I am now officially a 'real' programmer using n im for my coding and yesterday I had the revelation when it felt the first time as productive as Vscode when not a tad bit more productive. It is crazy how steep the learning curve is but the benefit of the same env. on my two MacBooks, the Gaming rig, the home server, my wife's laptop, my daughter's laptop and at work is just fantastic 😍 What is your favorite #nvim trick?

Last day of parental leave... Let's see what crazy stuff happened in the last 6 months at work.

Crazy how much I love Linux, I switched a couple a week ago back to #Bazzite a Gaming Distro (mostly to play X4). But interesting enough when I tried to develop on the machine it just makes fun, especially because you will need to set up containers for every move you take. Therefore, I always have a clean development env. At first, it really restricted me, and I was multiple times thinking about to change my environment. But now after some playtime I love how everything works together. Also, my vim setup is finally complete and works quite nice out of the box.

Ah back home on #Linux <3, who knew that it is important to have a keyboard with wire in your home. All just to get rid of Windows 11.

With the #square payment update to accept bitcoin in x stores, is it now a boost for the

BTC Map

Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.

? #BtcMap

What does GM stand for?

How seem less it is to pay with lightning leaves me in awe every time. I paid for mullvard yesterday and got some sats via a p2p exchange @Robosats . Even though it is a bit complicated to finally get some sats it is a great way to avoid kyc. I also checked out bisq but I needed it anyway in lightning also it was way harder for small amounts ~30€ because of higher fees.

Day 6 / 712 Today I had a short session with some click events, I learned how to select an element that I show in #Godot and show a small UI for that selected element. This allows me now to select for example my "Corral" and send the cows to the next location. This will be my task for tomorrow.

I don't know, but all that AI layoffs and AI development aka 'vibe coding' give me the feeling that there is coming a huge wave of more work for me in the future. Maybe I am too optimistic, but there seem to be golden times for software engineers ahead. #developers #code #programming

Day 4/712 A break, I watched more tutorials throughout the day but I am too tired to really do something.

Day 3 / 712 Camera navigation Yesterday I had a blast by creating some models that are probably total overkill, so for the corral and the pastures I decided to make just colorful circles for now. Then I thought, let's invest some time in the camera and understand how I could best make it move. And after some research, I found some quite nice tutorial videos from Nanotech Gamedev about #RTS cameras. This helped me to get up to speed and showed me again that we have to take everything into account. Also, I felt like I am currently in tutorial hell that I have to escape rather quickly and learn by adding my own stuff. The camera is now moving already, just not as "smooth" as I would love to have it. But I can zoom, mouse pan and pan with the keyboard. So it's basically already done, just needs some fine-tuning. #GameDevChallange #programming #godot

Day 2 / 712 Today I started with energy to create some models that I could use for my demo purposes. And I started with two main characters, the #cowboys and the cattle. And because I am still in the finding phase and want to discover lots of things, I played a bit with all kinds of elements, also with the world environment in #Godot. I still fight a bit with all the sub sub sub menus (World Environment -> Background -> Mode -> Sky -> Sky -> Sky Material 😵‍💫 ) but I guess it is just because usually I am more the #NVIM type of guy and less with tooling in general. I am also again surprised how much "you have" to do yourself in Game Development, I somehow always think there is already a finished solution for this, like there is already a camera and I just "click" somewhere it just works. But you write all the scripts yourself, like movement for example. Also, LLM tried to explain to me that for an Isometric view, it would be beneficial to have a Camera Rig with a Camera inside. Not sure if that is how I want to do it. This also needs more discovery. In general, I still enjoy my path forward and cannot wait to see finally something moving.

Day 1 / 712 Today, my game dev journey started. I created my first draft of a GDD with all the core features I would like to have in the game. - Cattle Management - City Management - Cowboy Management Besides of that, I thought about a story that could hold the game together in a very rough way. A historical view of the cattle farming in the 1800s. Adding some cool stuff into it like iconic characters like "Billy the Kid" or even Arthur Morgan from #rdr as a sidekick. After I had my first draft, I started to play around in #Godot and got stuck by Materials and the Material Maker tool and how I could get the textures into my scene. Which is not a lot, but now I have a pane with a bunch of materials to play around. Tomorrow, my next step would be to get some low poly characters in the scene, like a #cowboy. #gamedev

#autumn feeling's

Ok, I started three days ago with a small journey, I always wanted to create a game. But never had the time and the energy to get started. And well... That did not change. But at least my app is currently in a state that I like and with that I have some spare time. With my two children, I still have a time bottleneck, but I want to dedicate 10h / week now to my game. My idea is an homage to the 2002 game Far West. A wild west management game in which you the player gets the chance to experience the times around 1800 as a cattle farmer and enjoy the progression from a time when you are basically alone until the times when cattle hubs are created and train stations are all over the place in the US. The atmosphere should be a classic western game, with tumbleweed on the ground and a lot of cool cowboys. I would like to showcase my progress here on Nostr. I hope to learn from the journey how to, ... - ... implement 3d with a low Poly Look - ... with shaders - ... market a game - ... release a game on steam The current time frame is about 2 years as a solo dev with that time commitment, maybe there are some weeks when I progress slower and weeks when I will be able to be faster. The working title is at the moment "Dust & Dollars". Wish me luck <3

Some sunday morning impression

I thought today about a small side project, it is quite hard in our city part to get information about the next real event. There are some sides and a lot of different providers of local services. Most of the information I receive is about a local WhatsApp Group, but this leads to the issue that usually only one party is providing information. The general idea would be to get infos like events (for now manually) run it through an AI and categorize them and show them in a web app or mobile app. This would maybe support the local community. Did you have such a problem in your community? How did you solve it?

Finally, I found some time to update my Bitcoin Wallet Tracker app that allows you to check your transactions, wallets and create profiles. It took me quite a while to really rewrite nearly everything in order to make it more maintainable in the long run. Additionally, I was able to remove the 16 bit issue with Android. 🎉 So be patient and version 4.1.0 should be released after the review! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.flutterexp.bitcoinTracker If you have some time, it would be fantastic if you could give me a review or just share some feedback with me directly!

How do you approach video content in Nostr, I see from time to time videos, but I am super unsure how to do it, actually. Should I host a VPS to share the files, would you set up a home server? #askNostr

Today I want to test the goals in noStrudel Nostr Client and added a Goal. I would like to test how the Live Streaming works on Nostr and for that I would kindly ask you for your support of 1.2 k Sats. The Goal runs until the 06.11.2023 and probably on the 08.11.2023 will be the live stream. View quoted note → Thanks for your support!