I Make Software and Art

I would love it if Apple made a smart feature phone. Like a flip or a candy bar phone but not all screen, have hardware keys & a touch screen, seamlessly work with the Apple ecosystem, wallet, maps, etc. The ui would be a cross b/t iOS and watchOS. Is it just me? Am I being weirdly nostalgic?

I've been writing so much tessellation code the past two weeks I see seamless tessellation patterns when I close my eyes. I even dream about seamless tessellation patterns now. LOL

Curious about mobile cloud phone (CloudMosa/ Puffin Browser) numbers? I built anon analytics into the games I launched in Sept '24. This week I finally made a primitive dashboard. https://cloudphone.taara.games/game-analytics/ #gamedev #analytics #cloudphone

Kendrick Lamar is a genius. #TIL #genius

That paw! (Courtesy of Bumper, Prophet of the Void) #caturday

Alright. I am done. No more test posting. Plugin working. Hopefully tomorrow morning it'll still be working. 🤣 Time for a needed break.

ok lets's do this again but from the live server. Part two: Just need to be sure I can still post to the micro blog/notes page since the plugin works for both. Just hope it's not broken. I'm tired. This HAS an image

ok lets's do this again but from the live server. ugh. Part one: Just need to be sure I can still post to the micro blog/notes page since the plugin works for both. Just hope it's not broken. I'm tired. This does not have an image

For some reason I cannot find, I'm unable to post an image from my Kirby plugin from the journal page. Notes (micro blog) works just fine. It's the exact same code. Including an image and attaching a url in the micro blog posts is the last items on the list. Time for coffee. #kirbycms #indiedev

Finally getting back into journaling online. "Giving Retrostalgic a Makeover: Thoughts, Tweaks, and What’s Next." on the blog. My plugin was supposed to post this here. I guess I gots some work to do on that.

Electronic Gaming Monthly, Volume 15, Number 1, Issue 150, page 166 top right corner. That's me. I think I was 19 maybe 20 years old. 🤣 #gamedev #retro #zelda https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/3b58ef10-8107-4699-98f0-628977376079

Happy #caturday ! This is “Bumper, The Prophet of the Void”. He is my other supervisor. 🐈‍⬛

It's taking forever to get over this cold. blah.

I just discovered goth TikTok and TikTok is about to be banned. Damnit!

This is what you get when you ask stable diffusion to create a really cute cat wearing a bow tie in the style of H. R. Giger. 🤣#caturday #gamedev It's actually really cute!

Had to rearrange my desk because my cat Nico has to sleep next to me all the time while I code. #cat #gamedev #indielife

Meet my new supervisor Nico. Making sure I’m not procrastinating again. 😂#caturday #gamedev

Ballot mailed and counted. Lets Go! 💙

Nice to see a lot more #gamedev people here. BlueSky is getting better and better. 🤘🏽

Back to some game programming today and the rest of the week. Going to relaunch some old mini games on Retrostalgic. #gamedev

Daughter back in Sarasota yet classes won't startup again until Monday. Hertz was kind enough to extend her car rental the much needed couple of days to get her back to school. Thanks Hertz!

Long and stressful week. Sophia still in Palm Coast. Got electricity turned on yesterday. She's driving back to school in Sarasota on Tuesday. First time in a week I feel like I can focus.

Milton passed directly over my daughter campus last night. 102mph winds. She's and her classmate are anxious. 🥺

OMFG my kid has to evacuate again! Her go to family is also in the path. This fucking sucks.

Removed the RSS feed from my site. It broke with all the changes. I think I found out why my Kirby social plugin wasn't saving both links. I RTFM now I have to test it. One last of of site coding then more #gamdev starting this weekend.

Updated my website again today. Organized the dev logs and game pages. Made the games load like Retrostalgic.com. Still have a lot of tweaking to do. I'm not 100% happy with the game pages. It's getting better and I'm having a good time with it. 🤘🏽

Added a bunch of little things to site today; Social media notes, links to my games, and cleaned up a bunch of php code. Staging did not work properly. Instead of overwriting it added pages. That was a pain.

Testing my social media Kirby plugin from staging server with live accounts

found the bug. as always, I'm an idiot. didn't delete old social blueprint. testing from staging server now

This is a production server test because, of course, it works on my fucking machine. UGH 😡

Giving some love to my website today and maybe for the rest of the week. I also have another game done except for the hero sprite. Can't figure out what it should be.

I love making little games.

Welp. The kid has to evacuate from Helene. Always stressful. Stay safe Fla peoples.

RIP old AppleTV Remote. You will not be missed.

Oof I have a lot of work to do on my site but I really want to get back to #gamedev and add the ONE LAST THING to the game and put it online.

Testing multi submit from new interface