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Ted Bendixson

7 months

I just pressed the big green button. Mooselutions is now available for sale on Steam. Go buy it today and leave a glowing review (because you know you love those pesky moose).

Mooselutions on Steam

Explore a puzzling forest full of cute (but pesky) moose who anger easily.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

Actually this kind of thing is 100% the reason I quit my last job. Why should I, the technical person who knows how the product works, take direction from someone who didn't have to grind like I did to get my skills? I need to work for people I respect.

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These two women single-handedly destroyed work from home jobs.

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Ted Bendixson

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@GareGamesInc The business part is usually much easier than programming and understanding how computers work. Imagine taking anyone from business school and putting them through a computer science program. How many would finish it? Why do we tolerate this?

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

If Balatro was at the top of Steam, I can only imagine it made at least a few million dollars. I don't know of any clean code enthusiasts who can boast such earnings from their own products. They usually earn from consulting and selling books on clean code. Telling, no?

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

Calling it "clean code" is another beautiful piece of social engineering. You set up your opposition to have to argue against something as basic as a well-kept living space, health, and freedom from illness. The best argument won't pass this visceral filter for most normies.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

Exhibit A. One 3,000 line function and one 2,000 line function, fully shipped. Exhibit B. Positive reviews from happy players. Note the absence of comments relating to the length of functions. Hypothesis: Players don't care about your code. They care about the game it makes.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

Balatro is an example of why the code just doesn't matter that much. What matters is making an innovative entry into a hot genre. In this case, the roguelike deckbuilder genre. It doesn't matter how your code looks. If you can do that, you make $11 million. So focus on that.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

There is a bright spot from my leaving. My friend still works at that company. They got rid of the PMs who were more of an obstruction than a help. It's an improvement. I've moved on to other things, and I wanted to point out how this makes me feel, that's all.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

Exhibit A. My game's memory usage. Note the flatness of the graph. Run the game for hours on end, it stays at 250 MB. How do I achieve this? I allocate a block of memory at startup. The game runs inside of it. What's stopping you from knowing how your app uses memory?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@OllysCoding Okay, so a few sit in some meetings but you don't give them a ton of responsibility. Include them enough to get the different perspective, but rely on the folks who have their feet on the ground making the product. People like those in the video shouldn't be central to it.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

@tsoding The people making the real money can code, design, hire talent, cook a tasty meal, invest in the stock market, promote their software, make YouTube videos, write a concise Tweet, do pixel art, port a game to Mac OS, and take care of sick relatives. Specialization is for insects.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

More software development porn. This is my game's build folder. Notice how the executable is only 310KB. It launches instantly. How do I achieve this? By not using Unity and only compiling the code that is needed to play the game. What's stopping you from doing this?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

Imagine if he called it "some shit we tried at my previous job in hopes that the worst developers might work better on teams." "How we tried to setup the code to squeeze the tiniest bit of productivity out of the dumbasses you typically encounter in most corporate environments."

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

How is Microsoft not just completely embarrassed? How is this not a five alarm fire for their brand?

Casey Muratori

@cmuratori

6 months

You can do a complete from-scratch rebuild (!!) of the RAD Debugger, load an executable, and start stepping through it in less time than it takes to merely launch a vanilla install of Visual Studio.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

This is my game's build system on Mac OS. I don't use Xcode. It's just a shell script. I know, procedurally, what happens and in what order. No more clicking "clean build folder" and hoping it builds. What's stopping you from understanding your build system?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@mervenoyann They aren't "over you," but they have all of the meaningful contacts with the people who are over you, frequently engage with the people who are over you, and relay their impression of you to them. So in what meaningful sense of it are they not?

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@Zorrow_kzz @GareGamesInc But it's equally without basis to assume that all programmers wouldn't be able to handle the responsibilities of a product manager and therefore need to have product managers telling them what to do. I've launched my own apps and games, even made money on them.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@curatedbycj @GareGamesInc That sounds kinda like prejudice, no? How do you know they're autistic? Are all software engineers autistic? What if some of them aren't? What if some of them have people skills? How will they get said skills if you don't give them a chance to talk to the clients?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

I think what I do is "clean" too. It's simple straightforward procedural code with minimal abstraction. I feel really organized and productive, but everything I do contradicts what's in Uncle Bob's book.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@alfred_tweet I would push back and ask how hard that actually is, compared to making working software? To me that seems like something the programmer should be responsible for, something that might take 10% of their time. It seems really easy compared to programming.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@cryptohound666 LOL but some of us aren't!!

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 years

@cmuratori I started following Handmade Hero two years ago, with the goal of using my own game engine to prototype new game ideas. This is the result of that effort, a 2D puzzle platformer that's sort of like Sokoban meets Metroidvania. Thanks again for your videos. I owe you

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@lemire Most of my software jobs typically involved solving the problem with simple straightforward procedural code, and then rewriting it to pacify whichever OOP ideologue happened to be the lead. It's like trying to setup shop in the Soviet Union. Gotta hang the sign of dear leader.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 years

@Grammatarian @cynixy * An equity stake in the organization

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

8 months

@jamonholmgren Yes, and I can still cook a five course dinner while wearing three pairs of oven mitts, four pairs of socks, and all of my snowboarding gear. I can still sorta work the knife, and I can kinda see the oven temperature through the fog in my goggles.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@CrausazPatrick Yes, but they take an extra step where they pretend they're the ones who said what the dev said so they can take credit.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 years

@kocienda The moment I saw mention of JIRA in an Apple product announcement, I knew their culture was rotting from the inside. No innovative company uses any of that. If you are, it's a sign you're old and decaying.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

Remember kids. Any time an individual accomplishes something technically challenging all alone, and you disagree with their methods, just say: "That's great for you, but it would never work in our 1,000,000 person team where we do hour long stand up meetings every 15 minutes."

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

11 months

@TylerGlaiel What are your thoughts about regularly releasing bigger and bigger iterations on the same game concept, improving based on feedback? Is that how you get to the bigger game?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

Imagine if chefs were like, "I don't want to learn the fundamentals of food and cooking. I just want to use the microwave." I'm a "Kitchen Aid" chef. This what I think when someone says they're a React developer, or any other fake specialty.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 years

@andy_kelley "the deadline is fake, the bugs are real" -- this needs to be made into a t-shirt

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

This explains the layoffs. Software people are doing this instead of solving actual problems.

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3 months

This code structure is called an arrow anti-pattern. How to fix this code?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@TemperGame Well yeah, and that's the weird thing. My intuition is that I do care, and even if I recognize that many others don't share my point of view, it doesn't change the fact that it's important for me to be led by people I deem worthy of my respect. It's just something I value.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@Josh_Christiane You have to quit, otherwise what are you saying about yourself by staying?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

Software people, you care way too much about getting a job. When I started out, I didn't even know you could earn six figures doing this. I thought all of it was being outsourced to India and wasn't valued anymore. I just made some apps I thought were cool. Then I got hired.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

@fahirmdz As a gay person, whenever I see things like this, I immediately suspect they don't pay their people that much. It's an indicator of leftwing bias, which means they will try to equalize pay instead of rewarding strong individual contributors on the basis of their value.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

@htmx_org I just shipped a video game with a 3,000 line function that does much more than one thing. I've got happy customer reviews and a new income source. What do they got?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

I think maybe what strikes a nerve, for me at least, is the supposition that I need someone to remind me of business priorities, and "keep me focused." What makes it worse is it's coming from someone sitting in a pool. It implies that I can't do this myself. It's insulting.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

10 days

Remove the "too early" and I agree 100%

Theo - t3.gg

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11 days

Still can’t believe we mislead an entire generation of devs by teaching them OOP too early

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

I posted this earlier, but since folks liked the previous tweet, here's the setup. Old ass iMac on the left, brand new gaming P.C. on the right. The same game (Mooselutions) running on the same cross-platform game engine I made from scratch in C-flavored C++. No Unity bloat.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

How come so many of my friends doing real programming are doing it outside of the context of a paying job? Why don't we view this as some kind of societal/civilizational problem? I know a brilliant guy that's stuck spending most of his hours making React Native apps.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

11 months

@TylerGlaiel So true. I thought I was a freaking genius when I came up with my first game ideas. It took trying to build them and seeing they didn't go anywhere to figure this out. I thought I was being innovative and different, but I was just inexperienced.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

1 month

Some dork looked at my code and no longer thinks I'm a "professional." Whatever shall I do with this shipped game that is bringing in revenue?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 years

@Grammatarian @cynixy haha thanks. The equity stake ensures that you can capture some of the value created from prerequisite number two, "a defined crunch outcome." In other words, if crunching generates a ton of wealth, I'm getting a cut too!

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

4 months

Let me tell ya, quitting scrum has done wonders for my mental health. I'm over a year sober and feeling more clear-headed and happier than ever. None of this would be possible without my partner, who is supporting my not scrumming. Quit if you can. It's worth it.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@ashwindollar I've never experienced that, but maybe there's hope!

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

@kephasp I would argue that more people don't ship anything because they get too hung up on perfection to just put something out there and see how the world responds.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@kulogame People like my friend Katrina, who not only finished her masters in computer science, but works as both a scrum master and hands on doing software development for a medical device company. She's also one of the most badass terrain park skiers I know.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@Itsbeardie That's assuming a lot about me, actually. I recently launched a full game that I developed, designed, and project managed myself. I did *not* get caught in the weeds, and I figured out how to ship something that people like within a reasonable time.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

Uncle Bob is a pilot, and he says software development is like flying a plane. Well I am a washed-up 40 year old EXTREME amateur snowboarder, and surprise surprise, I think software dev is actually a lot like EXTREME snowboarding. These are the badass attitudes you must have.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

3 months

@RamblingJosh @Brossentia In practice, most of what is recommended in Clean Code does not help others follow your brain, and it makes for worse performance.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

@stephc_int13 Like Jon Blow and Carmack, I prefer to only elevate code to the status of function when it is called in more than one place. That way, if I see something is a function, I automatically know it is called in multiple places and I don't have to guess or search.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@tsoding It's practically designed to create polarizing discussions.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

If you're a programmer by trade, you should make a lot of your personal use software yourself. It's not only good practice, but truly a privilege to get such a streamlined customer experience. I'm doing this with taxes and business accounting.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

@htmx_org The CEO of htmx is, without any qualification, the best at this game :-)

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

It's insane that I can say, "I don't find it satisfying to work with third-party game engines," and a common response is, "he's gatekeeping game development." I will call myself a loser if it means I can make games my way. You can have the illustrious "game develper" identity.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

I used to be an iOS developer who only uses Apple's frameworks. I'm updating a ten year old app I've been slowly making money on. Compared to my custom game engine setup, it's so slow. SDK updates. 7GB downloads. "Processing files" in Xcode. Thank fuck I left all of that behind

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Ted Bendixson

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4 months

The key to shipping games is to start with gameplay. I can tell you'll never ship if you go months on end showing off videos of highly detailed 3D models with no gameplay. The people who show gameplay from the start usually ship.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@curatedbycj @GareGamesInc Well who is making the judgment about any specific swe being autistic and then denying them opportunities? You're saying you wouldn't do that, but how do you determine they're autistic? I wasn't given a test like that at past employers. Are lay people diagnosing me?

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

@CFDevelop It's almost like all of the people doing this (self-included) should get together and form some kind of business entity that might, I dunno, compete with the other software companies.

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Ted Bendixson

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4 months

If I could offer up one piece of advice to anyone looking to get into programming, it's this. Be prolific as fuck. Everyone I know who has had success has finished several projects. Everyone I know who has gotten nowhere keeps trying to start their *first* project.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

@BKAngryKing I don't think you get to call it terrible when it makes 11 million dollars.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

@enjojoyy I'm over a year sober since I quit back in November of 2022. It takes a few months for the OOP toxins to leave your brain, so be patient with yourself. Your spouse might notice you dredging up memories of past work experiences, but be calm and confident the memories will fade.

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Ted Bendixson

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4 months

If the jobs require you to be a master programmer, to make a whole game to show skill, why wouldn't you just compete and go build your own game studio? Your employers are telling you they won't help develop your career. Why should you be there for them once you blossom?

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Ted Bendixson

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4 months

@char_bun I discovered that my alma mater, CU Boulder, teaches a CS class that features "education" (a.k.a. indoctrination) on agile methodologies. It's a degree requirement. They might as well bring in Dr. Oz and the My Pillow guy to teach a class on health supplements.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

You have no idea how much trial and error it took to get here. Apple has so many undocumented rules, which makes it even more difficult when you don't opt into using Xcode to do your builds. I spent the last three days guessing what Apple wants until I stumbled on it.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

I got my first payment from Valve today. It doesn't come close to getting me into the black on this game, but it still feels really good. I take the long view. My oldest apps are from 2011, and I still get residual payments on those. Over the years, the dividend adds up.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 years

@cmuratori This needs to become one of those Epic Rap Battles of History. Games vs. Silicon Valley bullshit. Performance vs. Internet startup culture. Millions of Polygons vs. Billions of dollars. Casey Muratori vs. Paul Graham.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 years

Don't have a bridge? Make one by reflecting the beam onto surfaces in my #indiegame Cove Kid. #IndieGameDev #gamedev

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

My game engine runs the same on Mac OS and Windows. It's awesome. My spouse left on an errand, and I'm on doggie duty downstairs with the laptop. This morning, I was on Windows. This afternoon, Mac OS. No difference. No jankiness or bugs.

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

Also, just wow, this really struck a nerve. Even if I am unjustified in feeling what I feel (which I am willing to explore), it seems like quite a few people think I am justified. There must be some intuition I have hit upon, and it's worth exploring that.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

I'm doing my taxes using a C program I wrote a year ago. It's kinda like playing Factorio. Every year, you take a look over the whole thing and there are subtle changes. A bank changes their reports. The tax form has a new option. Mostly, I just run it and check the math.

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Ted Bendixson

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15 days

Wow, this word wrapping thing is going faster than I thought. I might have a PHD before dinner.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 days

The fastest code I write tends to also be the dumbest. I used to run a fancy sorting algorithm on the layers my game draws. Now I just allocate ten or twenty arrays of commands for all the layers and go back to front. No sorting. It's convenient and waaaaay faster.

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Ted Bendixson

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7 days

Quite a few years ago, I remember watching a Handmade Hero video where Casey said linear interpolation is one of the most important things he learned in game development. Now I think I see why. I use it in animations, progress bars, collision detection. So many uses.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

I know I say a lot about how my games have deterministic memory usage, run fast, use minimal disk space, like I'm holding you to an impossible standard. But I am also human, and I ship products which have bugs. If your game is fun, most of it doesn't matter. Just fix them.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

@ankkala Does updating all of the game's state for a single frame count as a "single thing?" Is rendering the state for a frame a "single thing?" I'm genuinely curious because it seems like those functions do a lot of things.

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Ted Bendixson

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21 days

@rflaherty71 Because C is sunlight. It exposes bullshit for what it is. If you get good at C programming, your attitude towards many other programming paradigms, methodologies, styles, and languages changes. It causes an identity crisis. You can't go back to who you were.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

@zakarum4 I'm not going to debate that. It's true. For me, the benefit is the reduction in complexity I need to manage in my head. I just know that if I can get the 250 MB at startup, I won't ever have to worry about memory while the game is running. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

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Ted Bendixson

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6 months

I'm getting many comments about team size / maintenance. If you come from an OOP mindset, you won't understand my game's code. If you followed Handmade Hero, you would. It's cultural. If you share my values and practices, you can work with my code. If you don't, you can't.

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Ted Bendixson

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4 days

I'll say it again. The software industry has been unserious for decades. The Crowdstrike thing was bound to happen. Because we're not investing in real skills, the skills rot, and the replacement generation has nobody to learn from. We're not building, just doing rituals.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

@timClicks It's Java. There's no way you're going to be tackling hard interesting problems.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 years

@kenpex That's the secret. Millions of programmers are basically employed to do pointless obfuscatory non-work, and the people who employ them can't tell the difference between the thing they're doing and real work.

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4 days

Well, I can rest assured that whatever's going on at Crowdstrike, they almost certainly groomed the tickets, completed the sprint, wrote the unit tests, did the retrsopective, and fit the tickets onto a professional looking timeline before the deadline. Everyone did their jobs.

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

@AustinTByrd I think there was a push to turn the high skilled SWE job into a medium skill blue collar job, which created over-reliance on 3rd party frameworks. Even people who want to become high skilled SWE's can't work at a job where they can improve their skills. They do it on the side.

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Ted Bendixson

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5 months

With C, there's actually a structure and underlying logic tying it all together. With web, it's just a bunch of arbitrary decisions and complicated layers of cruft with no way to reason about why things are the way they are.

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Web dev is way harder than C dev You have to learn: - HTML/CSS - Flexbox/CSSGrid - Javascript/Typescript - The DOM - One of 20 web frameworks - etc. At least with C you just get C and solve problems In Javascript youre stuck in dependency hell Ill take C everytime

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This is what happens when you have design by committee, where the committee is composed of programmers who don't regularly ship big difficult consumer-facing products. Had it been designed by a handful of people, all world class shippers, it would be a different story.

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“Swift, the original idea was factor complexity (…) massively failed, in my opinion (…) Swift has turned into a gigantic, super complicated bag of special cases, special syntax, special stuff” lesson learned from Chris Lattner on Swift

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Ted Bendixson

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4 months

There. I solved the FAANG interview question. Now where is my $300k/yr salary for sitting in scrum meetings?

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Ted Bendixson

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2 months

@mervenoyann I'm open to discussing alternatives here, like they exist as a barrier so management doesn't have to deal with engineers, but now you're saying management has abdicated responsibility. Would I want to work for a company where real management is absent?

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Ted Bendixson

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1 month

100% true. I had one video go viral, up in the ~250K views, and I only made $200 from it. YouTube is tough.

Casey Muratori

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1 month

Since the OP said it was time to have a "conversation" about reaction videos in the programming space, here you go: I have said it before (because @FreyaHolmer said it first), and I'll say it again: if you are creating serious in-depth programming content, you are not making

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Ted Bendixson

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3 months

I had heart surgery three months ago. Last week, I got back into climbing and started up my strength routine. I've been biking and doing indoor cardio too. Everything feels surprisingly normal and uneventful, which is the weirdest thing. Can't take this for granted.

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Ted Bendixson

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1 month

@falconerd I'm guessing some of the recent Unity drama has people questioning their dependence on third parties. All it takes is one bad event to awaken the sleeper in us. Live through a pandemic and it'll be on your radar until you die.

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Ted Bendixson

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17 days

As fun as the daily/weekly videos have been, I think I'm going to pull back pretty hard on my social media-ing for the next few months. I just need to make a shitton of new game content. Happy holiday weekend folks!

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

6 months

My mitral valve is repaired. I'm still at the hospital, but they just need to disconnect some drainage tubes, and I can go home. Thanks everyone for your wishes and positive vibes

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

14 days

To grow, I had to quit iOS dev completely. The role is too boxed in by design. It is a fake specialty. All you can do is get better at the pre-packaged frameworks Apple gives you. I learned how to make cross-platform games from scratch and escaped that suffocating ecosystem.

Volhan | iOS Dev

@volhansalai

14 days

After years of being an iOS Engineer I realized that I am not learning much in my 9-5 the only progress in my knowledge and seniority that I ever achieve is by building some projects on the side. Do you also feel the same? Maybe you have some other way of learning on the job?

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 years

@NoelFB Feeling so smug about making my own engine now

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

I love how when you release a game on Steam, you get roped into supporting the Steam Deck because Proton runs Windows games, and you'll get players who try your game with Proton and then write a review requesting better Steam Deck support. So now we're doing Steam Deck I guess.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 years

I finally did it. I finished my Mac platform layer video series, helping people get started with Handmade Hero on the Mac. Enjoy!

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

5 months

Here's some productivity advice that will surely be misinterpreted as me advocating no work-life balance. If you are an independent creator, set a goal to get some deliverable in front of your audience and don't do anything else until you release that thing. Then take a break.

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Ted Bendixson

@TBendixson

2 months

@melissajcave I might flip this on its head and ask why 1/3 to 2/3 of the day would naturally be filled with meetings if there weren't a project manager. Why? Is it because we're billing hourly and that makes clients nervous? What if you make your own product? Are the meetings needed?

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