or like a pixel?

uncomfortably tight margins on XFCE app dock

start menu on cinnamon, really weirdly spaced icons inside a box that also has really weird margins around it

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

trying out various linux desktop environments and i just wanna know who on cosmic thought this looked ok

icon dock at bottom of screen with rounded corner that cuts uncomfortably close to square icon corner

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

not to be hyperbolic but any organization that utilizes Laura's massive talent, sharp wit, and depth of industry experience will easily make one billion trillion dollars

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 1d

theorizing we dont actually like our phones/computers/tv we just crave looking at bright light so i'm carrying around a flashlight to stare into whenever i get sad

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