Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Just drove past a big friendly sign saying "We're temporarily closed!" In front of the rubble that was once a McDonald's.

Not sure what this is a metaphor for, but it's a good one.

July 02, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Oh, hey! @erin_catto (of Box2d fame) has released a 3D version! You will *never* guess what it's called...

https://github.com/erincatto/box3d

July 01, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Renting a Mazda this week. It has Android Auto, but when the car is moving the touchscreen is unresponsive and you're forced to use a dial/joystick... thing in the center console to navigate. W. T. F??

If this is supposed to be a "safety" feature it's completely backwards, because now I'm spending WAY more time staring at the screen looking for what's highlighted and figuring out how to go to the button I want vs. simply reaching out and tapping it.

June 24, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Just saw the Steam Machine prices and... Oof.

To be clear, I don't think they have much of a choice. That's just where the world is at. Still, the discourse around it is going to be painful.

June 22, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social
June 21, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Beat Mina the Hollower, but the game went pretty out of its way to let me know I got a "bad" ending. I have an idea of what it would take to get a good ending, but I'm pretty sure it would require a whole new playthrough and no thanks. It was fun, but I'm not itching for an immediate replay.

While I liked the game enough to beat it, there was something about it that never fully clicked for me. Combat felt kinda awkward and I mostly got through by over-levelling early on.

June 21, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

See if you can spot the points in this video where management swoops in and says "Looks great, but how can we work in AI for buzzword-addicted investors?" And then leaves the artist cursing and spending the rest of their afternoon fixing the mess AI made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2xbcf3Xyw

June 18, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

Look, I *like* strongly typed languages. But a days worth of scrubbing -Wsign-compare and -Wsign-conversion issues from a large codebase is quickly radicalizing me.

Especially when there are major public APIs that are like:

int get_foo();
void set_foo(size_t value);

🤬

June 17, 2026
Brandon Jones
tojiro@mastodon.social

glTF 2.1 is in the works with a whole slew of great features:
- Composing files into large scenes
- Unique IDs for cross-file references
- Embedded thumbnails!
- Bounding volume hierarchies
- .glb files larger than 4Gb

And more!

https://www.khronos.org/blog/introducing-gltf-2.1-with-complex-scenes

June 16, 2026