I make educational games! PhD, TedXSpeaker. Currently working on TPT/PBS' Hero Elementary! + New IP! @dennispr@mastodon.social ๐Ÿฆ‹@dennisramirez

Minnesota, USA
Joined May 2009
For no particular reason... If you want to know what mastodon is and how to use it. wired.com/story/how-to-get-sโ€ฆ
1
Ok. Ya know, seems to be about that time.
Living in the midwest has prepared me for everyone saying goodbye, but no one leaving.
2
My most salient line of code? print("here");
1
And you say this reduces cpu load by almost 100%? ... yes. you should totally run it right now.
Replying to @ZoeSchiffer
Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/
Someone mistyped "Metaverse" as "Metacurse" and honestly it's a better name for the stuff that's out there right now that just won't die.
My timeline right now
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Living in the midwest has prepared me for everyone saying goodbye, but no one leaving.
1
1
5
when my last tweet breaks twitter
1
God of War: Ragnarok's game designers before having the npc just tell you what to do.
Devs watching QA test the product
I've been learning way too much about fonts (more accurately type faces) and I have a new appreciation for them.
1
3
For example, Helvetica (released in 1957 by Swiss type designer Max Miedinger) was purposefully designed as a neutral font as a statement against nationalism (with WWII having recently ended). Iit was meant to be functional, clear, and timeless without anterior motives.
3
*it **ulterior I swear I can write.
Blackletter and it's relatives were used across Europe. It was commonly seen in Germany... until it was banned by the Nazis in 1941.
1
In spite of this, there was still a strong perception that it was German and lead to a rejection of the font by others. This influenced other fonts (like helvetica and futura) to be less ornate as a way to distance them.