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Patrick McConnell @dogboystudios
Joined February 2009
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Spring Runnoff in January: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2023/0…

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Warmer is Not Always Better: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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So Much White: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…

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Snow Day Game Dev: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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My Own Personal State Park: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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Making some soup and had a thought about also baking a loaf of bread. Google ‘simple bread recipe’ get a bunch of links to videos over 2 hours long. Decidedly not simple. Soup and whiskey it is.
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The person who moved the delete button in iPadOS mail is a bad person
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Roguelike Tutorial | Fat Old Yeti: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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Burning Off Some High Octane Egg Nog: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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More of this, please: reuters.com/technology/activ…

Activision Blizzard game testers vote to form union

Workers who test games at Activision Blizzard Inc.'s unit Blizzard Albany have voted to form a union months after the games developer began negotiating with employees at its Wisconsin unit, the first...

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The cycle goes like this: play a bunch of games, get bored with those games, decide to create a game, get 20-80% thru creating a game, unable to just keep game simple, decide it’s easier to just play some games. Repeat. Currently in “decide to create” phase.
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Since I pointed out this was broken, I feel inclined to mention searching for Mastodon users in the M.b app is working now
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Several crashes of the Window Server on Mac OS Ventura when connected to an external display. Seems related to use of full screen windows. Seeing reports of this being fixed in the betas so let’s get that wrapped up so I don’t need to change my workflow
May have sumbled into something as troubling for developers as dealing with time - capitalization of surnames. Wish me luck
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Twitter will finally be dead when the last person posts the last wordle screenshot
If you are trying to follow Mastdon people through Micro.blog searching for them via discover does not work on the iOS app. It will always return zero results. The same search via the Micro.blog web page will work.

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I’ve often said the best code is the code you delete. I think overly clever code is not ideal. So what are you presenting for the madmans code show & tell?
Micro.blog as front end to Mastodon: pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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I may have cracked the code to get micro.blog working as the front end to my mastodon feed.
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Hedging my bets over here: @pmcconnell@micro.blog Digging what micro blog can do. Yes it too is a bit geeky but I think you can ignore those parts if you like. Gives you a tweet like timeline and also longer format posts. Shares to twitter/mast/etc. pmcconnell.micro.blog/2022/1…
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