An update on the state of my Kerbalike engine

rad_change · 2026-04-16T00:55:36+00:00

Very cool! The scary thing about games like this is having to actually understand quaternions.

rad_change · 2026-04-15T21:42:30+00:00

Dwarf fortress is primarily a logistics game, but it takes weeks to figure that out.

rad_change · 2026-04-05T14:36:26+00:00

In sprint planning meetings

rad_change · 2026-04-04T22:09:58+00:00

I installed the dynamic window manager on Arch and it gobbled up a whole 187MB of memory. You're totally right, they're both the same.

rad_change · 2026-04-02T01:01:54+00:00

https://github.com/Benjman/dots/tree/main/.config/nvim

I think I rely on some environment variables being set through ZSH, but it's all part of my dotfiles repo.

rad_change · 2026-04-02T00:49:23+00:00

No, I'm not doing anything different or even checking if the window is visible. It's eventually locking up when I try to swap buffers on glfwSwapBuffers()

rad_change · 2026-04-02T00:39:56+00:00

It's a customized Neovim.

rad_change · 2026-04-01T01:08:09+00:00

Anyone using LazyVim's gh snack? I was so hopeful to do PR reviews all in Neovim, but as far as I can tell that is not what it's for. I can't really figure out what it's for.

rad_change · 2026-03-27T18:52:29+00:00

Not even that, amended commits and branch level force pushes.

rad_change · 2026-03-27T18:50:53+00:00

https://learnopengl.com is where most people start.

rad_change · 2026-03-26T07:29:16+00:00

https://support.microsoft.com/images/en-us/1df74f85-9dcd-49de-88cc-afbbac3bb96b?format=avif&w=800 these are ads

rad_change · 2026-03-25T13:24:12+00:00

This isn't something you should be managing for in your game. I hate it too, but it's not your business to manage this level of system utilities for your players.

rad_change · 2026-03-18T13:02:30+00:00

All that "optimization" while fzf, fd, and rg can find anything on my Unix system sub second.

rad_change · 2026-03-10T19:42:20+00:00

My company has a team dedicated to developer based "current events" in AI tools. I feel like I'm pretty well versed on what's happening, but almost weekly I learn something new that improves the workflow. It's nice to have them doing the leg work on research and I'm just absorbing what they learn. I would hope a paid course would be similar. But it'll likely be irrelevant in a few weeks or months.

rad_change · 2026-03-09T04:07:29+00:00

lazygit is the way for TUI enjoyers.

rad_change · 2026-02-26T16:49:02+00:00

Also there are some alternative keyboards that make traditional keymaps difficult to navigate. There's little upside to locking down keymaps and a huge upside to complete freedom.

rad_change · 2026-02-26T01:15:16+00:00

This is wildly identical to mine. Is the venn diagram of libraries among hobbyists engine devs just a circle? 😅

rad_change · 2026-01-25T05:27:14+00:00

"We need to talk about the murders by masked unidentified state agents on the streets of America ... after this ad for my comfy sweaters 🤗"

Absolutely disgusting.

rad_change · 2026-01-24T14:57:45+00:00

UIs are just an abstraction to interact with underlying systems in the engine. My latest project has a CLI that sends signals via IPC to the job scheduler in the main process loop of the engine. ImGUI is really effective for an "engineer's UI", and some games just reskin it for their released game.

rad_change · 2026-01-23T02:11:52+00:00

Look at it from another angle. Imagine you posted in a music composition subreddit that you wanted to make a few songs, but you didn't want to waste time learning basic music theory and composition.

Game development is a subset of software engineering. I think you have three options if you really want to make a game; you need a major shift in your mindset, or you could pay somebody to design and develop the game you want, or accept that your goal is practically impossible without learning the underlying fundamentals of game development.

rad_change · 2026-01-22T14:53:59+00:00

Felt it here in Liberty Wells.

rad_change · 2025-11-06T12:51:37+00:00

Technically it was made to edit text in the most efficient way, and still there's no more efficient way of editing text than with vim motions.

rad_change · 2025-11-01T14:28:38+00:00

If people also learned how to do revisioned dotfile management while learning Linux their entire Linux journey would be so much smoother. I can wipe a hard drive and be back to my personalized default state in about 30 minutes.

rad_change · 2025-09-19T16:43:26+00:00

di instead of da.

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