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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1h

It's a Blanched peanut! Come on, I did add alt text!

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1h

A blanched peanut.

(Image of a peanut photoshopped into an image of Blanche from Golden Girls. I'm very funny.)

Subtitled "AM I A JOKE TO YOU"

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2h

My family almost died for WebGL! Who's the bigger fool now!

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Wait

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2h

I did offer to refund them their $21 (twenty one US dollars) but apparently they didn't want my dirty euro-tainted anti-fascist money

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2h

This 2022 email from a GitHub sponsor who sponsored my WebGL work for a total sum of $21 (twenty one US dollars) has aged like fine wine

Letting you know, I was a sponsor of yours for many months, but I'm canceling.

Your recent Nazi tirades on Twitter are too much. I believe strongly in free speech, my family has bled for it, numerous times. But I'm under no delusions that Twitter ever was a free speech platform. I'm also under no delusion that a platform that boots people is "fascist". A private citizen bought a business for $40B and they can boot off whoever they like. Should there be government restrictions on monopoly-like platforms and how much they can leverage that control? Perhaps. Wouldn't be against it.

When a government is acting in collusion with privileged private entities to control information, markets, and industry, that's fascism.

It's all stupid though isn't it. You host your code on Github. Microsoft could boot you off any time they like. But you trust that they never will, or maybe you trust that your values align with theirs (until they don't). At any rate, maybe one day decentralization will win in the end. That's what I'm continuing to work towards.

Wish you the best with your projects. Thank you for your hard and open work. But I'm out.

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 12h

it's such a small thing but i love that svelte lets you include expressions within attributes by just using normal bracket delimiters, without needing to make a whole template string

wish it worked in astro too

<!-- svelte -->
<div class="foo-{i}"></div>

<!-- jsx -->
<div class={`foo-${i}`}></div>

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 18h

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Christina @gigglyguineapig.bsky.social · 20h

Are you located in the north-western part of Germany?
Ideally in Grafschaft Bentheim, Emsland, Kreis Osnabrück or Münster?

I started a #Unity3d User Group!
First meetup is Oct. 24th and I would love to see and meet likeminded people 💛
#gamedev #indiedev

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 20h

What would be the alternative if the reactive effect is not of a computational ($derived), but imperative (eg. call an API) nature?

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Meanwhile, lots of new infrastructure being set up across the EU (and here in DE specifically) with a (luckily, and much needed) growing number of job opportunities.

Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Had multiple conversations with (EU) engineering friends lately for whom the prospect of working for a US company had turned from a "fuck yes!" into a "fuck no!"

Not a huge surprise, but yeah, the shift is real.

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

NATS keeps blowing my mind.

Nothin' but NATS - Building Natster

This is the first post in a new series where we explore patterns, practices, and samples of applications built using nothing but features available from NATS. We take a critical look at dependencies a...

nats.io

Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Borderlands 4 is the "Rise of Skywalker" of the series

Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

With how things are, also around the equally punishing "Rude" label, Bluesky is nothing but a social minefield and I would never recommend anyone to set up shop here.

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Why in the freaking hell has the entire account of @euroalternative.co been marked as "Spam", essentially forever removing it from the timeline of every user who's still on their default moderation settings?

cc @kulpinski.dev

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

I sometimes forget that when discussing games with people on Reddit, you will sometimes quite literally talk to 10-year-olds

"That's not at all it, the skill of the characters are underwhelming. the story was bland, similar to this games story. BL2 had one of the best villain arcs to ever exist in a game. Pure comedic genius. I was probably more critical of BL3 coming from BL2. I platinumed trophied BL2 3 times, I barely got through UVH in BL3. AVA was the absolute worst since you brought it up. Similar to every other game that introduces children in the game. IE Atreus in GoW. One of the most annoying characters ever."

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Also, wie die Mindmap sein soll.

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 1d

Zynisch oder ernst gemeint? :P

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André Cardoso @andremc.bsky.social · 2d

Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

I'll join you as the ironic kraut sidekick!

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

Ein Herz für Männer! Wir sind wie kleine Hundebabies, nur dümmer und meistens hässlicher

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

This thread is a cute format, I love it!

Elijah Seed-Arita [INTDEV] @elij.dev · 2d

Now, we can use the context (ctx) to draw something on the screen. The parameters for fillRect are (x, y, width, height). Now our program is already doing something!

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

Burnt, and somehow they completely *forgot* to add the syrup (I'm assuming syrup-free künefe are not a thing?), and when I asked them about it, they added way way way too much.

(This was in a place where I had previously had a really good künefe)

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

Fair!

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 2d

When they were shutting everything down, they did have a final firmware update that enabled Bluetooth pairing support. Maybe it's still available?

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