Elfi @elfi@pixie.town

Since my home feed on 8bit.red Mastodon is all pixelated (ok, not all, I probably will ask some artist like @ArcanePigeon for help one day 🙈) and with VGA fonts, I almost missed the fact that so is Google's logo today.

Google is celebrating what would today be #JerryLawson's 82nd birthday. The Black Enterprise magazine dubbed him "the father of the video game #cartridge" in 1982!

"Eckert and Mauchly promised the U.S. Army that the ENIAC could calculate artillery trajectories in seconds rather than the hours it took to do the calculations by hand. But after they built the 2.5-meter-tall by 24-meter-long computer, they couldn’t get it to work. Out of approximately 100 human computers working for the U.S. Army during World War II, six women were chosen to write a program for the computer to run differential calculus equations. It was hard because the program was complex, memory was very limited, and the direct programming interface that connected the programmers to the ENIAC was hard to use. But the women succeeded. The trajectory program was a great success. But Bartik, McNulty, Meltzer, Snyder, Spence, and Teitelbaum’s contributions to the technology were never recognized. Leading technologists and the public never knew of their work."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-women-behind-eniac

Hey trans Berlin masto, I’m told there’s an endocrinologist around Kreuzberg that works with trans folks. My doc wants me to see them but doesn’t remember who they are, anyone know?

found on the walk! weird mushrooms

"The fediverse needs critical mass to survive!"

I've been here since 2017. Sometimes it's been a quiet place. Sometimes it's fast-paced. But it's had enough critical mass for survival for a long while.

Now what it needs it to become a _better_ place, not bigger.

Safer, nicer, friendlier, more welcoming to those at risk. A hasty push for more "critical mass" is likely to make these communities more aggressive, less forgiving, and less sustainable in the long term.

hi
(clockwise from first ✏️ : https://sproutsnout.com/ , https://abstractcactus.carrd.co/ x2, https://purple1emons.tumblr.com/ )

strong tall women with horns

No this is not Unreal Engine nor Unity but #Godot! Great to see more and more videos showing off the visual capabilities of the engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9wcD7X8pXM

Bee Hawkmoth

Finally, I see a use for a 3D printer.

Just in case.

I just released NEXXT 0.19.0.

Its main new feature is a revamped "swap colours" tool that's both much more easy to use, thanks to the simple preview toggle, and more versatile. Also some bugfixes and included assets.

https://frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

#NESdev

NES inspired mockup i did a while ago. Fun fact it took only 2 hours to draw.
#pixelart #art #mastoart #gamedev

*ahem* BUY MY BOOKS!

Healing Rites
The most powerful mage in England has a stroke and loses xeir magic. Join them on a journey of recovery and coming to terms with disability, with cool enbies and unusual adventures!
https://ackthrice.itch.io/healing-rites

The Dream Eater
A novella about a fantasist who can project his imagination, until something starts stealing ideas out of his head
https://ackthrice.itch.io/the-dream-eater

A selection of other stories and ttrpg material are available, on itch too

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)