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Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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<p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/IndieGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieGame</span></a> developer creating Project Shinar, a 3D puzzle game set in the neon-glowing, TRON-inspired world of The Mainframe. Currently working with Unreal 5.6, several cursed workflows for asset creation, and unfeasibly large quantities of tea.</p><p>Software developer since the 1980s, Gentoo <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> user, <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/EliteDangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EliteDangerous</span></a> Commander, occasional Thief level builder, living on the edge (of the High Peak in England), humanist, arguably a bit of a muppet. He/Him.</p><p><a hre

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    So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup. Revert to 3.4.1 and it works. So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn&#39;t seem to be anything relevant in the changelog. Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by &quot;tridge and claude&quot; Oh for fuck&#39;s sakes.

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    Homer - my static site generator - can now generate individual pages, and handles a bunch of extra features like footnotes, picture captions, table of contents generation, improved image control, opengraph shenanigans and more. Now I need to make it process all the source markdown files, copy over assets and framework files, and generate RSS feeds and I&amp;#39;ll be back to where I was before!

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    So my static site generator is largely done* except for RSS feed generation. And now I have a quandary about the RSS. Specifically, the &amp;lt;description&amp;gt; element for each &amp;lt;item&amp;gt; in the feed. I could make the RSS use the opengraph description if one is set, and fall back on a short excerpt of the page if not set, or I could just include the full page HTML in each &amp;lt;description&amp;gt;. I would appreciate Opinions!

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    My static site generator seems to be fully operational now - no doubt I&amp;#39;ll need to tweak things, but my main site https://starforge.co.uk/ is being generated by it! No particularly new content right now, but I&amp;#39;m sure I&amp;#39;ll get there... first I should write a readme for Homer, to remind me how to use it properly (and anyone else if they&amp;#39;re crazy enough to try it)!

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    So today is the 55th birthday of the 555 timer IC. By pure coincidence, Mrs Fieldhaven and I happened to be travelling along the A555 Manchester Airport Link Road on the way to Alderley Edge today!

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    Vaguely thinking I should put some kind of &amp;quot;AI stance&amp;quot; page on my website. Problem is, I&amp;#39;m not entirely sure whether I can write such a thing without it essentially being a series of brief statements punctuated by increasingly profane rants.

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    My view earlier today. Not pictured: the red squirrel Mrs Fieldhaven and I saw in Horse Jennings Wood (because it was too quick to get a picture of) a couple of hours later.

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    @Njord Are you running a local model trained on specific data you control to do a constrained task? Then they can be useful. If you&#39;re talking about the ChatGPTs/etc of the world? They&#39;re not only worse than useless, they&#39;re actively harmful.

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    Making decent puzzles in 3D is surprisingly tricky. To be fair, making decent puzzles in 2D is tricky too. But 3D literally adds another dimension to it.

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    Entirely randomly, this image is useful again today...

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    Sebastian &amp;quot;Kebu&amp;quot; Teir has just released his latest album, Urban Skies. If you like 1980s-influenced analogue synth music, give it a listen: https://kebu.bandcamp.com/album/urban-skies #kebu #synth #music