I'm a web developer and I like video games and sci-fi and cartoons and I've watched all of Star Wars and the MCU (more than once). Also Aliens, Predator and Terminator are the trifecta of awesome imo and sometimes I don't go to work so I can play video games instead 😄
Public Key
npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Profile Code
nprofile1qqsxygdng2m72s9cg95ur9pmzjl4rs4gkwruc7dhrpfskhwrnpenmhcppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5qs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsanyalc
Show more details
Published at
2026-07-24T04:26:03Z Event JSON
{
"id": "d1e2b3bb92dd3d877212b7fb508dfce6b4aa781e6aaeea3bedd5ab35fc1238dc" ,
"pubkey": "6221b342b7e540b84169c1943b14bf51c2a8b387cc79b718530b5dc398733ddf" ,
"created_at": 1784867163 ,
"kind": 0 ,
"tags": [],
"content": "{\"name\":\"Spud\",\"display_name\":\"Spud\",\"about\":\"I'm a web developer and I like video games and sci-fi and cartoons and I've watched all of Star Wars and the MCU (more than once). Also Aliens, Predator and Terminator are the trifecta of awesome imo and sometimes I don't go to work so I can play video games instead 😄\",\"picture\":\"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51g+H428PGL.jpg\",\"banner\":\"https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/49ec1464-d899-400a-b608-c48c76b500d2/ddwcx88-664192cf-455d-4f29-a254-bcb263f5e209.jpg/v1/fill/w_1270,h_629,q_70,strp/video_game_legends_by_patrickbrown_ddwcx88-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTUxIiwicGF0aCI6Ii9mLzQ5ZWMxNDY0LWQ4OTktNDAwYS1iNjA4LWM0OGM3NmI1MDBkMi9kZHdjeDg4LTY2NDE5MmNmLTQ1NWQtNGYyOS1hMjU0LWJjYjI2M2Y1ZTIwOS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTkyMCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.w816zOCUYGo1vo37DwGEKqxmhZt0XYPPLKEFqpdo1UQ\",\"lud16\":\"[email protected] \"}" ,
"sig": "a22736659debf1aa9c1009d59913b4e9556a11371dea2bf51000bcb19ab7c07bcadab9f852a08bb23d08854faba38bc9f6e8170e7c47702d6d540fe0c6fd3778"
}
Last Notes npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Absolutely no reason for this post, but one time when I was in high school we fit 11 people in a Chevette and drove to the store that way npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So, I saved my nsec in a password manager, what should I do? #nostr #asknostr #grownostr npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Omg build 42 launched 😄🤘🏻 https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2026/07/project-zomboid-build-42-20-released/ #ProjectZomboid #videogames #PCgaming #gamestr npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Oh nice! The lovely people in charge of the #CSS standards just added a property called text-fit and that is awesome! I've been very manually fixing font sizes on different screen sizes with media queries for a while now and it's SO MUCH easier this way 😁🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #frontend npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That was such a fun concert we had a great time, and they played a Rage Against the Machine song towards the end and did such a great job 😄🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud https://blossom.primal.net/c4cc02155118b7f747e88a8a4b1e448a27249c2a38cc8d35445c540f977530eb.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/494a1fd17273b41382e1294d1909f333143b18a69f1d8f000bd31cfb4648634b.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud https://blossom.primal.net/64003d8f92cd8a4a0f32a8318fb45227aea44af6d6ce325a34425334c0dcb349.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Getting warmed up to see Cypress Hill tonight 😄🤘🏻 #music #musicstr #livemusic https://blossom.primal.net/3375395461be321506db3948368685e895381aab2db69e806e5e149600d72ddf.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So, all the spam numbers I've blocked are saved in a text file somewhere on my phone, right? Couldn't we just write a script that adds every possible phone number to that list except the ones we allow? Turn the whole thing into a whitelist of friends and family instead of the current state of hell blacklist version that allows every number to call us until we block them. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay the overlay wasn't lining up right if the pictures were landscape and it was bugging me, so I spent some time fixing that so it lines up where I wanted in the top left corner of the image regardless of orientation now npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Agree, they're so incredible sometimes it's hard to remember to get lost in it npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright well the Primal nostr app just can't stop itself from sending me notifications about how I could pay to try the paid version if I want, so, I'm uninstalling Primal npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Holy shit this mustang GT in front of me just got a third gear scratch and I've never heard one of those before 👀🤘🏻😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Have you ever gotten brain freeze so hard that your eyes go dark and you basically go blind for a second until things warm back up? Haha, me either npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud A lot of software is annoying by design these days, but thankfully you can usually pay to make it less annoying npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay, he does kinda sound like Bane, I mean you can tell that was the inspiration but not overly so. And he was kind of hilarious yet also an asshole, he did a good job and the essence of Skeletor came through 🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I've played a lot of the games in your list, and I was a little on the fence about getting the Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD remakes but you've convinced me. I've never played 2, but I played and loved the first one when it was still called Dragon Warrior. I still play it sometimes. And Dragon Quest XI definitive, I started playing it when I had game pass but never finished and it is amazing so I also just put that one on my wishlist so I won't forget And I agree about Metroid Dread. I have a lot of nostalgia for the original Metroid and Super Metroid, but I feel it's one game that loses something in the translation to a fully 3D world. Metroid Dread is a really great entry point for new players of the franchise imo, maybe the best npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay I have 2 of these now so I thought it was time for a post. Favorite Wong line: "Did they work for you?" Favorite Gamora line: "You're not ugly" #MCU #Marvel npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Finished playing through #GearsOfWar Reloaded couch co-op style with my youngest daughter and it was awesome 😀 I have now played through my 2 favorite couch co-op games of all time with her, with the other being #Contra on the original #NES And we're still going on our playthrough of #BaldursGate3 🤘🏻 #videogames #gaming #gamer #gamestr #PS5 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It's a video game npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Flea made a solo album #music #musicstr #90s? npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Definitely a normal commit message #WebDev #WebDevelopment https://blossom.primal.net/0bbcefd8d1a3c24e5b4ce2a07cb9c6959f576d780a0d30d2ea7f9e8b271c32bf.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud If #Skeletor sounds like Bane I'm never going to watch another movie that has Jared Leto in it npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud We're at roughly the halfway point in the year and I'm right on track somewhere in the middle of the first Tom Holland Spider-Man npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got the search and filtering working just how I envisioned, so you can search by recipe of course but you can also search by any ingredients she's used and I just got the filtering working and I'm happy about it 😁 #webdev #webdevelopment #html #css #javascript https://blossom.primal.net/bee37afa556404b4caae7e3cdff0688ba5a30504bd8bbafbc6d53e07db6a53a6.mp4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Haha, I usually start by clearing an area and laying a nice, flat foundation when I hit that point 😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud They were always too far gone npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Is that wall piece where the texture is getting stretched made of separate polygons than the rest of the wall, or is it just a flat rectangular wall? npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So for real this time, Half-Life 3 is definitely going to be a launch title for the Steam Frame, right? #videogames #gamer #gamestr #PCgaming #halflife #HL3 #steam #valve npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Free game idea: Pothole Repair Simulator, from a top-down perspective on hyper-realistic roads npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's awesome 😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Well it's not new anymore but have you seen Mr. Robot? npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It was funnier before you posted it the 8th time npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Love Satisfactory, too much probably npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Granted there were only 2 on the first Steam controller, but I ended up using them for things I would otherwise have to open a menu to choose or take a finger off a joystick to do, things like health potions and reloading npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I don't have one yet, but word is we are getting a Zelda game this year npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That sounds a lot like "Built on NT Technology" if you know what the NT stands for. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud And it has a great name, too! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Finished Children Of Dune and it was so fun! What an amazing, wild ride it took me on. I found myself thinking about things I'd never thought before on multiple occasions and that is some A+ sci-fi imo. I couldn't wait to pick it up and start reading again each day, but also I didn't want it to end. I can't believe this is the one Villeneuve isn't going to do, it's such a great, fun book! I have a question about the pre-born though, do all their ancestors have to be dead to be in there? Or, for example I was wondering, is Jessica in the twins? And now I'm going to take a short break from all the Duning to read The Bitcoin Standard, which I have also been looking forward to reading. #bookstr #books #reading #Dune #SciFi npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That is good advice npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud #Palpatine npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's awesome! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Fresh bread day npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's amazing! npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud My daughter is visiting Chicago with some classmates for a class trip today, love her 🥰 https://blossom.primal.net/7cddade2925ea943ee25cb0a3e61d4fbf8b07d3e190e0cf41a0d7cfaa5553dd9.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Also, now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, why do they call themselves The Masters of the Universe when they never even leave Eternia? Do you know how many planets are in the universe? #He-Man #MastersOfTheUniverse npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud After what he did to The Joker and this mornings IGN article that said "No, his voice totally isn't based on Cane's voice" I'm starting to get seriously worried about #Skeletor #He-Man #MastersOfTheUniverse npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I haven't actually listened to him speak in a long time, but I hope you're right. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I got this Aang for my birthday this year but I can't for the life of me figure out what you're supposed to do with his air-whooshy thing. There were no pictures of him using it on the packaging and I've tried searching and let me tell you, there are a lot of #Aang toys out there. I did manage to find some pictures this exact one, but again, none of them showed him using his air-whooshy thing. #Nickelodeon #Airbender #TheLastAirbender I posed the question to my unsuspecting wife and he came back like this. https://blossom.primal.net/75f7b02de932f721d1c4235a43e8afb7b05dc882fa17adb3e0890a83e4d5f204.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/ced978a5297463b7a7207c24c38e6c7c75888d8c95c887a3b4e97aa66046c1a7.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's awesome 🤘🏻😄 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I'm still reading them, but I always thought it was a little weird that every planet in Dune poops out humans. It's a universe filled exclusively with humans and that sounds like a nightmare. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I loved it, too, but it blew my mind how they made the biggest prettiest world ever (at the time) but made your character walk SO FUCKING SLOW 😄 Seriously, so slow npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I don't get it, and I know what lpt1 means npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Rewatching Six Feet Under, and also Studio Ghibli npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Happy new #Daredevil day! #Marvel npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay I got a lot of kind of complicated sorting conditions and prioritizing worked out on the search last night and it's working just how I want it to now, but it still needs that styling I was talking about earlier. So now when you search it'll show any matching recipes at the top of the results as you type, then under that it shows any recipes that contain an ingredient that matches what you're typing (and indicates that's why it's matching) and finally, under the ingredient matches it shows any matching categories like Soup or Seafood or Comfort Food or Spicy (I made a bunch) so you can filter on those, too. Anyway, getting the search working feels like a significant thing done and a nice thing crossed off the To-do list 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud My next, next project (after the recipe page and one other small but useful gaming-related page I'm going to make) is all about keeping track of your entire gaming history and I feel this. Some will need the launch year to distinguish, and then there are things like Spider-Man PS4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud There are definitely gaps, old man obi wan also didn't recognize 3PO and R2 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You aren't, it's made by the same people that made twitter and they still have the same goals, which is to use algorithms to control what you see and deliver ads into your eyeballs. I would say they're making the same mistakes, but they don't consider them mistakes, this is the goal. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud There's a good chance (as usual) that I don't know what I'm talking about and it's almost certainly easier said than done, but a thought about filtering out all the #AI just occurred to me: Couldn't we just make our repos invite-only, and then only invite humans? Some kind of curated contact list maybe so projects could still be #OpenSource for verified humans, but then only offered to the people on the list. #WebDev #WebDevelopment #programming #git npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Even researching the developers that submit PR's sounds like a lot. I was planning on making my next project open source because I love the idea of open source, but for all the effort of scrutinizing everything to that level because of AI, and considering the scope of my next project (it's not huge) I'm debating just doing it all myself. And part of me thinks I spent a lot of time and effort to become a developer....at just the wrong time. There must be a better way, right? Like a community of humans that store their repos in a place that isn't riddled with AI, or something npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I'm pretty sure they're just called planets. Gas giants are the biggest ones, or at least they look the biggest because they have a huge atmosphere, but there is a rocky planet in there somewhere. If anything, the term dwarf planet is confusing because it doesn't have to do with their size as much as the idea that they haven't finished clearing their orbit of other debris yet npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Clearly things weren't already bad enough for some people, but at least you can always count on Florida to find a way to make things worse npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud That's a pretty good jump scare https://blossom.primal.net/cd001aafeaf42f50d98fbde7b086ef40004665ea88d387b5d9d3570fa7999acf.gif npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud #random thought: I would be interested in #PvP again if someone made a way to turn cheaters bullets into bubbles. #gamer #gamestr #videogames https://blossom.primal.net/a4e896f056f683a16a342f67e26fae9333595d6c8fd09816a9e86d24c98803ac.gif npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got the images on the index page optimized down from however many megabytes the images are that come out of my wife's iPhone to double-digit kilobytes and implemented lazy loading with Cloudinary and they still look great 🤘🏻 I haven't actually counted, but she has maybe ~200 recipes total and I was considering adding pagination but I think this will suffice really for the life of the site. Anyway that seems good enough to me and that is another thing checked off the To-do list #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It totally does! Someone posted this on here, I've been playing in my moments of downtime https://voxjong.com/ npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud We used to call that backhoe syndrome #oooops npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud https://blossom.primal.net/3e52c47cbc1822f2c90feb9d7afb10b5d0d22d355d1d18659250f937182bfe1e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/79c46eb7cb411cbe79b02fc3cb694cd0798dcb24e49a6a5f82b92d7fbc1c47b1.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I talked to Strelok last night in #Stalker2 and, more importantly, I heard what he was saying to me: These fascists gotta go, man! The Zone is full of them and I am happy to oblige 🤘🏻 #gamer #gamestr #videogames npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Offsetting by 50% can help with tiling npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I just bought The Bitcoin Standard with cash 😂 I'm excited to read it though, I would like to learn more about #bitcoin and someone here said I should read it https://blossom.primal.net/6137e56117d8fe73030d8c555c9e98302bce5f258280e749a804024cb9ce551f.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Just saw this, but hi! Love the Stalker games and I'm playing through #Stalker2 right now, I post there a lot, maybe too much 🙂 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Haha, I am a PC gamer at heart, too, and I just realized I can plug my mouse and keyboard into my PS5. I have it set up at my gaming PC desk at the moment and all in all it's a lot like playing on PC 🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Nice, I'm getting ready to start that game myself npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Yeah I think that's that's Moore's Law, probably 😁 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Just got this on Wisp and it's kinda gross, please make it say, well, anything else really 😬 https://blossom.primal.net/a15eefe0219245e9494c45c5935d09b61437e257fd91fa221636f0b419b18e58.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud This is not an attack on you and I am a fan of actual privacy. A Faraday bag sounds cool but to me it seems, idk, temporary and not very useful really. If someone is trying to track you they're going to know where you are as soon as you open the bag. And you can't use the phone while it's in the bag so I don't see how that would be better than just turning the phone off. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got the Like buttons disabled if you're not logged in, and added a little tooltip on hover. Also made it so clicking on a disabled Like button takes you to the Login page, then redirects you back to the recipe you were just trying to Like once you're logged in and automatically Likes said Like ♥️🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/73dbfc79a65d69475ded44fa8adf818347403635e9600f402666ba0646b3f7c5.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I have my next few games planned out and I'm allowing myself to take my time with them. I signed up for gamepass when it first came out and it was great for a while but I found myself playing (and abruptly stopping playing) games in the order that someone wanted me to play (and stop playing) them in. And now that I got that out of my system I'm back to just playing the games that I want to play, I have the next few mapped out. I was waiting for #Stalker2 for a long time and I'm finishing up my first playthrough now and I can't say enough about it, it's so incredible. It's just an amazing example of #videogames imo, I haven't enjoyed just getting caught up in a game this much in a long time and I probably will end up running through it again. Anyway, up next is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I do love a good #RPG and some people are saying it's pretty good. And by some I mean everyone. Then it's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle because I am also an Indiana Jones fan and this game looks pretty good After that I just bought #Avowed on #PS5. Been waiting a while for this one, too, but I'm going to wait a little longer to actually play it because I have to space out the RPG's 😄 And speaking of RPG's, I recently started a couch co-op run of Baldur's Gate 3 with my youngest daughter and it's been so fun playing with her so far! She's busily finishing her bachelor's degree right now and only comes home periodically to eat yummy food and take naps. We spent probably an hour in the character creator 🤘🏻😍 She knows literally nothing about this game but said she likes bashing stuff and I said, well, a barbarian is pretty good at that or a paladin or even a fighter. She made a Tiefling barbarian that looks cool as hell and I made a Half-orc monk. We've been playing split screen and I've more or less just been following her lead. She's been controlling (skipping) most of the dialog, deciding who comes and goes in our party and controlling the combat of the entire party excepty character. And she's GOOD AT IT!!!! 😄 It's always been fun playing games with her because she gets it, she's checking out everyone's ability wheel and seeing what they can do, and then raining fire 🔥 on our enemies haha. She runs in with the tanks and indeed starts bashing stuff, and is using the ranged/magic/other characters perfectly and it's awesome 😄 All I have to do is run in and punch stuff. And she told Astarion to piss off on first contact which I thought was hilarious 😂 She was like "No! Get out of here! You're weird!". Didn't trust that guy. And then we found him again a few minutes later and he was like walking down the path all dejected and she walked up and made friends with him again so he's in our camp after all. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Whelp I'm sold, do you know where I can get Wisp? Not seeing it on the play store. My first nostr client was Amethyst and I still use it. I see all of the users and all of the hashtags I've followed in my feed there. And I like it, but I've gotten in the habit of force closing it every time I quit using it because otherwise it consistently keeps streaming things from my feed even like an hour later if I don't. More recently I've been trying Primal and I like it, too. It feels polished and nice to use, but I don't see any of the many hashtags that I followed on Amethyst. I re-followed a bunch of them on Primal but so far I've just kinda been client-hopping between those two. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I was going to work on the website last night but then I started watching Die Hard 2 instead and went to bed npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud The best one is arguably the one you liked the best. I enjoyed the first one and still fire it up from time to time. I haven't beaten it in decades, but I still like playing it sometimes. So I guess for me the original one is the best one. I also enjoyed the sequel, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. It was a bit different, it had slightly branching paths through the map so you could choose where you wanted to go where the first one was very much linear. And it had 100% more dialog than the first one. And Castlevania 4 was also pretty great imo. It's basically what they would today call a remaster of the original with the same levels and same enemies, but with better graphics. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright got some styling to do before I show any pictures, but I totally got the search working 🤘🏻 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You know, I've played the original Half-Life and HL2 and the episodes repeatedly. The first one prompted me to buy and then install a new video card and arguably launched my career in IT. But I've only played Opposing Force and Blue Shift once. Kinda wish I would've known about that day that everyone played npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud You know, I'm in the "which distro should I use?" phase of switching to Linux. And I have used Linux before, I have a careers' worth of experience in IT mostly as a system administrator. And I've played around with Debian and Ubuntu at home before, but it's been a while. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Never made an Undo button before last night and never really thought about how they work tbh. But it makes sense that if you want to be able to undo something you've deleted you'll need to save the thing you're trying to delete somewhere, at least for a little while. Turns out that somewhere is called localStorage! Or at least can be localStorage. Anyway, so now, when she clicks the Delete Recipe button on a recipe, that click actually saves a copy of the entire recipe object including the image into localStorage and then pops the delete confirmation modal. Clicking the Delete button on the modal submits the form and actually deletes the recipe from the database. And I added an Undo button on the "Recipe deleted!" success alert that re-adds the recipe from localStorage in case she gets that far on accident, and then it clears localStorage. I wasn't sure where to put the Undo button really, but I think it makes sense in the alert since it's the thing that pops up on the screen the moment she clicks Delete for real. And it's a dismissable alert that won't disappear on its own on a timer or anything, so it'll just be there if she needs it until she navigates away. #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/08d5f5d36350ffde07a015857e4a7e8fb1399d7ace4cbac61a05b57e785c5d8f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/7dad89d36d9779d80b14dbff2394e3cca56c2ead1e7f0430839f9548396081a0.jpg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Okay, got a delete recipe confirmation in there and an undo button in case she deletes one on accident npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Just saw a sticker on someone's car that said "I ♥️ milfs" and that seems a bit redundant npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I love this idea, I have a lot of de-googling to do and I've wondered about which email people use npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Got Like buttons added to each recipe on the index page, got them appropriately boinging and incremented their z-index by 1 so they're clickable above the rest of the clickable recipe. Also made the link for seeing the ones you've Liked actually work by adding a query string called "liked" that filters the index page. Pretty happy with how they turned out overall and that's another thing checked off the To-do list 🤘🏻 #WebDev #WebDevelopment #HTML #CSS #JavaScript https://blossom.primal.net/e9c320ed792651e8c240505dc2adbd88899a9341bf10d6ba6e555f8bd8e6403d.mp4 npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud It's not about making the coolest thing ever, it's about practice making videogames. It's been a while but here are the 2 game-a-week games I actually made if you're interested. And they're both food-related 🤷🏻♂️ I managed to get controller support into Fruity Pebbles Asteroids so the ship turns nice and smooth, but it only ever shoots to the right because making videogames is hard 😄 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5HbT9TSmVEsdlBSdjNHbjhGQXc?resourcekey=0-zGjSj-bhz2TGC8TrnncIQg npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I know it probably sounds crazy and not really realistic, but what if we just asked people not to use AI? There must be a way. Maybe let people rate each other's work, open source the code and the work ethics of the contributors. Like filtering the noise on social media. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Do you know about the Electoral College? He didn't get the most votes this time or the last time. I certainly didn't vote for him. npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Right, I was thinking the same thing. I like zap.stream but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work from my PlayStation npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud So cool looking npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Picking up where I left off earlier and heading deeper into the labs under Ahroprom #Stalker2 #videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/CoqJICCkasc npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Alright I'm gonna nerd for a sec For the first time in #Stalker2 I just got a suit upgraded enough so that I now have a lead-lined slot for artifacts which means the slot itself can take the maximum amount of radiation that artifacts can give off which means I can finally use the Legendary artifact I found called Hypercube without dying 😄🤘🏻 Even I don't know what it does, but the description says it has potential applications in space navigation. And there are those weird warp things you can jump into in this one, I wonder if anything special would happen if I jumped through one while wearing it 🤔 Anyway, onward! #videogames #gamer #gamestr #streaming #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/La416wM1C0k npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud Added a little UX polish: a way for her to be able to remove any of the ingredients, seasonings or steps of instructions she's added (the little red X's) before she submits the final form in case of typos, or if she just wants to #GettingThere #WebDev #WebDevelopment https://blossom.primal.net/f8bd4c6ee37e78f5dc17372ee3e23243d9ecca5cd67c7bda361de4da4be3fdf2.png npub1vgsmxs4hu4qtsstfcx2rk99l28p23vu8e3umwxznpdwu8xrn8h0svxvl5m Spud I took the advice of the guys at Vlambeer and did a couple game-a-week games and I think it does help. The idea is that you only spend a week working on it, and then move on. It prevents the perfectionism that I would otherwise slather all over it. I made Ribeye Pong and Fruity Pebbles Asteroids and with both of them I started on a Monday and quit working on them the following Sunday at midnight