featured ever wondered how Terraria renders its worlds? or how editors like Tiled manage to make painting tiles so easy?

tairu - an interactive exploration of 2D autotiling techniques

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I've been thinking recently how cool it is to be able to single-step into Unreal Engine's source code and edit it while you're working with it, and how uncool it is that I can't do the same thing easily in the Rust world.

after all, aren't we just dealing with a bunch of code running on the computer? why not let me poke at it?

systems are just a bunch of code

can you can read other people's code? bonus: dismantling Unreal Engine's GENERATED_BODY

last night I couldn't sleep because of type theory. in the process of trying to write down my thoughts, I ended up discovering a class of types which, to my knowledge, no language implements.

OR-types

what the hell do you mean, aren't sum types exactly that??

I really like Lua, did you know that? but I get kind of tired of explaining why a thousand times to people who don't know the language, so…

programming languages: Lua

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sidebars! also known as, "enjoying the main content? how about I distract you from it so that you can't focus!"
seriously though. I don't like them.

design: sidebars

read why I don't like them so much

I started a branch on user interface and user experience design, because I was working with mintty at work and had some thoughts about it.

"why does mintty always feel so out of place compared to cmd.exe?"

liquidex's treehouse: design

read: on digital textures go to branch