Eric Scrivner (@etscrivner) 's Twitter Profile
Eric Scrivner

@etscrivner

"The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed". Res severa est verum gaudium | Software & Games: etscrivner.itch.io

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Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) 's Twitter Profile Photo

[1/2] My Better Software Conference talk is up! It's called "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake". I went through a mountain of historical documents to put this beast together. Only a small fraction of my research could be featured directly in the talk...

Jebrim (@agilejebrim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I spent the last 4 years working for Evans & Sutherland’s former flight sim division (now part of Collins) that Ivan Sutherland had cofounded. It was great to hear Casey talk about us. E&S started the computer graphics industry back in the 60s. Using static arrays and indices to

scientism (@mr_scientism) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m skeptical of how well non-experts will be able to use AI agents effectively. At a certain level of complexity this stuff starts looking like another attempt at end-user programming.

Julio Merino (@jmmv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was 1993. Despite all of the problems with VB ("not a real language", the runtime DLLs, etc.), it was So Much Fun™️ to create apps this way.

Eric Scrivner (@etscrivner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Alternate History Nostalgia" is on the move. Now you can buy a book of manufactured cultural products for games that do not exist.

"Alternate History Nostalgia" is on the move. Now you can buy a book of manufactured cultural products for games that do not exist.
Eric Scrivner (@etscrivner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In rooting out edge cases with my interval quality code I had to make a decision about augmented/diminished unisons. Decided to only support the idea of augmented unison as that probably makes the most sense.

In rooting out edge cases with my interval quality code I had to make a decision about augmented/diminished unisons. Decided to only support the idea of augmented unison as that probably makes the most sense.