My cat!

My wife and I rescued her from under a car. She’s absolutely adorable. We named her Trinity because she liked to wall-run.

Can you please go back to Facebook? Or send me to a place where devs rant?

@Isirant if you care so much about dev related ranting... why did you click this post that's clearly about a cat?

Also, i highly doubt you are a valid dev. To be fair, a large percentage here isn't.

@Isirant > "Can you please go back to Facebook?"

Devs posting their kitten pics get a pass.

So cute!

Lil' guy must feel really safe sleeping like that. Sign of a good cat-parent. Well done.

Cats are dev related. Always.

@aviophille > "AW GIVE US MORE PICS PWETTY PLEASE!!!"

My daughter rescued this little guy from being a 'barn cat'.

@awesomeest what is percentage of Javascript devs here again? ;-)

@aviophille I said this for you.

@Demolishun im still getting used to people identifying as a dev via any language...
just last year i found out that single language devs... like hired as such, are real!
I totally thought they were like unicorns-- tons of lore but typically no evidence of really existing.

Idk how to even describe myself in today's world. It's scary. I have a lot of hats; i was already aware of this. But now "dev" has so many inept subtypes to figure out. I was lost enough with "gender identity" and the alphabet soup of sexual orientations.

@awesomeest I think single language was a lot more prevalent in early/late 90s. Though by the time I hit college I had QBasic, Pascal, C, C++ exposure. Basically anything I could afford to get my hands on. Then internet hit and you could get tons of languages.

I think it might depend on the whatever curriculum people choose as to what languages they get exposed to. Do the single language people has a zeal for the craft? Is this a comfort thing? Like they are only comfortable talking about languages they feel proficient in?

@Demolishun I think there is a difference between only happening to know a single broadly applicable language (like C++) without needing to know much more than that and actively rejecting everything outside your scope, dismissing it as useless.

Being a single language dev is dangerous unless you know general software engineering practices and can learn new shit. If your language goes out of style and can’t jump to a new one, youre fucked

@Demolishun i dont have much reference from the early 90s as i was born in 92... but i was solid at html, css, php and some C and fortran by age 7... also pretty unaware at just how odd of a kid i was (autistic af, undiagnosed til adulthood)... so i cant say i have a valid frame of ref.

I guess i just hadn't considered the idea of learning coding/programming to only know 1 thing... especially back then since there wasnt many all-in-one languages

@awesomeest yeah that’s a good foundation-you did frontend HTML/CSS and backend like php, C and interestingly Fortran. Full stack.

I think some of these “language developer” titles are just crappy titles thought up by certain companies. Hopefully these devs learned development and not just “what to do in Ruby”, if the latter then nobody who uses different tools wants you.

@TeachMeCode not sure if u got this from my comment... that's just how i started off... around age 7... in 1999... shit that's over 24yrs ago...

i miss the days before html and css had all these numbers after them... when you could just write a whole website in html and animated GIFs were fancy

this reminds me of some batch shit i used to pull as a kid. back in middle school there was some asshat on runescape who kept bragging about animated gifs and how he could make them... he used a program... so i kinda took a few hours and made a mostly harmless trojan thatd probably qualify as a hate crime nowadays... it was just a small square animated gif of 6 neon colours rotating in 4 squares of the 50px gif. i just had it persistently change the background and screensaver to that lil gif... tiled.

in hindsight im lucky he didnt have a seizure disorder

@awesomeest every damn website in the 90s was a seizure inducing mess, lol. Nice hack, btw.

@Demolishun idk if that'll come through... but thats essentially what it was... just really small and tiled. It literally caused me headaches and hurt my eyes when i tested it back then... trying to find an icon on a desktop(for all the people that only knew basic gui) was near a biohack

@awesomeest just avoid 6Hz. That is the magic seizure frequency for humans. I don't remember where I read that though. Could be wrong.

@awesomeest wow! I never had my own computer until college lol. I think I would’ve started early if I knew what programming was and that it’s how video games are made. With my then teenage brain I would’ve built a version of Mario taking a shit on Bowser or something lol. Then again I hated math, but maybe I would’ve hated it less if I knew it had a use lol

This is how I saved your gif:

@TeachMeCode idk how old you are... the only computer video games back when i started programing were the basic shit like minesweeper, pong, solitare... and cd-roms were just starting to come into use...

if you wanted a real video game... well then you had the old school DOS RPGs... what you know 'bout some Captain Bible???
https://dosgames.com/game/...

@Demolishun so it transferred enough for you to see/misspell the effect?... imagine that on tile.

@awesomeest yeah, I looked at that a kept wondering if it was ie or ei, doh!

@kiki

I have a pitbull/mix doggo... he's a scaredy cat... including of literal cats... kittens, chickens, stationary brooms, coffee, empty beer cans, etc

I showed him the pic... apparently he recognised it as a cat(or something else he fears) enough to back away.

This is his scared/concerned face. Kittens to thunderstorms, he makes this face.

@awesomeest this app sucks with images

@awesomeest wow! Never heard of that one. Then again I wasn’t playing PC games, still don’t. I buy the consoles, not to bash PC gaming btw. Currently have a switch, ps4, ps5 and Xbox series x

@TeachMeCode i sold my sega genisis a few years ago and my old xbox (the original xbox) was made into a server when xbox one came out... still have some rare-ish sega games (like paperboy) and my N64 plus a xbox 360 and a one

@awesomeest favorite gaming genres are action rpg (Elden ring, Baldurs Gate 3, Zelda) fighting (especially Mortal Kombat), and survival horror (big resident evil fan).

@TeachMeCode BG3 is not an action rpg 😄

@Lensflare fuck why did I include that!!!!! 😣😣😣 damn devrsnt and not letting me edit after 5 minutes.

@awesomeest do you have a Dreamcast by any chance?

@kiki fond memories of the Dreamcast

@kiki Soul Calibur was awesome on that console. What was your favorite title?

@TeachMeCode I never owned a Dreamcast. I only ever had a ps2 my parents bought for me, but they refused to buy me any games, so I was stuck using it as a DVD player to rewatch shrek and the home alone over and over again.

@kiki not currently, got a few games of it still... last time i played anything from dreamcast i used an emulator on pc

Raise your hand if you played Elden Ring 🖐️

@TeachMeCode played 5 min. Didn't like, refunded.

@Demolishun that’s ok, different strokes different folks!

@Demolishun must’ve been that asshole knight boss in the beginning. I hated that guy, when I started out I would be enjoying the scenery then I hear 🐎🐎🐎 and plows me with his lance lol

@TeachMeCode I searched and searched and I couldn't put it in first person. Only way to do this was the mod. I am also spoiled by games that don't lock you into a role. I didn't want to get 2 hours into it and find I didn't like it (Steam cut off on returns is 2 hours).

My son convinced me to buy the whole Borderlands collection on sale for $60. I played like 10 hours and just am not incentivized to play it. I don't know why. I like Skyrim and Fallout 4. I like Oblivion and Morrowind. I have a hard time playing other rpgs now. I don't understand why completely.

That was the final straw. I was wanting open world feel sooner.

@Demolishun makes sense. Yeah it can be hard to enjoy the scenery when everything is trying to kill you. In Elden Ring I used a “barbarian” type lol which is the persona I always use bc that’s MY persona lol. The shirtless naked warrior hiding in the bushes with his bow then running out with his spear and jumping toward the enemy screaming lol!

So I built out strength dexterity and stamina and neglected those worthless other attributes like intellect 😅

Always a spear guy in these kinds of games, got a dangerous poke poke

@awesomeest I see you liked my Elden ring comment! You played it correct? And how long did you have your genesis? Asking bc it was an extremely desirable item as a kid all bc the Power Rangers game had Goldar the Green Ranger and the dragonzord (when I saw screenshots as a ten yr old boy I was like THIS GAME HAS GOLDAR). I wouldve been happy to buy an entire system just to play as a flying monkey creature lol.

@Demolishun if you like open world check out Zelda Tears of the Kingdom if you have a switch. If third person isn’t your thing, then you may want to skip.
Always a Zelda fan, started with link to the past and used to play Ocarina of Time for countless hours and never got sick of it lol. That was my first ever exposure to open world. The day and night dynamics was space age tech for me as a kid lol. I felt my balls grow escorting Princess Zelda from the prison in link to the past on snes lol. Yeah it’s lame but I felt good being the bodyguard for a Princess as a kid lol

@TeachMeCode itd take me too much mental effort to figure out how long... long