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Hi, I'm Sam, a writer, creator, and developer with over a decade of freelance experience. I've worked with a bit of everything. C++, C#, Python, Blender, the Adobe Suite, Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Maya, Houdini, C4D, and a whole lot more. I'm a techy guy that loves helping people and building things

my 7 identical grandchildren hold the pillow down on my face in unison but you can still hear the muffled screams of me yelling “it’s actually not a true river but a saltwater estuary—“

Help, the intern won't shut up about clapperboards. www.patreon.com/posts/intern...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

this is sick

Back when Aotearoa New Zealand was voting via referendum on whether or not to ditch First Past the Post for Mixed Member Proportional for our voting system, the cartoonist Murray Ball put out the below comic. I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.

Adobe's gonna be having a very, very bad day.

Did you know you can subtract left to right? 😱

So, how long does it take to teach the basics of going live with Astro? 8 Posts! I've covered everything you need to put a basic site live as of today! hirethis.one/guides/going... I've been at it just over a month and I achieved my MVP/minimum goal!

What is the best day to release Babbling Brook, a sunny relaxing indie game about messing around with water and sand? You guessed it… a dreary Monday in November 😁 #indiegame #cozygame #madewithunity #indiegaming youtu.be/wwLJ8D8jtgw

@aspleenic.bsky.social ... Bruh. 🤣

New update in my Guide to Astro series for Total Beginners! ‣‣‣ hirethis.one/guides/intro... This week covers using Obsidian for Content in Astro.

100% this! #remotework #gamedev

When you treat your employees like crap you'll still ship your org chart www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

In 1995 Brendan Eich created JavaScript at Netscape, a language written in days that turned static pages into interactive apps and eventually powered vast developer ecosystems on browsers and servers alike #ITHistory

This is what the website of a legend looks like: advsys.net/ken/

Thanks to @laughinggiraffe.bsky.social, my lil' script for adding UTM variables to Resume URLs has a UI! This is actually super handy, I can now just click edit, make a change, save. It's much faster ad more convenient than before. gist.github.com/NXSam/acf701...

“Netflix continued to support Silverlight playback for browsers that did not support HTML 5 until September 13, 2023.” fucking WHAT

Latest blog is up! I may've made some errors on a job application and now I hope the HR/Hiring team sees my blog! They did ask for the link in the application and I KNOW I didn't typo that! hirethis.one/blog/the-job...

Have you seen the Marble Run Simulator? It's insane! So cool! By forum user SvenFrankson! tiaratum.com/viewer/#mach... #BuiltWithBabylon #3D #WebDev #gamedev #indiedev #WebDevelopment #webgl #gamedevelopment #IndieDevs

If I were to make a UI for a python app, what would be the best way? It needs 5 text boxes, 1 file input. Stupid simple app. #python

1h40m of @flightradar24.com NYC-bound traffic sped up by 20,000% down to 30 seconds. It’s not too often we see all three major airports using the same runway 4 approaches. It’s beautiful.

Today: Sunday My Inbox: Notifications about job apps. Well, I think I know what places to write off as using a timer on when to send a notification. "If this job has not been viewed by X days, auto-deny." It doesn't hurt that the updates came at the same time of day as I applied.

The job search continues! 2 interviews in the books. Kind of. One has some tech snags to fix. Poked 2 recruiters. And I have a 3rd recruiter contact that seems to have cold called me.

This evening I started looking into updating the main menu - and stumbled into quite a bug nest - which I managed to fix. I think. At least some. 🫠 Still need to do a lot on this... #IndieGame #PuzzleGame #CozyGaming #ProgrammingGame #AutomationGame #LogicGame #IndieDev #CozyGame

I just realized. I think I cut my last actual hard-tie to Windows. I dropped my Creative Cloud account. My windows machine is working just the way I want, so I'm not doing anything to it now, but...

I went to an airsoft place and they had badges/patches that said "I KNOW HTML" and I was like that's so me!!

I'm willing to put up with some friction and frustration from my computers and software. But what I can't ~abide~, and will twist my life into pretzels to avoid sensing from my computers and software, is *malice*.

Cause a nuclear meltdown here #indiedev #webgl #indiegame #short #incremental #gamejam #itchio mechabit.itch.io/criticality

Somebody set CSS visibility:None; Or it's scrolled off the page and overflow is hidden. Or it's behind the text box.

So, bad news: I finally finished reading all the Expanse books. Except the comics. I am really mad at the ending. I want to know what happens to Filip and Naomi and all the stuff that wasn't explained!

Another post up in my guide series on beginner web design! hirethis.one/guides/codin... #webdev #teaching #techwriting

I might be starting a side project. Obsidian doesn't like folder link aliases. I might write a plugin to make it like them.

OK, that's cool. I kinda like this company already.

One of those days where you really, really don't like how our whole job application/employee set up works. The job app let me in and then stops me after I filled out everything.

My little tracker script is in the wild for all who wanna get some data on their job hunts: hirethis.one/blog/resume-... Ok, the script itself isn't elaborate, but it saves time and analytics is handy. #gethired #development #webdev #jobseeker