Andy @pixel@desu.social

So I've been on here for almost three months, guess it's time to do one of those #introductions 🤔

My name is Andy, also known as pixel or pixeldesu all across the internet. I'm a professional web developer from Germany, while general dev stuff is also my hobby.

I do whatever I'm interested in, games, art, music, etc. while my current focus is preservation of video games and reverse engineering.

I love to make new friends, so feel free to shoot me a mention and let's talk!

hmm, it's just been a little over a day since I released the update for my Risk of Rain 2 mod and it already has over 600 downloads for that version.

whew.

non-node toolchain when

this probably also involves rewriting our entire toolchain with memory-save packages that actually do filestreams properly and not some "haha chokidar go watch" and some shitty deque implementation.

tfw can't wait to profile why our frontend toolchain is running out of memory in Docker setups

node developers be like: inodes go brrrrrrrr

circular dependency hell

aaaaaaa

tracked time for my first full ride to work with my scooter and it took me 17 minutes for 4km.

considering I had to wait for traffic lights/walk the pavement on a large street crossing it probably came out to 15 minutes pretty much.

wroom

reverse engineering sometimes is wondering about file extension origins, and then stuff like this happens

It's almost 3 AM, blast Hotel Moonside (kors k Bootleg)

https://soundcloud.com/kors-k/hotel-moonsidekors-k-bootleg

so I just pressed my screenshot hotkey, without having ShareX installed

smart move, I blame it on the heat

guess I'll work on a tool for that, because I have multiple cases I want to handle:

* pattern matching for names/extensions (e.g. setup executables that we can assume have been run after lying around for days)
* stale file deletion after x time
* moving files around (e.g. image-ext into Pictures/)

I wonder, are there any tools to manage stuff like a Downloads folder?

I often just forget to clean it up and having some kind of either auto-removal or notification on stale files would be rad.

Discord completely dropping the gamer branding is just the funniest thing to me.

I predicted this years ago, although for different reasons.

oh, speaking of which, time to go and disable every Windows service I don't need!

my favorite ritual of using Firefox: adjusting about:config for like an hour to disable all the Mozarella stuff

back on a updated system with only...Firefox and 1Password

my kind of luck: reinstalling Windows but it doesn't ship Wi-Fi drivers

download drivers off another laptop and move with USB drive aaaaaaa

me, wanting to give Linux another try:

my laptop and its hybrid Nvidia/Intel setup: waaaaaait a minute

achievement of the day:

with zero knowledge about RabbitMQ I managed to set up a proper queueing and RPC system.