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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Jun 15

UITableLayout is completely broken. It does not rerender unless something is added/removed from its watched hierarchy. In other words, it doesn't resize dynamically if table cells resize.

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UITableLayout does not work

UITableLayout does not redo its layout when the width of cells change. In the video, please note how changing the width of the header cells does not cause a rerender. I have to cut & paste the UITabl...

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Apr 11

Finally made a low-poly airliner that I'm proud of! I'm not an artist, so even this level of fidelity is super challenging for myself. Excited to rig it up and get it flying in-game soon!

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 31

Wife: "I'm going to bed"
Me: *starts installing linux*

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 28

Fun fact: He also made the cover art for No Mans Sky

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 28

With Netflix bombing The Electric State, I highly recommend looking at the source material. Simon Stålenhag's artwork is incredible. I was so sad to see Netflix drop the ball on this. www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html

www.simonstalenhag.se

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 20

Work on viable product? ...or play Minecraft?

The decisions I face every day are brutal.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 18

I'm convinced that many bad programming practices in the Roblox dev community started because people thought they were fun, not because they're actually useful

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 13

Testing out the dialog system! #RobloxDev

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 8

"uh yeah I might not like the guy, but republicans are good for the economy!"
*market crashes*

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 6

Fun fact: the last update to this plugin was December 2015. Almost a decade!

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 6

Get the plugin for free here: create.roblox.com/store/asset/...

Creator Hub - Store

Discover millions of assets made by the Roblox community to accelerate any creation task.

create.roblox.com

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 6

The Lines of Code plugin has FINALLY received a facelift! This has been scheduled for release for a few months, but was awaiting actors to be usable from plugins.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 4

Good point! Yeah there's a few clubs nearby. I'll check in with them

sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 4

Still thinking about continuing flight lessons... I keep seeing relatively cheap small prop planes (under $50k) & hangar fees at my local airport aren't too bad ($300/mo). Everyone says maintenance is a money sink though. I'd love to fly to RDC at some point!

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 3

Here's an example. Imagine you want to make a mobile slider UI component. You first detect when the user started the drag on the UI component itself. Then you use UserInputService to detect changes and ending, using the InputObject as the way to detect if it's the same finger.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Mar 3

Fun fact: InputObjects are not recreated every input event. This means you can compare the actual InputObject to see if it was the same input, e.g. see if it's the same finger for a touch input during a movement event. This is super useful for multi-touch input. #RobloxDev

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 25

Do you think in little endian or big endian?

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 22

Time to suffer

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 21

Literally driving to Georgia to get some warmth because I'm sick of this Ohio weather. Not even joking. Airbnb already booked.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 21

Get the plugin here! create.roblox.com/store/asset/...

Creator Hub - Store

Discover millions of assets made by the Roblox community to accelerate any creation task.

create.roblox.com

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 21

Require Autocomplete update!

- Require-by-string when prefixing with ::
- Escapes strings & works with weird instance names
- Various adjustments and performance improvements

#RobloxDev

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 19

My mental health can be measured inversely proportional to how often and how late I listen to math rock.

The Midwest winter weather is killing me.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 17

Most ATAN2 functions use YX arguments, e.g. Luau is `math.atan2(y, x)`.

In excel, it's XY order. After converting some excel stuff a while back, this caused a bug that I didn't catch for months.

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 17

Friend from high school on LinkedIn: "I'm so pumped to be reaching these KPIs today! I love Mondays!"

Is this the modern day cry for help?

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · Feb 14

Midwest moonlit drives have an eerie but pleasant vibe. Just driving into nothingness.

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