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Curious , what have you pivoted towards? A different field?

by tkel 6mo ago

sph 6mo ago
Game development, and writing small tools in the game dev space. This week I've been working on an image editing app, mostly to play with dithering algorithms and palettes, using Odin and SDL. I mean, it's either that or I quit software development completely; it would be a shame to throw away two decades of experience in the field.
- ryandvm 6mo ago
  I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find themselves being crushed under the CTO imperative to "use AI or else" like the rest of us.
  - sph 6mo ago
    Ok I should’ve said indie/solo game dev
    - em-bee 6mo ago
      does that pay? you could have chosen indy/solo dev in general. solo game dev in my understanding is very hard to make a living in.
- quikoa 6mo ago
  I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?
  - sph 6mo ago
    Nothing ready to ship just yet; I was thinking of building an image editing app that simply focuses on transformations — imagine Photoshop, without the editing part. Instead of having layers, you have a series of transformation you can tweak visually and then export to be reused and applied in batch later. The itch I want to scratch is that I'm on Linux, and our native image editing apps are very clunky, or you have to spend a weekend every time reacquainting yourself with ImageMagick. The other project in the back of my head is a font repository, manager and downloader for Linux. It's an unserved niche, and there is no popular central repository of fonts, despite a large majority of them are released with permissive licenses. I just want to be able to do `font-app install Inter Iosevka "IBM Plex"` and they appear under ~/.local/share/fonts
    - quikoa 6mo ago
      Alright, if you do build something I hope you share it here. I'm always looking forward to any image editing/processing apps or techniques.

Curious , what have you pivoted towards? A different field?

by tkel 6mo ago

Curious , what have you pivoted towards? A different field?

sph 6mo ago

Game development, and writing small tools in the game dev space. This week I've been working on an image editing app, mostly to play with dithering algorithms and palettes, using Odin and SDL. I mean, it's either that or I quit software development completely; it would be a shame to throw away two decades of experience in the field.

ryandvm 6mo ago
I don't know. For as long as I can remember, game dev has had the reputation of being the most sweat-shoppish of all the software engineering disciplines. I have a hard time believing that game devs aren't also going to find themselves being crushed under the CTO imperative to "use AI or else" like the rest of us.
- sph 6mo ago
  Ok I should’ve said indie/solo game dev
  - em-bee 6mo ago
    does that pay? you could have chosen indy/solo dev in general. solo game dev in my understanding is very hard to make a living in.
quikoa 6mo ago
I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?
- sph 6mo ago
  Nothing ready to ship just yet; I was thinking of building an image editing app that simply focuses on transformations — imagine Photoshop, without the editing part. Instead of having layers, you have a series of transformation you can tweak visually and then export to be reused and applied in batch later. The itch I want to scratch is that I'm on Linux, and our native image editing apps are very clunky, or you have to spend a weekend every time reacquainting yourself with ImageMagick. The other project in the back of my head is a font repository, manager and downloader for Linux. It's an unserved niche, and there is no popular central repository of fonts, despite a large majority of them are released with permissive licenses. I just want to be able to do `font-app install Inter Iosevka "IBM Plex"` and they appear under ~/.local/share/fonts
  - quikoa 6mo ago
    Alright, if you do build something I hope you share it here. I'm always looking forward to any image editing/processing apps or techniques.